Using up Your Stash

 Using up my Stash

As I said in my last post I am sorting through my stash and trying to look at it from the point of view, ‘what would that be best for’ and then designing projects to go with the stash. I would like to be able to say this has stopped me purchasing more and it has slowed it down a little, but as an avid crafter, there are always new exciting items on sale, so there have been a few additions as well.

The first box I looked at was the spare 6 x 6 and A4 paper box. I went through a phase where I purchased a lot of papers from the The Paper Tree collection as they were being sold off on CraftClearance website. I have placed a couple of sets on Ebay to reduce the stash, but still had a few in the cupboard. I do not tend to use the insert papers A4, but still bought them as the prints were pretty. So I pulled out a pack and decided to make something from it.

To make one a 6 notelet set with a folder requires:

4 sheets of A4 papers

6 A6 envelopes

1 A4 laminate sheet and laminator 

Kampress poppers

Fold the  3 0f the A4 papers in half lengthways and then cut in half to make 2 notelets

As the papers are one sided this is all that is required to make your six notelets

Then I took  the other sheet and cut a 2” strip off the bottom, folded the paper in half.

With the 2” strip fold in half loosely hold between the fingers and cut the top corner around You can use a punch for this but scissors work well if you hold the paper tight between the scissors. 

Place the folded larger piece into the A4 laminator and place the 2” strip above the open end with the rounded corners up the top and printed side down. Leave approx 2mm between the 2 parts.

Laminate, and then trim the edges and slit the opening off along what was the open end. You can find several videos on YouTube showing you how to do this. Just look for laminated folders. ( SAm Calcott has a very good one)

Add your kampress poppers. IF you do not have these you can use velcro dots.

The other set of notelets I made the motets in the same way and then I placed 2 sheets of papers back to back (print side out) into the laminator, I used a  matt sheet for this style and just laminated one side of the paper. Then folded into the folder shape added narrow red double sided tape to the bottom sides to hold it together, and then tied ribbon around for the closure. 

The pack had 36 sheets so I was able to make 7 sets with a few sheets left over 

The problem with this project it made me want to do more laminating projects, as I love them. So I thought I would run a laminating workshop and show several projects you can make with your laminator, and finish with making this set so everyone has a set to take home. 

Happy Crafting 

Dee