Eco-Friendly Scrapbook Layout | Tuckered Out

I made this layout for an e-book submission over on the EcoScrapbook blog. Danielle and I have gotten to know each over emails and blog hops. We met while participating in a Layout A Day Challenge and has become one of my online friends. Danielle is putting together a scrapbooking e-book due to come out on Earth Day in April. If you're interested in submitting a layout as well, the details are outlined in this post. {Hurry though, the deadline is the end of day on January 31st, 2013}

Everything on this layout is made from leftovers from other projects. The vellum is leftover from a project I am sharing on Friday for the first About A Boy Challenge. The strips are all leftovers from my K @ 6 months layout. I pulled really thin cardboard from one of my Studio Calico kits out of my recycle bin to use for the strip piecing. The letters are one of a few remaining chipboard letters in the pack. The papers that I used to make the strip and the letters were from an older Studio Calico Kit named Boardwalk from August of 2011.

When I work on a piecing project like making chevrons or a quilted background, I tend to over cut the numbers of strips/pieces that I truly need. I always get multiple projects made with all of the pieces and recycle what is finally left. An example of this is when I use pieces to make a quilted background for a layout, I will then use the remaining pieces to make a few cards. And, in the end, I have gotten a few projects made and am recycling only a few bits of paper. Happily, none of the projects look entirely the same. Another example of this is my Happy Neon Card set. I used the strip piecing to make the chevron for one card and then used the chevron cut offs to make a second card.

I am a big fan of purging supplies (recycling and donating what I know that I won't use). I am usually pretty ruthless and only keep what I absolutely love. While the supplies from this are from an older kit, you probably wouldn't know that if I hadn't told you. My advice: keep what you love & recycle what you don't, then you will always love what you make. 


Supplies: Paper scraps and Chipboard letter scraps. Bazzill gray cardstock. Recycled super thin cardboard. Studio Calico Date Stamp. Chalk Cat-Eye ink pad in Chestnut Roan. Brother xl6000i sewing machine. Gray Guterman Thread. Tonic Studios 12 in Guillotine Cutter. Xyron 5 in Creative Station. Memory Keeper sized Glue Dots. Completed layout size: 12 inches by 12 inches.