This page comes from a discussion on the Yahoo! group about how to use thosescraps we all accumulate. We do call it
scrap booking after all!
Skinny Strip Ideas - Use them like ribbon across a page.
- Use them to separate areas of a scrap book page.
- Cover the seams of a color blocked page. Especially useful if your pieces don't fit together tightly.
- Use short pieces across photos as corners or as a strip over one edge of a photo. This works great for a 4 x 6 photo that you don't want to crop down but has a lot of busy background on one side. Helps bring the focus back to the photo.
- Use with brads or eyelets as embellishments.
- Make chunky little paper beads with them. Just use a wooden skewer and wrap the paper around it, using bookbinding glue up the whole strip. After it dries, rub a little ink over the texture to get a pattern, or paint on little dots or stripes, or leave the gorgeous CS paper as is. Finally, coat them with glossy accents (with or without glitter added to it), or dip part of it in VersaMark ink & heat set metallic (or any color) embossing powder on it. You can use them on cards or layouts.
- Use them as tester strips to see how a certain ink color will react with that paper.
- Weave them together and place a sticker or other embellishment on top of them.
- Use them for making your own paper.