Shopping Therapy

Last week even though I worked on several craft projects, none of them resulted in a finished product worthy of showing in a post.  Sometimes crafting is like that. Oh well, I'll keep working on the leather cuff and smash-style picture frame, but I will need to reevaluate my procedures.  In the meantime, I decided to do some shopping therapy at Ben Franklin Crafts.  I was pleased to find that the Martha Stewart line had some new (to me) double-sided 12x12 paper pads (two shown in the top photo, one with birthday designs and the other with small printed flower fabric-like paper) and matching embellishments.  Also new are two products show in the foreground of the first photo.  The one on the left is a paper piercing embroidery type kit for paper crafting and the one on the right is a unique floral stamp set that has a plastic template which allows you to space your design evenly around a card.  I haven't tried these products yet but I will post my results if I create something good.  Of the stickers, labels, borders, and tags in the second photo, I think my favorite are the fabric-like bird stickers....so tweet!  The white butterflies match the paper pad that I didn't purchase, but I got the butterflies to use on wedding or sympathy cards and may try to color them with spray inks. Even though I went shopping to buy the Sierra Pacific kraft paper box that Joy (http://joyofcrafting.blogspot.com/ ) decorated and posted on her blog (I got 3 because they were only $2.99), purchasing all these colorful Martha Stewart products really lifted my spirits from a less than productive week. Tomorrow I'm anxious to use the new MS papers to cover one of the SP boxes...it will be a GOOD craft day!