Cheap Chirp for June #4!

Cheap Chirpin #4 for June!

Throughout this week we are having a massive giveaway this week for our loyal Cheap Chirpers! Next week will be our last Cheap Chirp Tuesday for a little while as Carlene and I have both taken on a few exciting new blog adventures and more will be revealed in the coming week!!!! 

BUT there will still be regular giveaways, Cheap Chirpy discoveries and lots of fun along the way.  

So this week, the massive Cheap Chirp prize box has to go! If you comment today on this post, and all the Cheap Chirp posts for June on mine, and Carlene's blog, you are in the running to be Cheap Chirp Winner announced next week! One Australian will win the PRIZE BOX!  

There will also be a Cartridge, Couture Creation embossing folders, Peachy Keen Stamps and some extra prizes for worldwide entries too!   

If anyone re-posts on their blog about the big June Cheap Chirp giveaway and links it to either of our blogs, let us know in the comment box and you get two extra chances. 

This week to add to the prize box, Carlene and I are adding:

Plastic canvases as used for the handmade embellishment this week's Kaiser challenge:

 

 I found these plastic canvases in Spotlight for $4 for a set of ten in the needlework section. It made it so simple to stitch. The square ones look great to place on the back of a photo and stitch perfectly around the edge.

AND also for the Prize Box this week:

 

 Gorgeous sea shell beads.

I used them on my Merthing layout for Haunted Design House challenge this week. 

The Prize Box!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book, corrugated cardboard, designer post-its, some bright pleather, Candi, bright embroidery thread, a 100 pk of wiggle eyes, a pack of assorted paperclip embellishments, two sets of 36 pce brads, Snag em Stamps from Imaginisce, Sea Shells and ten mixed shape Plastic canvases!  Phew! 

Remember for runner up's worldwide there is a Cartridge, Peachy Keens, Couture Creation embossing folders and some extra prizes!

Now head over to Me n Miss Pink Cricut, comment on her June #4 and you are in this huge prize draw! Good luck and thanks for Cheap Chirpin with us!

 

Cheap Chirpin #3 for June.

Cheap Chirpin #3 for June!

  You can win LOTS of blog candy just for joining myself and Carlene for the month! You just need to leave a comment on each Cheap Chirpin Tuesday post for the month on both our blogs!

Today's cheap chirp is: Brads. 

You can't beat em! You always use them and it is a bonus when you find em cheap. 

I had an hour to myself today (wooooo!) so I went Chirpin for Tuesdays. I found the most AMAZING things which I can't wait to share over the next few weeks. 

But these brads, along with eyelets were in a huge reduction bin in Spotlight. Now... I am not exaggerating - I could have sat in it and splashed around. Scrappers heaven. All of them $2 each.  So I just had to pick up a few for the Cheap Chirp. I'll include this cute blue set and a spotty pastel set in the prize box. 

The prize box is growing!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book, corrugated cardboard, designer post-its, some bright pleather, Candi, bright embroidery thread, a 100 pk of wiggle eyes, a pack of assorted paperclip embellishments, two sets of 36 pce brads and whatever Me n Miss Pink Cricut has for you today! Click here.

You can win you choice of the prize box, cartridges, Peachy Keen stamps, i-rock tools and other prizes on offer for the month!  (Prize box choice Australian only due to postage)

 
You can easily be notified of the Cheap Chirpin Tuesday posts via email if you subscribe to this blog. Then you won't miss a week! Link on the right of this blog. 

OR join our Daisy Challenge Central facebook group. You will never have to spend time finding challenges again! Share challenge links with others and see the ones find for you to try! I LOVE the group!

Thanks for joining our chirps! 

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Cheap Chirpin Tuesday #2 June

Cheap Chirpin #2 for June!

  You can win LOTS of blog candy just for joining myself and Carlene for the month! You just need to leave a comment on each Cheap Chirpin Tuesday post for the month on both our blogs!

Today's cheap chirp is: Wiggly Eyes. Found this 100 pack yesterday in Woolworths for $3

They are the cute coloured eyelid ones in a range of sizes. Perfect for cards, layouts with Create-a-critter and other whimsical looking characters. In fact, I could have used them easily for the cute animals in the layout in the post above. 

The prize box is growing!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book, corrugated cardboard, designer post-its, some bright pleather, Candi, bright embroidery thread, a 100 pk of wiggle eyes and whatever Me n Miss Cricut has for you today! 

You can win you choice of the prize box, cartridges, Peachy Keen stamps, i-rock tools and other prizes on offer for the month!  (Prize box choice Australian only due to postage)

 
You can easily be notified of the Cheap Chirpin Tuesday posts via email if you subscribe to this blog. Then you won't miss a week! Link on the right of this blog. 

OR join our Daisy Challenge Central facebook group. I have entered four challenges this week because I didn't have to spend time finding challenges. I LOVE the group! Try it out by clicking here.

Chirp on! See my post above today for some cute aussie love.  

Cheap Chirpin #1 June! and cute Blog CANDI.

Cheap Chirpin #1 for June!

We are starting a brand new month of Cheap Chirps!  You can win LOTS of blog candy just for joining myself and Carlene for the month! You just need to leave a comment on each Cheap Chirpin Tuesday post for the month on both our blogs!



Brrrrrrr.... welcome to Aussie winter!!! So jealous of the summer challenges.

This week's Cheap Chirper is an easy one for me. I got sent some CANDI from Scrappy-Go-Lucky and I am totally in love. It suits my weird-whimsical-whatever-goes-kind-of-style I do! 

When I went to the shop just then and saw the range, I scrapgasmed! There are tons of great colours. Each packet is only around $4 and the little adhesive dots are $2.25. 

Cheap and Chirpific! 


Here is just a few of my favourites:

 

  

This is a layout I made this week with the CANDI:

 

  I wrote on the CANDI with permanent ink. You could use rub ons too, for cute lettering.

So for the Cheap Chirp this week, I picked up the cut Toy Box Flowers ones and a sheet of little foam squares. 

 I am going to buy a few of these mini foam sheets for other projects. It is pre-cut into itsy bitsy squares and seems to have a very good quality adhesive. Perfect for lettering layering. 

Donna was the Cheap Chirpin Chooseday winner for May! 

Her choice of prize was:

* A surprise cartridge

* Just Baby Faces Assortment Package of Peachy Keen Stamps 

OR * An Imaginsisce i-rock plus some accessories! 

Donna has chosen the Peachy Keen Baby Faces! Enjoy!

The prize box is growing! We need more Aussies to join in the cheap chirp so some lucky chirper can win it!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book, corrugated cardboard, designer post-its, some bright pleather, Candi and whatever Me n Miss Cricut has for you today!

You can easily be notified of the Cheap Chirpin Tuesday posts via email if you subscribe to this blog. Then you won't miss a week! Link on the right of this blog.

Thanks again to all our Cheap Chirpers.

It's so good to have you in our blogworld!

Cheap Chirpin Tuesday #5 May

Cheap Chirpin #5 for May!

Since there are five Cheap Chirps this month, we won't be greedy! This week can  be a Cheap Chirp CHOOSEDAY instead. 

We have some great followers commenting every week! A Busy Bee, Donna, Misty, Michelle, Sandra, Crazy4Christ commented on all the posts. Congrats! Tambo nearly made it! Regardless of whether it's a Cheap Chirp or not, you ladies are there every week making us smile with your lovely comments on lots of posts. Thank you!

We need some Aussies to be bit more competition for Michelle!- The big Cheap Chirpin haul has jack-potted for three months! We will need a trailer eventually to deliver it to her house! 

This weeks Cheap Chirpin winner is 

2. DONNA at Popsicle Toes! 

Donna this week you can choose between:

* a SURPRISE cartridge

* Just Baby Faces Assortment Package of Peachy Keen Stamps 

OR an Imaginsisce i-rock plus some accessories! 

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book, corrugated cardboard, designer post-its and some bright pleather! 

Thanks again to all our Cheap Chirpers.

It's so good to have you in our blogworld!

Cheap Chirpin Tuesday #4 May

Cheap Chirpin #4 for May!

Cheap Chirper #4 for May is: Post-its!

There's a new trend in cute post-it notes and they make EXCELLENT tabs and journaling boxes for your layouts!

I found these in Big W for only $2 and they could be used for one great matching layout, then use the rest of them for household duties!

As soon as I find a moment to myself, I am entering Whimsical Wednesday's 'Back to Basics' challenge of a cricut-less page with some old school scrapping technology such as rub ons/stickers/etc. I am using some post-its tabs on my layout! Stay tuned!

Remember to comment!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book, corrugated cardboard, designer post-its and whatever Carlene has for you on Me n Miss Pink Cricut today! 

Next Week is Cheap Chirpin Chooseday! If you have commented on all of May's Cheap Chirps on both mine and Carlene's blog, you can choose your prize! You have a choice of either: a Cartridge, a set of Peachy Keen Stamps, and if you are an Aussie, you can choose the Prize box! 

Cheap Chirpin Tuesday #3 May!

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Cheap Chirpin #3 for May!

Cheap Chirper #3 for May is: Work in Progress Books!

In scrap shops, you can pay anywhere from $12 to $20 for these Work in Progress books.

It is just a file of ten 12 x 12 display pockets, which you can use to keep matched paper together, store unfinished projects in one pocket, plan your layouts and leave photos and matched paper together with a little post-it plan until you get to it. (These are great for pre-planning scrap retreats).

 MINE, however, are altered. You can pick up these A3 display folder books cheaply from Newsagencies, when school is well and truly back and they are clearing out old stock. These are often on school book lists for Junior Primary class portfolios. Even though this is tagged $7.95 I got a few for $5 each on sale.

 Then all you do is place on 12 x 12 sheet in the front so you can see where to trim and use your trimmer 5 times slowly across the book and ....

 

You have a 12 x 12 display book for organising your layouts! 

I have one for boy matched paper, one for brand label paper which I enter challenges for each month (Bo Bunny, Kaisercraft, My Little Shoebox, Imaginisce) and one with photos matched to paper with little plans drawn for the layout in the pocket too.

So do yourself a huge OCD favour one day...

Lay out all your photos in matching sets.

Walk around the table with matching sets of paper and match them to the colours in your photos.

When you have them all sorted into piles...

 

Put them into your new $5 display book ready for INSTANT scrapping! That hour will be worth a day!

Remember to comment!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book and whatever Carlene has for you on Me n Miss Pink Cricut today! 

Cheap Chirpin Tuesday!

Cheap Chirpin #2 for May!

Cheap Chirper #2 for May is: Altered Rings!

They are in $2 shops for a reason!!!! They break easily. 

 

But one little girls broken heart over her ring that broke in two minutes is one scrapbookers ready made embellishment!

It doesn't take much effort to separate the ring from the top part. VOILA! Cute metal embellishment. You can use Stazon ink on the metal, stickles, i-rock gems, JUST ABOUT ANYTHING can help bling them up. 

PLUS the top part looks AWESOME if you stick it through the cuttlebug with some paper on top. Makes a cute embossed butterfly shape. 

The glue gun will keep it stuck to most surfaces. 

Remember to comment!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings and whatever Carlene has for you on Me n Miss Pink Cricut today!