Stampin' Pals: From The Scraps On My Desk

New catalogue means a time to take stock in the craft room. As I remove retiring card, ink and stamps from the shelves, I also find I've accumulated a lot of half-made projects. They get poked into stamp cases, packs of paper, odd baskets lying around the room - in truth they are EVERYWHERE!!!

Often you can get lucky and create a few projects from the bits and pieces. Mostly you accumulate rubbish which really should be culled. I got lucky this time, and only had to tie a Soft Sea Foam ribbon into a bow before stacking and layering a whole lot of pieces.

This piece was already stamped with two of the images from Amazing Silhouettes, one in Soft Sea Foam, the other in stamped-off Shaded Spruce. The zig zag edge was cut too with the bBasic Borders dies. Penned Flowers has been a favourite of mine for a long while, but along with its stamp companion, Hand Penned Petals, will be leaving at the end of the month. I had a couple of the ornate die cut flowers ready to go.

The inside has been stamped with a sentiment and leaf image from Happiness Abounds. This is another stamp set leaving after starting the year out big, as star of the cover of last year's catalogue. I'm sad to see this one leave too as the sentiments are in a lovely handwritten font and cover all occasions.

I sincerely recommend you check out the Last Chance Sale - there are some items there that are too good to miss if you love to paper craft.