tuesday...again!

OK, as promised, here's the tutorial for using up those scraps of paper and making your own background using them!

Again, here's my finished layout:


Some days ago, I used the light blue paper with the cream flowers to make my new glasses layout. Here it is if you missed it:


I made my own die cut background for this previous layout (I do this often) and saved the corners. For this new layout, I used these corners to make a new die cut paper using the opposite part of the paper.

Here they are:


To make them look a little better, I distressed them using an old pair of scissors:

Sorry about the blurry picture but I was distressing at full speed!

I inked them and wet their edges to break up the paper fibers and scrunched the borders just a little bit. When they dried, I inked them again:


I then glued all the corners on my background (made of scraps too!):


To finish it off, I added 3D paint dots to the border so that you can't see where the pieces meet. Here's the finished layout again so you can take a look:


Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you too can recycle those scraps into something beautiful!