If you are a Cricut lover I am SELLING off ALL of Cricut Stash. I still have over 40 cartridges, my Gypsy pre-loaded with all the cartridges I have ever owned and even my cherished Pink Expression. After not using it in months, I have decided that it's time to sell and donate it all. I am happy to have donated my Baby Bug and some of the cartridges to a friend of Meghan's (my future Daughter-in-Law), who is starting her very first year as a teacher. Knowing that Meghan is a designer, she had contacted her for some donation ideas and Meghan thought of me right away. She knew I was working on a major purge and knows I love to donate to schools, so I was thrilled to help her out. I have also invited her to come and shop my room and I am actually looking forward to that too! But, I still have quite a large selection left and if you are interested in anything I have, you can find all the details in this POST!! Everything is in excellent condition and never had heavy use. I am just one of those people who never really figured out all that I could do with my machine and switched over to a Silhouette Cameo, last Fall. That system is much easier for me and when I realized I had not used my Expression since that time, I knew it was time to sell it and put the money into organizational items instead!
I am looking into the perfect way to catalog and organized my stamps. I have several hundred and know I need to list several of them for sale too. I did manage to start going through all my Hero Arts Stamps and have already filled two binders with my only my cling background stamps, and have many more to go. Hero is my favorite brand and I have been on a huge Hero buying spree -- now it's time to set back and put a hold on my buying until I have everything purged! I have TOO much and literally have no space...and that's a bit crazy. If ANYONE has any hints and tips on easy ways to catalog and organize stamps....PLEASE SHARE...or come Help ME!!
Today....I am very happy to be taking time to CREATE and happily have three new cards to share. The first is for this week's CASology Challenge and this one was tough...I tried three different ideas and the first two I did not care for, so I kept on trying, but do have my "fail pictures" below.
My basic idea was to create a simple card that was in a SCHOOL theme....and I started by using my Cameo cut out a jumbo pencil. I then used some notebook paper, which I trimmed down to card size. On the first card, I added the paperclip and hand wrote ABC, but I was NOT happy, so I started over, made another little notebook page, canned the paper-clip and used a black marker for my ABC 123 -- again....not happy because I do not LOVE my handwriting...! YUK!!
Today, I started all over and finally have a card to submit. I used the same idea, but instead of my handwriting, I use my Cameo to cut the letters and then created a look of notebook paper by scoring some white cardstock and adding another die cut to the side. In the end, this was my favorite...hope it will be yours too!
Card Recipe
I am additionally, submitted by SCHOOL card to the new School Themed Challenge over at Through The Craftroom Room!! Come on over and join the FUN!!
My next two cards had me breaking out my "Kraft" cardstock, which I admit is not a color that I tend to use much. I know it makes fabulous cards, but for me, I had never found the right color of Kraft until I came found the Neenah Desert Storm, which I now love. My first idea came from this week's new Kraft' Inspired challenge over at A Blog Named Hero. This is one of my favorite challenges, so I was excited when I saw a new challenge, last night. On top of the this week's Midweek Throwdown Challenge at OWH, was also a Kraft-related challenge, so I decided I would make one card that would work for both. The bonus came when I found the perfect sketch, which was shared by Rene at "Crafting by Designs" for her new challenge! I thought it was wonderful and I am also now entering my card into her challenge as well!
Rene's Sketch
My Card
Card Recipe
Gold Bling -- my stash
Patterned Papers - Glitz Afternoon Muse
After being pleased with my first "Kraft" inspired card, I went on to make another one and this one was also inspired by the Casual Friday Challenge (CFC65), where the theme is Square Cards!! I also will be submitting this as a second card submission over at A Blog Named Hero!!
Card Recipe
Butterfly Die Cut Stash
Cardstock Scraps (for the butterflies) - Stash
The center (background) portion of this card was created with a pre-inked tag, that I cut down to fit the card. It was colored with a variety of Distress Inks and then sprayed with Perfect Pearls mist. I had created it taking while taking Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry Class!!
I had a lot of fun being creative again today and now it's making me want to spend MORE time creating and less time organizing!! LOL! I think I will try and do a bit of both every day and that will make it a lot more fun!! I am still looking for all kinds of ideas on storage ideas for my stamps. I don't have ANY more room for any type of furniture, but maybe I can also purge some goodies from my drawer units and make more space. I also hope my Cricut supplies sell quickly, as that will give me lots of space and a new work-space area where I can keep my Big Shot and Cuttlebug!
12 comments:
Wow! What a treat of cards! I agree that your third pencil card is the best - I think it's due to the scale of the notebook paper and the pencil and the size of the letters - it seems to have the best balance! Thanks so much for playing along with CASology this week!
Lisa I love ALL 3 of the cards you made today! Can't pick a fave TFS!
Great cards Lisa, I love that big pencil! Oh my goodness, you really have quite a cricket cart collection! Whew! I've only ever owned 4! LOL
i love your cards, lisa :) thanks so much for playing along at A Blog Named HEro
These are fantastic, Lisa! I love what you did in the end with the pencil card; it's definitely the best of the three and caught my eye enough from the Silhouette Flickr group that I had to pop over and see the details. Love it!
That final card is a work of art! Would love to know what Distress Inks you used. You should send a picture of this to Tim Holtz. I think that I also have more than enough Cricut Carts. But since I have young grandkids I imagine that they will get used. Good luck on your purging.
And I love all the cards--Any Kindy or First Grade teacher would love that on their door--it has so many possibilities.
Wow your OWH MWT card is fabulous, I think the others are too :)
Purging the craft room, ugh, that's a lot of work but must be done. My craft room is the kitchen so I need to keep it to a minimum or should I say hidden :) Not hidden from anyone but out of sight so when people come over they don't see the mess! I hope you can turn your craft space into something you'll love Lisa!
Thanks for playing in our Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown challenge!
Great cards! I especially love the chevron embossed background on the third card! Thanks for playing along with us at A Blog Named Hero!
Really fun card for school, love that scoring detail. Thank you so much for joining us at this week at CASology!
Super cute cards Lisa! I hated purging the craft room but got rid of a lot of things for the rodeo and donations. Good luck! I love, love the Cameo. You know you can convert the SVG files from Cricut very easily. Hugzzzz xoxoxxoxo
Love that big old' pencil and the bold red card base. Thanks for playing along at CASology this week!
fab cards, lisa... your CASology card is super! love the big pencil! thanks for playing along with CASology this week!
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