What’s in my craft stash
Hi everyone,
Happy New Year! I hope the year has started well for you. For me, so far so good! On New Year’s Day I finally managed to finish the projects I was designing, for the artwork for our next Creative Inkers ad in Up2Scrap magazine (for my overseas readers, this is the only NZ-produced papercrafting magazine). That took me a while, if you’ve ever had to do a group of projects for something like that with a tight deadline like I had, you’ll know that can be a little pressure!
Anyway I can’t show you those projects just yet, as I used some new stamps from the upcoming Sale-A-Bration in them. But it won’t be long now! January 25th, it’s all go! Keep your eye on my blog as I’m starting to post details of upcoming events that you won’t want to miss; check out my sidebar for the events I’ve got confirmed dates for so far.
In the meantime, I thought I’d show you a few other things I’ve been working on recently. This jar was so quick and easy to make, and I was very proud of myself – for using almost all retired product! I know I don’t usually show you retired things on here (it would be mean to drive you mad because you can’t buy the things I’ve used!), but the point I wanted to make was that just because it’s been retired, doesn’t mean you can’t craft with it! And it’s not a bad idea to use some of it and clear a little space for all the new stuff you keep buying. I’m sure you’ve all got lots of brand new but unused stuff in your craft stash, am I right??
Anyway, I had a bit of a rummage around to see what I could use up, when making this jar for a workmate. I organised our Secret Santa at work this year, and my lucky recipient of course didn’t care if I used current Stampin’ Up! supplies or not. So I decided to use up a few things, and take a walk down memory lane at the same time. For this jar I’ve used the Holiday Harmony DSP which was in the 2008 Spring Mini catalogue (gasp!) and the chipboard that was in the same mini. I inked that up with Purely Pomegranate ink (retired in March 09), and stamped the greeting using that ink too. I used the Purely Pomegranate stitched ribbon and an oval frame from the Pewter Hodgepodge which also retired back then.
The only products I used which are currently available were the greeting which is from the hostess set Best Yet (you’ve seen me use that set a number of times!), the Whisper White cardstock I stamped on, and the rhinestone brad. Oh and I used our new Circle Scissor tool to cut the circle for the lid, too.
So I was pretty pleased with this project – my main regret is not having used those products more when I was able to buy them!! That chipboard star was oh so easy to ink up, I can’t believe I hadn’t used more of the pack!
If you’re still on holiday, why not go through your own stash and see what you can come up with!
Happy stamping for 2010!
