"Hobo Stew" Card...

I recently did a card challenge from StampTV which required us to make a card using nothing but scraps! No cutting could be done. We could use anything in our "stash" that was lying around but absolutely no cutting other than the base of the card could be done. Well... HOW was I to know I had so many THINGS lying around that would even resemble a finished card if put together!!!??? Oh boy... do I need to make "Hobo Stew" cards EVERY week! LOL To begin with... I found the yellow dotted Swiss background and decided then to try to use a black background card base. AND... honestly.... I had THAT too sitting in my basket of A2 card bases that I fold and keep whenever I start a new card. Then I went on a scavenger hunt. I found the scalloped oval and thought I wasn't seeing right when I noticed it was yellow... and when I took it over to the dotted Swiss paper I jumped... woohoo.. what were the chances?? LOL Next I ran across the white dotted Swiss piece and held it for awhile thinking if I could... I'd use it. Last, I found the rose from Melanie Muenchinger's A Year of Roses that I remember coloring and for some reason didn't like how it turned out. Not sure I do now either but... hey... it worked with the card. After layering the rose I looked down and saw two scap punches I had made with my new Martha Stewart punch for the "purple owl" card and later decided to use a different shade of green. Sooooo... that too was a "leftover" of sorts. It was then I decided to go ahead and use the white dotted Swiss piece to somewhat add some separation from the scallop and card bg. Now on the inside... I searched thru my yellow scraps and found the piece I wanted but realized it didn't leave any margins at the ends. But... this was all about scraps, right? So I went ahead and glued it to the inside just as a "see... I DID use scraps.. because I'd always cut a margin" example and then decided to add a bit of lace which was lying in my ribbon scraps bag. WAH LA! A decent card and all because I cut and store and leave things lying around for that "rainy day"! LOL It worked! Have a great day!