This is a tiny little project called a "scrapling". When it is closed, it is 1.25 x 4.25 inches. It is called a scrapling because if you cut a sheet of card-stock in half and then turn one of those half sheets into a 4.25 inch square card this is the size "scrap" you have left.
Or you can do what I did and just cut a 1.25 inch strip from the 8.5 inch side of my cardstock. For those of you challenged by (or fearful of) fractions and decimals that means: Put your paper in your trimmer and cut a smallish strip from short side of the paper - this isn't going in an envelope so who cares what the size is.
This one is done in one of the 2009-2010 In-colors, Crushed Curry, and the stamp set is Cheers to You. The mug was stamped in Stazon ink on watercolor paper then water-colored by using the Crushed Curry marker. "Huh?" you ask. "How do you watercolor with a marker?"
Here is how: Take something plastic - I use the lid to an old margarine tub, scribble with your marker on the plastic, then pick up the color with your aqua painter, paint! Pretty simple. I wanted to watercolor on this project because I wanted to have shadows and variations on my mug and I just do that better in watercolor. (Hmmm.... Why can I color a beer mug with greater detail than I can color a flower? I'm sure there is food for thought there, but we are going to get back to paper and ink)
"But how did you get the foam?" you inquire. (My, you have a lot of questions today.) I used Liquid Applique. SU doesn't sell it but it isn't hard to find. Just color it on - let dry - then get that foam to rise with your heat tool (just like heat embossing). Tip - really let the applique dry like the directions tell you - you get a different look than if you heat it immediately. But I understand, sometimes a girl just can't wait to get on with her cute project! It's OK - it will still foam even if you can't wait.
Now what in the world do you do with this tiny little guy after he is foamy? I decided to turn him into a bookmark. A magnetic bookmark! I added two tiny snips of magnet - the kind that comes on a roll and is self adhesive on one side - you can cut it with scissors. Put a bit on each side of the scrapling.
Here he is in action. Notice which page of the Holiday Mini Catalog that I marked? Surely you have bought that ornament punch by now.
Make a couple of these scrapling bookmarks and include them for a personal touch when you give books as gifts. It is just scrap paper - costs so little yet really takes that gift to the next level. These would be really cute with a cookbook - where cooks need to mark pages and have them STAY marked. At least that is what I assume cooks do - not being a very good one, I can't say for sure.
I'd love to see what you can come up with. Send me photos or links so I can check out your work too.
5 comments:
I love this little scrapling, it is really cute and I will have to share the one I made really soon, too. Thanks so much for sharing. Love the suds on the beer. You are so creative.
Ellen, I love your "blathering" (as you called it on your post to LNS)! It seems not many stampers can write in a fashion that's readable, much less entertaining, so I appreciate your double talent.
I've pooh-poohed scraplings when I've seen them before, but I really like this bookmark application! Thanks for sharing!
love your blathering, and your scrapling is darling, I'm going to have to give that a try
I love your humor! Don't stop! PS- love the bookmark too.
L-O-V-E the magnetic strip idea on the bookmark!!! Great project, and easy enough to do with a workshop! Thanks for sharing! I love your blog!
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