Tutorial Tues - Stretching supplies

With gas approaching $4.00 here in Southern California, and high in other parts of the US, I think we're all feeling the need to penny pinch. So I guess these GREEN tutorials came at the right time huh? This is the third in the series of recycling, reusing and re-purposing our scrap supplies.

Stretching Supplies to save $$

This week I thought I'd mention how I save a few pennies by using the contact sheets that come with paper packs. These come with all paper kits, or packs. A contact sheet is just the front sheet of the pack, that has miniature versions of the sheets of patterned patterned paper printed on it (many manufacturers do this with their kits, Cosmo Cricket, Basic Grey etc). So rather than just throw them straight into the recycle, USE them!

All you need to do is take your paper trimmer, or ruler/craft knife and trim out the peices. Usually these are square but sometimes you'll get rectangles.

All you need to do then, is use them on a project. They work great for color blocked layouts, borders, or cards! Cards work especially well as the patterns are reduced so they can kinda get lost on a big area like a layout. I find this sketch works especially well, and this one too. As you can see below you can't tell its not the the 'real' paper.

Supplies: Papers: Cosmo Cricket; Stamp: Katie & Co; Ink: Clearsnap;

The rectangles under the birthday strip are all cut from the contact sheet squares! Just added So next time you go to put these sheets straight in the trash, cut out the squares and use them on a project!

Supplies: Cardstock: DCWV; Papers: Cosmo Cricket; Sentiment: Dymo label maker;

More soon

Di