May 2020 – Peridot Cards

2 Sheet Wonder

May 19, 2020 Dawn Comments 0 Comment

It’s not a one sheet wonder, but…

One of my favorite YouTubers recently did the Mojo Monday 6×6 2 sheet wonder challenge. I’m not usually a “1 sheet wonder” person, but her cards turned out really cute so I decided to give it a try.

I didn’t want to start a “new” 6×6 paper pad so pulled out my old go-to 6×6 paper pad – ColorBok Carnival. I swear it’s the never ending paper pad. The challenge used 2 sheets of double sided paper. Since the ColorBok paper is single sided I pulled out 4 sheets so I’d still have 4 different patterns to work with. And I’d be able to make 6 cards instead of 3.

The first set of papers included a teal cloud print, a yellow lattice print, a multi-color dot print and a multi-color stripe. Bright yellow cardstock was used for the background on 2 of the cards and navy blue was used for all the matting and stamped sentiments. After much rearranging I had the paper combinations selected and got started assembling the cards.

The first 2 cards went together exactly as the card sketch indicated.

For the next 2 cards I did a little “tweaking” to make the sketch work. Because I had selected a larger sentiment I needed to modify the vertical panel. As only the very top and very bottom of the panel will be seen, I cut the panel in half with the gap being hidden behind the sentiment panel. To fill up a bit of the white space on the sentiment panel I added a few epoxy dots.

The last 2 cards used the yellow cardstock as the background. When looking at the cards before taping them together, the background looked too “flat”. Dry embossing the background in a Swiss polka dot print added just enough.

I really liked how the cards turned out and decided to make another batch. This time I pulled out a green/white dot print, a teal/navy dot print, a multi-color chevron print and a multi-color check print. I used green and pearlescent white cardstock for the backgrounds on 2 cards and navy and green cardstock for all the matting. The sentiments were again stamped using navy ink.

This was an easy way to get several cards done quickly. And would be a great way to use up the last couple sheets of a 6×6 paper pad. Now to get ready for my mystery box.

6×6 Paper

May 8, 2020 Dawn Comments 0 Comment

I’ve had this paper pad in my craft room for ages and had only used a couple of sheets. I decided to use it up before my Echo Park Paper mystery box arrives. I want to make room for all the fun new stuff I’ll be getting. Big smile!

The printed paper is really a paper, not a cardstock, so I find it a bit harder to work with. It’s not as forgiving if you need to pull it up and re-position it after it’s taped down.

I decided to start with the mustache paper. I used the brocade print and purple cardstock to pick up the purple mustaches in the printed paper. The mustache stamp is something I’d picked up at Michaels in one of the dollar bins. I figure it’s the perfect sentiment to use with this paper.

I’m not sure why but my first thought when looking at this floral paper was a sympathy card. I started by finding a couple sheets of coordinating yellow/gold tone-on-tone paper and some brown cardstock. I was able to get 2 floral panels out of each 6×6 sheet and made 6 sympathy cards. I still had 3 sheets of the floral paper left so decided to do a few Get Well Soon cards. I cut the floral paper to match the width of the sentiment and added brown/white bakers twine for some texture. At this point I just had strips of the floral paper left. I used a couple of the wider strips to make a full background, covering the seam with a strip of brown scalloped cardstock. The rest of the paper strips were cut to size and matted on a single piece of brown cardstock. For both layouts I used a larger Hello sentiment and more of the brown/white bakers twine.

Instead of trying to figure out a color to pair with the leaf print paper I decided to focus on the tan/gold color of the flowers. I used a gold foil kraft cardstock for the strip on the right side of the card. To bring in a little more gold I added the thickest width of the gold Love from Lizi peel-offs on the black scalloped matting.

The paper for the next cards had a “soft” feel to me so I decided to go with romantic sentiments, not Valentine but something that could be used anytime. I paired the paper with a pink tone-on-tone print and light grey cardstock for matting. I added pink iridescent Love from Lizi peel-offs and Wink of Stella on both cards for a little sparkle.

My favorite paper in the paper pad is this grey print. It has a few pops of bright green that were picked up as the accent color on all the cards. Two of the layouts have a scalloped border on the sentiment panel and bright green paper flowers. All 3 layouts used some more Love from Lizi peel-offs, this time in the Apple Green Mirror color.

I used this printed paper last since I had the most difficulty figuring out what to pair with it. After thumbing through a bunch of paper I settled on a taupe polka dot print. For some of the cards I used a champagne pearlescent cardstock for the background and others I used the printed paper as the background. For all of the cards I used gold as an accent color – Nuvo drops, ribbon, Love from Lizi peel-offs.

This finished up one 6×6 paper pad. My Echo Park mystery box should be arriving in the next day or 2 so I think I’ll find a small project to work on tomorrow. Maybe a one sheet one…