Making a real recycled card...The Green Thing - Do you save and reuse rubberstamping/scrapbooking items?

Recycled Card - What do you think I recycled to make this card??!!

After reading this, The Green Thing, it made me think about what rubber stamping and/or scrapbooking items and scraps I save and reuse...I have to admit I hate to even throw away a piece of pretty paper that is big enough to punch a little circle out of -

Are there those of you who feel the same way?

At the end of this post, there is a recycling technique you can use in your cardmaking and scrapbooking - using those dryer sheets you know there be other uses for so don't throw them away just yet!

I have a little bucket I put mine into....

The Green Thing...

Last day to order from sale is Tuesday! My first photobook...

Celebrate National Scrapbooking Month with Stampin' Up!

National Scrapbooking Month Promotion (May 1-31, 2011)

From May 1-31, get 30% off a variety of scrapbooking products, including select stamp sets, digital downloads, and My Digital Studio print products!

Just a reminder that it is only a couple more days that you can take advantage of this sale...

 

From May 1-31, get 30%off a variety of scrapbooking products,

including select:

•Stamp sets!

•Digital downloads!

•My Digital Studio print products

In addition, join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator during the month of May, and you'll get 30% off the Digital+ Starter Kit. The Digital+ Starter Kit contains over $320 worth of high-quality Stampin' Up! products, including the innovative digital designing software, My Digital Studio--and during this special promotion, you'll pay just $122.50!  Click here to see all the exciting products the Digital+ Starter Kit contains.

But that's not all! When you join the Stampin' Up! family, you can also purchase the Stampin' Memories Add-On - an additional $75 worth of scrapbooking products--for just $35.

With the Stampin' Memories Add-On, you'll get:

•A stamp set

•A package of card stock

•A package of Designer Series Paper

•A package of Quick Accents (self-adhesive die cuts)

•A Designer Printed 12" x 12" Album

The Stampin' Memories Add-On is usually priced at $50, but when you join the Stampin' Up! family during the National Scrapbooking Month Promotion, you'll get an additional 30%discount....I used this 30%when I joined!  And I swear if I wasn't a demonstrator already, I sure would want to take advantage of this great offer....I know I haven't regretted joining at all - in fact, it has been 2 years already!  Time sure flies when you're having fun!!  In July I will be going to the Stampin' Up annual convention in Salt Lake City (my first one!) and will get to tour the Stampin' Up factory and office. 

This week I have been working hard get my digital pictures and real photos from the past 18 years to organize them and use My Digital Studio

Blog candy winner!! Congrats!

Congratulations to the winner of my Sudsol blog tour blog candy, the beveled windowpane pin:

Marti Crapo!!

Please email me your address so I can mail it to you, OK?

Thanks to everyone of you who left comments!! 

Hope you enjoyed all the other projects!  I know I did :-)

Red glimmer paper masculine sailboat card with sewing on card

Here is a masculine card I made this week using Stampin Up's new Sail Away stamp and the Nautical Expedition designer series paper, early expresso cardstock, and white pigment/craft inkpad, as well as the red glimmer paper which will be carried over to the new catalog later this summer. 

I was glad to find that out, since I like the sparkliness of it (is that a word?)  I had used it on a masculine vintage airplane card for my son earlier this year and posted it.  So thought I would try it again, and use the new baker's twine to "sew" the sailboat's lines. 

Here is a closeup of the boat's "lines" - I punched the holes for the lines

What do you do with your swap cards? Embellish and recycle!

I have received so many beautiful swap cards - I hate to let them go or just have them sitting around and not being enjoyed.  So after I've taken a picture of them or scanned them to have them to CASE for future samples, I started embellishing them to fit the occasion.  Often I cut the front of the card off and adhere it to another piece of cardstock to layer it.  I've added ribbon, bows, glitter, other punches, pearls, rhinestones, brads, and the appropriate greeting and recycle it so others can enjoy them too, but with my "special" touch  :-)  

Do you do that too?

This is a card that I did this week - I loved the purple and old olive colors.  After cutting off the front, I trimmed down the piece, and adhered it to another piece of folded cardstock - this is a great way to use up any retired cardstock you might have!  See how I also used a border punch along the right side?  I also put a line of pearls to the left of the greeting and put little pearls in the centers of some of the flowers.

This clever card uses the two-step bird punch

Blog candy status; trifold flip card info for instructions

Hope you all had a great week and were able to join the Sudsol blog tour!  And many, many thanks to all your comments, feedback, and questions!!

I will be posting the results of the blog candy drawing this weekend - am enjoying reading all your emails!

 The card that was most requested for more info on was my trifold flip card, shown above. I checked around for a tutorial on it, since I knew I had seen one before.

It seems that this card goes by several different names: fancy fold, trifold, flip card, flipflop card, swing card, swing flipflop card....