Blast from the Past - HOTP

 

I've been gifted lots of unused papercraft books by the US company, Hot of The Press, including these colour themed Sarabooks pads

Made a couple of tag cards from the purple pack

and another tag card from the classic pad - might keep most of this one  aside for Christmas cards

These books were produced over 15 years ago, one is dated 1998! Rather than following their dated fancy fold  designs, I've used the backing papers for more a more current styled cards

Piles of Papers

I keep the unused parts of freebie paper sets from magazines in poly pockets in 4 ring binder files. They are roughly divided into Vintage, Modern,  Men's and Animal & Bird themes.

All this extra time has made me go through and try to use some up! These 2 Good Luck cards use the Up and Away set from May 2015 edition of Making Cards.

Whilst these pretty fairy cards come from an old freebie from Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine - however I still have dozens of sets to go through, at least it helps to pass the time whilst staying at home.

Shabby Chic Birds

I bought the Stamping for You magazine because I like the free Shabby Chic bird stamps, but instead have found myself playing with the lovely freebie papers instead!

As with all the Debbi Moore magazines, the papers are lovely quality and full of toppers and embellishments to cut out and use.


 I have made 8 cards so far and still have loads of papers left!

Cute Little Hedgehogs

I've had these cute images of hedgehogs for ages now - they were freebies with a magazine, so I had a bit of a colouring session and teamed them up with the Lilly Bimble papers free from Quick Cards and Floral Fantasy papers from this months Cardmaking & Papercraft magazines.

I loved colouring their prickles - used  practically every shade of brown promarkers that I have!