SOS565 - Old & New

  Our newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Out with the Old & In with the New .

For my project I made a bunch of collage clusters for Junk Journals. I just got a bunch of 49 & Market goodies and these were perfect for this project. I used some chipboard elements, tickets and epoxy stickers. Old was everything else - scraps of patterned papers, old book, scraps of lace and digital downloads I had for ages.

Star Fold Christmas Cards

I found this tutorial for Star Fold Cards by Tina Zinck and I decided to give it a go 

Here are the 3 cards I made:

For the first one I used retired Stampin up paper and die cuts I got in Europe. Sentiment is from a Tim Holtz booklet.

Fab'n'Funky  - Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

If You Give Crafter a Cookie - Time for Santa

Everybody Art - Bingo (top Row - Green, Red, Christmas)

Another retired SU paper pack was used for this one - I also fussy cut the images from the same paper

Cardz 4 Galz - A Cute Christmas

Crafty Galz - Tis The Season

These papers are from Paper Rose and the snowman cut apart too. Added a bit of Sticklez for extra bling.

CRAFT Challenge - Christmas

The Crafting Challenge - Christmas

Craft Consortium Wildflower Meadow meets stickers

I decided to go through my old SSS monthly kits and use the contents - kit from August 2022 had patterned paper from Craft Consortium called Wildflower Meadow and I decided to tackle it. It's not my favorite color palette (being dark and somber) but I managed to make these 7 cards with whatever was left in the kit

focal points for these 2 cards are wide washi tapes from Journalsay - stuck on white CS and die cut with a dome die.

Craft Rocket - Animals

I had these pieces precut for no idea what so I just added  ephemera and sentiments from Dollarama packs

Allsorts - Something starting with B (Bird, Butterflies)

Focal point is made with PET sticker and sentiment is a leftover from another card kit

Love Those Pretty Papers - Anything Goes with patterned papers

Neglected Stuff - anything goes with neglected stuff (kit from August 2022)

Sympathy sentiment is from SSS stamp set that came in a kit, stamped on vellum

Cardz 4 Galz - Use vellum

as you can see, I had a bunch of 2 inch strips left so just combined them on multiple cards. Digi image is from Lili of the Valley

The Paper Players - Sketch

Dream Valley - 2 or more papers

 

More Sugarplum Christmas cards

In my previous post I made 8 cards using Sugarplum Christmas kit and I had lot of papers left - so I made 12 more. Not bad from one kit, right?

All the pattern paper is from the kit, just added some card bases in white, pink or blue. For focal points I used patterned papers (nutcrackers), leftover stickers or digital downloads printed on white cardstock.

Here are close-ups on my favorites from the bunch:

 

Next, I'm going to try and make a dent into my Simon Says monthly kits - I made a pile of them neatly stacked up awaiting my attention :)

Crafter's Cafe - use patterned papers

Paper Rock Scissors - use patterned paper and/or scissors

Photoplay - Sugarplum Christmas cards

 I didn't make any cards in a while so I'm easing back with a set made from a card kit called Sugarplum Christmas by Photoplay.

The kit has detailed instructions for how to make 8 cards, but it has much more papers - I can probably make another 8-10 cards with all the leftovers. Here is a look at all the 8 cards:

Aren't they sweet? I love non-traditional colors for Christmas cards so these are perfect. I'll be back to show you more cards I made with papers from this kit.

Aand these are my favorites:

Unicorn Challenge - Christmas in July

Daisy Chain - Christmas in July

Craft Rockets - Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas

The 12 months of Christmas - Anything Christmas

Thinking of you cards with PET stickers

 I was playing with PET stickers and made several cards. This first one is for our our Thrice as Nice challenge at Shopping Our Stash where we want to see 3 or more patterned papers. 

I fussy cut  different elements from various PET tapes and created a scene

For all the cards I used old Basic Grey papers I think it was probably the LilyKate collection.

For the next 3 cards I used the current sketch from Canadian Card Creators FB group - the focal points are also fussy cut PET tape images on squares of white cardstock. Sentiments are from various stamp sets from my stash.

Love those pretty papers - AG with patterned papers

The Neglected Stuff Challenge - anything neglected (old Basic Grey patterned papers)

Paper Rocks Scissors - AG when using paper and/or scissors

Red hearts ephemera card

This is a card I made with goodies from Simon Says Stamp monthly kit - everything other than the card base and twine is from the kit. This month the kit included a whole pack of Tim Holtz vintage ephemera and I used a bunch of them on this card. I don't really do Valentine card but this card could be used for Valentine or any other occasion.

Crafty Calendar - Hearts 
If You Give Crafter a Cookie - Hearts Galore

SOS540 - Crafty Remnants -Birthday card with PET tape

 This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Crafty Remnants and we want everyone to use whatever is already on their desk from previous projects.

Since I was playing with PET tapes last week and all the tape was still on my desk I made a birthday card with the same materials as my previous posts

The embossing folder was also still out from I don't even know when. Sentiment is from a Dollar Tree stamp set and for embellishment I used some gold Nuvo drops.

Unicorn Challenge - Birthdays

Crafter's Cafe - AG + option: Birthdays

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything with Flowers

Wednesday's Creative Inspiration Challenge - Something Old, Something New (old PET tape, new sentiment stamp)

Simple PET tape cards

I was playing some more with my PET tape and stickers and created these 2 simple cards with vacation vibe. I didn't add any sentiments to make them universal any occasion cards. Patterned paper is from a retired SU pack

 Lil patch of crafty friends - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Close to nature / Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Floral Birthday cards with PET tape

After seeing a lot of fun videos featuring PET tapes I got some and decided to play with them. Here are some floral birthday cards I made.

I cut out multiple clusters of flowers and layered them on a white mat. Die cut sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp

 Fab 'n' Funky - All Things Bright and Beautiful

Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral Goes

Triple B - Blooms