SHERA'S BORDER

I was blog surfing and came across Nicole Heady 's Make it Monday #159 .  Although I can't join her challenge as I don't have any papertrey ink items, I find her challenge very inspiring.  What a great way to use my scraps!!! So I went through my stash of scraps and came out with this card.  This is also my third entry for Simon Says Stamps Blog Wednesday Challenge with the theme HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ingredients: Card Stock: Stampin' Up! Crumble Cake, Popular Ivory Card Patterned Paper: Miscellaneous Scrap (Sorry I lose all the information for these as they are pretty old) Stamp: Stampin' Up! Whimsical Words Ink: VersaFine Vintage Sepia Others: Stampin' Up! Label Punch, buttons (no brand)

Today I challenged myself to use left over recycled paper scraps from Card No. CD140325-1210 .  The pink pieces were smaller so I used them to die cut butterflies.  As for the left over of Batch #3 (consisting of Japanese Sencha with Cherry Blossoms tea leaves), I combined it one of the pure milk carton recycled paper to make the background.  I made this for Ming Li, one of our anchors in Live Wire Charge Up 2014 for our song writing class.  She really inspired me tonnes in her singing ministry and I'm so blessed to have got to know her.  It's a belated birthday card though, hope she likes it.  Also I made this for Simon Says Stamp Blog Wednesday Challenge of HAPPY BIRTHDAY   and The Card Concept Challenge #7 - Use a Butterfly Theme   (Style: Classy and Elegant). Ingredients:  Card Stock: Popular Ivory Card, Kraft Paper (sorry I forgot the source as this is piece of scrap) Recycled Paper: Milk Carton, Toilet Paper Roll...

Whenever I make a card, I'll start with an idea of a layout in my head.  I'll o, ok, I think this would look nice like this.  However, quite often halfway throughout the process, I'll go...  oh, seems not right and it's not gonna work this way.  I would have had pieces stuck together, sometimes stamped or punched here and there but don't know how to go on from there.  Then I'll leave it there and maybe I'll come back to that afterwards (which can say NEVER happened) and start all over on a new card.  So over the years, I've piled up quite a big pile of these made-halfway-scraps and its only getting more and more.  So I challenged myself again... to create using that pile and this card is one of the results of the challenge.  Also, this is my second entry for Simon Says Stamp Blog Wednesday Challenge of ANYTHING GOES WITH BUTTONS . Method:  The scrap part is the middle part with the two piece of paper glued together with the washi ...