Using Up Patterned Paper


I have a lot of patterned paper that I've been trying to use up recently. The patterned paper for this card came recently in a Gina K Designs kit but can also be purchased separately. It's called Delicate Patterned Cardstock and I thought it would be perfect to use for baby cards. I created this card using the dies from Honey Bee Stamp's Bundle of Joy which comes with a variety of dies to make adorable baby clothes and hangers. I found matching cardstock from my stash to make the small bows and buttons. I cut down a card front to 4"x5.25" from Lawn Fawn's Vanilla Malt cardstock to assemble the card and glued it onto an A2 card base made from Neenah Dessert Storm 100# Cardstock. 

 

With the paper I had leftover, I made several cards like the one shown above using the same material, but thought there was too much blank space in the background. I used a debossing plate from PinkFresh Studio called Stitched Diamonds Coverplate to create the background which puts a stitching pattern into the cardstock but does not cutout the cardstock.


 I finished these cards by adding a sentiment from Honey Bee Stamp's Inside Welcome Baby Sentiment Stamp Set and cut out the sentiment with the coordinating die cut.


I've had Pink & Main's Quilt Square 1 Die for quite some time. I made these cards using LDRS Creative 6x6 Paper Pad Pastel Patterns. This paper pack comes with two patterns for 6 different colors so I paired the two patterns along with two shades of matching cardstock from my stash. I used the die cut to cut out each paper as well as Neenah Solar White 110# Cardstock. I glued the outline of the quilt onto my card front and inlayed the pieces of cardstock to create several patterns. In total, I was able to make 48 quilt patterns for cards while still having a bit of excess from the 6x6 piece of cardstock.


To finish the card, I stamped a sentiment from the same stamp set used on the previous cards as the quilt pattern reminded me of a baby blanket. I had considered putting a colored image in the center of the quilt, but I felt so bad covering up any part of the quilt and decided to leave it as is. 


SUPPLY LIST
LDRS Creative 6x6 Paper Pad Pastel Patterns [Scrapbook]
Delicate Patterned Cardstock [GKD]
Honey Bee Stamp's Bundle of Joy Dies [HBS] [Scrapbook] [SSS]
Honey Bee Stamp's Inside Welcome Baby Sentiments Stamp Set [HBS] [Scrapbook] [SSS]
Honey Bee Stamp's Inside Welcome Baby Sentiment Dies [HBS] [Scrapbook] [SSS]
PinkFresh Studio Stitched Diamonds Coverplate [Scrapbook] [SSS]
Pink & Main Quilt Square 1 Die [P&M] [SSS]
Lawn Fawn's Vanilla Malt Cardstock [Scrapbook] [SSS]
Neenah Classic Crest 110# Cardstock [SSS]
Neenah Desert Storm Cardstock [SSS]
Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue [HBS] [SSS]
Versafine Onyx Black Pigment Ink [HBS] [SSS]

Location: Silverdale, WA, USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Iron-Off Embossed Resist on Dark Cardstock with Distress Oxide Sprays

Image
  I'm starting to build up my Christmas card collection for this year and decided I wanted to use an iron-off emboss resist technique to create some quick card sets. To create these cards, I first stamped Colorado Craft Company's Big & Bold Warm Wishes Snowflake Clear Stamp with Veramark Ink onto various dark colored cardstock from Taylored Expressions.  I then used WOW Embossing Powder Clear Gloss which created a darker shiny image of the snowflake as shown above. I then put the card in a cardboard box so that I could use Distress Oxide Spray to add color to the cards. I placed some paper towels in the box to absorb the excess and placed the card down so that the top of the card was closest to me. I lightly misted the card so that there would be a higher concentration of color at the top of the card. I chose two colors of Distress Oxide Spray for each color of cardstock. The colors used are listed below.  Pink:  Kitsch Flamingo , Worn  Lipstick Purple: D...
Read more

Northern Lights Background Holiday Card Sets

Image
I created these holiday card sets using the  Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Classic August 2023 Card Kit . Hero Arts card kits are released the first Saturday of every month and they have several  subscription options or can be purchased individually. However, once a kit is sold out, they are no longer available. This card kit was nature themed and comes with dies to create trees lines, mountains, and canyons as well as embossing powders and cardstock, but I decided to use some of the dies for holiday cards instead.  For each card, I first stamped the northern lights using a stamp from  Hero Arts Northern Lights Polar Bears Stamp Set onto Neenah Solar White 110# Cardstock with VersaMark Ink and embossed the image with  WOW Opaque Bright White Superfine Embossing Powder . I then ink blended the background using Distress Oxide Inks and blending brushes from Simon Says Stamp . Because I heat embossed the northern lights, the embossing ...
Read more

Perfect Pearl Snowflake Background

Image
  I actually started these cards last year and I had intended on making a set that had all snowflakes but my dogs got ahold of the rest of my snowflakes so I decided to create more of a variety. These cards use Ranger's Perfect Pearls which is a metallic pigment powder to make sparkly snowflake backgrounds.  To make the backgrounds, I used snowflakes from  Gina K Designs Sparkling Snowflakes and  Colorado Craft Company Big & Bold Nordic Snowflake . I used my Embossing Magic Powder Bag so that the Perfect Pearls only stuck where I stamped and then I stamped the background using VersaMark Ink . I then put Perfect Pearls on the card front and used a paint brush to spread the pigment powder around. I took a lint free cloth to wipe off the excess powder. The colors used for each are listed below.  For the sentiment for each card, I used a stamp from  Colorado Craft Company Lovely Legs Bethlehem's Light stamped with VersaMark Ink and embos...
Read more