SOS Challenge #13 - The Weakest Link

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is The Weakest Link. From our fearless leader: Do you have the best intentions of not buying anything new, but seem to always "fall" for a certain company's release or item? Maybe you just have to have the Basic Grey paper pads or new Magnolia stamps, or maybe you just can't resist buying a certain color supplies, or have to have more Wild Orchid Craft flowers? Whatever its, please use that and tells us what is your weakest link!

*ahem*

Here is my card, and then I'll explain:

Kinda busy, isn't it? My weakest link(s) are: Basic Grey 6x6 pads, MFT dies, and ribbon. There's more, but we'll start with those.

Basic Grey: I was late to this party, but not by much. To make a very long story short, I am on a Basic Grey 6x6 pad Frequent Shoppers list at the LSS, and I get "one of each, please", as in every. single. one. On this card, all the papers I used are from the Lauderdale 6x6 pad.

MFT dies: Late to this party, too, but again, not by much. I really didn't want to fall out of love with my Nestabilities, and I do still love them and use them almost every day, but I'm over them. That means I am not swooning over the new Nestabilities releases any more. Nope. NOW I swoon over the MFT releases. On this card I opened and used both the dies from the Open Scallop Duo (smaller versions of the bigger die I already had) and the Leafy Flourish.

Here's a closer look at some of those die-cuts:

The one in the center is the larger of the two. The smaller green-ish one was cut in half and placed upper right and lower left. I punched some flowers from one of the SU Triple punches to try and break up all that green, then I had to cut all that white with yellow buttons.

The scallop in the center was so pretty I didn't want to cover it up, so I used one of my scallop circle Nestabilities and cut a piece of card stock vellum. The button is from some I bought on Etsy a long time ago.

I sat there and looked at the bazillion things I'd stuck on this card, but you know what? It was all symmetrical, and it was making me a little itchy. You know what else? It didn't have any RIBBON!

Ribbon. Um, yeah. One of the first things I hoarded, which grew into my Boxes Of Every Color Ribbon But The One I Need. Then when I became a Demo, I bought every color of ribbon SU made. I did. Then I bought storage cabinets to hold it all. Now I need to move.

No, I KID! But yes, ribbon. I had to add ribbon to this card, not only because I AM ALL ABOUT RIBBON, but I needed to break all that symmetry. So I did:

I put this at about the bottom 1/3 point (that whole Rule of Threes thing), and tied a double bow with my Bow Easy.

I'm happy to say I no longer hoard ribbon, I no longer shop at the ribbon sales at Mike's, and I no longer even buy every color SU offers. This may no longer be my weakest link. In fact, I think it's definitely #3 of the three I've discussed in painful detail here today.

So there you have it: my three (maybe just two, really) weakest links. Now you need to do some thinking, narrow your OMG, I NEED THAT, AND I NEED IT RIGHT NOW list to just one or two, USE some of it to make a card, then link us up over at the Shopping Our Stash post so we can see what you've made, and tell us what's your weakest link! :)

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