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Rubber Road
Scenic Byway:

Scrap Paper Collage Card 

By Casey Cholaki
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced Stamping Team Designer  

My goodness, August is here and summer is almost over. Leo the lion roars
in the hot sun of August and doesn't want to do anything - let alone think too much!  So here is an easy project that will use up some of those scrap pieces of paper we all have stashed everywhere. I have used the sun to represent the fire of August, but maybe you have a lion lying around (stamps of course. lol).

Supplies

•  Stamps:  Hero Arts - Serene Sun
•  Stampers Anonymous - U5-709 le soleil
•  Sun with breeze waves - unknown
•  Black Ink Pad (Memories)
•  Pink and Navy Blue Ink Pads (Clearsnap Colorbox)
•  Crème Colored cardstock cut to size 8 ½ by 11 inches.
•  Metal ruler and scissors
•  Galaxy Colored Markers (American Crafts) yellow
•  Glue Stick (Office supply or craft store)

Select papers in the colors of your choice. I used two shades of tissue paper: dark purple and light blue.  Also, I used two scrap pieces of co-coordinating color paper in which one was a print and the other a solid color. Two different pieces of elegant brown design paper and two pieces of pink printer paper were incorporated into this project as well.

Instructions:

1. Begin by stamping all your images on separate pieces paper. Stamp a piece of blue tissue paper with one of the sun images. Stamp the small sun stamp on a piece of pink paper and the serene sun on a scrap of stationary or gift-wrap paper.

 2. Take a piece of dark purple tissue paper and frame the serene sun image onto the stationary or gift-wrap paper. Frame the piece of pattern paper with a piece of pink paper and set aside.

 3. About ¼” down from the top, glue down the 6 ½” solid color paper matching the design pattern paper on the left top of the cardstock. Half way down on the solid paper, glue down the matching paper framed by the pink paper. Now, glue down a strip of the brown design paper (1 ¾”by 8 ½”) along the length of the right side of the cardstock.

4. Assemble the other pieces onto the papers already glued down. The serene sun goes over both the solid and matching color paper leaving a small border of the solid colored paper (green in this case) around the top and left side. Next, take the pink paper with the small sun stamped on it and overlap both the serene sun paper and the green pattern paper. It is a good idea at this time to refer to the picture. Take the two pieces of the other brown design paper and place the large piece at the top of the card and the small piece at the bottom of the card. Finally, cut four tiny stripes of the brown design paper and glue them like a hash mark onto the green paper.

5. Now for the surprise!  Measure down 3 ½” on the card and cut across it with your scissors or other cutting tool.  Viola! Two cards are created from one, which is so much fun! I use the small one as a note card or on a scrapbook page for journaling.  As you can see from my other projects found on the ezine, I like to have more then one use from and for a project.

Hope you enjoy using up some of your scrap paper this summer. Until next
time, this is Casey hoping to hear from you...
 

Stampin On Down the Rubber Road

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