Allison's flower challenge, CC171, & LOTS of ways to use SU's Round Tab Punch

Allison's flower challenge inspired me to use this Close to my Heart set called Playful Petals. How great is her challenge? I'll bet that Allison included everyone on the playground when she was little. I mean, Flowers!...any company!...no limits!....Everyone can play with that theme. So I did. :0)

The colours came from this week's scs colour challenge (Soft Sky, Kraft, & black) I really like embossing black with the cuttlebug (swiss dots folder i love u). I first saw Janet do it (and she added shimmer mist, which I should have added here (slaps forehead!)

I did add some little baby bling (gems glued on with Crystal Effects) and added some glitz by drawing with a quickie glue pen and sprinkling glitter on. I outlined the petals and drew in some glitter grass:

I usually neglect the corners, so this time I cut most of 'em with the ticket corner punch. I folded a couple over for something different (Tip: If yours keep popping up like mine did, you can glue them down. Take that corners!) ;0) The stem was done using freehand paper stitching (tutorial here)

Round Tab Punch

To make the tabs, I just marked and cut off some of the round part of the round tab punch (cut on the left side of the tab--whole on the right):

Super simple & it's probably been done before, but it just occurred to me so I thought I'd share.

Me likey the round tab punch as is, but I love doing something a little different with punches even more. Check out all these things that you can do with a round tab punch:

1. Cambria's Gorgeous card & how she made that sweet round tab & she makes it into a basket!
   
2. Linsay's punch purse tutorial is a work of art
3. Teri has the sweetiest tab punch purse card
4. Sharon uses the round tab on a box (brilliant!)
5. On book pages
   
6. Taylor uses them as alphabetized tabs on a sweet journal
7. In Angie's SCS tutorial she uses them on a mini photo album
   
8. Kerry makes apple cores
9. Making a round tab without a round tab punch (video) by Theresaonline
10. Make a circle hole by Paula
    
11. You can use 'em as hinges
12. Josee uses it as a tab on this cute purse
13. Debbie uses the round tab as a tag
14. Rachel adds an eyelet & ribbon. There's a cute one here too
    
15. Deb shares this list of ideas by Judi & this cool visual & making brackets with it
    
16. You can use 'em as side pieces (and more links for ways to use 'em in that post)
17. Beate adds a sweet little flower to the round tab punch & adds stitching and a stamped image & check out her cute baby tin & her clipboard card
18. Nancy uses it to top a pop-up
19. Tammy uses two to hold a tag sentiment
20. Paula Kay used a few to make a sweet flower
    
21. Kari shows us how to make a punch owl!
22. barbara1976 uses them as flower pots
    
23. Teresa adds a button
    
24. Deb adds it at the bottom of an image (WoW!)
25. Stamps'nCoffee made a cutout in a pocket with it
26. Maren uses it as a closure on a fancy gate-fold card
27. And....I saw this adorable card by Andrea which was so cute it left me dyin' to figure out how she did that with the round tab punch...so....
    

Here's how to use the round tab punch to make a curvy bit on your mats:

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Punch a round tab punch, lining it up where you'd like the curvy embellishment to be on your mat.





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Slide your mat (kraft paper) under the under the curvy bit Adhering your mat to the cardstock underneath (soft sky).




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It should look a little like this (though spaced how you like it, of course)









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Embellish it if you like
















Hope this was useful. Thanks so much for reading! :0)


P.S. I try to leave a comment on all these posts every time I link. I'll bet you already do comment, but just in case you forget, please show these clever crafters some love. ;0)

P.P.S. 53 things (and counting) that you can do with your cuttlebug here

card supplies at a glance here on scs