Shimelle's Pretty Paper Party......

Above (my favorite stash of paper)




Ive signed up for Shimelle's Pretty Paper Party, Im so excited! Here is Shimelle's introduction....."This party isn’t quite like the average celebratory get-together. For starters, it’s four weeks long, making it quite the party indeed! And rather than celebrate a birthday or another momentous occasion, this party is in honour of something each of us holds dear: paper."

As the party kicked off this week Shimelle asked us to take a moment to think about just what kind of paper person you might be. I'm definately.....

The Scrap Sorter: An inevitable part of papercrafting is the partial sheet. The off-cuts, the left-overs, the scraps. Call them what you will, but it’s rare that there are no extra pieces of paper on the desk once a project is finished. Now what to do with all those small pieces? Scrap Sorters are dedicated to keeping all these small pieces in case they come in handy for another project. The most advanced Scrap Sorters have intricate systems of filing these off-cuts by colour, pattern, size or manufacturer; other Scrap Sorters tend to place all these papers in one place without worry of further organisation. The merit of this philosophy is widely acknowledged as a strong return on the paper investment... but it can be overwhelming to find the scrapheap never stops growing. I think its the patchworker in me!

Here is my stash of 12 x 12 paper and below you can see how I store my smalller books of paper. I keep my scraps separate. I was inspired last night to have a tidy of all those scraps to make the first challange!

The challange was to use a number of strips from your scrap box so here goes....

A close up of little old me in Torquay Marina.....