De-Stash the Past Challenge

Sometime in June, Thanh from Yummy Creations started a challenge. She challenged the participants to use the stash that she would send to them to come up with anything at all. I was the first to sign up! (Just tell me where freebies are and I'll be first in the queue, LOL)

I got my mail approximately 2 weeks after it was sent to me, and patiently waited (NOT!) for the weekend to come so that I could play with them. They looked so yummy, I ended up making a card the very same night I got those goodies, and made another tag during the weekend using some of the scraps from the first card. Still have plenty left of those goodies for me to create with :) Thanh is very very generous!

Here's my first project, a card.

Supplies: Penny Black Hello Friend clear stamps, Stampin' Up Ice Cream Parlour papers and stickers, SU Ribbon, Nestabilities, Pop Up Dots, Water soluble pastels used as water colour, Flowersoft

And the second one, a tag, using the same stamped image but coloured with Copic markers instead. Both the PB images were coloured just the week before, waiting to be made into a card, or in this case, a tag :) And this tag is already on the way to a bloggie friend!

Supplies: Penny Black Hello Friend clear stamps, Hero Arts sentiment stamp, Stampin' Up Ice cream Parlous paper and stickers, Manila tag, Jute, Blue ribbon, SU ribbon, Blue twine scrap, Pop Up dots.

I noticed that it actually took me much lesser effort to come up with both the tag and card when I was given a set of matching papers and embellies. Saves all the thinking for me :) Of course it also helped that I had some pre-coloured images that matches very well with those papers!

Thanks for looking! Hope you'll get to play along Thanh's next de-stash challenge :)

I'm also entering this into Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes.