Spinner Scraps to Floating Strips
Don’t toss out those scraps — transform them into something beautiful!
Those leftover pieces from your projects are perfect for creating even more unique and eye-catching cards.
With a little creativity, you can turn what might seem like trash into treasures that add extra charm, texture, and personality to your handmade creations!
For this card, I repurposed the leftover die-cut pieces from our recent Bee Mine Valentine Spinner Card class.
After die-cutting the spinner tracks with a Sending Die, I was left with some great scraps.
Instead of tossing them, I turned them into a colorful Floating Strips sunrise card, giving those pieces new life!
Be sure to watch my Floating Strips How-to Video HERE
Spinner Scraps to Floating Strips How-to
1. Create the Background
Start with a Shaving Cream Background using Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, and Pumpkin Pie ink refills for a perfect sunrise look.
(Watch my Shaving Cream Background How-to Video HERE. This was the background for our Bee Spinner cards.)
2. Repurpose the Scraps
After making the Bee Spinner cards, I had six leftover die-cut strips. Instead of tossing them, I turned them into Floating Strips!
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Cut a piece of window sheet or transparency large enough to hold the strips.
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Attach the strips to the sheet, leaving small gaps between them.
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Punch or die-cut a 2 1/2″ circle from the assembled sheet to create your floating strips element.
3. Create a Shaving Cream Tree
- To add interest to the Floating Strips Sunrise, I made a shaving cream background using Old Olive, Shaded Spruce, and Soft Sea Foam ink refills.
- Die-cut a tree shape from the shaving cream background using the open zipper die from the All Zipped Up Dies (the center of the unused zipper cut looks like a tree!)
4. Stamp the Greeting
- Stamp sentiment (Country Birdhouse) onto Lemon Lolly card front using Shaded Spruce ink.
5. Assemble the Floating Strips
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Apply Adhesive Foam Strips to the back of the Floating Strips piece, placing them behind the strips of card stock so they won’t show through the window sheet.
- Attach to card front. Attach to Shaded Spruce mat, then Basic White card base.
6. Fussy cut a tree trunk out of Shaded Spruce card stock
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Attach to the back of the tree.
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Attach the tree to the card front using a strip of Adhesive Foam to pop it up.
7. Add Blooming Pearls to complete
You can see more of my Floating Strips Cards HERE
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