Scrappy Card

Good Morning and Happy Saturday! This card was inspired by a layout I saw in a magazine called Scrapbook Trend. I've been looking for different ways to use my ribbon and I saw this layout in the magazine.

I buy magazines all the time but rarely ever use any of the ideas that I see in these magazines.

Are you that way too? What's the point of buying the magazines if you never learn from the samples? So not to waste my money, I decided to start "grabbing" ideas from magazines and incorporate them into my scrappy cards.

I'm sort of layout challenged when it comes to scrappy cards because many times, the materials I have don't quite match in color or design and that's where my problem lies.

With rubber stamping. . .a lot of the cardstock match with the ink color, you choose the sentiment, the image and there's almost a controlled layout when creating rubber stamped cards. On the otherhand, with scrappy cards, well, you have to use the stickers and embellishments that you have and sometimes they don't always match in design or color.

I'm learning to be less inhibited. I'm sort of getting over the fact that the papers, embellishments, and cardstocks don't always have to match. Making scrappy cards is a great way to reduce your scrap pile. Except for the sentiment and the base cardstock, the materials used for my card were from my scrap pile. Trust me, my scrap pile is HUGE - 3 years worth, as a matter of fact. LOL!!

Have a great day everyone!!