I don’t know if you’re like me, but…  I can’t resist buying paper, especially when it’s on sale.  I’ve got drawers full of one off sheets of paper that I was “sure” I could use.  I decided to go through one of the drawers to try and use up some of these random sheets of paper.

Since my desk wasn’t big enough, I ended up spreading out the paper on the floor.  After sorting through the paper, I had several possible “matches”.

Since these were larger pieces of paper I was able to make several cards with each “match”.  While I was in the using-up-supplies mood, I pulled out sequins, ribbon and brads that I also can’t resist buying.

One of my favorites was this baby card.  While it is the traditional pink, I think the bright pink and yellow paper was a bit unexpected and neither papers were specifically baby-themed.

I made several cards using this bright green printed paper as the background.  For the 2 smaller panels I was able to use several different scraps that coordinated with the green.

I really like the plaid paper on these cards.  It has almost a fabric feel to it.  I didn’t have a full 12 x 12 sheet of the plaid, but by pairing it with the orange paper I was able to stretch it into a couple of cards.  The cards were a little boring even with the brown border punched strip so I added a few orange brads around the sentiment.

The paper for this card was part of the artist paper included in a Stampers Sampler Take Ten magazine (which I really miss).  The paper included 4 different prints.  By using a different print for each of the panels I was able to make several cards from a single sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

This card was a little more time consuming since not all areas of the madras plaid paper coordinated with the colors in the background paper.  I did a bit of creative cutting to get as many usable pieces of the plaid as possible.

It was a lot of fun going through the different papers.  It’s interesting to see how my style has changed over the years.  I found several sheets of paper that I don’t see myself using and pulled those out to donate along with the cards I made.

I have a couple more drawers of paper that I didn’t even touch.  I need to try doing this every few months to thin out my paper supplies.