Happy Tuesday! It's Stacey here today with a scrappy idea for using up little pieces.
But first, I have to show you what I have been doing in my scrap room. It had gotten a little messy! I spent about a week deep-cleaning this room...it started out like this:
and this:
But now it looks like this:
And this:
It feels great to be in there now! One of the best things about this project is that I didn't just move all of the mess out - I addressed every item in every container and either put it where it belonged, threw it away, or donated it.
One thing I have trouble getting rid of, though, is scraps. I can't bear to throw away even the smallest pieces of patterned paper, so I made a drawer that I call "scraps." Original, huh?
This is what it looks like on the inside - I love it:
I have had this little kitchen project in mind, and decided to make it using scraps from recent projects. It's a "dry erase board" with a banner background made with just scraps. The background is framed and the glass can be written on over and over with a dry erase marker.
Not only is it so sweet and cheerful, but it tells the family what's for dinner and it requires me to actually cook what I write on the board! Accountability is a good thing.
I kept getting a glare on the photo of the framed project, so I took a few of the background outside of the frame. The banner pieces are stitched in a string of pieces (instructions here), and then I adhered them. It's just so much easier to play with the positioning of the pieces that way.
One of the banner pieces has a scalloped top edge because I found a piece in the scrap drawer that was border punched:
I also made a fun card using little pieces (and a few Sidewalks stickers and buttons!) from my scrap drawer:
Do you have a pile of little pieces? Get creative with them, and make sure you post your creation in the October Afternoon Flickr gallery so we can all see!