The March 2022 Disney Creative Co Once Upon a Stash challenge is to use your scraps!!
Before I get to my layout, let’s talk about scrap storage.
I typically store my scraps by type: I have a drawer for “neutral” cardstock (white, black, brown, cream, etc.), a drawer for all other colored cardstock, and a drawer for patterned paper scraps. Nominally, I don’t subdivide beyond those categories. However, I do often keep collection scraps together while I still have a sizeable portion of the collection. In the case of this Disney 2016 scrapbook, I have a specific set of products, including quite a bit of patterned paper, that are earmarked for this huge project. I have various containers and baskets that hold the embellishments, and I keep my paper scraps of all sizes in a 12×12 clear Iris container:
As you can see, I have lots of Shimelle papers in that bin, but I also have used quite a lot of the Echo Park Beautiful Life collection kit, and still more papers from other collections. If I use a paper in my Disney album, the scraps go into this container, so that I can use them again elsewhere in the album. I think this adds to the cohesiveness of the overall project.
My process almost always involves using scraps– I will usually turn to my scrap box first, before my full sheets of paper! I took a quick snap of my table as I began my layout for this challenge to show a glimpse of how I start a project: once I’ve chosen what page I’ll be making, I look at the layouts that surround it in the album (the facing page, the following page, and even further out…) so that I can 1) figure out the piece of the story that will be told on this page, 2) decide whether I will directly coordinate my supplies to the facing page.
I thought this challenge would be the perfect time to make this pocket page that faces the Man. Baf. layout in my Disney 2016 album. Not only are scraps ideal for pocket pages because of the smaller “canvases” in each pocket, but after I created that layout, I had saved the stencil through which I had scraped the metallic paste, intending to use it in this facing pocket layout. I combed through my scrap box and picked out pieces that coordinated with Man. Baf. and the Mickey Toes layout that is the next full 12×12 (this pocket page is a 9×12, so that layout will peek out from behind).
The top left photo had quite a bit of “open” space, so I used a strip of the stencil along the left edge and added a filmstrip die cut along the bottom to draw your eye to the subject of the photo: my cute little boy walking with his grandparents.
I used teeny tiny scraps of patterned paper to fill in the open holes (another great use for scraps!). This did a couple things: it added some hints of color to tie together the pockets, and it covered some strangers who were in the photo!
In the bottom right corner, I layered a piece of the stencil over a 3×4 scrap of patterned paper, again adding a little piece of the filmstrip die cut and backing a couple of the star cut-outs with the tiny red floral.
As a final touch, I added a metallic-paste-covered star to the journal card to tie everything together!
supplies:
Scraps & Ink Crafts: Film Strip cutting die, Wooden Pieces
patterned paper: Shimelle Starshine “Hubble,” other various scraps
Therm-o-web Metallix Gel (Aged Copper)
Paige Evans cut file: “Star Background”
journal card: Project Life Jade Edition
Note: I was provided products from Scraps & Ink Crafts at no cost as a member of the Disney Creative Co. design team.
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