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You know what really makes me happy? Making something new out of things that would otherwise be thrown away or over-looked. I've no idea where this love of busting stash came from, but it really floats my boat!
I sat down last night with several pieces of card that had been 'ruined' by my practice attempts with my new Cosmic Shimmer Mists. I cut them down into tag shapes, then added a ton of teeny, tiny paper scraps and mis-matched embellishments to make a cute, dinky, little mini-book for my Learn Something New Every Day album. And, because I haven't used anything new, I'm fulfilling my Stashbusting September obligations as well. Result!
I'm going to add smaller sized photographs and my 'lessons learnt' as and when I manage to have my photographs printed. For now, I'm keeping my notebook handy and jotting everything down everything I learn - like, "Leftovers make pretty projects."
23 comments:
Bright and cheerful and dinky - it's perfect!
Cute! Love your philosophy :)
That's fab! I still haven't got the hang of mists and shimmers...but maybe now I won't be as afraid to make a mistake. Your book is a wonderful mistake!
This is wonderful! I love, love, love it..super idea. :)
It looks beautiful. I love the colors and the whole idea of the book
Thank you so much for sharing it.
love ur tagbook clair. so good to have u back here in blogland.
Jo xxxx
This is gorgeous,Clair...what a great way to use up your 'mistakes'.
this is so brilliant and well done on using messed up stash I love it it's perfectly adorable
It's gorgeous, hun - I totally love it xx
Oh how I want to pick that book up and handle it. I have to agree, you can't beat a bit of stash busting.
gorgeous book, even better when its done with "scraps"! :)
love that! even more because it is made of scraps!
What a fab little book, bet you can't wait to fill it up! Love all the stitching and little elements you've already added to it. It's so bright and fun! xx
Clair this is just gorgeous ... if I attempted to use up scraps it would be a messy shamble ... this looks sensational, cute and so well put together :-) A great size for this project too!
I just caught up on your blog Clair~wonderful as always! It seems I have been MIA all summer but hopefully I will be more on top of things as the cooler weather settles in.
Leftovers do indeed make pretty projects.
clair, that is so pretty! what a great little stash-busting booklet. your use of little precious bits is inspired!
Cute-cute!
Oh, Clair, this is SO cute! I love that you used things you have on hand to make this adorable keepsake book. :o) The mist sprayed on as a background for the tags works so well, and the other colors you put with it are great! Now you can kick back and enjoy learning something new every day to put into your little tag book. Well done! xo
Love the idea of doing LSNED as a cute little tag book - will have to file that idea away for future projects! And yours is absolutely adorable!
Great use of scraps for your tag book - This is so cute
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love it hun it is gorgeous, what a fab idea I was toying on the idea of labels but mine are a bit bigger than yours. Great minds think alike lol x
That is so pretty. I love little stash busting projects like this
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