For the More Than Words July (Main) Challenge: Discover & Stash

Discover made me think of maps, right away. Maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me something. After that I didn’t really have a plan, I just went where my stash led me.

Stash:
Clipboard – I don’t know how old it is, but I’ve owned it for almost two years now.

I think Tea Dye was one of my first Tim Holtz ink pads I bought! Way back when I wasn’t sure what “distress” really meant, but hey, “this Tim Holtz fella has stuff to make new stuff look like old stuff!” My husband could actually make a pretty good case claiming Tim was an original “supplier” that got me hooked leading to an entire spare bedroom being filled with paper craft related items! I love Tim Holtz so much I have hoarded his papers waiting for just the right time. I have been working on accepting the fact that it’s a lot more productive to make the right time myself rather than expect a sudden epiphany. Plus, I’m having a much harder time remembering EVERYTHING I own…so if I can’t even remember everything, how will I ever use everything?

Anyhow, all but 11 of the items on the product list are at least a year old (and that includes adhesives, the 3D Gel, the wax & such), of those 11 items, I think 5 have “appeared” within the last 6 months.

I used as much from my stash as I could, and I can’t tell. You’d never know anything was “missing.” I tell myself I should stop buying until I get my stash knocked down, but every time I think that something new is released & I realize I need to just stop thinking nonsense and do more projects!

Process Video:

Close-ups:

**Postcard Image from: Public Domain Pictures

Products:

• ReneaBouquets

• Glass Microbeads

• Rose Gold

Creative Embellishments

• Moroccan Lattice Panel

13 arts

• Ayeeda Mist

• Patina Bronze

Lindy’s

• Magical Shakers

• Grab A Guy Gold
• Bratwurst Brown

7 Gypsies

• Architextures

• Ornate Garden Stakes

Silhouette

• Cameo 3
• Design Store

• Design ID #34811

Ranger

• Perfect Pearls

• Blue Patina

Archival Ink

• Jet Black

Tim Holtz

• Distress Ink

• Tea Dye

Distress Spray Stain

• Rusty Hinge

Mini Blending Tool

idea-ology

• Tim Holtz
• Paper Stash

• Memoranda
• Lost & Found

Ephemera Pack

• Expedition

Sanding Block

Tiny Attacher

Small Talk

Tonic

• Tim Holtz

• Paper Distresser
• 5″ Scissors

Stampers Anonymous

• Tim Holtz

• Harlequin Stencil

Prima

• Finnabair

• Metallique Wax

• Bronze Age

3D Gloss Gel

Julie Nutting

• Tag Pad

• Hancock

Fancy Pants Designs

• Me-ology

• Button Set

Dear Lizzy Date Stamp

Mod Podge

• Antique Matte

JudiKins

• Diamond Glaze

Art Glitter Adhesive

Krylon

• Workable Fixatif

Liquitex

• Clear Gesso

Unknown/Unbranded

• Twine
• Metal Stars
• “BINGO” Card
• The “other,” non-Tim Holtz, ephemera
• I got the roll of map paper at Hobby Lobby, so it’s likely by The Paper Studio.