Since we’re stuck in the house I wanted to use some bright cheerful paper.  For my next few projects I am doing smaller batches of general cards.  I pulled out 3 sheets of paper from the Farmer’s Market 12×12 paper pad.  I thought the red gingham and the teal polka dots would make good backgrounds and the small floral print would work well as the focal point.  For a solid color I added kraft cardstock and used teal cardstock for all the matting.  I made at least 2 cards with each layout, some were identical and others (like in the last photo) swapped the gingham and polka dot prints.

To get started I used a sketch one of my favorite YouTube cardmakers had recently used.

With only 3 pieces of pattern paper to work with, I tried to use all of the scrap pieces.  The gingham strip on this card was leftover when I cut the larger gingham piece on the previous card.  For some embellishment, I added a couple teal brads that had been floating around in my craft room for ages.

After a few cards with the gingham I switched to the polka dots.  I went through my scraps and found a couple pieces of red cardstock that coordinated with the red in the floral paper.

For this card I pulled out a scalloped border die.  I thought the scallop would coordinate well with the pattern paper’s country theme.  This ended up being my favorite card.

I still had a few larger pieces of the gingham and polka dot papers but only smaller pieces of the floral print.  I found a sketch that worked perfectly with the paper I had left.