That's It, Western Romance All Used Up

I have now (finally) used up all the bits and bobs left from the Western Romance kit by Emma Trout from the Scrapstars Retreat. I can't believe I managed to do the original layout plus five additional layouts with the contents of the kit. There were a few tiny, tiny, tiny bits left and I had to force myself to sweep them up and into the bin or I would have been tempted to see if I could squeeze another layout out of them, sometimes you just have to let it go!

The Love Letters layout at the top was a real challenge cos the bits of patterned papers you can see are pretty much what there was left, they were so tiny I had to stick them to the envelope and build the layout outwards. I also had to do some misting cos I didn't have enough coloured paper left to fill the design out. I've only just been converted to misting, by the lovely Emma Trout so I'm not very good at it but practise makes perfect I suppose. I have used lots of little pieces of leftovers to make the spiral cut and rolled flowers and snipped and rolled small strips to make the spiky fringed flowers and added some clear bling and pearls to the groups of flowers. I was trying to find a nice piece of cardstock to pop behind the photo of my hubby and as I was going through my scraps box my daughter popped her head around the door and asked if I wanted the tag off her new jeans, eureka!! Mounted the photo on the tag and added it to the layout to finish it off.

That "Doh!" Moment

Yet another layout created with the left overs from Emma Trout's Western Romance kit from Scrapstars - strange feeling of de ja vu here, think I've used this line in the last gazzillion posts. This really does use up lots of scraps, even the very tiny scraps have been rolled and made into flowers to get the most from every piece. I used a We Are Memory Keepers Sew Easy tool to make the holes to stitch in. I found it didn't go through the paper and cardstock very well no matter how much pressure I put on it so I had to poke the holes with a pokey tool. I used the needle supplied with the Sew Easy tool but found I had to re poken the holes again cos the needle is huge and was too big for the little holes. I would have swapped to a smaller needle but I'd taken my needle box to work to sew up some scarves I've knit. The title box I made from my new labels 4 Spellbinder set that jumped into my basket in Hobbycraft, Leeds at the weekend, well there was a £5 off voucher in the Hobbycraft magazine so it would have been rude not to! The photo is of the lovely Kirsty Wiseman and I pinched it off of one of her Facebook posts, she is such a laugh.

I have another layout almost finished, just waiting for a photo adding, and guess what? Yep, it is made with the very, very, very last scraps from this kit. I have had to throw in an envelope to bulk out the tiny scraps of paper and most of the scraps were too small to stick to the base sheet of cardstock for fear of leaving gaps so they are all stuck to the envelope but I love it, I will post it tomorrow once I've popped a photo on it. Have a great day.