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Scrap Paper Holder - Tutorial













I
made similar scrap paper holder few days ago. I just love it because
it's nice and practical and you can put it anywhere you want. When I do
cards or scrapbooking, there are always some pieces of paper left...
with this holder I can have them all in one place instead of having them
all over my working table. Since I promised a friend who visited me the
other day that I will put a quick tutorial on my blog, here it is.










You can make it in different sizes - my basic cardboard sizes are:
14 x 10 cm for the back,
14 x 3 cm for the bottom and
14 x 7 cm for the front.
Cut
the cardboard pieces and glue them to the back of the desired pattern
paper - make sure you leave some space between them. Trim the paper
about 2 cm around and trim the corners. Fold the edges and glue them
down.























Cut
the piece of coordinating paper that is a few millimeters smaller than
the "core" you have in front of you and glue it down so you cover the
edges. With you scoring tool, gently rub in the space you left between
cardboard and try to put it into the final shape.























Now
cut the paper for the side parts. I wanted the upper part of the holder
to be wider than the bottom, so I first cut 6.5 cm long strip of
pattern paper, cut it in half and marked 3 cm for the bottom (as that is
the size of my bottom cardboard part as well), and 5 cm for the top.
You want to get an isosceles trapezoid. On the sides with equeal lenght
(in my case the 6.5 cm side) leave 1 cm for fold which you will glue
down. (See the pics bellow, I can't tell that better). I distressed the
back side of the trapezoids before I glued them as they were just too
white for my quite dark background paper.

































And that's about it. Of course you can embelish it as you want.


















And
finally, put some scrap papers in it. I'm going to make a bigger one
and fix it on the wall to keep the bills that need to be payed in it.
You can use it for other things as well, it's up to you.

choukraa