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This card works for both ends of this challenge - the die that is the star of the show is a new purchase and the patterned card stock is what is left in my scrap box from some card stock I purchased at our local Archiver's store back when Archiver's still had stores. Need I say more about how old it is? And I still love it as much as when I bought it. There is a reason I kept all the leftovers.
Was able to spend the day playing with new toys, including this Big Dots stamp set and die from Waffle Flower. I'm thinking this should be able to mass produce fairly easily just changing up colors and/or sentiments. Of course, if I do, I might want to think about making the small dots the easy way - from leftover scraps - rather than how I did with this one - trying to get the big dots into the little paper punch to punch out the small dots. LOL.
I brought out two old dies with dust from 2018...Dashing Deer and Frosted Foliage (the leafy framing), plus a new/ old die purchased in January 2019 and never opened and used (the sentiment banner).
I just can't seem to get enough of this Waffle Flower Big Dots die. I challenged myself to try to come up with at least 3 different cards with each die and/or stamp set I buy this year and I'm surprising myself with being able to do that with this die.
Anyway, this is one of 3 cards I've made with this new to me die. For this one, I also combined it with some Spellbinders Emoji dies that I purchased a few years ago and I think only used once.
I used three old/ new items lurking in my stash for almost two years: the Made to Bloom card kit, a MemoryBox border die, and a Reverse Confetti stamp, "Beautiful Banners."
In my card, I'm using a cross-stitch edge framing die that's been lurking in my stash, but never used before this card. I also brought out an unopened 2019 stamp set for the candles and front sentiment.
I brought out an old die set with dust from 2019...the SU Crosses of Hope framelits, plus two new/ old products purchased in 2018 and never opened and used...the Cottage Cutz sympathy dies and the pearl toppers.
As I was making two sympathy card with very similar designs for the same family, I brought out the same an old die set with dust from 2019...the SU Crosses of Hope framelits, plus the same two new/ old products purchased in 2018 and never opened and used...the Cottage Cutz sympathy dies and the pearl toppers. Now, they've been well dusted and used currently. In the future, if they gather dust again, it will start from 2021! (chuckling...)
This challenge requires you to use old, long unused items gathering dust and/or old/ new items purchased but seemingly forgotten...never opened or used! I brought out an OLD edge puncher, several years old patterned paper, some old stash ribbon, and an old embossing folder, along with a "new/ unopened" embossing folder.
Today's post uses a Gina K set that I purchased a few years ago when I visited her store. I had used one of the sentiments before, but never the focal image. Decided to do some masking to create a more full collection of poppies.
Playing my challenge catch-up cardmaking, I finished and posted this card to my blog in February, but failed to get it posted to SCS. It is for the February 2021 Use It Challenge:
Here is a card using discontinued and retired stamps, ink, paper, dies, and punch. Black and White will never retire and I used a scrap of Old Olive and Daffodil Delight. Otherwise, everything else is no longer current.