breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 28, 2017 16:58:53 GMT
Actually a sticker sheet... Hello Summer by Echo park was my first collection from my first online order in 2012 (seems like it was older than that but I guess not). I'm down to 7 tiny stickers on the sticker sheet and I am determined to use them today and officially kill the collection.
Of course during my "research" trying to find out how old the collection was I found it is still available a bunch of places online, just in case I want more and want to take another 5 years to use it all up. I wish that were true of other collections...
Have you "killed" anything lately?
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nicolep
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Post by nicolep on Jul 28, 2017 17:27:19 GMT
Have you "killed" anything lately? A bottlefly that flew into the powdered coffee creamer container at work a few minutes ago, lol. I really don't think I have ever killed an entire collection. Truly. |
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christinec68
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Post by christinec68 on Jul 28, 2017 17:31:57 GMT
Have you "killed" anything lately? A bottlefly that flew into the powdered coffee creamer container at work a few minutes ago, lol. I really don't think I have ever killed an entire collection. Truly. I was thinking maybe a bug..ha!! |
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christinec68
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Post by christinec68 on Jul 28, 2017 17:34:40 GMT
Actually a sticker sheet... Hello Summer by Echo park was my first collection from my first online order in 2012 (seems like it was older than that but I guess not). I'm down to 7 tiny stickers on the sticker sheet and I am determined to use them today and officially kill the collection. Of course during my "research" trying to find out how old the collection was I found it is still available a bunch of places online, just in case I want more and want to take another 5 years to use it all up. I wish that were true of other collections... Have you "killed" anything lately? I LOVED the Hello Summer collection. I even bought it twice, the last time was at Tuesday Morning back in October or November. I have never killed a sticker sheet although Shimelle just did a video about this very thing recently - in the past week or two. I've used up the papers in a collection until it was whittled down to scraps but never and entire collection. |
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Post by pennyscraps on Jul 28, 2017 18:00:54 GMT
I don't think I've ever killed a collection either 'cause I sure don't remember having any funerals.  You go, though! |
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Jul 28, 2017 18:46:36 GMT
I've never bought a whole collection of anything.  |
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Post by anniefb on Jul 28, 2017 18:51:10 GMT
Never bought a whole collection of anything because I think I'd get sick of it before it was used up.
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Post by thracian on Jul 28, 2017 18:58:37 GMT
For me just using up a sticker sheet or any embellishment is a triumph. Celebrate even the small achievements!
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 28, 2017 22:42:16 GMT
Like msliz and anniefb, I've never purchased a full collection. I would go nuts still having some left five years on...  But I'm a serial sticker sheet and ephemera pack killer. As soon as I reach that "for sure not going to use what's left" stage, I come up with my next murder plan. And then I kill it any way I can: embellish a wrapped gift, stick it down on a card or envelope I'm sending or *gasp* straight in the bin. I don't care. It has got to go.  |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 28, 2017 23:11:10 GMT
Have you "killed" anything lately? I try to all the time. We ARE talking supplies. LOL. I run through small embellishments like water. I am a heavy embellisher. I've never bought a whole collection of anything. Me either. I know I would be bored of it before i finished it. |
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Post by chaosisapony on Jul 29, 2017 2:31:41 GMT
I loved that Echo Park line, it was great!
I've never bought an entire collection and I don't think I've ever used up an entire 12x12 sticker sheet lol.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 29, 2017 3:54:54 GMT
The closest I have come is that old distressed looking school line by Simple Stories - one of their first collections. I used everything I bought but don't know if I may have missed something.
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camcas
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Post by camcas on Jul 29, 2017 4:15:34 GMT
I haven't but I'll bet it's a good feeling!
As a kind of spinoff ,I love watching Vicki P card kit videos for SSS because she always shows what's left over after her 10 cards
Obviously there are stamps left or tools or ink pads if they were included,but when I see she has a few papers left I always think...why not just make a couple of extra cards to use those up!
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Post by lilacgal on Jul 29, 2017 10:54:27 GMT
I pretty much killed Basic Grey's Out of Print collection pack. I have the alpha sheet and some leftover scraps. No full sheets. My daughter picked the biggest scrap (out of all the paper I have) to use on a challenge layout this week. So now, I'm only down to small scraps. Yay!
I don't think I've ever come close to killing another collection pack. Seems like a good summer challenge. I'm leaving in a few hours for Disney. When I return, I'm going to work on killing the Say Cheese collection!
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 29, 2017 20:58:30 GMT
I've never bought a whole collection. I'm too cheap! Embellishments are expensive.
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 30, 2017 21:56:26 GMT
I usually just get down to a small amount of paper and embellishments, then divide it up into my general stash.
Sticker sheets I'll cut apart and put with a theme or in my small boxes by color. The tiny bits I know I'll never use go in the trash.
That's what I consider killing a kit.
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Post by steakgoddess on Jul 31, 2017 4:16:33 GMT
I've killed sticker sheets. I show it off to my husband and kids. They don't get it. 😂
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Post by QueSeraSera on Jul 31, 2017 7:17:44 GMT
I've killed sticker sheets. I show it off to my husband and kids. They don't get it. 😂 No they really do not get it do they. Same thing at my house. 😂 |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 31, 2017 11:47:13 GMT
I've killed sticker sheets. I show it off to my husband and kids. They don't get it.But we do! |
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Post by katmandu on Jul 31, 2017 16:33:31 GMT
I do it all the time. I am selective on what I purchase, so I love each collection enough to use it up. Maybe not literally all of it (a couple stickers here, a sheet there), but enough for me to pronounce it dead or at least mostly dead and send the little leftovers on to my sister.
My latest "victim" was Simple Stories' Hello Baby.
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 31, 2017 16:40:44 GMT
Well it's dead  I might have part of a patterned paper left, a few die cuts and one sticker (the quote bubble) left but I'm pronouncing it dead. I really liked that paper line, and it worked really well with kid summer photos so the fact that it took 5 years to use it all makes it a little easier to understand my out of control paper stash. I should count how many layouts I got out of that one collection... |
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Post by scrappinmom1 on Jul 31, 2017 19:31:19 GMT
not lately. Not ever come to think of it!
Christine
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Post by janamke on Jul 31, 2017 20:24:48 GMT
Not even close. I buy lots of collections, or at least many pieces to a collection. 90% of my layouts start on a solid cardstock background and I use lots of smaller pieces of patterned paper. It would be nearly impossible to fully kill all the scraps. And there are always those super lame stickers on every sheet that I just can't use.
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Post by ellewood on Jul 31, 2017 21:15:41 GMT
This is such a (weirdly?) fun thread! I am a hoarder (both not using things I like and keeping things I don't like just-in-case) but recently started doing travelers notebooks. It is so thrilling to pull something out and say "I'm going to use this no matter what!" I am working on a process video for a spread I just did and I pulled out a random Amy Tan sticker sheet and decided to use as much of it as I could. Boop- there goes a pineapple! Haha, I just kept hearing the peas in my head "a zebra?! WHY??" I will probably have a party when I figure out a way to use that dang zebra...
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Post by guzismom on Aug 1, 2017 1:04:39 GMT
If you count throwing (or giving) away leftovers that I can't stand to look at one more minute, then YES....I have!
All kidding aside, killing a collection through any means necessary is such a wonderful feeling. I think I am there with my homemade 'travel' kit that I brought with me on vacation to scrap. FYI: I don't usually scrap on vacation but this one is a bit different; I'm here for a month with lots of down time, so I thought I might be productive. I have completed 10 pages so far in about 2 weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 12:57:13 GMT
Not recently but many years ago I killed Color Me Silly by Basic Grey.
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Post by grammadee on Aug 1, 2017 14:28:47 GMT
I don't think I have ever killed a collection. I don't think about scrapping or card making that way. I use what I want at the time and save the scraps with similar themed items to play with later.
When the bag with a particular collection gets near empty, I amalgamate its contents with those in another bag (sort of matching theme &/or colour)
Sticker sheets--unless they annoy me enough by falling off their background piece &/or sticking themselves together--I keep around for.ev.er. Create E's out of F's and e's out of c's and A's our of V's and N's out of tipped over Z's. When I am down to x's and Q's, I might pitch it (or snip off a couple of bits to make y's and O's--see above for where the small bits go)
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Post by stinkerbelle on Aug 2, 2017 15:41:39 GMT
the closest i've ever come was using an echo park collection kit with shimelle's perfect collection class. i used at least 99% of the papers (i scrap 8.5x11 so even if i do a pp background i have scraps) and a good portion of the stickers, but not all. it was one of the vintagey kits and i had more trouble making the stickers work with my modern photos.
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I might have part of a patterned paper left, a few die cuts and one sticker (the quote bubble) left but I'm pronouncing it dead. 
