Combining the Old and the New

We had so many beautiful cards combining new crafty items with older stash this fortnight; if you haven't taken time to check out the Readers' Gallery, we highly recommend a little scroll through all of the fine inspiration. In the meantime, here are three cards that especially caught our eye:

Urska of Ustvarjalni Oblacki

...combined beautiful old and new cutting dies, and used a striking palette of green, gold and brown to make her lovely and appealing card.

Iona Bunny of Crafty Nomad

...used an older corner frame die to create a gorgeous shaker card that would hold the beautiful new (PINK!) sequins she got for Christmas!

Bobby of Bits and Pieces Designs

...revisited an older stamp from (the sadly missed) Ellen Hutson with a brand new sentiment die on her artful and elegant card.

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Many thanks to all who participated. We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt we hope will result in a Photo Finish!

Old + New + Joy!

It's week two of our "Something Old... Something New" prompt and we hope you're enjoying it as much as we are. Just a reminder that we'd like to see holiday cards on which you combine an item or two that you've had in your craft stash for a bit; with something new that you received for the holidays... or shopped for yourself!

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "I've had this adorable Simon Says Stamp Gnome Die for a couple of years, and I cannot imagine how I've never used it before?! In a way, it's both old and new, but I'm counting it as my NEW this week; whereas everything else --papers, ribbon, label tab sticker, etc-- are not only OLD but were in my stash as either scraps or things that I had pre-cut (snowflakes) or pre-made (lattice tag) so this c

5.5" square card came together very quickly!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I started my card with the new Tim Holtz Sizzix Side Kick Side-Order - Christmas Mini's for the little snowman and the embossed red panel.  For my CAS design I added some vintage red gems to his top had and an older die cut sentiment from PaperTrey Ink Line It Up: Christmas Dies."

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Scroll down to the original post to see the Readers' Gallery and link your own Old + New masterpiece(s)! JB2602: Something Old... Something New runs until the evening of Wednesday, January 28th. 

Something Old... Something New

You've probably guessed from the title, "Something Old... Something New" that this fortnight  we'd like to see holiday cards on which you combine an item or two that you've had in your craft stash for a bit together with something new that you received for the holidays... or shopped for yourself (we all know we can be our own best Santa)! 

Here's how we mixed the OLD with the NEW this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "My new is Hero Arts Hero Arts A Little Merri-Mint stamps & coordinating dies that Santa Stephanie gifted me for Christmas (I love how she always knows exactly what I want LOL). I paired it with a snarky sentiment for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.  The old (but embarrassingly never used) is the Nordic Frames Die from The Greetery together with white pearls that I'm guessing have been hanging around for at least 10 years."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "My NEW things consist of: lots of stickers from the Tim Holtz/Idea-ology Christmas Sticker Book I treated myself to; a brand new pack of EO Angel Brads that I got last summer, promptly lost and just now found again (yay!); and snowflakes diecut from very cool sticky-back felt that a friend gifted me. The OLD stuff is... everything else, lol; including: papers from Prima's Pretty Pale collection; doily scraps; gold glitter cardstock; and chipboard letter diecuts made from well-patina-ed vintage sheet music."

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