Using stuff up...

I have so many miscellaneous items in my scrapbooking and card-making "stash" that I decided to give myself a challenge and make ten cards out of them.  Here are the first two.  The little envelope in card #1, I have had for over ten years... yikes!

An old stand-by...

This is a technique I learned from my friend Barb (a phenomenal card-maker who makes cards for Cards 4 the Troops) when I visited her in California in October of 2010.

Some of the circles are punched from a magazine and some are punched from scrap paper... which I tend to have TOO much of.  Anyone who knows me, knows that scraps are my nemesis.  After punching, I arranged the circles on the page, taped them down and proceeded to sew them in place.  I've done many color combos since I learned this but I had never tried "blues and greens" until yesterday.  I love the result...

Experimenting...

 

The first card is one I purchased in a "kit".  The second and third are my CAS of it.  Although they could be Valentine's cards, they serve their purpose with OWH as "Love" cards...

Playing around...

Following a tutorial on the Stars and Stripes blog on the OWH site, I came up with this...