Just slapping them together now

In an effort to pretend that I'm dipping into my old paper stash, I put together this card and made a matching envelope.

The die cut buildings with trees has been in my die cut cup for a few years, too. The paper is from an old My Mind's Eye pad I got at Michael's.  It's thin paper that I originally got for scrap booking.

In other news, I bought an entire card  kit in order to get the ONE poinsettia die that has captured my imagination.  The rest of the kit is OK, after all it is Spellbinders. But an entire kit for one die? And Christmas themed, at that?

I'm really round the bend now.

Back to flowers, one more time!

This one escaped the photo process yesterday, so here it is. It's the last of the My Favorite Things' Stitched Flowers cards, at least for a while.

Like the little bees?

Back to flowers, part 2

OK, it's the same as last time, only many more of them.  The flowers are assembled from My Favorite Things' Stitched Flower dies, and the leaves are from Paper Smooches' Foliage 1 & 2.  The embossing folders are Darice  and Sizzix. 

Back to flowers, again

When all else fails, crafty-inspiration-wise, go back to flowers.

These flowers were created from My Favorite Things' Stitched Flowers Dies. The centers on most of the flowers are Nuvo drops.

The greenery is cut with Paper Smooches' Foliage 1 and 2 dies. The Darice embossing folder with the text has been in my stash for a while, and the lumpy embossing folder is from Sizzix. The sentiments have been in my desk cup for a while also.

So, over the weekend I ordered ANOTHER Christmas card kit.  While I was on the site I also ordered more embossing folders and a few small die sets.  One of the sets I ordered is for layered flowers, and since I can't wait for them I pulled out these cuties from MFT and started layering them up. I hope I don't burn out before the new set gets here.

The card kit was ordered because I couldn't figure out any other way to get the particular die that comes with it any other way. I'm a little obsessed, I think. I took a few minutes to finally put the parts of the "Merry Everything" kit back in it's box, where it can rest until next time I need to do a bunch of Christmas cards.  I have enough for the next 3 years already, but who's counting?

Maps make great masculine cards.

I used up the rest of the Florida map pages from my very old 12 x 12 paper pad. I even cut out one of North Carolina, since my brother owns a cabin there. Fun fact :  the mountains in North Carolina are so full of Floridians in the summer that it is sometimes referred to as "Upstairs Florida". 

 

I used up the last of the navy card bases from the Paper Studios card set, and cut both the maps and red mats using a Sizzix rectangle die with perforated edges.  The sentiment is from Spellbinder's Favorite Fonts sentiments which was from the December small die of the month.

I can always use more "thank you" cards.

The geotag die is from an old Mama Elephant die set called "Index Card".  It is roughly positioned at the small town I grew up in, Bartow.

Working in the archives

Just kidding, I only mean that I'm working with stuff so old that it could be in the archives.

In this case, I'm pretty sure I got the paper pad at Tuesday Morning in 2014 or earlier.  The front cover is gone, so I cannot say what brand or pad it is. I have been hording the sheet with the map on it.  The map is most of the east coast of the US but I'm only interested in Florida. The yellow background is from the same set.

I used a Mama Elephant die set called "Index Card" for the geotag, and Spellbinders "Favorite Fonts" for the sentiment. It is from the December 2019 Small Die of the Month Club.  Fun fact: I've subscribed to the Small Die of the Month Club for several months and have only used one of the dies before this. That was the snowflake die from November. The rectangles are from a set from Kat Scrappiness.

The card base/envelope set is navy blue, from a big box I got for Christmas in 2017 or 2016. It's from Paper Studio, so someone must have visited Hobby Lobby that year.

I did a sheetload of cards, sort of.

Well, I did it, sort of. I created the base layout of the 12 cards using the guide provided by Alicia of Call Me Crafty Al.  This layout is the January 2020 sheetload.  I used more paper from the Jen Hadfield 12 x 12 pad that I did for my last attempt at a sheetload.

I failed a little when it came to doing the actual focal point.  I think you are supposed to do them all alike, or close to alike. I just couldn't stick a sentiment stamp in the white square and call it done.  Since I have a bunch of pre-colored and cut critters, I went through my boxes and pulled out the ones that went with the green and yellow backgrounds. Of course I had to go rooting around in the stamp sets to find appropriate sentiments for the images.

The first three images and sentiments are from Simon Says Stamp, Sugarpea Designs' Cuddly Cacti.  

These two are also Simon Says Stamp, only this time they are Picture Book dies. I messed around with the teeth a good bit to get them like I liked them.  The sentiments were in a dish I keep on my desk. I think they are SSS also.

Next up we have the die from Concord & 9th, "By your side". On the first one I used the outline that cuts with the birds, and on the second one I just used the birds. On the second one I also popped up the wings with a little foam tape. Again, the sentiment strips have been in my side bowl for a while.

These next two use bird dies from Paper Smooches.

The sentiment for this one is from The Alleyway Stamps, one of their bird sets.

This funny guy is from My Favorite Things' Monster Sized.  He's been in my critter box for years.

This dragonfly die is one I picked up in Michael's a while back and had never used.  It comes in 2 parts, one to cut and one to emboss. Both of the parts wanted to bend out of shape when I tried to get it off the packaging. I guess that's what I get for leaving in in there for so long.

Next up, the bee is from Spellbinder's The Laurel and the Bee set. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

So, what do you think, does this qualify as a sheetload?