What have you used or used up?

That's amazing! I saw you had been powering through the Pinkfresh new and old! Such a good feeling to make a dent in something new, but using up most of the old leftovers too - really great feeling. 

When I was making cards this month for the spring exchange, I dug deep into my stash. I used some SU pp that had been hanging around for a year to make the month's Sheetload of Cards and when I was searching for focal images, decided to fussy cut up another sheet or two from the same pack!

Then for the remaining 9 cards, I used papers from a Spellbinders card kit I bought to see what they're like as well as a die-cut pack from somewhere and a few other bits and bobs.

This is an awesome thread for me right now, because I'm just getting back to scrapping after approx. 4 years away from it.

I no longer have a craft space--never mind a room, and almost all of my supplies are packed away while I wait for my scrap space to be ready. Which is really low on a very long list of things that need to be done around here. (We bought an old house to restore/renovate a few years back, which I have always wanted to do, but it's super slow-going, and so I'm in "make-do" mode for crafting space.)

So I literally grabbed one bankers box of 12x12 pads/papers/kits, and about 2 dozen 6x6 paper pads and brought them over to my tiny desk with a few markers & some adhesive, and that's ALL I'm scrapping with right now.

So it's forcing me to make things work that normally I would have written off as not being "right" for whatever current project I was doing, and I hope it will lead to me finishing some things as well.

See the sonnet for an additional example.

Well, so far the only thing I've finished is a bottle of Un-Du. But that's a good thing, because for some reason I had 2 started bottles going at the same time. So I'm glad to have just one started one again.

I really think that in many cases it will be more a situation of me using up everything I'm willing to use as opposed to actually finishing.

Many things in my stash were given to me, so they may primarily not be my style, but I can use some of them. And even things I chose myself I may have chosen for parts rather than the whole, kwim?

For instance today I was using a paper pad from Michael's--one of those Recollections 6z6 pads that aren't even cardstock but rather actual lightweight patterned paper. Those work well for projects with mod podge, I find, but I don't love using them for scrapbooking. Plus the colors & style of the one I've been trying to use are not all for me at all.

So I did start a few pages in my yearly album with them and I made a card with them today. Then, I like to keep scrap paper in my desk, because I'm forever looking for scrap paper for this or that. And i was out, so I got that pad, and took out every sheet that I absolutely knew I didn't like enough to ever use on anything, cut them all in half, and filled the scrap paper basket in my desk drawer with them. And I still have so much of that pad left! It was an 180 page pad! That's a lot of paper if you love the patterns, and it's way too much when you don't.

So I think my next step will be to pull out the few remaining pages that I like, and maybe make a few little "mini kits" with them---enough for a page or a few cards, and then I think I'll start filling a gallon sized ziploc bag with scrap stuff I don't want, with this pad being the first item; and when it's full, I'll donate it/give it away, and for me that will be "finished".

I used up a bunch of those lightweight paper pad pages by making envelopes with the printed side on the inside. If you have an envelope punch board it’s one easy way to use up more sheets of the so-so designs. Especially if you also made some cards from one sheet and have 1-3 more sheets left. 

but the ones that are just fugly are soul-sapping IMO and I’m happy to give those away. 

Oops. Found two more sheets from that pad buried on my desk, but I knew I had at least part of a plan for these as well. It's a REALLY quick and easy one, but I think the paper is actually part of what inspired me to buy the owl. I think I'm just going to cut the 6x6 to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and let it be. But what sort of sentiment does it call out for? I could put a generic "Just for You" or I have a "To the Wise One" that came with some other owl. Then it could be a birthday or any sort of occasion based on inside.



Anyway, figure out a sentiment and cut another owl and this pad is DONE-DONE...like noodles

That’s awesome! Those VB word thickers seem to last forever!