Use It Tuesday - 2 Hoarded Items

We've got a new challenge up at Use It Tuesday - Use 2 Hoarded items in your stash!

I kept my card Clean and Simple, and based it on the UWYH#1 sketch from few weeks ago that you can find HERE.

 

Hoarded Item #1 - Pebbles 'Chips' from 2 years ago. Those little yellow and white chipboard pieces come in a pack that includes a variety of sizes. I've been able to use up a lot of larger pieces and so I'm just left with a lot of little pieces and I have to really make an effort to use them. Putting several on a single card worked out nicely!

Hoarded Item #2 - American Crafts 'Garden Cafe' sticker from about 1 year ago. OK, here's the deal. Every year American Crafts has this amazing warehouse sale here in Utah. And the sale LASTS FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH. It's crazy. So I make multiple trips and buy lots of stuff. Including several sticker books. These books have like 60 stickers in them. I don't know why I always think I'll use them up. I counted, and I've only used 7 of the 'Garden Cafe' stickers. At this rate it will take me 8 more years to use them up. Fantastic.

Alright, it's YOUR turn! Go pull out 2 hoarded items from your stash and USE THEM!
Link up your project by October 4th at Use It Tuesday, and make sure you tell us about your hoarded items that you used.

-Michele

Use It Tuesday - Friendship

I've got some fun news to announce today! I'm now on the Use It Tuesday Design Team! I'll be designing for their challenges from now until the end of December. This is such a great challenge blog because the whole point is to dig into your stash and use up your supplies. Something I've been trying to do a lot of this year!

The challenge that's up today is "Friendship". I went digging through my box of die cuts for this one. I have at least a couple dozen die cut titles made by My Mind's Eye. I bought a few at my local scrapbook store, but the majority simply came in larger MME collection kits. When I do scrapbook layouts I almost never reach for one of these titles and instead use letter stickers. Anyone else find themselves in that boat? Well, guess what, those pre-made titles work really well on cards or other projects like gift packaging. Check out my card today (this particular title has been in my stash for about 2 years):

Simple, right? I love how the die cut title is really the focus of the card.

You've got until September 27th to link up your project, and don't forget to mention how you used your hoarded supplies in your blog post. Hope to see you over there!