something new...

...at shopping our stash this week. no, i mean literally, that's the brief. see?!

Challenge 61: Something New 

Use something you HAD to have but have not yet used.

using new stuff is not a problem for me, except in the sense that sometimes i have a hard time waiting until i get home to open the packets!!! :) i will confess, however, to occasionally allowing something to "fly off my radar" if i have somehow managed not to use it right away. that happened with the set of glittery papaya art gift tags i bought in california this spring; partly because the tin is so pretty i've been using it as a decoration, and i sort of somehow *forgot* the tags were in there! but i've remembered now, and am firmly re-smitten, so expect to see more of these babies!

(ooh la la gift tag: papaya art; patterned paper: heidi swapp, graphic 45; velvety flower: petaloo; pearl flourish: want2scrap; other: heart doily, music twill; adhesives: tombow monorunner, 3m foam tape, gluedots, sewing machine)

oh and something else i am using for the first time is the gorgeous music note twill that miss leslie found, and sent to me for no other reason than just because she knew i was looking for just such an item! (♥thank you, missus!!!♥)

for the arrangement of my card, i used this week's lovely (#168) unscripted sketch, which i rotated ninety degrees, counter-clockwise:

i'm also linking this up with miss patrice's 52 card pick-up on her blog, the old back porch.

and now i hope you will hop over to SOS to see the rest of the gorgeous DT creations, and start thinking what kind of unused fabulousness ♥YOU♥ have forgotten about... and how you'll attach it to a card, layout, ATC or altered project!