Using up those card stock scraps

June 19, 2015

This month is crazy with the amount of birthdays in my family and with the youth I work with at church. I've been whipping out the gift bags left and right. I pulled out some of my card stock scraps to help decorate this simple Happy Birthday bag for the birthday girl this week.

I started by cutting the base of the bag out with my Cameo.

I cut a piece of card stock that was slightly larger than the opening in the bag.

Here is where those card stock scraps come in. Using Helmar Acid Free Glue I started gluing the card stock onto the white card stock.

Once all the card stock has been glued down simple use a pair of scissors and cut around the base card stock.

Glue this behind the happy birthday opening in the gift bag and put the bag together with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive.

As a finishing touch I outlined the cut out design with a fine black marker.

Once finished I decided to put together a card using the same technique and used a heart punch once the strips were glued down.

The card came together really quick once the hearts were finished. Here is the finished duo. I know the birthday girl will love the bright colors of both the card and the bag.

Thanks for stopping by the Helmar blog. I really hope I inspired you to use some of those scraps laying around, if you are anything like me you always seem to have plenty. ;)

Happy Crafting