Getting Serious about using Stuff

This blog was started to hold me accountable for my accumulation of  card making supplies.
Over the years, collecting stuff was truly enjoyable, but now I need to really focus on using all of these pretty things.

For me, the hardest part is designing a layout. Otherwise, my cards may all look the same. So I found CAS(E) this Sketch which is a weekly challenge, and the fact that the cards need to be clean and simple is a challenge for me as well. SO, I will see how this might just work for me. Just maybe, I could create a card in a day, instead of taking several days for ONE card. You don't know this, but I am a very slow card maker.....

Here is this week's sketch #315

Here is my card:

I used the Bouquet Builder stamp set from Waffle Flower. It was colored with Copic markers and I wasn't real thrilled with the way it looked so I added more color with Luminance pencils.  I still need some practice which is the part that I enjoy....always learning something new. It was cut out with a Scan-n-Cut. (a wonderful Christmas present).
The cardstock is artichoke green, black, and white. Other sweet supplies are an embossing folder (dotted lattice from Taylored Expressions), rectangle die, green organdy ribbon, and Nuvo aqua shimmer glitter on the flower (must have glitter on a flower).

So far so good, I think.
Three cards in one week is VERY good for me to use my stuff!

Hope you make something pretty with your supplies today.

PattySue

For this week's Ways To Use it Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers , is to use brads or eyelets!
What?! Over the years, I have collected a thousand of 'em. For this card, I used ONE brad. Now I have 999 of them left. I almost purged them a few months ago, but they were too pretty to let go.....
I sent this card to a favorite person... 





I used older Penny Black stamps, colored with Prismacolor pencils, and paper-pieced the snail.
The envelope was stamped with Happy Mail stamps, from Pretty Pink Posh.
That's it for today.
Thanks for looking in....

May your basket always be full of pretty papers!

 

PattySue

Hello there,

This week's sketch, #381 at Freshly Made Sketches is a good one.

If you would like to play along, here is what it looks like:

For my card, I rotated the sketch 90 degrees.

The fern image is an older Hero Arts stamp. It was inked with Hero Arts Unicorn white ink onto a blue cardstock and heat embossed with Hero Arts white satin pearl embossing powder (Looks so pretty IRL).

The cardstock colors are retired SU blue bayou and river rock, and Papertrey Ink smokey shadow.

Also used was a strip of patterned paper, label punch, piercing tool, and a dragonfly die.

That's it.

Thanks for looking in!

May your basket of papers always be full.

PattySue