We R Memory Keepers Jet Set 12×12 Paper Pad
I’ve really been neglecting my blog. I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 months since my last post. While I haven’t been posting pictures, I was keeping busy making cards. I even managed to make a small batch of Halloween cards and a 2nd set of Christmas cards, but before I post those… Here are a few cards I made after the first set of Christmas cards.
I wanted to do something with a completely different theme and colors. After flipping through a few paper pads I selected the Jet Set paper pad. It has a travel/transportation theme done in muted shades of orange, purple, blue, green and mustard yellow. Along with the fun suitcase and airplane prints there was also a sheet of travel themed tags. I’m not a fan of fussy cutting, but most of the tags had straight edges so it didn’t take too long to cut them all out. The paper pad also included a sheet of borders, some of which were strips of travel themed words. Instead of skipping the paper or trying to use larger pieces of the borders, I trimmed them into individual words and used them along with the tags as the sentiments on the cards.
To get started I separated the papers into different color groups. The papers are all the same theme, but some prints and colors coordinated better than others. For the first several cards I used orange and peachy pink papers. To pull out the hint of purple in the airplane print, I used purple cardstock for some of the matting and embellishments (brads, rhinestones and Love from Lizi peel-offs).
Using the same papers… I added the airplane themed tags featuring fun sentiments like “Non-stop fun!” and “We’re off on an Adventure”. Some of the tags even include space where you can write in the date of your travels.
For the next set of cards I used the fun suitcase print and multi-color stripe and polka dot print for the backgrounds. Because both papers had a busy print, I kept the layouts simple and used solid color cardstock to break up the busyness. For several of the cards I used the travel themed words trimmed from the borders as sentiments.
On other cards I added tags in place of small focal panels or added smaller tags to cardstock banners. Although the papers included many colors, for some reason I really liked the orange color and used orange rhinestones for all of the embellishments.
There were still a couple more color groups to go, but I saved those for later and moved on to another batch of Christmas cards.