Making the Most of your 6x6 - NSD challenge...coupon code NSD10

  We are celebrating National Scrapbook Day (NSD) at 

Shop Pumpkin Spice blog with hourly challenges
(challenge winners will receive $20 gift cards)

and a coupon code:  NSD10 for the 

Shop Pumpkin Spice store.

I hope you will shop this weekend...prices are 30% off retail and use the NSD10 coupon code for an additional 10% savings!

Great deals on ebay too:
http://stores.ebay.com/ShopPumpkinSpice?_rdc=1

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 I set a challenge for myself, and I hope it inspires you too:  

Make the most of your 6x6 

I love collecting 6x6 pads, and even though many of my pads are well-loved and down to bare bones, I wanted to challenge my self to actually try to use an entire pad.

I purchased this Fancy Pants "Time for Spring" 6x6

at Shop Pumpkin Spice for just $4.20

1.  I separated and grouped like papers together:

This pad has two of every pattern (18 patterns/36 sheets).

• I grouped solids at the top
• nearly solids (tone w/ white) in the middle
• and busy patterns

2.  I chose a busy pattern, sketched a card, and tried to create as many cards as I could from the patterned paper.

  I created two of these hexagon cards.  The popped up hexagons were fussy cut from the scrap strips I cut off.

Then I chose the bold flowers paper and fussy cut these flowers from it, and a few paper strips from other papers in the pad.  I fussy cut 6 flowers total because I also made two of this card:

and from the scraps of the bold flower paper I created four cards like this one:

Hmmm...I did not succeed in using the whole 6x6; 

I still have 25 of the 36 full sheets 

plus scraps to play with, 

but I made 8 cards already from a $4.20 pad.

Niiiiiice!

Challenge (and a chance to win  a $20 gift card to Shop Pumpkin Spice):

Create 2 (or more) cards from any of your 6x6 paper pads

Make the most of your 6x6!

Happy National Scrapbook Day!