This is it! The final Smash Our Stash of the year. December was again up to us to choose and I decided Winter themed cards using the December 2021 Pink & Main Crafty Courtyard kit. It has penguins! I also did some Coptic coloring, which I am not good at, but doing it will makeContinueContinue reading “The Final Smash Our Stash of 2022!”
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November 22 Smash Our Stash: Anything Goes!
For November, we had the option to choose whatever we wanted to smash. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to fall-themed cards AND I really wanted to use Call Me (Crafty Al’s October Show Us Your Sheetload sketch. All that to say, I made 9 fall cards using an old Pink & Main kit followingContinueContinue reading “November 22 Smash Our Stash: Anything Goes!”
November 22 Smash Our Stash: Anything Goes!
For November, we had the option to choose whatever we wanted to smash. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to fall-themed cards AND I really wanted to use Call Me (Crafty Al’s October Show Us Your Sheetload sketch. All that to say, I made 9 fall cards using an old Pink & Main kit followingContinueContinue reading “November 22 Smash Our Stash: Anything Goes!”
July 2022 Smash Our Stash
July’s theme was buttons, sequins, and gems. We all have a stash of them. If you’re very organized, they’re easy to find and maybe divided by color. If you’re unorganized, you find them scattered around in drawers and bins. I used up a small package of black gems I found at a yard sale. IContinueContinue reading “July 2022 Smash Our Stash”
Smash Our Stash: May 2022 Ephemera
May’s Smash Our Stash theme was embellishments, die cuts, ephemera, or stickers. I focused on ephemera and made ten Birthday/Celebration and Thank You cards with a minimum of stamping. I’m really enjoying ephemera for card making right now. I’m on the verge of moving to a new house and the vast majority of my craftingContinueContinue reading “Smash Our Stash: May 2022 Ephemera”
Smash Our Stash 2022 January: Scraps
Many card makers have a stash of scraps. Patterned paper we know we can do *something* with; colored card stock that would be great for…some project; random die cuts we know we’ll end up using. This month’s theme was scraps and I went for it. I have a drawer of larger scraps that I hadn’tContinueContinue reading “Smash Our Stash 2022 January: Scraps”
Smash Our Stash 2022!
Happy New Year! I’m excited to announce I’m participating in Smash Our Stash again this year. We have an exciting and talented group of creators in the collaboration and I can’t wait to start sharing our monthly creations. Each month there is a different theme. You can find them below. If you’d like to craftContinueContinue reading “Smash Our Stash 2022!”
December Smash Our Stash: Pick Your Theme
Tags & Cards A few more cards How about a few more? December’s theme was another pick your own and I went to town. My goal was to get through some stickers, scraps of paper, and as many embellishments as I could and succeeded! I used up a chipboard sticker sheet, a card stock stickerContinueContinue reading “December Smash Our Stash: Pick Your Theme”
Smash Our Stash: November is Choose Your Own Adventure!
CardsCardsAnd more cards!So many made For November, we were given the freedom to choose whatever theme we wanted and I chose Fall/Thanksgiving/Fall Thank You cards. I ended up making 10 cards using Photoplay’s Fall Breeze 6×6 paper pad and ephemera pack, although I didn’t use very much of the ephemera. Most of the cards wereContinueContinue reading “Smash Our Stash: November is Choose Your Own Adventure!”
Halloween Is Done
How it started How it’s going. I ended up using a little bit of everything I brought out rather than using up all of one or two supplies. I get distracted by all the stash I want to smash because it’s all so much fun to use! Not all the cards are a huge success,ContinueContinue reading “Halloween Is Done”
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