More More More -- Cards from Scraps that is...

Just another couple of cards from the stash.  My pile of cards has grown and is now contained in three jumbo zip lock bags.  So there will eb a lot to choose from for the Christmas gift bags!!  Oh yeah,  I do have to get moving on actual Christmas cards though.

 

 This past weekend was full of classes---Formula Pages, Merry Glitzmas Card class and a Card Keeper book.  Busy, busy, busy, but fun classes to teach and I have the best students!!! 

I think the most popular class I have been teaching is Formula Pages.  This class presents a formula (each month is a new one) for selecting, cutting and assembling papers such that the page can be used as is or turned 45 degrees and used sideways or turned again another 45 degrees and used upside down. You get the picture, right?   Plus, the "formula" can be  recreated again and again. I'm glad everyone is enjoying this series so much! 

Just a Tiny Bit Obsessed...

I scanned a couple more of the cards I have been putting together from paper, sticker, rubon and ribbon leftovers. I love leftovers!





Most of these cards are a few strips of patterned paper, a strip of ribbon or a rubon (or two or three or four) and maybe a flower. But they are turning out very sweet and I have to say I am having so much fun digging through my treasure box of scraps and leftovers. I am becoming a tiny bit obsessed with this!

Now that's not to say I am advocating not shopping at your favorite LSS! We all want our favorite stores to be prosperous and be there for us for years to come, right?! But it is important that we all take fiscal responsibility for ourselves, for our future, for our families. I am much more apt to purchase punches and dies for my Sizzix than tons of stickers. I would rather spend my money on tools that I can use over and over again. And paper... I must say I do love paper!

I guess the real point is to make good use of the items and supplies that are purchased. Use them up, host a for trade and barter group, or donate those items that are no longer needed to local schools.

Scraps to Cards

I feel like I should be posting something a bit more about what I have been working on besides what is going on at the store...

Since I knew this year was going to be a very budget conscious holiday season, I started making a concerted effort to make greeting cards from scrapping leftovers. Several folks on my list will receive a gossamer bag filled with an assortment of cards for all occasions. I do make cards from whatever is lying about anyway, but I had a somewhat fat box of scraps and loads of leftover pieces of rubons and parts of packages of stickers, scraps of ribbons, etc. And sometimes I would dig in there to look for just the right thing.. but usually I would hit the newer stuff. Now I am concentrating on using it up!!!








There are not greetings on lots of the cards, because I will decide as I divide them up if one needs to be a birthday card as opposed to a Mother's Day card or whatever. Andyway, here are a couple of the cards. More later!

Playing Catch Up

Yikes I was gone from the blog for a long time. Just lots going on--our LSS hosts what we call a scrapathon twice a year. This event is attended by 145 paper-crazed scrappers. It takes us months of prep time. We feed our guests breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as snacks and beverages, have 8 prepared make & take pages that everyone receives in kit form, drawings for prizes, a page contest, a guessing jar, raffles, massage appointments--- it is THE BOMB of scrapping events. We are sold out months in advance.


(This is Colleen collating one of the eight kits received by our scrapathon attendees!)


But every year, right around the same time is a scrap and stamp convention that we have a booth at and have to prepare a make and take for too. This year it was the week after scrapathon--then we had our holiday card marathon and this coming weekend we repeat the card marathon AND the day before we have a bus tour with two other scrapbook stores (with a project for the attendees to create).

Soooooo the past weeks have found me falling asleep sitting up on the couch. The other night I fell asleep (sound asleep) fully dressed at 8---woke up at 5:30 a.m. with the TV remote in my hand and the TV screen was blue with some menu on it about setting the channels --- I didn't know what I was turning on or off, but when I got up the next morning--- I had wiped out all our cable channels. ooops

Very soon normalcy will return... whatever that means!