Defeating the Hoarder in Me

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As I am sure anyone that is into crafting may admit that we are all sometimes just a little bit of a hoarder saving papers and other embellishments saying I will save these and I will use them at some point yet they sit there and sit there and sit there and well in my case with lack of storage or space at the moment they end up folded and wrinkled and well often will end up just in the bin.

After some thought recently and starting to organise my stamps being my current organisation operation I decided its time to challenge myself to use these things and stop hoarding and let's see what I can come up with.

So with this thought, this blog was born and my 1st challenge was set.


Challenge 1

 I subscribe to two crafting magazines here in the UK and often get some stunning stamps and whilst a few of them offer papers inside the magazines I am not so keen on this due to the glossy shine that is on the paper, however, the one I did recently get (forgotten the magazine) the papers are in a booklet so the challenge is to use all these papers up and lets see what I can produce.


Above is the selection of items that I am determined to get used up

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