Need suggestions for small weights for drying chipboard weig

I can't see spending money on heavy flat objects if you have old books handy.

Pre-COVID, my library put out a cart of free books occasionally, and it was usually full of outdated reference books. Maybe ask your local library if there's a certain time of year when they cull old books?

If you want to spend, you could look in secondhand stores for wood cutting boards. They're heavy enough to use as weights and they could double as secondary work surfaces for you at other times.

Alternatively, you could use masking tape to secure the edges of your board to your work surface before you start the way you would with watercolor paper, but that would mean you couldn't use your work space for anything else until the page is dry. You could use a heat tool to speed it up but it's still not ideal.

Great idea, and I bet they look really cute too.

To flatten small things on my craft table, I reach for an acrylic stamping block that I keep handy. I actually use it more often for wet gluing than for stamping.

For big stuff, like 12x12 paper backgrounds, I just use old books. It's never perfect, but it helps.

Just what I was going to say. Or rocks!

Don't laugh but I buy bags of rice or beans at the dollar store and use them to weigh things down for glue drying.