Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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! 

15 comments:

  1. Duh! This is beautiful girlie pink prettiness and a glorious card ... how could you have forgotten about those stunning tags? ... she says with a box full too!
    Loving the tape ... you have the bestest friends ... including me!

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  2. Ooh La La is right!!! Outstanding and so beautiful!
    Lynn

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  3. WOW.. What a beautiful card. I had to giggle when you said you couldn't wait to get home to open your new finds.. I am that same way.

    HOpe you have a happy week..

    Hugs~

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  4. Ooo la la indeed ... love how you rotated the sketch ... and that pearl flourish is the perfect accent ... always thrilled to see you at Unscripted Sketches ... now to see what I can make for SOS.

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  5. So pretty! I love that flower and the bling and of course no one rocks the pink color like you do!

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  6. ooohhh, it's gorgeous...loving that heart doily just a little too much!

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  7. This is so GORGEOUS! LOVE the heart doily!!!

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  8. This is a beautiful tag! I see why you were smitten! Love the doily, music twill and flower too!

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  9. So very pretty. LOVE that tag. You are the card Queen. I kneel at your pinkness too.

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  10. You do the collage mix so well - you make it look easy to do! A lovely creation!

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  11. The music note twill tape and the tag are absolutely to die for!!! The lacey heart doily is the perfect backdrop for these lovely embellishments. Thanks so much for choosing to use our sketch this week at Unscripted Sketches :)

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  12. So detailed and pretty! love the texture to this card. Thanks for playing at Unscripted Sketches.

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  13. this is a beautiful card...love all the details. Thanks for joining us at Unscripted Sketches!

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  14. This is a gorgeous card! I haven't forgotten about you! I'm still reading I just sometimes can't respond till certain. I am collecting bits and bobs for you in New Orleans! :) hehe expect a package when you least expect it. muahuahuaha I went to the absolute coolest place ever yesterday that you would have died to see. Picture it, small little teeny town in Louisiana. Guy who hoarded everything you can imagine and made a museum out of junk. Yes.. junk. He had a collection of paint by number paintings to revel many real art museums. A wall of glass bottles.. and so on and so on. gators turned into bass and morphed into some weird hybrid. Taxidermy. 3 bucks to get in. haha Wish you had been there! Talk to you soon.

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