Use Up the Trash!

This is a bit of an unusual card for me.  It started with a piece of "trash" - a piece of printed card stock that was used as packaging material because it clearly had been misprinted on the back.  I thought it was pretty & decided to find some way to use it.  

The piece was just a bit larger than the front of a card, so I covered the card front with it and used the leftovers to form borders on the inside.  Then I went looking for SOMETHING to go with it!  In going through my stash, I found a bunch of stickers - several of which I fussy cut - to add a leafy border top and bottom, a large leaf with caterpillar for focal, a small ladybug, and then a thicker flower sticker to anchor the whole.  

The flower came with a button in the center of it, but that made it so high I was pretty sure it would have problems in the mail.  So, I removed the real button and added a paper one (Nellies Flower Multi-Frame die), drawing in thread lines with a fine line marker.

Finally, I added the die cut sentiment you see at the top (Ultimate Words by Card Making Magic).

Inside:

I added another sticker on the inside - this time a butterfly - and then wrote the rest of the sentiment by hand since I didn't have a stamp that said what I wanted it to say.  It's a pretty simple card, but it made good use of that "trash" and used up some of my excess stash besides!