Enjoy life.
Posted by Michelle on January 10th, 2011 . Filed under: Cards, Webster's Pages .I’ve been reading on the forums about people wanting to spend less in the new year – specifically on crafting goodness. Because I design for magazines and design teams, I need to work with current product so I can’t just stop buying as some people suggest. However, I have realized that I have so much stuff – especially patterned paper – that I don’t get to use it all. How sad 🙁 As I was home last week getting all sorts of crafty it occurred to me that I bought (2) Christmas collections: Webster’s Pages and The Girls’ Paperie and I didn’t make not one Christmas card with their papers. Blasphemy! I don’t really have a solution, or any grand epiphany to share. I was just thinking – or typing – out loud. Just something I thought of as I was loading these Webster’s Pages cards to share with you today.
Quick and easy – stickers make getting a card turned out and in the mail in a jiffy.
Not as quick, but still love me some stickers.
January 10th, 2011 at 4:52 am
I am not on any type of design team so I can pull it off, but just think of all the money you save on your coupon adventures!!!!!!!
January 10th, 2011 at 5:37 am
I so love the butterfly card! The colors on the second one are pretty! I dont do design teams either, right now any ways…so I can do it! 🙂 But you save so much on your adventures I must agree, you have the ability to buy new stuffs with no guilt at all, cause you are STILL saving more than most of us! 😉 Happy day…hope your day back to work is great and no one BUGS you 😉
January 10th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
i’m one of those that have cut my expenses on my crafty things! i love saving on my coupons but haven’t found the great deals as you have!! you could always share you paper 😉
beautiful cards!
January 10th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Ooh, gorgeousness! Love the paper & the green on the 2nd card. And I have tons of paper that are not “current”. But I’m not on any DT so I can just “use ’em”, lol.
January 10th, 2011 at 9:38 pm
love love love the butterfly card…and believe it or not, I’m the most frugal of my friends when it comes to scrapping supplies( I might spend $20 a month if that-many times I trade stuff, win stuff and people flat out buy me stuff cause they love me :))) since I’m the only tow or three who is a SAHM-the rest of my friends spend WAYY too much on supplies but you think about it, there are millions of worse things to spend money on right???
January 10th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
I hear ya. I’ve actually been really hesitant to buy anything for the past year because I’m just sick about how much stuff I haven’t used that is discontinued. What I need is 4 local friends to split a 12×12 page with 4 ways. That’s about the most I ever use.
But I agree with the rest….if I saved what you do on groceries believe me my craft budget would not be a problem. I went grocery shopping today and spent $104.86 and saved $44.62. No coupons….just sales. And that is about as good as it gets around here. Sucks.
January 11th, 2011 at 5:16 am
Beautiful cards. You really have a designer’s eye for detail.
January 13th, 2011 at 2:29 am
I heard your “not” using either of the Christmas patterned papers/stacks you bought… here’ a teeny solution! http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/ is having a “challenge” every week for different Christmas cards, so by the time Dec 1 hits, you’ve amassed 48 different Christmas cards! AND, it’s not really a challenge, in that you get to just do it if you want. You really should check it out! (I’m starting this week, on week 3…)
Oh! and I now follow you and subscribed to you via email. I just love your new features (and your cards of course!).