Use Your Stash

 Use Your Stash is a challenge to make cards with what you have. 

Just simply use up some of the supplies that have been sitting around waiting for you.

I personally have a ton of patterned paper. Some of it for 10 years or more. I love to use it. I hoard my favorites. If I really love a paper I call it "To beautiful to Use" and can't bear to use it , so I buy extra.

Here are a couple of Christmas cards using patterned paper I have had for years.

This patterned paper is from Basic Grey, a line called "Eskimo Kisses" from 2009. It makes me feel satisfied to use supplies that have been overlooked for so long. There are times when I look at my stash and feel embarrassed for how much I have.

This is another paper that has been around for  more than a decade. I wonder how many people still have paper from S.E.I. in their stash. I love a great stripe and I love a sentiment die with a shadow.