Scraps From My Heart

Don’t throw out your scraps! There is always another use for your leftover pieces of paper, a.k.a. scraps. As I am finishing this Word Book for my niece, I noticed I had already used my Cricut to cut out some purple flowers for another project - FROM MY SCRAPS! They worked nicely with the letter ‘L’ I was working with. All I had to do was outline them in a white pen, add a brad and adhere with a foam dot. One less little piece of paper floating in the landfill…….. What have you done with your scraps?

New Uses for Bottlecaps! My husband loves his IBC Root Beer, and I love the bottlecaps! I am designing a Word Book for my niece, Allison, and I had a few bottlecaps lying around, so I decided to incorporate it into her book. What can you do with a bottlecap? you ask. Turn it into an embellishment! A 1-inch circle punch is the perfect size for a piece of paper to fit inside the bottle cap (oh - wash the cap first as it can be a little sticky!). I also grabbed a rub-on word and stick for rubbing. I used the word ‘courage’ because I feel Allison is taking a giant step next year in leaving home for college. I know when I was 18, I was not ready to leave the roost. I admire this quality in her. After adding the rub-on, I simply adhered the circle punch to the bottle cap. You can use a glue dot or any other strong adhesive. Finally, I used the remainder of my 3-in-1 adhesive in adhering the bottlecap to the Word Book: Here’s the full Word Book. It’s not done yet, and if I find some other goodies to recycle and use on the book, I will post them as well! And remember, if you are interested in a custom made Word Book, please visit my website at http://www.rwctc.com/ ! Thanks for stopping by today!