Sunday Haul #17

A few fun acquisitions this past week... I won $20 to Freckled Fawn from the 30 Days of Lists event.  I went a little crazy and grabbed some fun things: three rolls of washi tape, a cute bag, enamel stars, two sets of enamel dots, and a cute retired stamp.

I received my September Take Ten kit.  I love the bright fun colors of this months kit.  And look, sequins!!!!

Somehow I missed posting my fall PL swaps.  I really loved these!  I think this is the best overall swap that I've received.

Received a package from Blitsy.  I bought four scrapbook kits: two boy themed ones and two Christmas themed ones.  I can't wait to use them!

Through a FB Project Life swap and shop group, I bought partials of:

Cobalt

Amber

Strawberry

Sunday Haul #16

I received more PL card swaps back in the mail. Tropical:

Days of the Week:

Washi Tape:

Stripes:

Butterflies:

Birds:

Love:

A trip to Michael's ended with a huge haul.  I went in for glue dots (love those things!) and somehow came out with a lot more.  They were having their "lowest prices of the season" sale, so I took advantage of some of the deals.  I ended up finally buying on of the desktop organizers.  Now all my tools are in one place.  I also grabbed some gray paper and a holiday paper pack.  Plus, a Halloween stamp, glitter tape, fabric flowers, glue dots, snowflake punch, heart punch, and stickers.

New Discoveries #8: Blitsy

I have a new crafting addiction enabling online source: Blitsy!  Instead of a single deal per day (Steals and Peachycheap), deals run a various number of days.  This means you can get multiple chances to grab that awesome crafting product. I've already taken advantage of a few scrapbooking kit deals.  I can't wait to get them in the mail!

Sunday Haul #15

I placed a huge order during Steals.com's Labor Day extra 20% sale.  What did I order?  Why tons of Christmas papers and embellishments of course!  I plan on doing a December Daily album this year and possibly a DD class, so I wanted an assortment of embellishments of fun paper to cut for PL sized cards. I grabbed three different complete kits, a 6x6 paper pad, and some tags.  I can't wait to get my December Daily on!

I finally received my backordered Halloween Street stamp from SU.  Somehow it took USPS four days to get it from San Francisco to here (that's about 1 hour driving for those not in the Bay).  Seriously USPS!  I could have walked there and back before they delivered it.

I also received my Paper Issues order.  I bought the September swag bag of course, but I also added on some holiday goodness: patterned paper to make into PL cards, washi tape, die cuts, and alphas!

I got back a few PL card swaps: Embossed and Three Embellishments.  Here they are:

Sunday Haul #14

Just a stop in to Michael's this week.  I took advantage of their 40% off one item coupon and their 20% off everything coupon on Labor Day.

I ended up with:

• Pack of white envelopes
• Pack of Kraft envelopes
• Pack of cream envelopes
• Snail refill
• BH PL Envelopes variety pack (been needing these for a long time...)

5 on 5

On the 5th of each month I'll be highlighting five pictures of crafty projects, inspiration pieces, or fun products.  I wanted to add some great pictures and give everyone a bit of insight into my creative process.

1. State of my desk a few days ago.  Trying to get my holiday blog hop and holiday swap cards finished.

2. Unite and Excite event swaps and Holiday swaps done and ready to be distributed.  And I even finished them early!

3. Itching to use this pretty Halloween paper (even if it's retired, I still love it).

4. Cleaning out my craft stash.  This is the trash bag, but I also made another bag for Goodwill and a small bag for door prizes and giveaways.

5.  Added embellishments to my PL supply stash.  Now I really should try and catch up on our weeks...

Sunday Haul #13

My second big holiday catalog order came in on Friday (minus one backordered stamp).  So much fun to play with!

• Glue sticks
• Sponge dauber
• Basic rhinestones
• Cherry Cobbler Reinker
• Bermuda Bay Ink
• Happiness Is Project Life Card Collection
• Happiness Is Project Life Accessory Pack
• Tangerine Tango Trim
• Basic Gold Metal Buttons

• 12x12 2013-2015 In Color Cardstock
• Blackberry Bliss Cardstock
• Bermuda Bay Cardstock
• Tangerine Tango Cardstock
• Holiday Catalogs

• For All Things stamp set
• Fall Fest stamp set
• Fall Fun Framelits
• Ovals Collection Framelits
• Circles Collection Framelits
• Scallop Tag Punch

As an added order, I snagged the big pack of Design A page protectors for only $8.75 on Amazon.  It was too big a deal to pass up.

New Discoveries #7: Paper Issues Swag Bag

I love getting embellishments, but don't usually want an entire pack of say 50 die cuts.  I want a sampler of sorts.  Thankfully I found a great monthly subscription that's all about various embellishments: Paper Issues Swag Bag. Here's a pic of August's swag bag:

High points:

• No two kits are the same. You get a bit of everything.
• You are not automatically billed each month.  You will receive an email with payment instructions. You have about half a month to pay before your forfeit the kit and lose your spot on the list for next month.
• Cancel option: You can cancel anytime by emailing paper issues.

If you want your own Paper Issues Swag Bag, sign up here!

And a pic of my kit deconstructed:

Contents include:

• Prima stamp {Chevron or dots, random pick}
• May Arts Yellow Twill ribbon
• Studio Calico Gold sequins
• Studio Calico Gold flag clip
• Pink Paislee Solstice gold foam stickers
• Pink Paislee Solstice ephemera
• Tim Holtz metal number plate
• Fancy Pants Nautical ephemera
• Studio Calico wood veneer stars
• Die cut map stars
• Little B. Anchor dimensional sticker
• Papermania blue bow
• Webster's Pages Ocean Melody Sentiment Sticker sheet
• Webster's Pages Ocean Melody Vellum Frame
• Webster's Pages Strawberry Fields Squares
• Ruby Rock It Gold transparency
• Crate Paper Styleboard gold dot kraft 3x4 card
• Bazzill Dotted Swiss-Salt 3x4 card
• Pink Paislee Solstice Panama City 3x4 card
• Pink Paislee Solstice Bali 3x4 card
• Pink Paislee Solstice Bora Bora 3x4 card
• Webster's Pages Ocean Melody Deep Blue 3x4 card
• Webster's Pages Ocean Melody Sea Breeze 3x4 card
• Webster's Pages Ocean Melody Anchors Away 3x4 card
• Dear Lizzy Daydreamer Paper Planes 3x4 card
• Bella Blvd Molly Refuse to Sink 3x4 card
• Fancy Pants Be Different Too Cool 3x4 card
• Lily Bee We R Family Buddies 3x4 card
• Studio Calico Brighton Pier gold stars vellum flag die cut
• Webster's Pages Strawberry Fields Field of Gold flag die cut
• Canvas Corp Navy Mini Dot flag die cut
• Lily Bee Buttercup Rain Label die cut
• Webster's Pages Strawberry Fields Balloon Bouquet label die cut
• K & Co. Die Cut Label

Sunday Haul #12

A couple of acquisitions this week... I received my August Take Ten kit.  This one wasn't as exciting as some previous months, but I do dig the cards in this kit.

I went to Michael's for snail and came out with snail (thankful I remembered!) and the new PL Heidi Swapp My Favorite Things kit.  I wasn't going to buy another PL kit, but so many bloggers showed off the pretties that I had to buy it when I saw two on the shelf.  Really loving the design of this kit.

Lastly, I subscribed to the Paper Issues monthly Swag Bag Kit.  I didn't need a ton of cards, but I liked the idea of a bunch of random embellishments.  I'm trying to be more varied in my Project Life spreads and I think this kit is my answer.

Sunday Haul #11

I finally received my backordered items from the holiday catalog.  It was still showing the stamp set as backordered, but mine shipped.  Yeah!  I can't wait to use these.

• Festival of Trees stamp set
• Garden Green CS

I also put in an Amazon order for some Project Life page protectors.  I occasionally use designs other than A, but was running low on a few.  I stocked up and grabbed two WRMK that were on discount.

• WRMK Archived
• WRMK North Pole
• PL Design B Pages
• PL Design L Pages