Scrapbooking | Chocolate Wrappers?!

Sometimes packaging is just too good to throw out in the recycling!

At least it is for me as a crafter...

The colours on this chocolate bar wrapper from Dormouse Chocolates was just the perfect ombre of palest yellow to rich sunset orange with a whole lot of perfect peachiness in between, and a really good weight of cardstock, too.  It demanded to be reused on a layout!

I paired it with Simon Says Stamp's Garden Greetings stamp set and some stencilling with oxide inks in the background.  I love the softness of the colours, stencilling and vellum against the starkness of the bold black stamping.

I used the text on the chocolate wrapper to make a found poem about my boy Theo.  It kind of has a double meaning as Theo is short for Theobroma; Theobroma Cacao is the name of the cocoa plant that chocolate is made from.  Yep, budgie boy is named after chocolate!  Two of my most treasured things are birds and chocolate!!

I always say I'm rubbish with words.  The colour, inkiness, design and paper-stuff comes naturally but words are always hard for me.  Perhaps found poetry from a limited source is the way forward for me!  I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

And here's the finished layout with the remains of the wrapping.  I have had a look through my chocolate stash and see a few other wrappers that might need to be used in my crafting too.  Perhaps it will become a series...