My Christmas stamps, dies, and embossing folders are in their own spaces. That part is OK. What's taking me so long is choosing cardstock to use to mat the stitched panels I've been making. I have way too much cardstock. The cardstock is sorted by color and by size. I still have a lot of 12x12 as well as the 8 1/2 x 11 that I usually go to first. I also have some sections that have various colors of unknown cardstock given to me by others and some SU cardstock. Those have been mixed together somehow. Sigh. Within each section, the cardstock has gotten mixed up. It started out with the same shades together and a folder with samples of each so that I could choose a color without going through the whole stack. Now, I'm pulling out one section at a time and reorganizing that section.
The good thing is that I have discovered some real prizes--gorgeous patterned papers I forgot I had. I had put them there so they'd be safer than the run-of-the-mill patterned papers I mostly used to use to make envelopes. When I was going through the stack that had unknown sourced cardstock, I hit the jackpot. I was able to find mats for almost all my stitched panels. The colors are more vivid than the ones I bought so long ago, and they worked very well. Some panels that I wasn't crazy about, look great now that they have a mat. There was one stitched panel for which I just couldn't find a mat I liked. I ended up cutting a white mat and using a Tombow marker to color around the edge. Looks great. I should have just bought white paper. Then I wouldn't have all that colored cardstock that I actually had to dust!
I now have two dozen stitched panels ready to be matted. I only matted five before running out of glue. Some should arrive today. I do have glue, but I'm not sure what would work well to adhere a stitched panel to cardstock. The card bases are finished. The embellishments are ready.
I'm not going to even think about the other thirty-eight panels I stitched. (Stitching them while watching the news is keeping me sane.) At least, the cardstock will be in order so it won't be so hard to find a good mat for each of them. That is going to be an ongoing process.
Daria
