Upcycle Paper Towels in Card Crafting
I often upcycle the paper towels I’ve used to clean stamps or blot watercolors in my card crafting.
The paper towels have a mix of bright and exciting colors, plus they add textural interest to my projects.
You can see more of my upcycled paper towel backgrounds HERE
Here’s How:
- Separate the ply on the paper towel. Attach one ply to a piece of card stock backing. I used Stampin’ Seal/tape runner adhesive, but any kind will work. By attaching it to a background, you’ll be able to cut the paper towel to size easily.
- Initially, for this card, I intended to have the grass, and the pelican stamped directly onto the paper towel. So the pelican would be behind the grass, I used the Masking Technique. I stamped the grass from the Oceanfront stamp set on a post-it-note and cut it out. I placed the mask on the paper towel card front and stamped the pelican image over it. Then I removed the mask and stamped the grass in the space left by the mask.
- Design Change! After doing this, I decided I did not like it. The pelican needed to stand out more. So, I stamped and cut out another image on Basic White card stock and popped it up over the original stamped image. Much better! Sometimes, a slight pivot in your design makes all the difference in the final outcome!
- Stamp the birds on the card front using Night of Navy ink. Attach to Pacific Point mat and Basic White card base.
- Stamp greeting from Beauty of Friendship using Night of Navy ink.
Done!
Be sure to watch my how-to video for this card HERE
Do you ever change your design midstream?
Please share some of your design change successes and failures.
