Monday, March 10, 2008

OK! I scrapped! I used STUFF!

Here you go...a list of what I've used since I started accounting for my purchases:

Letter Stickers - 20
Scraps - 6
Misc Embellies - 17
Brads - 20
Flowers - 51
KI Soup - 13
Cardstock - 10
Ink - 3
AC House Items - 13
Stickles - 8
Paint - 6
Stickers - 16
Chipboard - 30
Thickers - 24
PP - 20
Rubons - 12
3D Sticker - 4
Overlays - 1
Ribbon - 6
Buttons - 9
PopUps - 3

Can you say "BUSY"? I did 5 pages and 4 cards this weekend and a several other pages (including 6x12 pages) earlier in the week. BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

more shopping...still no scrapping

Yesterday I got the entire afternoon to myself. I was 'ordered' by my man to buy the Cricut Design Studio program.

First I stopped at HL and they happened to have the Mini-monograms cartridge on clearance for $35, so I bought it. I also bought another AC Album that I needed and:

BG Precision File set (I've been wanting this, but LM is always out of it!)
a Vanishing ink pen (sounded great for journaling! I can draw lines and my journaling won't be all crooked!)

Then I headed to WM and bought the Cricut DS and some new cutting mats for the Cricut. That's ALL I bought. It wasn't cheap, but I needed the mats and have been wanting everything else. And I can get tons of use from the new cartridge, right? It wasn't one I necessarily wanted (at least it wasn't on my list of what to buy next), but I have heard good things about it, so I decided to go for it at that price!

Now, if I can just get some scrap time in, maybe I can USE some more things! Maybe tonight I can get a couple of pages done. Then I can report back with some usage totals :D

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Here we go...

On Thursday, 2/28, I made a pretty big (for me) online purchase for more scrapbooking supplies...paper and embellishments

On Friday, I shopped some more things at a local store. I just can't seem to stop buying and I don't have enough time to scrap. Well, maybe it's not that I don't HAVE time, but once I get time, I'm tired or have kids climbing on me or my man is home and needs my attention. He's really great about my scrapping and even helps with my spending sometimes LOL. But, I really need to USE this stuff, so I'm going to post everything I buy and everything I use here. I'm not counting things like albums and page protectors, because I need those to put my projects in when I'm done :D

Thursday:
4 sheets PP (Rusty Pickle)
1 sheet matching stickers
Queen & Co Felt Fusion
5 pkgs of Prima Popups (hearts, stars, birds, dragonflies and butterflies)
3 bottles of MM Paint
1 KI Rubon (Super Cool)
5 pkgs of HS Ghost Flowers, in different colors
1 pkg "Thought-fulls"
1 sheet cardstock
1 pkg Brads
1 pkg Thickers (because I can't get enough of them!)

Now, in my defense, the popups and the Ghost flowers will be shared with my best friend and scrapping buddy, Julie, so they aren't ALL for me, but she got a few of her own popups too, so those are mostly mine.

Friday:
20 sheets cardstock (mostly Blue, I was running out)

Hopefully tonight or tomorrow I will get a chance to USE some of this stuff! Wish me luck!

I always say I'm going to USE what I have, but inevitably, I find more to buy even if I haven't scrapped in weeks. I am addicted! So, here is where I'm going to try to update with what I use and what I buy...so that I can try to make some sense of it and actually use things I buy.