if you will remember, back in December, I was one of the LYB Cycling Team members for Little Yellow Bicycle's  Winterings collection  (my project w/ this super cool coffee can to cookie tin upcycle)...but after creating about 4-5 layouts plus the super cute gift paper bags plus the cookie can, I decided to switch tangents and use the winterlike paper for another kind of layout to show how versatile papers can be:

 no matter how had I tried with the crappy camera lighting I had, I could not photograph this layout to save my life! BUT, the point is that you NEVER have to limit "theme/season" papers to what it is marketed for.  As you can see here, it's  a very winter, cold season, maybe even Christmasy collection.....
If you look closely, you can see that there are so many neutrals in there so I decided to create a FALL layout :):) for the challenge over at the 2Peas blog vendor challenge.... aren't the leaves cool?

 so, when using your stash, don't limit your paper/embellishments.....do with them what YOU want and make it work !!