How can I use my vellum scraps?

[MazdaUK]

when I need to print onto white (for recipes etc.) I tend to use vellum, simply because I can get that by the pack from CM - its hard to get packs of white cardstock here, and I don't really like using ordinary paper as it has no oomph. Anyway, with all these recipe swaps I spend a lot of time trimming 10x12 vellum to fit my printer, so I have all these long strips of vellum left over, and you know how I hate to waste stuff

I've thought of cutting little flowers etc. out, but vellum is a pain to stick so i'd have to use either brads/eyelets or photo splits to stick them, so i couldn't do anything too tiny.

Any other ideas?

 

[nicurn]

you can also use a glue stick to "stick" vellum down, use it very lightly and it doesn't show through the vellum. maggie

ps: if you have a smallish snowflake stamp, you could stamp snowflakes in silver ink and use it as a border on a card or something.

 

[MazdaUK]

I'll give the glue stick a try, thanks! I've got the meadow micromaker from CM and I love the little butterflies, but how to stick them was the problem! I'll get the pritt stick out.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I'll give the glue stick a try, thanks! I've got the meadow micromaker from CM and I love the little butterflies, but how to stick them was the problem! I'll get the pritt stick out.

Pritt stick? That's a new one for me. What exactly is pritt??

I love British words!!!

 

[happycampers]

I went to a make and take class at Archiver's a few years or so ago. We made vellum envelopes and used the scraps to put on a tag.

Fold a thin strip of vellum (2-3" x slightly more than 1/2") in half.
Put the ends on the front and back of the tag to cover the hole, creating a tab-sort-of-thing. Hold it in place with a little adhesive.
Place a small (1/2" diameter) circle punch cut-out over the hole for decoration. Hold it in place with a little adhesive. (It would probably look fine without this step.
Fasten a snap in the center of the punch, through the vellum and tag's hole.

I hope that made sense. It was really cute use of some tiny scraps.

 

[piratesmate]

I've been known to take one of those strips & stick it to a regular sheet of printer paper with the CM tape runner in the corner & run it through the printer. Just position it so that it's in the unprintable margin of your paper.

Another thing I've done is to use small punch-outs. I just put them through my Xyron and stick them on the corners of the vellum. It works fine for hold it down and since you're placing it overlapping the corner you end up with more usable space on the vellum. Can you get the Xyron "X" there?

I've also punched some tiny pieces out of the vellum and used them in my shaker boxes.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

creating a tab-sort-of-thing.

is that a technical term???? LOL
I'll add it to the Scrappers Dictionary if you can define it!

 

[happycampers]

I've been known to take one of those strips & stick it to a regular sheet of printer paper with the CM tape runner in the corner & run it through the printer. Just position it so that it's in the unprintable margin of your paper.

Help me, please. I love using up scraps, and this sounds cool, but I'm not picturing it. I got the impression that you were going to print on it, then you said to position it so that it's in the unprintable margin. That's where I got lost...

 

[happycampers]

is that a technical term???? LOL
I'll add it to the Scrappers Dictionary if you can define it!

That is so funny because I had actually thought about putting "technical term" in parethesis after that .

 

[piratesmate]

I've been known to take one of those strips & stick it to a regular sheet of printer paper with the CM tape runner in the corner & run it through the printer. Just position it so that it's in the unprintable margin of your paper.

Help me, please. I love using up scraps, and this sounds cool, but I'm not picturing it. I got the impression that you were going to print on it, then you said to position it so that it's in the unprintable margin. That's where I got lost...

Sorry - I was trying to do 6 things at once again. It's the segments of the CM adhesive that get put in the unprintable margin of the vellum. That way if you end up with leftover sticky gunk after you try to take off the adhesive, you can just trim that off.

If you take a 10"x12" sheet of vellum & cut it down to an 8½"x10" sheet, you end up with a 3½"x10" strip leftover. I usually take a sheet of printer paper & adhere the vellum in "landscape" so that I have a longer strip for writing on. I'll usually put the vellum slightly less than a ½" from the top. (Printable margin in ½" on mine.) My text is typed with a 0.6" or 0.7" margin in my document so the text doesn't run right to the edge.

Does that make more sense?

 

[New England Eeyore]

I do something similar to what piratesmate is saying. I'll print out the words I want on a regular sheet of paper, then use scotch tape to tape vellum over the word (enough tape so the vellum scrap will stay put but just a thin section of the tape touching the vellum.) Then I'll print the same thing again. The tape just peels right off the vellum and that way you can center the text exactly where you want it.

 

[happycampers]

Ahhhh. Thank you. Now it makes more sense. Cool tip.

Does the vellum ever catch and jam in the printer since it's only adhered at the ends?

Isn't there a similar technique for printing on twill tape? I think I had read something like that in a magazine.

 

[MazdaUK]

Thnaks all! You can get the Xyron X over here, I'm resisting at the moment as its a bit harder to hide than paper

Pritt stick is a glue stick that twists up - Pritt is the brand name - it always reminds me of a chap stick, but sticky. Its popular for kids crafts as it doesn't spill. It still makes you really sticky if you're doing serendipity squares though

 

[piratesmate]

I'm not trying to tempt you or anything, but ...

I don't actually use the the plastic "X" part. I just use the refill, which is cheaper. And much smaller & therefore easier to hide!

 

[MazdaUK]

Hiding is good.....its just another word for tidy, right

 

[kaddjr]

Hiding is good.....its just another word for tidy, right

Works for me!

Seriously, don't purchase the X, just the refill. I find that using the refill only helps in positioning the smaller pieces and therefore, less waste.