This month’s challenge combines two inspirations: Kate, who encourages crafty projects from scraps, and Natalie Brown, who shares clean, simple card tutorials on YouTube and Facebook. 

Natalie shared a sketch, colour palette, and theme, challenging us to make cards using her suggestions.

Here’s the inspiration:

My first scrappy card uses the envelope of a marketing mailer (scrap).

It also incorporates Natalie’s design sketch, suggested colours, and applying ink with a smoosher, a simple DIY tool made from a plastic bag and some paper towel.

I cut parts of the envelope into narrow strips for the background, and chose a focal point from another area, then matted it in on a scrap of white paper, inked with a coordinating shade of pink.

I stamped the “bloom” greeting on an image of a pink petal and punched circles in three tropical colours. Cutting the narrow strips was fiddly, but fun in the end.

The second card uses a shiny black page from a paper sample book given to me by a friend years ago, a piece of gold paper from the lining of an envelope, scraps of two kinds of white paper, and the last of the paper napkins gifted to me by Pauline King before she passed.

You can see other napkin cards in my post, Crafting With Scraps.

If you would like to share your own crafty creations, please get in touch with Kate, at Tall Tales From Chiconia.

Please have a look at other ScrapHappy posts at the following links:

Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda,

Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, 

Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,

Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,

Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, 

Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,

Viv, Karrin,  Alissa,

Hannah and Maggie