Cheery Chipboard

I never use chipboard….well, never is a strong word.  Hardly ever!  But Ann at Creative Antics led me to a cute blog called wee Memories; they are having a challenge to use chipboard.  AND the Everything But The Kitchen Sink blog is having a button challenge!  And buttons I DO use! It also qualifies for the Limelight Sketch Challenge 53:

  So I pulled out some retired SU chipboard, some colorful DP scraps from various makers and some buttons and went to work:

I apologize for the odd photo—my sister is visiting and staying in my spare bedroom, which is also my photography “studio”!! LOL!  So I set up my photo area on the floor of my craft room and was taking this picture practically laying down…..anyway, here it is!  I did some stitching and made a cute little tag; this card is larger than an A2; I had some larger envelopes so I just made it to fit one of them!!  Plus it needed to be bigger to fit those fun flowers!  I used circle punches to punch the centers out of the different DPs…such a great help!  And made for some fun embellishments on the inside:

They are good for covering up smudges that your inky fingers may have made, too…..just sayin’,  in case that might happen to anyone….

Thanks for visiting today!!!

• Stamps:  Best Yet (ret SU), Birthday Centers, CHF
• Paper:  Naturals White, Baja Breeze, Thrift Shop, October Afternoon; Home, MME; Garden Variety, Cosmo Cricket 
• Ink:  Rose Red, Old Olive
• Acc:  Chipboard (ret SU), Daubers, Circle Punches, Brights & Neutral Buttons, string, Large Tag Punch, Dimensionals,  Pinking Hearts Border Punch, Scallop Border Punch, Small Heart Punch, Brights Brads, Sewing Machine

Everything But The Kitchen Sink

Challenge.....whew, that's a mouthful! This cute little blog has a nice sketch challenge this month:

and the SCS challenge from yesterday was to use a bird; the SCS challenge today was to make a tiny card & treat. Okay, I already messed up the tiny card because I used too many layers...so we'll just forget about that one. So here's my tiny (anyway) card, which neatly fits into the new small glassine envelopes that SU has in the mini catalog:

The card is 2 1/4"x4"; cardstock is Bashful Blue, Basic Black & Certainly Celery; DP is from Cosmo Cricket and the images are from My Cute Stamps. Sentiment is from MFT. I stamped on the little envy with Stazon and colored it with SU markers, then dried it with my heat tool....seems to be staying put and is very cute! Now I NEED to get off the computer, quit playing and get ready for stamp club! Bye!