Use it or Lose it Monday.

  Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

I am here today to show you a card made with more forgotten papers:

These were freebies from magazines and although they are lovely I still find it difficult to include them in my art work so I am making every effort to make myself use them or they will have to be passed on to someone who will make good use of them so here goes.

I've been looking through some old books and the internet and I found something called a Pin Wheel Tower card and thought I'd give it a go.

This type of card is so simple to make and the small one uses just one A4 piece of card cut into four pieces. The finished card fits in a C6 envelope.

 

One piece of card is cut at 5 3/4" x 4 1/4" and three at  2 3/4" x 4 1/4".

The large piece is folded at 3/4", 1 1/2", 2 1/4" and 3" and this becomes the centre piece that the other small pages are attached to.

I decided to see if I could make a similar card but bigger, very easy too and this one fits into a 5" x 7" envelope.

I have so many of these and don't seem to make use of them anymore so here they are.

I've layered the patterned paper for the front onto a plain matching card, added ribbon and a sentiment before attaching it to the card blank. 

I finished the front with some Stickles glitter Glue.

This is the main sentiment page with the gold strips added.

This is what they look like from above.

Now if you're like me you will have lots of left-over pieces and as we are here to use them up I have an extra project to show you.

Fist thing is to cut all that lovely paper into 3/4 inch strips (2cm) but these can obviously be any width you prefer. The length doesn't matter at the moment.

I like to have a little play around with the arrangement before deciding where they will go on the card.

Then you are ready to start attaching them leaving a small space between each strip, about a millimetre is okay.

You can trim away the waste as you go or leave it and cut round the whole card in one go.

This was a C6 card blank.

And this is how I finished this card with Altenew Enamel dots and Sentiment.

And when you've finished and there are still pieces left........don't forget the inside!

Next week I'm going to have a go at this with some left-over Masterboard.

I would love to hear your comments about today's project.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x