27 Cards made from Stampin Up Moroccan papers

 I'm systematically using up older papers - this time not a 6x6 pad, but an unfinished pack of paper called Moroccan by Stampin Up. I made 27 A2 sized cards. Some of them will be donated to a retirement home, some I'll gift to my friends and some I'll keep.

The colors and papers were quite gender neutral - blues, greens and browns so I made a variety of different themed cards using a whole bunch of stamps.

Art Impression stamps - love these, they are so much fun :)

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

House Mouse and and a Happy Hopper bunny with Stampin Up sentiments. Colored with alcohol markers

Cute Card Thursday - stamping

House Mouse Monday Challenge - AG + option: Fall

and some cute kitties from MFT

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes with a critter

I don't want to make a super long post, so I will continue with more close up photos in the next post.

Prima - Breathe Paper pad - 24 cards

I'm back with another paper pack used up. This time it was a 5x7 pad called Breathe from Prima. It was missing some pages, but I had at least 3/4 of it and made 24 cards. It's not theme specific so once again I made a wide variety of cards.

Here is all of them:

most cards are the usual A2 size, but I found a large pack of 5x6.5 black cards and envelopes, so I used some of those too.

Here are some fun loving ladies from AI

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - F is for Friends

couple cards with animals 

Koi mermaid with Ching-Chou Kuik - stamped on watercolor paper and colored with water based inks

The Fairy and the Unicorn - Anything Fantasy Goes

layered die cut flowers

and cute die cut girls 

these 2 images are from Hanglar Stanglar - colored with Copics

Allsorts - Hand Colored Image

and some cute House Mouse - I used a glaze on the jar, so it looks shiny and glassy 

Creative Craft Cottage - Include an Animal 

International Art & Soul - Animals

couple of floral cards - all stamps are from Stampin Up

and cards using small leftover pieces and same design.

Sparkles Forum - Use at least 3 patterned papers

17 cards from a daisyd's paper pack

I have so many REALLY OLD paper packs so I decided to use them up - today I tackled daisyd's 8x8 premium paper pack that I got many years ago at HomeSense (I just know because the sticker was still on :) ). I used the papers I liked long time ago so I was stuck with papers that I'm not very fond of, but I did it and managed to make 17 cards from a partial paper pack. I used a variety of images from my stash and when I got tired of coloring, I used die cuts - like the one with cats or a big Thank You. As before I was inspired by Kristie Marcotte - she goes through couple of paper packs every week and used a variety of sketches

Here is a look at all of them

these images are from an old Stampin Up set, colored with alcohol markers

Crafty Cardmakers - Things with Wings

pretty lady digi from Ching-Chou Kuik 

various florals 

2 crafty critter crazies - AG with a critter 

Always Fun Challenges - Cuter Critters

couple of masculine cards

 Cardz 4 Guyz - Explore Outdoors - all 3 fit the theme

Just Add Ink - Just add Guys

and my favorite Art Impressions wine-y ladies

SOS259 - Say What?!

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Say What?! and we want everyone to use speech bubbles.
Since I don't have any stamps or dies that would create speech bubbles I had to get creative and make my own

I used stamps from Art Impressions and drew my own speech bubble around the sentiment. Image was colored with Spectrum Noir markers and everything else is from my old stash.

Challenges:
DRS Designs - the heat is on
Just Us Girls - Summer
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Girls of Summer

SOS256 - Let Me Take a Selfie

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a Polaroid Scene. I decided to get my barely used Art Impression stamps out and pair them with my brand new Dylusion sentiment stamps.

The image (colored with alcohol markers), was layered on some very old papers from my stash. The just a bit of washi tape, faux stitching, pretty clip and a card is done.

Challenges:
Pile It On - Old, New, Blue (old papers, new sentiment stamps, blue papers and cardstock)
Art Impressions Challenge - Aging with Attitude
Crafting with Attitude - anything goes
Lawnscaping  challenge - off kilter
Creative Moments - anything goes + real or faux stitching

SOS213 - 2 nuts

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Show Us Your Snark. I'm not the snarkiest person in the world so here is what I managed to come up with :)

Stamps are from Art Impressions and the image is watercolored with distress inks.

Challenges:
Natalie and Amy's Challenge - Buttons  & Bows
Crafting When We Can - ribbon/twine or washi

sos204 Red, Red Wine

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Red, Red Wine and we want everyone to use either red as primary color -OR- use wine as your theme.
Remembering my unused stamps from Art Impressions I decided to put them in good use and created this card:

The image was watercolored using  Stampin Up inks, papers are from 2 different fall collections (SU & Basic Grey)

Challenges:
Fresh Brewed Designs - Girlfriends
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes
Clear It Out - Anything Goes

SOS173 - Birthday cake from Art Impressions

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called "Hello, Sweetie" so we can either depict something sweet on our project (candy, cupcake, ice cream, etc.) -OR- make something for our sweetie.
I went with the first option and finally used my Art Impression stamps that fell unloved for some time.

The image was colored with alcohol markers and I used papers from my scrap box. Sentiment is from the same set.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Come and Get It - Women having fun