As I was making cards these past several days, I just piled up my leftover bits of cardstock in a pile and kept looking at the bits as I worked on other projects. When you take an 8½” by 11” piece of card stock and cut it down to 8”by 8”, you end up with an odd sized large section ( 8½” by 3”). I could cut it smaller yet for a 3”by 3” card but I decided to see how it looked—- I dug thru my pile of leftover bits from the Ice Cream Parlor DSP pack  and voila!

And the card fit perfectly in one of the leftover reply size envelopes I got when I was sending out banquet invites for a fund raiser several years ago.

See the strips on the top and bottom – that is one of the throwaway divider sections on the adhesive die cuts page. Frugal meets creativity.

Sm. Birthday Ice Cream Card Recipe:
Stamps: Punch Bunch (SAB), Create A Cupcake (SAB)
Ink: Pacific Point
Paper: Daffodil Delight CS, Whisper White CS, Ice Cream Parlor DSP and Quick Accents Pack (SAB)
Accessories: Stampin Dimensionals,  Snail, Scallop Square Extra Large Punch

Look for more cards in my personal sketch challenge series. As the year continues I will also be trying to add sketches for cards I create entirely on my own.