Paper Craft Weekend Challenge- Use Your Stash

This past Saturday's challenge over at the Paper Craft Weekend Challenge Blog was to use your stash. I liked this one because I actually got out some stuff I haven't used in a while.

The card base is  41/4" by 51/2" dark brown paper that was in my scrap folder.The polka dot paper is cut 1/4" smaller than the brown base  and is from My Mind's Eye Stella Rose collection. The striped paper in the center is the back of the polka dot paper. A piece of cream card stock was punched with the Martha Stewart Arched Lattice border punch and placed under the striped paper. The ribbon is Vintage Vanilla crinkle ribbon from My Craft Spot. The stamp is from an old set, which unfortunately, no longer had the company's name on it. It was stamped with Versa Magic Chalk Ink, Tea Leaves. The entire image was then embossed with two coats of UTEE. It was placed on a slightly larger piece of  green print paper, also from my scraps, then this was placed on another slightly large piece of cream card stock. This was then added to a brown  scalloped rectangle cut from a small Nestability. It is adhered to the card with Dimensionals from Stampin Up. The flourish is cut from the Cricut E2  Cricut Essentials cartridge. The pearls are from Recollections.
There's still time to create and post to the challenge blog if you'd like. They also had some great tips for organizing your stash . This was a fun challenge and it made me realize that I really need to use more of what I have. Maybe I'll make that a New Year's resolution, not to buy anything for a while but to use what I have. Yeah right!
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Paper Craft Weekend Challenge- Something New

A while back Allison and Caroline from the Cricut message board started their own challenge blog called Paper Craft Weekend Challenge The weekend starts with a challenge on Friday then another one is issued on Sunday. It's fun, laid back with no time constraints and really no rules! Check it out sometime if you have a chance, you can click on their name above or I have their button on my left sidebar under Favorites.
So, this weekend I was able to get the Sunday challenge done, which was to try something new. Last year I did a project with the Martha Stewart test tubes and some test tube holders that I designed on the Gypsy. This year I found some test tubes  here and since they are much smaller in diameter (I ordered the 16 X 150), I had to come up with a new way to present them. I used two cartridges I haven't used before and, of course, the test tubes. Here's what did:

Both the images are from the Cricut Lite Bump in the Night cartridge. The paper is Recollections and DCWV.  On the first one I used the MS Drippy Goo punch  and the sentiment stamp is from My Craft Spot. The sentiment on the second one is from Scrappy Moms and the tag it's on is from George and Basic Shapes. All ribbon is from Michael's.
To get them to stand up, I used the easel cut from the Fancy Frames Project Cartridge.

I cut it at 51/2" out of heavy kraft paper and glued it to the back. Before I attached it, I cut slits on the front piece to put the ribbon through.
Hope you enjoy my fun, new test tube project. Again, please check out the Paper Craft Weekend Challenge.
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Here is the post for my other test tube project, if you're interested. Test Tube Holders