Mostly outside this week – making the most of the snow not being here.
Big puddles mean good reflections; covering a plain frame with tissue paper; raindrops on rosehips; first snowdrops; jackdaws cruising the breeze; cat comes on a walk; coal skuttle
I love these booklets which are made from one sheet of paper. The white one started as a sheet of A4. The small one was a 6 inch square and the large one is a piece of brown parcel paper. The booklet has 8 sides/pages, including the covers. I enjoy the magic of turning one piece of paper into a booklet by just folding and making one cut.
I have made these booklets from 12x12 patterned paper as a group activity. People then decorate their covers and make pockets inside.
Here are the instructions – they are easiest to follow if you have a piece of paper in your hands to follow along.
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this is a small part of my collection of small bits of card. I use my scraps a lot on pages and on cards. Funnily enough a bag of scrap is one thing I find missing from digi scrapping because having endless use of whole pages just does not feel the same.
The best tip that I picked up along the way was to take the time to trim off odd edges and angles before putting the scrap away.
I read somewhere about throwing away anything smaller than your thumbnail. Not sure what the logic of that rule is.
But I find it hard to throw out even pieces that small if they are a nice colour or still have some design showing. So to clear them out from my bag I decided to stick them all onto a piece of card to make a patchwork that I could use on something – perhaps. In any case the gluing and placing of the bits made me smile. Light is bad in photo – but you get the general idea.
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do you keep small scraps and what rules do you have for which to keep?
watching TV; swollen river; roast lamb; Edinburgh castle at dusk; frost on the beach; lots of coloured card; sleeping dog.
