Sunday, 4 May 2025

Old Stash

Hello Everyone

I've been prompted to search through my stash to look for the oldest items I have. Here's just a small selection of papers that I found. I've purposely concentrated on papers because it would take me forever to sort through stickers and embellishments and I'm in a hurry!

The oldest paper is dated 2004 from Paper Adventures. There's also papers from Basic Grey dated 2009, Prima Marketing dated 2010 and Echo Park dated 2011. That's the dated ones. There's even more that are not dated at all which suggests that they are very old indeed. For example, there's Anna Griffin, Le Crea Designs, Kaisercraft and Webster's Pages. 

Some were bought from a shop in Ayr that has long since gone, and others were from one of the first online shops I discovered, Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn also sadly gone.

As I aim to use up as much old stash as possible before I begin buying any new, I'll be focusing on making pages featuring these lovely old papers. If only, because my current craft room is much smaller than the previous one so I need to make space before I'm tempted by all the lovely new collections!

I hope you are all enjoying this Bank Holiday weekend. Up here in the not so frozen north we are enjoying lots of sunshine but the breeze is still a tad chilly for my liking. Perfect weather for staying in and joining in with some of the challenges to mark International Scrapbooking Day weekend. 

Take care everyone,
Elizabeth 
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2 comments:

  1. Megan J5 May 2025 at 04:00

    Hi Elizabeth, a fun challenge for your supplies, I recently came across some Christmas stickers that have lost their stickiness, I can't imagine how old they must be... weather in Australia is warmer than usual for this time of year, usually cleaning up all the leaves from the garden is over and done with, they are just starting to change colour. Have a wonderful week... Megan

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  2. Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards6 May 2025 at 05:24

    Hullo Elizabeth, good to see you, my older estimates stamps are early 1990s, even 1990, as that's when discovered stamping and embossing. Papers are prob around yours by Stampin Up as that's when I discovered them in 2009/ 2010.
    Happy creating, praying for you.
    Shaz in Oz.x 🙏🏻🤗

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