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