As I said in my last post, I am dog sitting for a dear friend. She is another crafter friend and has a craft room with just about everything you could imagine in it (aaahhh – Heaven!). I have spent the last two days on a “one page wonder” project. If you don’t know what that is, you strategically cut apart a piece of patterned paper (in my case a 12″ x 12″ piece) to get the most out of it. You can find cutting patterns all over Pinterest – just search “one page wonder”, or you can cut it your own way.
I was able to get 16 cards – yes, I said 16 cards out of one sheet of Stampin Up’s “Botanical Butterflies”. It is a beautiful paper pack and the page I chose is my favorite. I did punch butterflies from a different sheet for my embellishments. I am not sure if that is cheating (to use extra) but I think the goal is to get as much as you can out of one piece.
And here are close-ups of each card:
You need to offset the negative space on some cards. On some above, I did some random stamping in the background. On these cards I used embossing folders for the background:
This card is one of my favorites – and it was actually an “extra”. I didn’t like the size of one of my pieces when I was designing one of the above cards so I cut a strip off of the side and therefore had this piece leftover. I knew the backgroud had to be impressive to offset such a small strip of paper so I randomly stamped butterflies on the black layer with VersaMark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I also heat embossed the sentiment. Its really very pretty in person.
And I had this leftover – a 3″ piece only 3/8″ wide! I wouldn’t have had that left over but I decided to cut a rectangle into 3 strips for 3 long rectangle panels (the 6th card from the top), and to make the rectangles fit the width of the card, I had this lone little piece leftover.
I don’t care about using current product for my pieces. I keep what I like and I use what I like, new or old. Part of my goal with the #100dayproject is to “use what I have” and in this case, I helped my crafty friend get rid of some of her old discontinued product.
All of the products I used may not still be available but these cards are so universal, you can substitute any greetings or embossing folders or even coordinating colors (or any patterned paper for that matter). I used some old discontinued Stampin Up ribbons in discontinued colors that coordinated perfectly with this patterned paper even though they were not listed as coordinating colors on the package. So you can use the new current colors for 2019 or use up some old stuff.
I hope you enjoyed my cards and that I inspired you to try your own “one sheet wonder”. If I did, I would love to see what you create. If you liked my project, give me a like or share this with a friend who might like it. Please let me know if you have any questions about products or procedures I used today. Thanks for spending some time with me today and I hope to see you again soon. If you haven’t already done so, follow me on WordPress or sign up for email notification.
Til next time, happy crafting,
Jeanette
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