Category Archives: Stash Chronicles

Shopping My Stash: Easter / Spring Tea Wallet Card

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This year I sent three Easter cards to friends and family. The first two I already shared in one of my previous posts. This week I’m sharing the third, which is a wallet card, or a tea bag holder card, or whatever other creative descriptive you can come up with 🙂

Also, I shopped my stash again, one of this year’s themes for me personally, in order to actually use up the forgotten-but-beautiful-nonetheless papers in my collection.

It turned out pretty lovely, and of course I filled it up with some fresh tea, as is my way – because I just love to send my friends a Hug-in-a-Mug!

Anyway, here’s the video – ask any questions or leave a remark in the comment section below!

Shopping My Stash: a Prima Marketing A4 Layout

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Here’s a layout I did for a colleague who was leaving the organization I work at, to start her new job. By way of goodbye, each team member was asked to contribute something A4-sized, after which everything would be bundled into a binder and gifted to the colleague.

Since this colleague was always dressed in beautifully bright and colorful outfits, I wanted to create something bright and colorful for her. I decided to shop my stash for some Prima Marketing, for this brand usually brings out A4-sized paper within all or most of their collections.

I decided on the Zephyr collection, chose a tangerine-colored base paper and two lovely Zephyr journalling cards, and layered them with some die-cuts, a chipboard piece, some blings and some wallet-sized pictures. Done! 🙂

If you have some smaller pieces of design paper, use them to die-cut!

Purchase or Pass: Mintay’s new Graceful collection

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With Valentine’s and spring around the corner, many design paper brands are announcing their new collections, no doubt generating a whole new wave of desire, temptation and all out shopping sprees among us, their doting clients 🙂

Which is why I thought I’d try my hand at a new series, which I think I’m going to call Purchase or Pass. The idea is that I’ll be making up my mind “live” on camera whether or not to buy one such new collection, shopping my stash and sharing my thought process with you all.

Let me know if this kind of video is helpful to you and if you would be interested in seeing more of where this came from! If you’d like me to make up my mind on a specific collection (perhaps one you yourself are tempted by) let me know in the comments below!

This episode: Mintay’s Graceful collection

Mintay will be coming out with four new collections, one of which is called Graceful. It’s a lovely, romantic, lavender & light turquoise spring collection, with their gorgeous, signature graphic design style.

To make up my mind whether I’ll purchase this or whether I can resist the temptation, I’ll be comparing it to several collection from my stash, of which I’ll show some pictures below.

Enjoy the video, stay crafty!

Collections I found after shopping my stash

Studio Light: La Provence (several sheets)

Stash Chronicles: pt. 1 – Paper Collection Overview (and how I keep track of all of it)

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Happy New Year everyone! 🙂

One of the ideas I’m considering for my blog and Youtube channel, is something I mentioned briefly in one of my recent videos, namely: to log my journey towards buying less papercraft stuff, and shopping my stash more instead.

Although 2021 will not be a No Buy year for me by any means – I’m also a paper collector after all 😉 – I still want to use more of what I already own, instead of growing my collection while never using it.

Well, we’ll see how it goes. Like I said, it’s a journey. 😉

Also, it gives me the opportunity to share the (joy of the) collecting side of papercrafting: how to store, categorize and most importantly keep track of everything my paper supply comprizes. I’m of course hoping this will be of some use to you too!

Anyway, here’s to the start of this new year for me, I hope you’ll accompany me on my travels for as long as you like 🥂 🙂

Anything specific you’d like me to show in my next posts? Let me know in the comments!