Stash Busting With Shimelle {Scrap Sunday}

Shimelle's new class - Something From (Almost) Nothing - started earlier this week, but I didn't really have opportunity to act on the wonderful, stash busting prompts until last night. Inspiration and enthusiasm was at an all time high though and for a couple of hours I was unbelieveably productive! Here's the evidence -

Our stash busting prompts were all about using up our metal embellishments and our paper scraps. Since, I feel totally at home using up my paper scraps, I hauled out my box full of teeny, tiny (but glorious) scraps of paper and sorted through it looking for some scraps that would co-ordinate with a photograph of my parents - one I've been meaning to scrap for a long time!

Everything, except the base cardstock came from my scrap collection - including the leftover rub-ons and three little bits of bling that have been hanging around since last year. I added some stitching and some of my favourite scrap flowers to give the layout a little bit of depth and I'm really happy with how 'sunny' it feels.

Feeling really spurred on by completing the layout, I thought I'd tackle metal embellishments. Since the embellishments I used were things I use most of the time anyway, I decided to give myself an extra little challenge to make some cards.

I've never made cards before and, for some reason, I didn't feel all that confident. I mainly used the scraps that were left over from creating my layout (bonus points?) and added just a couple of embellishments - pins and brads - to give the cards a finished look. And, I'm so happy with the results that I'll definitely be making more cards.

What do you think folks?