Sometimes we just have to learn how to think outside the box. Much of this challenge between my friend Wanda and I has been about using the old diecuts and stickers and other supplies that we have held on to forever. But the reasons we have held on to some of it is because it is just plain outdated or not as "fancy" as our scrappin style has "stepped up" to. This challenge has rekindled the creative juices inside of me to think about how I can use my outdated supplies in a new way. I have carried around this corn stalk diecut for years... like many years. Mainly because it didn't have corn cobs, it was just the stalk portion, and it was also a dark green. Most of the photos I would try to use it with were Halloween corn maze photos- and of course the stalks in the photos were always browned by the season, and so it clashed with my photos. One of the main reasons I have been reworking my son's book is that I had only included a single picture of each Halloween, and let's face it folks, what is more fun to scrapbook than the themes surrounding your child's Halloween costume? My son was the Tinman when he was three and I had been dying to use that cool new Wizard of Oz paper! I found a challenge on The Scrappy Patch that required us to use Corn or corn stalks... fortunately for me- the old corn stalk diecut I had matched the color in my patterned paper perfectly. However the one thing that really bothered me was that there were no cobs. So I opened my cricut cartridges, and found another corn stalk, found the perfect tan mulberry paper, and cut two more stalks out to go with my diecut, but these stalks had the same trouble- no cobs. I thought surely there would be a cob to go with them on my cartridge, but alas it was not to be. This is where I began to think outside the box. I looked around my scrap room and thought, what can I use to make corn cobs? It wasn't long before I discovered the perfect large leaf punch. But I took it a step further, wishing I could make it textured, I remembered I had a quikcuts embossing folder that had tiny dots on it...hmmm. The diecut may not have had cobs to begin with but it does now! I love the way this page just fell together. Sometimes we just have to make our inner creative muse think about the tools we have at our disposal, and step up the old diecuts to make them new again.
Sometimes we just have to learn how to think outside the box. Much of this challenge between my friend Wanda and I has been about using the old diecuts and stickers and other supplies that we have held on to forever. But the reasons we have held on to some of it is because it is just plain outdated or not as "fancy" as our scrappin style has "stepped up" to. This challenge has rekindled the creative juices inside of me to think about how I can use my outdated supplies in a new way. I have carried around this corn stalk diecut for years... like many years. Mainly because it didn't have corn cobs, it was just the stalk portion, and it was also a dark green. Most of the photos I would try to use it with were Halloween corn maze photos- and of course the stalks in the photos were always browned by the season, and so it clashed with my photos. One of the main reasons I have been reworking my son's book is that I had only included a single picture of each Halloween, and let's face it folks, what is more fun to scrapbook than the themes surrounding your child's Halloween costume? My son was the Tinman when he was three and I had been dying to use that cool new Wizard of Oz paper! I found a challenge on The Scrappy Patch that required us to use Corn or corn stalks... fortunately for me- the old corn stalk diecut I had matched the color in my patterned paper perfectly. However the one thing that really bothered me was that there were no cobs. So I opened my cricut cartridges, and found another corn stalk, found the perfect tan mulberry paper, and cut two more stalks out to go with my diecut, but these stalks had the same trouble- no cobs. I thought surely there would be a cob to go with them on my cartridge, but alas it was not to be. This is where I began to think outside the box. I looked around my scrap room and thought, what can I use to make corn cobs? It wasn't long before I discovered the perfect large leaf punch. But I took it a step further, wishing I could make it textured, I remembered I had a quikcuts embossing folder that had tiny dots on it...hmmm. The diecut may not have had cobs to begin with but it does now! I love the way this page just fell together. Sometimes we just have to make our inner creative muse think about the tools we have at our disposal, and step up the old diecuts to make them new again.
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