TGIF – Save the Date

TGIF! I hope you all had a great week! I have a couple of quick projects to share with you, but before I get to that, a little heads up on some new products coming to the shop!

I hope you’ll join us next week as we have a week filled with sneak peeks, reveals, and projects for our first product release of 2022! Our newest collection is called Confections…it’s filled with sweet paper treats, and it’s coming to the shop on Friday, January 21!

Before I go, I thought I’d share a couple of projects with you! If you follow along with us on Instagram, you may have seen my post earlier this week about all of the exciting things going on here recently. Along with celebrating the holidays and having our year-end sale, we moved…both the business and our family, so things have been a little chaotic!

There hasn’t been a lot of creating time here with everything else going on, but this week I finally got a chance to start to settle in my new space and actually get back to creating. Sometimes that’s easier said than done after a bit of time away…you can probably relate! In this case it took me some unpacking just to find the essentials, and everything felt a little out of sorts. When I feel this way, my best bet is always to turn to my scrap bucket. I always keep extra stamped and diecut images left over from other projects. It’s a great place to start if you’re feeling stuck and just need to get the creativity going (or can’t find your supplies…lol!).

One of the things I like to do is pull out things from the same color family. For this card, I pulled out an assortment of blue things…a Blooming Branch with blue blossoms, a scrap of Mimosa Musings, and a blue berry sprig done with Winterberry Bouquet. I also found this pretty background in my scraps, which was done by stamping the Fond of Foliage background stamp onto a panel of textured watercolor paper.

I arranged all of my blue items inside a Crimped Frames diecut, and topped it off with a hot foiled Opposites Attract sentiment. I love finding all of these treasures, and putting things together that I might not have envisioned using together if it weren’t for my scrap bin.

For my next card, I pulled out an assortment of pink and green things…a Layered Leaves branch, a Pampas Grass stem, and a Winterberry Bouquet berry sprig.

I once again reached for a hot foiled Opposites Attract sentiment, and also pulled out this hot foiled Deco Triangles background. Just a quick and easy card, courtesy of my scrap bin.

Thanks so much for joining me today! What might you find in your scrap bin to inspire you?