Amazing Paper Grace

Recca, this card is just beautiful. You never cease to amaze me with your creativity and talent. Everything that touches your hands turn into a work of art. I wish I had just a small amount of your talent. Your eyes see what I could never imagine. Your blog is such an inspiration to me. Bless you and keep posting your lovely creations!ReplyCancel

*Laughing hard* – I was thinking the exact same thing today. Why on earth do I have so much paper – many packages still in their USPS Priority Mail boxes! I thought about just dumping everything and starting over. Then, YOUR e-mail comes and I am enabled! Let’s face it, some of it is just too nice to lose or use, LOL. If you ever need a sheet of something, I just might have it!

Becca, your card is lovely! Everything is done to perfection! Thank you so much for sharing. I learn so much from you!ReplyCancel

oh my Becca I love this card but I think you were talking 100 % about me I have so much that has never been touched. I belong to club scrap and club stamp and the pizza boxs have never been touched and were talking abouet 70 or so of them. so I try and give away stuff as much as I can I dont really make to many things. so I look at it this way I would rather say my name is colleen and I am addicted to paper than I am addicted to cocane. that is why this is a womens hobby they were we would dod that and need 1 of every color. thanks so much bless youReplyCancel

This is a beautiful card! AND thank you for your confession. I’m glad to be in such good company! I too have been a paper hoarder for such a long time! I even remember that first piece that I fell in love with. It was a scrapbook kit by Kathy Davis, and my favorite paper matched the cover of the scrapbook. Still have it, still love it and I did keep one sheet of the beautiful paper!ReplyCancel

Oh Becca another tempter,

just as I though that I had my addiction under control you come along with another fix, I love everything about this card and the colours are those amongst of my favourites …please keep sharing I can’t go cold turkey,

best Wishes Susan XReplyCancel

Thanks for affirming that I am not the only one with a problem….although a good one I think. So many times I have been in just the same spot.

I have a layout and knowing there is pretty paper being hid I almost always will take a square out that wont show. Who knows how I will use it or if I will but when it is that pretty it should not be hid.

My DH use to think I was crazy but I tell him when he uses all the tools he has in the basement that are still in the boxes he can discuss my stash.

As always you card is beautiful. God blessed you with a beautiful gift.

ValReplyCancel

I confess…so am I!!! Two weeks ago we moved. Our friends stopped counting the boxes that said ‘craftroom’ when it topped at 50 with more to load. No, I have not unpacked all my ‘friends’. I truly miss them and can’t wait to welcome them to their new home. Yes, my son just commented today that I really have a PROBLEM! Will I quit…NO!!!
I love all your work and am happy to have the same Hoarder Disorder as you.
Hugs, GinnyReplyCancel

Oh, Becca–I hear you, girl! I’m in the same quandary. But I’m getting better at giving away things that I know I’ll realistically never get back to using, assuming they keep making new stuff. . . ;-) Your card is perfectly lovely!ReplyCancel

Boy did you hit home with your paper hoarder statement. I have some of the most elegant marbled paper I have hoarded for more than 15 years. The sheets were cut to 5 1/2″ or 6″ squares when I got it. It was so expensive and I have to this day only made one card with it for fear of not having it any longer. Unfortunately that isn’t the only paper I have hoarded.

Great card by the way.ReplyCancel

So Becca,….where was I the day you were going thru my scraproom and were looking at my unopened packages of BasicGrey and Cosmo Cricket?? Just today I was agonizing over the placement of a template on some “speciality” Easter paper I had purchased at Archiver’s. I’m telling you…..using that double sided paper is sheer agony, isn’t it?? I can’t tell you how relieved I am to learn that I am in good company. Thanks for sharing. Linda S. in NEReplyCancel

Hello. My name is Cheri. I’m a paper addict.

Know just what you mean, Becca! I think I have paper in my stash that’s from 5 years ago (or more). Whenever I go to the craft store, I promise myself that I won’t buy ANY MORE PAPER – but still do anyway. ::sigh::

I take comfort knowing that I’m not the only one. But thanks for the tip for how to save some of that gorgeous paper – I gotta try that!ReplyCancel

I am glad you did! I was just thinking today “what a waste of paper” when I saw Dawn tape down her layers, which is normal and standard, in her video. I think it is great that you cut out the middle of the green paper to use on another project. Well done.ReplyCancel

What a beautiful card and such an inspiration!
I can’t possibly own up to being a hoarder but I will confess to being a collector (sounds much better – lol!!) ….. of all things craft related!ReplyCancel

What a Glorious card, love it and the papers. I can totally relate to the paper fanatic thing. I have more than most stores!!
http://karensinspirations.blogspot.com/ReplyCancel

Becca
I, too, am a paper hoarder. I’m not alone! Not just the colors, but the textures, and the possibilities call out to me when I see papers just awaiting my purchase. I just have to have these glorious papers, and rescue them from the shelves…… thanks for sharing my addictionReplyCancel

Hi Becca! I see I’m not the only one! I’m in good company though:)
Beautiful card, as always. IRIS, SAVED BY GRACE!!ReplyCancel

Becca,
I to am a paper hoader/collector. I agree “collector” sounds better.
Like everyone else, I could open my own craft store. LOL. To be honest, I would love that. The card today is just lovely. The colors are just beautiful.

Have a great day,
~~Diane~~ReplyCancel

The first step of recovery is admitting the problem, Becca! Thanx for sharing another beauty w us today (my birthday, whoo hoo!).
grins,
– SueBReplyCancel

Becca, I, like so many of the other subscribers from above, am a collector and hoarder!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hoard stamps, ribbon, embellishments, papers, all kinds of coloring mediums, etc., I probably have enough to open my own store…LOL! I love this card and the simplicity of it. You tie your bows so beautifully…what is your secret?

PinkyReplyCancel

This is so true it hurts.
I don’t mind using my 6 x 6 pads of paper but I have a huge box full of my 12 x 12 which I am loath to cut into…it’s too bug for cutting, right!
I too adore Basic Grey Sultry and all BG paper really and Kay & Co. We are a lost cause I think.
If anyone knows an anidote please let me know before I become lost forever under a huge pile of 12 x 12 nevermore to see the light of day.
By the way Becca the card is stunning as always and have just bought my first Pierceability so intend to have a go. With 6 x 6 Sultry of course.
J. xxReplyCancel

Becca,

I too am/was a paper hoarder but in the last year
I have been cured. It took moving to another state and having to go through my scrap-room that converted me. I donated a ton of stuff and then there were a lot of papers that were not necessarily the latest in trends but i still really liked it, that’s when I decided 25-50-100 years from now when my albums would be passed down to future generations it would all be out of date anyway I was using what I had!!! I still buy some paper occasionally but not like I used too and if something new comes in the old goes out!

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Hate to say it Becca, but you are just a “novice” LOL I’m 73 and been a paper hoarder my entire life. Like most of us I have trouble “parting” with papers. I love to look at them and hold them but when I took a card class 2 yrs. ago I realized that it was time to start using some of the papers. It has been fun going through stashes of papers that I’ve moved the 4 times over the years and come up with ideas for their use.(some of these are from HS days—1950’s) I know my girls will only toss them so I’d rather use them in my cards than see them lost forever in the dump. You’re lucky if paper is all your hoard—I hoard stuff for beading, decorative painting, embroidery, etc. etc. etc. :O)

BarbaraReplyCancel

Gorgeous card! I think we all have a bit of ‘paper hoarding’ in us.ReplyCancel

This is a sweet card Becca ~ I have to agree with you on the paper issue… in fact, I would have punched a second shape from the center of the green backing before assembling the card…so my ‘favorite stash’ would continue…. bad I know…. thanks for sharing!ReplyCancel

It was such fun reading all the comments – I can only add 2 words… me too!ReplyCancel

LOL. Oh, Becca! I love the “sisterhood” of stampers!

I, too, am a paper hoarder. It’s in storage boxes in three closets, under the bed, in a cabinet, in file boxes, and stacked on my desk. And what am I going to do on the first day of Spring Break??? I’m heading to Hobby Lobby for the 1/2 price sale on – you got it – PAPER!!

Isn’t life just grand????? I’m so happy to be a stamper!!

Happy day to you and yours!
KimReplyCancel

I’m actually relieved to know that I am not the only hoarder. I buy tons of beautiful papers, but then I have such a hard time running them through the Expression or cutting with a spellbinders die. I save just about every scrap. I have them sorted into sizes. Long strips that come off the edge get punched with Martha Stewart dies so they will be ready for a project. Smaller scraps get put into a box for when I need a circle or some other small punched object. I even keep the small dots that come out of the paper punches in medicine jars for shaker cards. It’s just so hard to let go of fragments from these gorgeous papers. I’m glad that I’m not the only one!! :)ReplyCancel

I am a paper hoarder for sure! I sometimes don’t even remember what’s all in my stash… still looking for the best way to store it… i.e…. by color or Mfr, etc.
And I will do this trick every now and then. I love it!ReplyCancel

very pretty!ReplyCancel

I keep every little bit of paper. I am an addict! Another thing that fuels my addiction: I work for a printing company and I’m around paper that gets thrown away every day. There is this one paper that we use to print pocket folders. It comes 26″ x 40″, but our press cannot run that large size. It gets cut in half to 26″ x 20″. Still a problem size. So they cut 7″ of the 26″ size and there is a nice 20″ x 7″ strip left. It is 110# white laid stock. How can anyone throw this away??? Well, the first time I realized they were throwing it away, I begged for it. All 2000 sheets of it. It sat in the back of my car for ages until we went out of town and needed the space. I still have tons of it, and use it for bases for my cards all the time, but I’m sure I’ll never use all of it unless I give it away. A friend and I made a pact (actually I drug her kicking & screaming) to only have whole sheets of paper left by the end of the year. We could give them away or use them or throw them away. It didn’t matter, they just had to be gone. That night I sat down and made 15 cards out of some beautiful paper that I’d held on to for months because it was too pretty to throw away! I feel your pain! Thanks for sharing!ReplyCancel

Hey, Becca….I am with you girlfriend!!! Paper hoarder, button hoarder, ribbon hoarder, embellishments of every description……oh well…I am now trying to be more conscientious in my purchases and trying to use what I have on hand….
I love this card….I just wanted to mention that I also use the negative image from the Big Shot Die Cut on another card….no wastage of paper here!!!!

God Bless….thanks for your beautiful creations!!!

Cindy LouReplyCancel

I too am a paper hoarder. Had to dig into the stash last night to find the right colors for a class card I am working on, I finally picked Basic Gray 2 scoops. I will be casing this card and can envision some Karen Neubeger paper I have.ReplyCancel

Hey, Becca!
It’s so funny to hear people admit they hoard, too! I usually buy assorted items, but then have the hardest time parting with any of it! Buttons, ribbons, paper…I scrimp and save every little piece and trim any parts that don’t show, if possible!

I’m trying to ease up a bit, especially since we will be moving this summer – what better time to start a little purging! I will be donating what I don’t use to a local service project – Cards for a Cause.

I’m learning how to use watercolor crayons, so your card is just what I needed! As always…beautiful!!!

Happy stamping!

AngiReplyCancel

Why do we think that we must be the only person who hoards…..paper, ribbons, etc. I guess I’m really glad that I am not the only one with this sickness…….I have two shoe boxes just for Basic Grey 6×6 pads and another one for miscellaneous. My husband has no clue what is in my craft room and I’m not going to enlighten him….I HAVE stopped buying for the foreseeable future. I need to get it all organized into some usable semblance of order before I buy one more thing……and as we have a major flooring project going on just now, my guess is that I will try to go to CHA Spring 2011. ;)ReplyCancel

*LOL* I’m guilty too. Aren’t we all? It seems that it’s sometimes more fun buying the paper and stamping stuff than using it. It’s too hard to cut into a new sheet of paper! And then it’s a real rush when you finally use some nice paper and make a beautiful card. What a great hobby we have. :D
TrishReplyCancel

I hear you Becca…..my dearly beloved may soon be tasked to build me another lovely cabinet for my paper! Maybe we need to start a support group!I’m so bad about certain papers that I make cards for my dearly beloved with them so that I don’t have to really give them away!

Tee hee. Beautiful card again as always!ReplyCancel

Oh that is lovely, beautiful papers, so glad you were able to cut into it! Thanks for the idea to use watercolor paper for my base to. And I will have to try your coloring direct to the rubber and then stamping :)ReplyCancel

Hey from Nova Scotia (cold and snowing as I speak)
I am fairly new to this, but I am getting the swing of the hoarding thing.
I have a thing for paper and ribbon. I love them.
I could just sit and look at them all day. They have such wonderfully delicious colours and designs, I think I have to have them all, so I buy them. Today I left my husband in the car while I went to paper store to pick up a few sheets for my scrapbooking pages of our trip to the Domican. Needless to say I was there so long he fell asleep and I came out with more than I went for. Guess I’m not alone.
Love the most recent card by the way. Gorgeous as usual!!!!
Toodles from the icy north.ReplyCancel

Hi Becca, another beautiful card from you.
I laughed at what you’ve written today, it seems it does’nt matter where a papercrafter lives we all seem to have been bitten with the same hoarding bug. I too have special papers that I am loathe to use, and periodically take them out to look at, then put them away again unused. Don’t know what I’m saving them for, just feel they are too nice to use.
Marion UKReplyCancel

I am just amazed at how many combinations/ designs you come up with. I am so one dimentionalsReplyCancel

It’s so good to hear that I am not alone! Paper Hoarding is a sickness. I rather pleasant sickness I might add. We really do need to start a support group. Who could we possibly tell all these secrets to who would not think we are a little “off”? Just like this weekend, I accidently went to JoAnn’s and they happen to have a great sale on paper. I felt it was my duty to help stimulate the economy, but leaving some of my “green” paper in exchange for a variety of their paper.

I need help!

Love your work. Again, it’s an inspiration.ReplyCancel

Becca, I never knew that there are so many paper hoarders until I started reading the card blogs (June 2008). As long as I can remember, I have had an obsession with paper and pens. Starting in second grade, we had to use fountain pens. What do fountain pens use????? INK!!! I always “collected” expensive stationary and pretty journals, not that I used them. I just love paper. I also have several fountain pens, Koh-I-Noor technical pens, etc. etc. At work I use my own pens and pencils, not what the company provides. My skin would crawl if I had to use one of those 20 cent Big pens. The same goes for DP. I even have saved 1/2 inch strips of striped DP, because I thought I may use it. Even I roll my eyes, when I catch myself doing it. It is a weird obsession but obviously widespread. I wonder if there is a medical term for it….lololol – paginaphobia….lololol.

I almost forgot! Another stunning card, Becca. I also like watercolor paintings.ReplyCancel

LOVELY!ReplyCancel

I too am a paper hoarder! Love paper–can’t get enough of it. Love that card–beautful! Well worth cutting that gorgeous paper. I have so much stuff now that my challenge is to use what I have instead of thinking I have to buy more. Still buy more, but trying very hard to use some of my humongous stash!!!! We are so BAD!!ReplyCancel

Glad I’m not alone in my addiction. I always say I have more paper than time, but someday, hopefully, I find time to use all this paper. I have to laugh as Hobby Lobby has 50% off paper, so I’m off today to add alittle more to the stash. Ha.ReplyCancel

Becca what a beautiful card, I just love all of your creation.ReplyCancel