Saturday, February 18, 2017

PTI Celebrating the Past, Present & Future: 2014

I'm back to share my latest creation for the Papertrey Ink anniversary celebration.  I chose Embellished Elegance as the stamp set to work with for this challenge.  The giant happy stamp and die cut are one of my favorite elements from this set, and I knew I wanted to use it on my card.  I've mentioned before in previous blog posts that I moved into a new house last fall.  Putting together my new craft room has been both a joy and a pain point because I have so much stuff.  SO MUCH!  I've been stamping for 25 years of my life.  That's a long time to accumulate craft supplies and I still don't have all of it moved over!  So in setting up my craft space in the new house, this is now forcing me to confront how much stuff I have and to reassess what I really love and want to keep and what needs to go.  Patterned paper.  Love it, but I have way more than I can possibly ever use.  Accepting my patterned paper problem, I've decided I have to start using it up, it's taking up way too much space in my craft room.  So...back to my card. I pulled out some of the Green Tea Leaves patterned paper and actually used it on my card!  It was only one sheet and I still have the rest of the pad, but I'll take this incremental success!

These colors are not at all my normal crafting style.  I tend to prefer bold, bright colors and I've always shied away from pastels in pretty much everything.  I don't tend to wear soft pastels, decorate with them or craft with them.  Well, time to change that!  At least in the crafting arena.

 

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