Better Living Through Scrapbooking October Challenge #3: Recycle, Reuse, Renew Use recycled products that might normally be discarded as part of a scrapbook page. Remember to upload your layout to our gallery @ betterscrap.com by October 31st! Complete and upload all of this month’s challenges to be entered to win the prize. :) Sponsored supplies used: Cardstock: Discount Cardstock “Orchid Cascata Felt Cardstock 80# 12x12,” “Ocean Blue Cardstock 65# 12x12,” “Orange Vellum 27# 12x12,” “Key Lime 65# Cardstock 12x12,” “Really Red Cardstock 80# 12x12” Paint: Plaid “Apple Barrel: Vanilla Ice Cream” Vintage clothing pattern, vinyl wallpaper border, corrugated cardboard, playing card, jewelry charms, “n” & “t”: Gauche Alchemy “Acme Mixed Media Paper Crafting Kit” Stamps: For the Luv of Art “Sweet Ollie stamp set” Adhesive: Plaid “Mod Podge: Paper” Additional supplies used: Alpha stickers: American Crafts “Thickers: Poolside - Cricket Green” Chipboard teacup: Cosmo Cricket “Early Bird: Ready Set Chipboard” Paw print & milk bottle stickers: American Crafts “Remarks: Catnip Glitter Accents & Phrases” Lion & “Tasty Homemade” embellishments: Via http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/ Journaling: Be watchful when making powdered milk: There could be a Stumpy afoot! He’s so cute when he uses his paw to reach in & pick up chunks of milk to eat. He’s sneaky & always in the kitchen when food is being made. Chosen criteria: 1. Use corrugated cardboard or other recycled packaging on your page. 2. Find fun or unusual items around your house and use them as elements on your page. Playing cards, clothing tags, junk mail, broken jewelry, old greeting cards or postcards, buttons and/or material from old clothing, advertising magnets, pins and keychains, and blooms and/or leaves from discarded plastic floral arrangements are just a few ideas. Technique: The naturally aged, vintage pants pattern provided in the Gauche Alchemy kit is perfect! I knew I wanted to showcase it up front and center. Its light tan color and very thin weight made it function somewhat like vellum — you could see through it. I chose to give the Orchid Cascata Felt an aged look by layering the pattern on top and sandwiching a piece of cut out vinyl wallpaper border between, which you can see in the lower left hand corner. I used plenty of Paper Mod Podge to stick everything together; first, a layer of Mod Podge on top of the cardstock, to which I stuck the vinyl and smoothed it out, and then another layer of Mod Podge on top of the vinyl and the dried cardstock, to which I stuck the pattern. Because the pattern paper is so thin, it’s easy to tear, especially when moist — be careful! And embrace the little wrinkles and lines you’ll get as a result of smoothing it out. It adds wonderful texture. :) A little bit of Apple Barrel Vanilla Ice Cream paint and my background was good to go!
Better Living Through Scrapbooking October Challenge #3: Recycle, Reuse, Renew

Use recycled products that might normally be discarded as part of a scrapbook page.

Remember to upload your layout to our gallery @ betterscrap.com by October 31st! Complete and upload all of this month’s challenges to be entered to win the prize. :)

Sponsored supplies used:

  • Cardstock: Discount Cardstock “Orchid Cascata Felt Cardstock 80# 12x12,” “Ocean Blue Cardstock 65# 12x12,” “Orange Vellum 27# 12x12,” “Key Lime 65# Cardstock 12x12,” “Really Red Cardstock 80# 12x12”
  • Paint: Plaid “Apple Barrel: Vanilla Ice Cream”
  • Vintage clothing pattern, vinyl wallpaper border, corrugated cardboard, playing card, jewelry charms, “n” & “t”: Gauche Alchemy “Acme Mixed Media Paper Crafting Kit”
  • Stamps: For the Luv of Art “Sweet Ollie stamp set”
  • Adhesive: Plaid “Mod Podge: Paper”

Additional supplies used:

  • Alpha stickers: American Crafts “Thickers: Poolside - Cricket Green”
  • Chipboard teacup: Cosmo Cricket “Early Bird: Ready Set Chipboard”
  • Paw print & milk bottle stickers: American Crafts “Remarks: Catnip Glitter Accents & Phrases”
  • Lion & “Tasty Homemade” embellishments: Via http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/

Journaling:

Be watchful when making powdered milk: There could be a Stumpy afoot! He’s so cute when he uses his paw to reach in & pick up chunks of milk to eat. He’s sneaky & always in the kitchen when food is being made.

Chosen criteria:

1. Use corrugated cardboard or other recycled packaging on your page.
2. Find fun or unusual items around your house and use them as elements on your page. Playing cards, clothing tags, junk mail, broken jewelry, old greeting cards or postcards, buttons and/or material from old clothing, advertising magnets, pins and keychains, and blooms and/or leaves from discarded plastic floral arrangements are just a few ideas.

Technique:

The naturally aged, vintage pants pattern provided in the Gauche Alchemy kit is perfect! I knew I wanted to showcase it up front and center. Its light tan color and very thin weight made it function somewhat like vellum — you could see through it. I chose to give the Orchid Cascata Felt an aged look by layering the pattern on top and sandwiching a piece of cut out vinyl wallpaper border between, which you can see in the lower left hand corner. I used plenty of Paper Mod Podge to stick everything together; first, a layer of Mod Podge on top of the cardstock, to which I stuck the vinyl and smoothed it out, and then another layer of Mod Podge on top of the vinyl and the dried cardstock, to which I stuck the pattern. Because the pattern paper is so thin, it’s easy to tear, especially when moist — be careful! And embrace the little wrinkles and lines you’ll get as a result of smoothing it out. It adds wonderful texture. :) A little bit of Apple Barrel Vanilla Ice Cream paint and my background was good to go!

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