Pretty Paper Stash

Today is the first day of Shimelle’s new class, Pretty paper party.  In her first prompt, she urged us to think about what sort of paper collectors we are.  Well – right now I am a scrap collector!  I used to be a kit collector, subscribing to several kits and many a month was tempted with sumptuos add-ons.  The brown pizza boxes they arrived in mounted up in an untidy pile, which just got bigger and bigger!  So about 1 year ago, I unsubscribed to kits and decided to make a determined effort to use up all that pretty paper.  But, even though I have scrapped a lot this year (I did LOAD twice), the pile reduced awfully slowly.  Eventually, I took all the kits out of the boxes and sorted them into my existing stash, all pretty paper now just about fits in 1 cropper hopper paper holder and is sorted by colour.

At that point I was overrun with scraps!  I have long since used these drawers for scraps and sorted into hot and cold colours.  Excuse the child like painting, the drawers are made of cardboard, and I like to doodle on them whenever I get paint out!

Here’s a sneak peek in the ‘hot colours’ drawer.  I went through both drawers recently and just kept the larger rectangular pieces.  Most of the paper on the top is left over from the retreat I went on recently.  It’s from Glitz Design and is just gorgeous!

The rest I tossed into a drawer at the bottom of my drawer stack.  I hope I will use these for punching out shapes etc.

I try not to worry about whether the paper is old fashioned, in fact, I often find a small piece of an older paper that I love!

How do you store/use up your scraps?