OMG Justine....What a Spectacular share.......oh gosh I remember those days......you nailed it!!!! Thanks always for keeping it real!! It’s so refreshing to hear and that one can destash and whittle down to wat we really...REALLY use!! Your ideas are Brilliant and Ingenious and truly make my day!! Thanks for all you do and the way you do it.....I know it takes oodles of time ....so again THANK YOU!! Your little light shines ever so brightly inside and out!! YOU so ROCK!! Joan Smith
I have you beat. I have paper that is 30 years old. It predates the scrapbooking craze. I have done all the techniques Justine showed in her video. Plus I routinely donate to both schools and nursing homes. However I don’t think I have too much paper. I tend to think I don’t have enough time to do all the stuff I want to do. In another ten years or so I will have to start really letting stuff go because I will not be the sort of person who leaves piles of stuff for my children and grandchildren to sort through. What I would really like to know is what TH-cam card makers do with all those cards. I don’t know enough people to make that many cards. Fortunately I make other stuff as well.
@@rtd1791 I make a year's worth of birthday cards for a senior's home and participated in a handmade Christmas card drive for the past 3 years. You can also bundle them with envies tied with some nice organza and give as gifts.
This video is just so wonderful. I love all the ideas you are sharing with us to get us to use what we have! Guilty as charged here! I'm really beginning to use stuff up instead of buy, buy, buy. I love all of this so much. So much better than watching all the videos that show the newest, greatest, kit of the month that we NEED to buy. I like that you show us the technique or idea and we can take it from there. Keep the great ideas coming my way, Justine. And I love that you are doing these collaborations with other creatives. Watched the video you tagged from Kerry and I will be watching her videos, too. :-)
I absolutely LOVE your videos...you have such a great smile & voice and your messages always hit home! Hi. I'm Julie...and I'm a paper-crafting hoarder. But, I recently began opening (and USING) some of my beautiful (and expensive) paper stash that I've had FOR YEARS! It feels SO GREAT to actually be using it! Thanks for this video. And, although I'm watching it a couple of months after you originally posted it, it is VERY TIMELY information! Thanks so much and have a great day! :)
Definitely understand the scarcity idea. As a kiwi, we have extremely limited availability if we don't shop online and what we do have is fast shrinking. So it really IS a case of once used, gone. However I realised I had a problem recently when doing a small scrapbooking project for my special needs son and found myself struggling. I hadn't enough paper that I was ALLOWING myself to use, even though I have a LOT of paper and I couldn't complete this basic project. So I thought screw it. What's the point of having it if I'm not allowed to use? So I let myself go and I'm now using whatever I want when I want and if it's gone, well, that's what it was designed for. And I'm having the most fun actually CREATING than I have in years!
Great video Justine. Thanks for re-sharing it for us newbies. I am guilty as charged! I have tons of gorgeous paper and am only just starting to use it. I also have a huge bunch of digital papers, which I tend to use more often. I love these ideas -- especially the stencilling one. Thank you! Clare x
Sadly you just described me! Every single thing you said i said/thought the same! Love the cards you created with the patterned paper! I like what your channel is presenting now. Laura
Justine, I'm in awe that you have been able to let go. That all your patterned paper fits in a box is amazing. I liked how you showed the 5 ways to use up papers without the step by step voice over. I owned a retail store and taught classes for all crafts paper related. (quilling, cardmaking, papermaking, calligraphy, origami etc.) Scrapbooking had just started (early 90's). We offered archival papers as well as handmade from all over the world and the second largest selection of Japanese papers in Canada. All of those I still have hoarded in a large box under my bed. Too beautiful to use, and there has yet to be a store in Calgary, AB that carries the selection we did...so yes the scarcity thing. Thanks for bringing your 'paper hoarding story' into the open.
So what are you going to do with your paper? I personally think it’s fine to create a scrapbook of beautiful paper. No words or pictures just paper you love. Like a coffee table book. It would be easier to look at.
@@rtd1791 most of these are full sheets 36"x22" I did have them displayed but was concerned about light fading. I have framed some chiyogami papers. I pull them out every now and then when an occasion arises and I have the perfect paper. I can live with being a paper hoarder.
Just finding this particular video of yours and am loving the outlining dies with the pattern paper! I really have had my eyes opened and am LOVING this technique. This is amazing! Thank you for this video in particular...
Oh my gosh!!! You just described my paper addiction, I can't help myself. I used to work right beside a craft store and I would see when they had a delivery but, who am I kidding... I shopped there every day they were open, no excuses necessary, lol. One day, I too will purge my stash.
I appreciate this video, and how you've used your papers! You're right, a lot of us are pretty paper hoarders! I just discovered some new paper crafting ideas and will actually be using my "too pretty to use" papers! The guilt is gone!
I could never get rid of my paper! I have thousand of sheets. I make cards and scrapbook. My first love is scrapbooking and when I need a sheet for a background and I know that somewhere in one of those containers I own the perfect piece of paper I get excited about the hunt! That’s me! I still get excited when I start a project just like the first time I sat with a picture and I started to create!
Wonderful. I like the image of you joyfully hunting for the perfect piece of paper. Some people probably enjoy buying paper more than creating with paper.
Ya, no kidding! These people who buy stuff then claim "I’m happier without it, so let’s get rid of it!" Freak me out. I like my supplies! Happy crafting!
@@arlisarohloff2622 one thing that I should have said is that I started to scrapbook the year I turned 80 and it will be ten years this coming September. So do the math! Yes I’ll be 90 in Nov. 2021! And I still love what I do further more I still buy supplies. As long S I can walk I will scrapbook!
I recently discovered Kerry’s channel. You are right, she is an excellent up-and-coming paper crafting resource and her channel is definitely worth checking out. Highly recommend. Thank you Justine for this excellent video and for collaborating with Kerry.
My oldest daughter has penpals...she uses my pads of paper for envelopes. She also makes envelopes for children in the hospital. We do matching stationary so they can draw or write to family. We believe children should be taught the old fashion way of sending mail. The joy of getting a handwritten letter back from Grandma and Grandpa.
Justine, I love your narrative, the emotional reasoning that seems unrealistic (but is truly realistic to us crafty paper hoarders!) I too had to donate paper (and stamps) to the girl scouts! I felt so good getting rid of older products I no longer wanted to use, and was so happy to make a group of girls happy too! (and inspire future crafty hoarders LOL) Thank you for making me smile :D
Great video, tfs! And Kerry's video, which I'd seen previously, is an excellent companion piece. (I'd love to see you and her collaborate on a video - you're both such gifted communicators, with a shared emphasis on using existing supplies more creatively, rather than constantly pushing viewers to buy new products.)
I scan my favorites. Then, when I want to use it I print it on heavy gsm cardstock. It's just a blip on my computer and doesn't take up drawers and space in my craft room!
OMG!!! You got me!!!!! I thougth do some scrapbooks or something...but your videos made my day....as usual, justine you are a GEM!!!!! a big hug from Chile
@@justinehovey OMG!!!!! thanks a lot....I´m a big fan of you. I can´t wait for a new videos. This topic is really important. there are so many paper and so mamy patterns and so little space...jajajajajaja. Thanks for everything
I thought I was the only one who bought a pack to use and another one to stroke! Thank you! I'm trying to declutter following a move from a big house to a tiny one, and I must get rid of a lot of my craft stuff. I'd never thought of donating to schools, so there's somewhere to start...🌼
Everything you are saying I think applies to most of us. I do have some beautiful card stock and I’d hate to see it gone. But at the same time I really do need to use it because it just keeps adding up. But I definitely do not buy near as much card stock as I once did. A big reason is because a beautiful card making book making shop closed and we no longer have such a fabulous store in our area. The couple that owned it always had the best of every thing, in fact it looked like a Hallmark store but she made everything.
Thank you so much for this video! I have all those feelings you described about pattern paper! I am so happy that I was not the only one! Now to use at least some of mine up!
Thanks so much for this video!! I have some gorgeous paper i've been hoarding, but with your inspiration, i've just created a kaleidoscope of butterflies to use on my cards. Thank you!!
Beautiful cards... I am a scrapbooker but am leaning towards making cards and I have soooooo much stuff... going to check out Kerry's channel now... thanks for sharing.
Excellent video with lots of different types of cards. I had to have paper that I hate to use and now I am looking at it differently. Thank you for sharing and I will check out the other persons video.
I started as a scrapbooker so I had sooooo much 12x12 paper. I also gave it away to teachers, friends and even an old age home for their art classes. Everyone was always so grateful and I was able to purge. great video!
It is so easy to get sucked in to all the new stamping supplies. I totally agree with you. One other thing I REFUSE to buy are subscriptions to stamping boxes sent to subscribers each month.
I have limited space, inherited a bunch of craft supplies and learned that I truly prefer having less. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the other videos.
Beautiful cards on this video! Love the new approach of showing us how to be realistic with budget, use up our supplies and showing the realities of crafting!
Thx, Justine! I confess that I am a paper hoarder! 2021 is the year for me to use...use...and use! Now, you need to make a video on how to use scraps! LOL! It’s hard to pitch out those bits of my favorite papers!
You and Kerry are the perfect pairing of crafters!!! I still scrapbook, so I’m using my papers. I do occasionally use it on my cards, but not enough! I am definitely going to use it more!
I just watched this video and had to laugh with your paper reasoning. I have had those same thoughts. Buy it but then don't want to use it. May need it for a better project! Thanks for brightening my day! Good to know it isn't just me.
I love pattern paper and I like using it on my cards. I really enjoyed watching how you used yours to make cards. I hadn't thought of using it to puzzle piece background dies. Thanks.
I actually had to watch it twice. Once with the sound off so I could follow the images. I did think it was clever though. I’m just getting old and it gets harder to follow more than one idea at a time as you age.
I appreciate this video so much! I've collected heaps of paper pads that I just LOVED and had to have! I do use it often but I have more than I could use in my lifetime. Lol Great ideas!
Actually, Kerry sent me to you. These where both great videos and very helpful. I have so much patterned paper and actually started using it recently after hoarding it for 10 or more years. Yikes! Thank you for the help.
I have plenty of stuff, but one of the things I am also doing is saving cards people send me, used pretty stamps, odd bits and pieces of things. One day I found a card insert in a magazine that was made with some high quality shiny paper. This weekend I made my sister a birthday card. I had all sorts of ideas of things I could use or do and then I remembered the last thing I had made her on my sewing machine. I had spent around 40 hours making it and from the time I handed it to her until she set it down was LESS than a minute which included ONE glance at it. I remembered on that day I had made a promise to myself that never again would I spend so much time on something for her. So the card I made her, I used up bits and pieces, I used an embossed front that I had printed wrong initially on another project, etc. The card still looks nice. I would rather save my 'good' stuff for someone that would appreciate it. I did learn that if someone wants to make cards but doesn't have much money nor a thrift store close by (a source of many of my things) they can collect enough bits to make simple cards on a limited budget. I have found that when people learn you do a particular craft or needlework, supplies just flow into your home. When you get one of those 50% of pads, then you can appreciate and use it if up until then you have been scrounging paper.
OMG...I thought "I" was the only person who bought paper packs (lots) thinking I'd use them for something, someday..YEARS later, they're still sitting there...thinking now I should donate them to my Granddaughter's school and problem solved. She'll be SO excited to take them to school and I will be happy knowing they are being used vs. sitting there collecting dust.
Just yesterday, I came to the realization that I would never be able to use the patterned cardstock that I have purchased over the years. I recklessly, used my first piece last night and plan on continuing to use and to donate some to someone that can also use it. Thanks for your tips!
Thank you so much for this video. I too have some paper pads that I just loved the paper. Your inspiration has given me a different direction on how to use what I have in my stash!!
I find patterned paper very useful, and I dont really think I have too much (about a shelf width full). Its very useful to have a choice and they are sooo time saving so I dont have to worry about backgrounds. With my 12x12 Ive found so many uses for them for lining everyday household items and stationary.
Thank you! I just subscribed to Kerry's channel. I don't have a giant hoard of patterned paper, but I want to use it ALL up before I move. I want to move in about a year. That butterfly looks a lot like a butterfly stamp that I have from the ton. I never thought of using it on patterned paper. I love that idea!
I have never scrapbooked but I do buy 12x12 paper because I make my own envelopes with a WRMK envelope punch board. I've been getting packs and pads really cheap at Tuesday Morning. I really find joy in making patterned fun envelopes! But, that's just me.
I've been using up old 12 X 12 paper by making envelopes with my Cricut for my handmade cards. I think it's fun to make an envelope with an inside pattern that goes with the card. But yes, I have way too much of it!
I love this video, reminding me not to get into the scarcity mentality. Like fabric I think collecting paper (or fabric) is thinking about possibilities, not so much about doing projects. I look at vloggers and I don't have the papers they have, their art is so beautiful so then I go out and want more to emulate the beautiful art. For mix media I don't even have the junk to draw from to make what they do. Now however, like you, I love making my own paper, I love drawing my own art work (rather than using stamps, stickers or stencils). When I want a stencil I make it (which to me is another art form). I now think not where can I buy it but how can I make it.
NOW Justine, I had to pause the video right away because the paper pad you just laid out on your work space.... I WANT IT!!!!... This is why I have too much paper of any kind.... proceed...
I used to feel the same way about fabric...but if I use it, it’s gone. Seeing your great ideas about ways to use the patterned pater is definitely going to be a winner! Bring on some more please.
OMG Justine....What a Spectacular share.......oh gosh I remember those days......you nailed it!!!! Thanks always for keeping it real!! It’s so refreshing to hear and that one can destash and whittle down to wat we really...REALLY use!!
Your ideas are Brilliant and Ingenious and truly make my day!! Thanks for all you do and the way you do it.....I know it takes oodles of time ....so again THANK YOU!! Your little light shines ever so brightly inside and out!! YOU so ROCK!!
Joan Smith
Thanks Joan :) As always, your comments make my day!
But I wanted to celebrate my paper's 7th birthday! They age so fast!
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haha so funny! They do age quickly. Every time a paste dries I think "oh man" and then I realize it's 10 years old lol
I have you beat. I have paper that is 30 years old. It predates the scrapbooking craze. I have done all the techniques Justine showed in her video. Plus I routinely donate to both schools and nursing homes. However I don’t think I have too much paper. I tend to think I don’t have enough time to do all the stuff I want to do.
In another ten years or so I will have to start really letting stuff go because I will not be the sort of person who leaves piles of stuff for my children and grandchildren to sort through.
What I would really like to know is what TH-cam card makers do with all those cards. I don’t know enough people to make that many cards. Fortunately I make other stuff as well.
@@rtd1791 check out cards for kindness at Scrapbook.com. They collect cards and distribute them :)
@@rtd1791 I make a year's worth of birthday cards for a senior's home and participated in a handmade Christmas card drive for the past 3 years. You can also bundle them with envies tied with some nice organza and give as gifts.
This video is just so wonderful. I love all the ideas you are sharing with us to get us to use what we have! Guilty as charged here! I'm really beginning to use stuff up instead of buy, buy, buy. I love all of this so much. So much better than watching all the videos that show the newest, greatest, kit of the month that we NEED to buy. I like that you show us the technique or idea and we can take it from there. Keep the great ideas coming my way, Justine. And I love that you are doing these collaborations with other creatives. Watched the video you tagged from Kerry and I will be watching her videos, too. :-)
I love the butterfly idea. Thankyou. I think my paper pads could be grandparents by now. Thank you for all the great ideas.
I liike the idea of sticking with co-ordinating paper. Makes so much sense. Thanks for sharing!
I absolutely LOVE your videos...you have such a great smile & voice and your messages always hit home! Hi. I'm Julie...and I'm a paper-crafting hoarder. But, I recently began opening (and USING) some of my beautiful (and expensive) paper stash that I've had FOR YEARS! It feels SO GREAT to actually be using it! Thanks for this video. And, although I'm watching it a couple of months after you originally posted it, it is VERY TIMELY information! Thanks so much and have a great day! :)
Definitely understand the scarcity idea. As a kiwi, we have extremely limited availability if we don't shop online and what we do have is fast shrinking. So it really IS a case of once used, gone. However I realised I had a problem recently when doing a small scrapbooking project for my special needs son and found myself struggling. I hadn't enough paper that I was ALLOWING myself to use, even though I have a LOT of paper and I couldn't complete this basic project. So I thought screw it. What's the point of having it if I'm not allowed to use? So I let myself go and I'm now using whatever I want when I want and if it's gone, well, that's what it was designed for. And I'm having the most fun actually CREATING than I have in years!
Love that you were able to let go and enjoy!
Great video Justine. Thanks for re-sharing it for us newbies.
I am guilty as charged! I have tons of gorgeous paper and am only just starting to use it. I also have a huge bunch of digital papers, which I tend to use more often. I love these ideas -- especially the stencilling one. Thank you! Clare x
I can so relate to a paper hoard! I've started to purge, not just paper but everything I needed hundreds of!
2 minutes in and I feel seen, heard and validated!!!
Sadly you just described me! Every single thing you said i said/thought the same!
Love the cards you created with the patterned paper!
I like what your channel is presenting now.
Laura
She described me to a T ! All the thoughts, have also been my thoughts about paper!
All really great ideas, you really know how to use the stuff and the kids story was just delightful!
I am re-watching this, and loving it. I really like all these ideas and way to use up my stacks of paper pads!
So happy to get ideas on how to use all of my EXTRA patterned paper. Thank you, Justine
Justine, I'm in awe that you have been able to let go. That all your patterned paper fits in a box is amazing. I liked how you showed the 5 ways to use up papers without the step by step voice over.
I owned a retail store and taught classes for all crafts paper related. (quilling, cardmaking, papermaking, calligraphy, origami etc.) Scrapbooking had just started (early 90's). We offered archival papers as well as handmade from all over the world and the second largest selection of Japanese papers in Canada. All of those I still have hoarded in a large box under my bed. Too beautiful to use, and there has yet to be a store in Calgary, AB that carries the selection we did...so yes the scarcity thing. Thanks for bringing your 'paper hoarding story' into the open.
So what are you going to do with your paper? I personally think it’s fine to create a scrapbook of beautiful paper. No words or pictures just paper you love. Like a coffee table book. It would be easier to look at.
@@rtd1791 most of these are full sheets 36"x22" I did have them displayed but was concerned about light fading. I have framed some chiyogami papers. I pull them out every now and then when an occasion arises and I have the perfect paper. I can live with being a paper hoarder.
Justine, thanks for sharing this very information video.
One of the best videos that I have seen recently.
I loved each one of your examples ❤️❤️❤️
Just finding this particular video of yours and am loving the outlining dies with the pattern paper! I really have had my eyes opened and am LOVING this technique. This is amazing! Thank you for this video in particular...
Great video Justine! Great cards! Thank you for sharing. 😊
It’s amazing that all of your paper fits in that one box!
But I see 2 boxes marked 6x6😉
Oh my gosh!!! You just described my paper addiction, I can't help myself. I used to work right beside a craft store and I would see when they had a delivery but, who am I kidding... I shopped there every day they were open, no excuses necessary, lol. One day, I too will purge my stash.
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Love this, 2 way learning, eyes and ears at the same time, thanks, really enjoyed it.
I appreciate this video, and how you've used your papers! You're right, a lot of us are pretty paper hoarders! I just discovered some new paper crafting ideas and will actually be using my "too pretty to use" papers! The guilt is gone!
I could never get rid of my paper! I have thousand of sheets. I make cards and scrapbook. My first love is scrapbooking and when I need a sheet for a background and I know that somewhere in one of those containers I own the perfect piece of paper I get excited about the hunt! That’s me! I still get excited when I start a project just like the first time I sat with a picture and I started to create!
Wonderful. I like the image of you joyfully hunting for the perfect piece of paper. Some people probably enjoy buying paper more than creating with paper.
Ya, no kidding! These people who buy stuff then claim "I’m happier without it, so let’s get rid of it!" Freak me out. I like my supplies! Happy crafting!
@@arlisarohloff2622 one thing that I should have said is that I started to scrapbook the year I turned 80 and it will be ten years this coming September. So do the math! Yes I’ll be 90 in Nov. 2021! And I still love what I do further more I still buy supplies. As long S I can walk I will scrapbook!
I recently discovered Kerry’s channel. You are right, she is an excellent up-and-coming paper crafting resource and her channel is definitely worth checking out. Highly recommend. Thank you Justine for this excellent video and for collaborating with Kerry.
I’ve enjoyed all of Kerry’s videos. She is a great newcomer. Also, useful message Justine. We need to be told to use what we have.
My oldest daughter has penpals...she uses my pads of paper for envelopes. She also makes envelopes for children in the hospital. We do matching stationary so they can draw or write to family. We believe children should be taught the old fashion way of sending mail. The joy of getting a handwritten letter back from Grandma and Grandpa.
Justine thank you for doing all of these collab videos. It is amazing to find new channels and ideas. I love the turn your channel took this year.
Absolutely great thoughts and ideas! Thanks 👍.
Justine, I love your narrative, the emotional reasoning that seems unrealistic (but is truly realistic to us crafty paper hoarders!) I too had to donate paper (and stamps) to the girl scouts! I felt so good getting rid of older products I no longer wanted to use, and was so happy to make a group of girls happy too! (and inspire future crafty hoarders LOL)
Thank you for making me smile :D
Such wonderful ideas! Thank you!
Omg. This Hit home. Packing it all up and donating!!!
Love the cards you made in this video. They were stunning!
You are wise beyond your years, young lady. Every single point you made in this video, hit home for me.
Great video, tfs! And Kerry's video, which I'd seen previously, is an excellent companion piece. (I'd love to see you and her collaborate on a video - you're both such gifted communicators, with a shared emphasis on using existing supplies more creatively, rather than constantly pushing viewers to buy new products.)
This is a collaboration with Kerry :) Thanks for watching!
Yes, and it works beautifully! I hope you and she will find a way to collaborate again at some point.☺
I feel like you are talking directly to me! No kidding, I am blushing. Especially not wanting to use the “pretty paper”. 😊😊😊😊😊
I scan my favorites. Then, when I want to use it I print it on heavy gsm cardstock. It's just a blip on my computer and doesn't take up drawers and space in my craft room!
Thank you so much for the card ideas. Love them.
I totally agree, it`s easy to become a scrapbook hoarder, specially with all the products out there
OMG!!! You got me!!!!! I thougth do some scrapbooks or something...but your videos made my day....as usual, justine you are a GEM!!!!! a big hug from Chile
Thank you! Big hugs back!
@@justinehovey OMG!!!!! thanks a lot....I´m a big fan of you. I can´t wait for a new videos. This topic is really important. there are so many paper and so mamy patterns and so little space...jajajajajaja. Thanks for everything
Love that you shared so many uses for the paper as you told your story. I love stamping with kids, they do bring a joy and freedom to crafting.
I love this new direction you've taken. So practical. So inspiring. So what we ALL need!
I appreciate the feedback!
I thought I was the only one who bought a pack to use and another one to stroke! Thank you! I'm trying to declutter following a move from a big house to a tiny one, and I must get rid of a lot of my craft stuff. I'd never thought of donating to schools, so there's somewhere to start...🌼
Everything you are saying I think applies to most of us. I do have some beautiful card stock and I’d hate to see it gone. But at the same time I really do need to use it because it just keeps adding up. But I definitely do not buy near as much card stock as I once did. A big reason is because a beautiful card making book making shop closed and we no longer have such a fabulous store in our area. The couple that owned it always had the best of every thing, in fact it looked like a Hallmark store but she made everything.
Thank you so much for this video! I have all those feelings you described about pattern paper! I am so happy that I was not the only one! Now to use at least some of mine up!
Oh my gosh!! You took the words right out of my mouth….”didn’t want to use it from fear of not having something nice again”
Thanks so much for this video!! I have some gorgeous paper i've been hoarding, but with your inspiration, i've just created a kaleidoscope of butterflies to use on my cards. Thank you!!
Great tutorial ever. MORE MORE MORE😊😊😊
Beautiful cards... I am a scrapbooker but am leaning towards making cards and I have soooooo much stuff... going to check out Kerry's channel now... thanks for sharing.
I just love those cards you’ve created and yes, I LOVE those papers 😱!! Great video, thank you 👍💕
Excellent video with lots of different types of cards. I had to have paper that I hate to use and now I am looking at it differently. Thank you for sharing and I will check out the other persons video.
Justine, you are just so inspiring, helping us THINK about crafting.
That’s a great way of putting it! I think I’m going to use that expression now. Think about crafting, I like it 💜
I started as a scrapbooker so I had sooooo much 12x12 paper. I also gave it away to teachers, friends and even an old age home for their art classes. Everyone was always so grateful and I was able to purge. great video!
It is so easy to get sucked in to all the new stamping supplies. I totally agree with you. One other thing I REFUSE to buy are subscriptions to stamping boxes sent to subscribers each month.
I love the cards you created. I do need to shift my mindset. I plan to create something tonight 🥰
I have limited space, inherited a bunch of craft supplies and learned that I truly prefer having less. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the other videos.
Beautiful cards on this video! Love the new approach of showing us how to be realistic with budget, use up our supplies and showing the realities of crafting!
Love the cards and you have really showcased a lot of ideas to use patterned paper. I can hardly wait to get to my stash. Thank you.
Thx, Justine! I confess that I am a paper hoarder! 2021 is the year for me to use...use...and use! Now, you need to make a video on how to use scraps! LOL! It’s hard to pitch out those bits of my favorite papers!
You and Kerry are the perfect pairing of crafters!!! I still scrapbook, so I’m using my papers. I do occasionally use it on my cards, but not enough! I am definitely going to use it more!
I'd love to see Justine and Kerry do a video together - different takes on a card using the same supplies, for example.
This was spot on!!!
I just watched this video and had to laugh with your paper reasoning.
I have had those same thoughts. Buy it but then don't want to use it. May need it for a better project! Thanks for brightening my day!
Good to know it isn't just me.
I love pattern paper and I like using it on my cards. I really enjoyed watching how you used yours to make cards. I hadn't thought of using it to puzzle piece background dies. Thanks.
Love these cards!!! And now I wanted that vertical sentiment....lol. Enabler! 😂😘😘
You are amazing! I love this so much!
Loved this video, so true! But all the examples going on while your speaking, brilliant 💕
I actually had to watch it twice. Once with the sound off so I could follow the images. I did think it was clever though. I’m just getting old and it gets harder to follow more than one idea at a time as you age.
I have had a paper addiction forever! 😄Great video. LOVE the cards you created!
Thanks so much! 😊
Great way to present while showing ideas you’ve made and they are beautiful and inspiring. Thanks for this video. I’m now a subscriber!
And I love your single image supply page - so helpful!
I appreciate this video so much! I've collected heaps of paper pads that I just LOVED and had to have! I do use it often but I have more than I could use in my lifetime. Lol Great ideas!
Glad it was helpful!
Actually, Kerry sent me to you. These where both great videos and very helpful. I have so much patterned paper and actually started using it recently after hoarding it for 10 or more years. Yikes! Thank you for the help.
I have plenty of stuff, but one of the things I am also doing is saving cards people send me, used pretty stamps, odd bits and pieces of things. One day I found a card insert in a magazine that was made with some high quality shiny paper. This weekend I made my sister a birthday card. I had all sorts of ideas of things I could use or do and then I remembered the last thing I had made her on my sewing machine. I had spent around 40 hours making it and from the time I handed it to her until she set it down was LESS than a minute which included ONE glance at it. I remembered on that day I had made a promise to myself that never again would I spend so much time on something for her. So the card I made her, I used up bits and pieces, I used an embossed front that I had printed wrong initially on another project, etc. The card still looks nice. I would rather save my 'good' stuff for someone that would appreciate it. I did learn that if someone wants to make cards but doesn't have much money nor a thrift store close by (a source of many of my things) they can collect enough bits to make simple cards on a limited budget. I have found that when people learn you do a particular craft or needlework, supplies just flow into your home. When you get one of those 50% of pads, then you can appreciate and use it if up until then you have been scrounging paper.
I laughed when I started watching this :) the patterned paper stash describes me 100% !
You are so good! Thanks for taking us with you on your journey to rethink and free ourselves up to create
🥰 You're welcome, hope it helps others :)
Great video! I so liked that your paper fit into a box! Now to work on making that fit with my solid card stock. Thanks and loved the card examples! 💖
I get ya!!! Got that mentality and I’m only a beginner! OMG. I’m watching carrie’s video NOW. thanks so much for sharing Justine. It was very helpful.
OMG...I thought "I" was the only person who bought paper packs (lots) thinking I'd use them for something, someday..YEARS later, they're still sitting there...thinking now I should donate them to my Granddaughter's school and problem solved. She'll be SO excited to take them to school and I will be happy knowing they are being used vs. sitting there collecting dust.
Thank you Justine. Blessings.
Well done Justine. I have become a paper hoarder too. Love how you used some of your papers. Thanks for the pep talk? And the inspiration.
Hi from your old country, and Dallas. Cute ideas. Yes, I buy lots of patterned paper too. You gave me lots of ideas and they’re beautiful.
Patterned paper used tastefully makes everything more interesting.
It's like you are in my head! This is my complete issue with paper!! So glad you did this video. You give me hope. 😂
Just yesterday, I came to the realization that I would never be able to use the patterned cardstock that I have purchased over the years. I recklessly, used my first piece last night and plan on continuing to use and to donate some to someone that can also use it. Thanks for your tips!
One reason I love Doolebug is that their color palette never changes 😍 It makes their stuff so easy to use.
I love all your ideas for using pattern paper. Perfect timing for this video, as I am just sorting through my huge stash 😊
So so true. I think I can relate to everything you've said!
Brilliant! SO speaks to me and I’m sure most of us crafters!
Thanks for a great video. I just culled a heap of papers and still have more than enough, and I can take them to the school that I work at.
Thank you so much for this video. I too have some paper pads that I just loved the paper. Your inspiration has given me a different direction on how to use what I have in my stash!!
Gorgeous cards 🥰 I love your card designs. I make cards mostly with pattern papers and ephemera lol ❤ thanks for sharing your creativity Hugs xx
But, but, but I love paper! I've loved paper when I was a kid. That was a really long time ago!
Love these cards. Yes I’m a paper & die hoarder! Thank you for the inspiration.
Libraries so appreciated my donation of paper!
So happy they appreciated it!
That is one I haven’t thought of.
AJ. Brilliant idea. Thanks for sharing.
I find patterned paper very useful, and I dont really think I have too much (about a shelf width full). Its very useful to have a choice and they are sooo time saving so I dont have to worry about backgrounds. With my 12x12 Ive found so many uses for them for lining everyday household items and stationary.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you! I just subscribed to Kerry's channel. I don't have a giant hoard of patterned paper, but I want to use it ALL up before I move. I want to move in about a year.
That butterfly looks a lot like a butterfly stamp that I have from the ton. I never thought of using it on patterned paper. I love that idea!
I have never scrapbooked but I do buy 12x12 paper because I make my own envelopes with a WRMK envelope punch board. I've been getting packs and pads really cheap at Tuesday Morning. I really find joy in making patterned fun envelopes! But, that's just me.
I've been using up old 12 X 12 paper by making envelopes with my Cricut for my handmade cards. I think it's fun to make an envelope with an inside pattern that goes with the card. But yes, I have way too much of it!
I love this video, reminding me not to get into the scarcity mentality.
Like fabric I think collecting paper (or fabric) is thinking about possibilities, not so much about doing projects. I look at vloggers and I don't have the papers they have, their art is so beautiful so then I go out and want more to emulate the beautiful art. For mix media I don't even have the junk to draw from to make what they do. Now however, like you, I love making my own paper, I love drawing my own art work (rather than using stamps, stickers or stencils). When I want a stencil I make it (which to me is another art form). I now think not where can I buy it but how can I make it.
NOW Justine, I had to pause the video right away because the paper pad you just laid out on your work space.... I WANT IT!!!!... This is why I have too much paper of any kind.... proceed...
Ouch Justine hahahah you git me there so thank you starting today I will cut my papers and used it wish me luck.....thanks for sharing
I used to feel the same way about fabric...but if I use it, it’s gone. Seeing your great ideas about ways to use the patterned pater is definitely going to be a winner! Bring on some more please.
Thanks for watching. I think we all have this with one supply or another
Hi Justine. Love the new roll you have morphed into, our Craft Therapist. Thanks so much for your advices.🌸 Blessings ❤️