I have a thank you note to share for the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Get Krafty. As I was looking through some paper pads for a piece of patterned paper, I came across this polka-dot pattern from Fancy Pants' "Ectera." As soon as I saw it I remember the "Get Krafty" challenge. I wanted it to be CAS and this is the result:
After I’d glued down the banner, I wished I had die cut the “thank you” from it as well, and done an inlaid sentiment, but I wasn’t willing to try to pull it off.
It’s not often that I win anything, but recently I’ve been lucky enough to win not one, but three, awesome prizes through blogging and the internet. The first was a seat in the BPC, Organizing FUNdamentals on the Simple Scrapper site. This class was the impetus to totally purge my studio. I didn’t participate in the class actively after the purge since I'd already given a lot of thought to how I work and how I wanted my supplies to be organized. Their excellent worksheets simpy confirmed my decisions.
Now that I've purged so many of my supplies I have some empty drawers and a lot of empty containers, so I was able to make better use of my space. For example, my acrylic blocks for stamping used to be in a basket (which occasionally dumped itself onto the floor), and now they’re in a drawer right under my work table. Perfect! I’ve been working with the new organization for a week or so now, and I’m really happy with it. I was able to make better use of some of my empty containers, and the only products I bought were these from The Container Store.
I had the drawer and top unit on the right, and knew that I could organize everything I have for Project Life by adding the middle unit and another small “shelf” and drawer unit. It holds all my Project Life supplies, some office supplies, and memorabilia I may want to add to the album. As an added benefit, each component is easy to move to my desk while I'm scrapping.
My second lucky win was on Melissa's blog where I won a lovely new die from Simon Says. I quickly made a card with it to send to her, but didn't take the time to photograph it as we were leaving for Florida the next morning.
Then Saturday I scored a big win on the Papertrey Ink site during their big anniversary release party. I love making cards for their anniversary challenges, but we were away for nearly the whole party. Nonetheless, one of my comments was randomly drawn for a $70 gift certificate. So now I have a few new goodies that should be arriving by the end of the week!
In the meantime, I'm continuing to purge. This month's project is our guest room. I've cleared out one cupboard and two drawers. This month is flying by, so I'm going to have to dedicate some serious time in there!
