Queen of Cards - Week 5

Special thanks to Linda Moore on the Cardmaking and More Facebook Page for putting these challenges together for us! This week's challenge includes a Fancy-Fold card, Shabby Chic style, Spring themed - with three patterned papers, ribbon, dry embossing, stamped images, and 3D embellishments. Whew! Got tired just reading about it! And here is my design.  

Watch for future postings on Scraps to Treasures - Teach-Me Tuesday. I will be making a similar card and posting step-by-step instructions. This card makes great use of scraps because all the panels are so small - which brings us back to that question "What size scraps do I save?"

Teach-Me Tuesday - Top of the Morning to You!

Good morning, 

I hope you are having a great week so far. Now, on to some scrappin'! Here is a card I made in about 15 minutes. 

First lesson - If I purchase a paper pack for a specific project, I try to keep all my scraps from that project together...storing them in one plastic 12 x 12 storage envelope That way, when I need a quick card, everything in that envelope is color coordinated - and I have fewer decisions to make. I used scraps from Heartfelt Creations Delicate Asters Collection. I've been working on St. Patrick Day cards for a couple weeks now - so cut a whole page of shamrock accents (freebie from Images by Heather) in different sizes on a piece of scrap green-patterned paper. So I already had some of those laying around.

I began with these scraps.

I began with a cream card base - 5-1/4" x 5-1/4". I used a deckle blade to cut three sides of the striped cardstock to be the card front - 5-1/2" x 5-1/2". The other scraps - I pretty much cut five rectangles. The only measuring I did was to mat a couple of the scrap rectangles. Just used whatever size rectangles I could get from the scraps I had left...starting to just glue them down wherever! I did decide I needed something to bring it all together - so added a green border matted with purple. 

I popped up the last couple pieces of scraps I selected - and added a couple of the Shamrock Accents.

Come back to visit us as we keep posting new ideas for using scraps.