Scraps, scraps and more scraps!! That’s what we all have in our drawers and boxes throughout our craftrooms, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if those boxes are even in the living room and dining room too! If you’re like me, you can’t bear to throw those scraps away because you know that you might need that smallest piece of paper for a later project. Alison has the right idea here when it comes to scraps. Paper can get pretty expensive and with times like this we want to really make our dollars stretch.
I save all of my scraps from my projects. I want to know if there’s a way I can use up some of the smaller pieces I have. I’ve spent so much money on my paper that I want to make sure I can use it to the fullest degree. If so, how do I line them up on my mat to cut my project?
Allison P. Sherwood, IN
You can use any size scraps with the Inspiration. I have three overflowing drawers here at Pazzles with scraps ranging in an array of sizes. I even have my friend Amanda here at work using my scrap drawers. It’s great because by saving all those different papers it not only saves money, but you can also be inspired by seeing all the different color scraps in one location. I’ll admit that I don’t really have the best eye when it comes to color, but sometimes I can see two colors of paper together when I look in my drawer and say “Waaala! Those will work perfectly! “.
To set up your page size, go up to Setting and down to Page and type in the dimensions of your scrap piece of paper. Let’s say you are using a 4×3 piece. You will want to enter those dimensions in for the page size. Make sure that when you place your paper down on your mat it’s loaded in the upper right hand corner and that it’s positioned in either landscape or portrait mode exactly like you have it on your screen. When you import your image to your screen to be cut make sure that it is within the guide of the paper size on your screen. If the scrap piece of paper is loaded in the upper right hand corner of your mat, your image will be cut on that scrap piece of paper. I hope this helps Allison and a number of others out there use up all those small pieces of paper that we save. After all, we are ‘scrap’bookers!
scraps are super for making up pages – you get a whole new look just with a little planning.
I sometimes just sit and makeup pages – you’ll always find that “perfect” picture later that looks great on the New background you’ve just made.
I also use the guide lines x and y to make sure the image will fix on the piece of scrap paper.
Because when I’m doing a project it faster for me. I don’t have to change the paper size for every little piece of scrap paper.
Brenda,
That’s also a great one that I use a lot. There are always so many ways to do one thing. Perhaps I’ll cover that in one of my future blogs. Thanks so much for mentioning that!
Cheryl,
I love my scraps too because I can create without designing around a photograph. Just like you I’ll look for the ‘perfect’ picture to go on that page at a later time. In the meantime, I just have fun crafting!
I have lots of scraps too. I keep the small ones in a coupon organizer by colors….and the bigger ones in an expandable file folder by color as well. When I go to piece things, and need a certain color, I go to these files before cutting into a brand new piece of paper. I think that it is an illness. Sometimes, I get so many, I give them away in baggies, by color, to schools and/or nursing homes. I just hate to waste nice paper!
I love using scraps. I do it a little different than Tatum. I keep my page 12 x 12 and use guidelines for placement, that way I can use a lot of scraps on one page all at one time…GREAT QUESTION and topic
A great thing to do also, is when you have your image on a full page and you want to save the paper around that image is to use the weeding feature this puts a box around the image that will cut assuring you have perfect edges on your scraps.
Wow, lots of good ideas on here for me as a newbie. I’ve had my machine for almost 2 years but didn’t do anything with it until recently! I’m soaking up knowledge from all you pros!
Klo how do you use multiple pieces of scraps at once on the page?
can you do this using a mini pazzles?