Inspiration Friday Owls in the Woods

Lots of owls around lately (kind of another throw back to the 70's) and it looks like wood grain, mushrooms, squirrels, and trees, have have joined the birds and owls in fun scrapbook moifs.

1.Wood Natural 12X12 Green Woodland Paper By Die Cuts w/ a View

2.Hey Foxy 12x12 Paper By Imaginisce

3.Trees Chipboard Set By Maya Road

4.Owls Mini Sheer Set By Maya Road

5.Gren Stack by DCWV

6.Friendly Forest paper pack by Colorbok

7.Friendly Forest Glitter Embellishmants by Colorbok

8.Friendly Forest Gloss Chipboard by Colorbok

Some stuff I made inspired by the woodsy themes stuff

3R Scarpping : Security Envelopes

Today's Reuse it item is Security Envelopes.

There is a never ending source in the mail box. 

They come with all those annoying bills but here's the silver lining....

Some have great patterns that you can use in paper projects.

Here are a few I rescued from the trash. I stamped leaves with yellow pigment ink, cut them out and used them in on a scrapbook page.  

Now go make some green stamped embellishments....

3R Scrapping: Carboard and Spoolies

I've been thinking a lot about making more eco friendly choices lately, and it just so happens that ecologically friendly ideas are also ususally economically friendly too. With our planet and our wallets in need of TLC, I present 3R scrapping.  The idea is to reduse, reuse and recycle

Using carboard boxes to creat book covers is pretty straight forward and a great way to repurpose boxes, it's something I've been doing for a while now. Here's a recent example

Other cardboard throw away items you may have laying around are ribbon spools like these

This idea comes from Fiskars TV video tutorial (Spoolie Albums by Sandy Redburn from1/15/2007) they are easy to take apart, cover with paper or paint and then glue back together.  They make great little boxes to store small things like a micro mini scrapbook like this:

More spoolie books here and here.