The paper hoarder

Back in the day I was a scrapbook paper hoarder - I had a bad habit of buying several sheets of each pattern that I loved - or even liked.  Fast forward a few years and my papercrafting has slowed way down but my paper stash has grown and GROWN!  

Now, in an effort to grow my limited storage space and to shrink the unruly paper hoard, I've started cutting the paper into 4" x 6" sheets and using them for scratch paper, etc.   It sure is nice to grab a piece of paper and find a gorgeous pattern on the back.  In fact, when I turned a sheet I'd been using for the grocery list over the other day and saw the fun Basic Grey cloud paper I immediately grabbed a pen and sketched a girl.  Are you a paper hoarder too??

Linking to Sunday Sketches and

Creative Every Day

Embellish Color Challenge - Scrapbook Layouts - CLYDE

I scrapbooked our new family member (the bearded dragon) for the Embellish challenge below - I chose green for my "your choice" color.  This layout is totally digital - I need so much practice at this but I am proud to say that I crafted this entire layout myself - no templates.  Not so earth shattering but considering where I was this time last year with the whole Photoshop Elements situation it is definitely an improvement.

I even printed it out - Yeah, me!
Title font is recolored from the KPertiet Acrylic Alpha and the outside distressed frame is from Hof3.

Blissful Papercrafting Bloghop -

November 17, 2009 9:50 PM
Love the leafy thing you used with the ribbon! Classy cards! Now show me a scrapbook layout!!! :) Kimmay

YUP - Scrapbook layouts are not things that I do - in fact, you are about to see my first and only 12" x 12" hybrid scrapbook layout - (drumroll, please. . . . . . . )
My cousin Selena and her husband Steve just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary! Corey and I were both in the wedding and we watched the video with them last weekend while we were down visiting them in Mississippi - WOW we were young!!

I love the look of ruffled ribbon but was too lazy to get the sewing machine out so I opted to take the easy way by stapling the ruffles on - worked great. Then made some vellum elements and put some Stickle bling -

I had more fun putting this together than I ever thought I would - who knows - maybe I'll venture into making another page sometime?

Be sure and check out Kim's blog and Roni's blog for more papercrafting goodness! Have a great weekend!