6 by 6 paper pads are so tempting...

Jen Schow has a series on her YouTube channel about designing with 6x6 papers.

This is so me.  





I'll have to check that out.  Thanx!

I have a big pile of them but I use them buy cutting them to 4x6 size and making my own PL cards.

it was addicting for a while but now I'm over it. i'll probably give my sister all of my pads.

I have 4 pads that have half a dozen or fewer sheets left. I don't have a articulately large collection and I keep them in with my scraps so I flip through them often.

I mostly use them for layering and in pocket pages.

I have used a couple 6 x 6 pads down to the last few sheets (why oh why is it so hard to just dump the last sheets???), but I have *ahem* several more that have hardly been touched. I am primarily a cardmaker, so they are perfect for me - none of the large, unwieldy patterns that you find on the 12 x 12 pads.

I use mine up in pocket pages/project life. I like the scaled down patterns for PL and it only takes one quick cut to have a 4x6 pocket card.

I second the suggestion of Jen Schow's 6X6 paper pad class. She shows some really good ways to use them up.

I make cards, and have recently moved to the 6x6 pads. Its great. The design is scaled to the right size for cards, it's easy to use the pad up (I watch Kristie Marcotte blast through a complete pad of 6x6 in one youtube video), and I have a lot less craps.

I am careful what pads I buy. I do sometimes see that the company just shrunk a major scrap booking 12x12 design down to 6 inches and it's so small that it doesn't make sense to make a card out of it. So I do watch what companies I buy the 6 inch pads from.

I love them! I have a hard time resisting them when they're 1.99 or 2.99 at Tuesday Morning. This time last year I think I had 2-3 of them and now I have probably 15-20! But I worked my way through Jen Schow's 6x6 pad class and also the one by SG last summer, so I've used quite a few pieces of paper from them.

I've only used one totally up. It was an Echo Park Simple Life one. I made 2 single pages, a double, and a ton of cards. And I layered, wallpapered and otherwise used a lot of paper on them. So it can be done!

I think the appeal for me is the ability to get a collection without having to spend a lot. I can get the 6x6 pad and one embellishment packet or sticker sheet and feel like I have a lot to work with.

Thanks for that, I was trying to remember this series, as my stack has been growing lately

I plan to use them in my pocket page style layouts, thinking the smaller scale would be a better fit in the 3x4 and 4x6 sizes...but for now, I am pretty much just collecting

I probably have 6 or 7 6x6 paper pads. The intent was to use them more for divided sheet protectors, but I forget to look through them. I'll have to look at the youtube videos because I find them hard to use. I don't know why, it's just paper!

I'm sure I have well over 100 of these little suckers. I should count them. I bought a huge lot of them one time on Ebay and I think there were 70 or 80 just in that, maybe more (it was about $100 shipped). So I still have most of those, plus I have to have bought at least that many more since then. I probably bought the big lot of them maybe 4 years ago?

I use them fairly frequently, not as much as I should, though. I have definitely used up at least 4 or 5 pads completely, plus I sent about 4 or 5 to somebody who really loved and coveted a bunch that I happened to have.

I took the SG class, or part of it, and got a lot of ideas for using the papers from that. I also highly recommend the Jen Schow series.

Probably more than anything else, I use them to make cards.

I could probably scrapbook for the rest of my life with just 12x12 white/cream/kraft/black cardstock and my huge collection of 6x6 pads. I mean, I also have the rest of my hoard plus I buy stuff fairly frequently so it's not going to happen...but I could...