Sunday, January 25, 2009

operation 46: SAVE

we are coming down to the home stretch of paper adventure. (many thanks for enduring the marathon of the last few weeks!) for this prompt, SAVE, the lovely elise blaha had this to say,

"I have been spending some time on my other blog talking about recycling and reusing items. And thinking a lot about ways to save money. What are your thoughts this week on SAVING? Or not saving?"

once again i was kind of puzzled as to how i would approach the topic...until one night when i knocked over the "junk bowl" next to my worktable. (this is where i toss the leftovers from projects which are too good to throw out but not important enough to put away in their proper homes. you know the sort of thing: 3 rub-ons i cut out but didn't use, the button i thought would look good but didn't, extra brads and stickers, & so forth) as i picked up a couple dozen tiny treasures, it led me to think not just of supplies, generally, but also how many little baggies and boxes and folders of "found art bits" i INSIST on accumulating. and thus, a page was born:

(kraft cardstock: bazzill; word bubble: bampop; rub-ons: scrapworks; creative imaginations, polar bear press, 7 gypsies; all other items are ephemera--tags, stickers, bits of packaging, things cut from magazines & brochures, buttons, ribbons, paper scraps & so forth)

text reads, "'SAVE ME!' cried the cute little monsta tag from my teatowels. many other tags, stickers and bits of magazine make similar demands on a regular basis. i hear and obey."

17 comments:

  1. That is lots of fun Lauren :)

    You know I could probably recover my walls with all my "junk" lol

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  2. supah cool!!!

    you have a real thing for monstah's hehehe

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  3. Love this one Lauren...it is perfect with the monsta and all of your goodies...you are sooo good about cutting things out of magazines...you have quite the 'eye' for that because they always look fabulous in your projects!

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  4. Oh, goodness. If I started cutting things out of magazines, too, I'd be literally buried in here! I do love how you can pull off these mish-mash projects though. Color me jealous. ;-)

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  5. haha I LOVE this. I do this on the front page of my moleskin journal. Very cool!!

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  6. This is one of my favorites for sure ... such a peak into all of the things you find worth keeping ... love all of the wonderful details.

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  7. You're so brilliant I don't know how you can stand yourself....pmsl!!!!!

    This just might be my favourite...though I think I've said that before!

    ??? did the teatowels have monstas on them????

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  8. PS: I gave you the Kreativ Blogger award today...go check it out :)

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  9. This is sooo kewl! Your creative mind amazes me! And I do believe the junk bowl will refill it itself in no time at all. As they say- "you got it goin' on, girl!"
    Love it! debb

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  10. Girl, where do you find the time to cut out such wonderful "save me" items? I love that you circled "KEEP" on the keep this coupon. Perfect for this page :) I keep lots of bits and pieces...they seem to eventually find their perfect home. I, too, hear and obey.

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  11. You are too cool. Love your collage there is so much great, fun eye candy.

    I too nominated you for a blog award today because you are fabulous!

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  12. Lauren these paper adventure projects are so amazing! This is such a fun way to get to know you! This one here is fantastic! I totally relate to it too. I have a whole bulletin board full of things just a little too cute to throw away!

    (-: Heidi

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  13. Wow - I really love this one! I'm amazed how you've gathered all of your little scrap thingies on one little card - and still it feels quite balanced. AWESOME [that's what you are] !!

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  14. this is definitely one of my all-time faves!! very cool!

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  15. This is fab!!!Your creativity `Rocks`:)~X~

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