Tonight the Art With Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring Designer Series Paper. This month, Stampin’ Up! have a special on selected Designer Series Paper packs that allows you to get one free pack when you purchase 3 packs. That's 4 packs for the price of 3! We hope our blog hop inspires you to get crafting with your DSP.
When I was thinking about what to make for this blog hop, I did a google search that was something like "fun things to make with designer series paper". One of the things that came up with this fun No-Cut Patterned Paper Folder by my good friend Di Barnes. Bingo! Di's tutorial is awesome (and free!), and has lots of info, especially on which types of papers work best. Having read all the info, I went for a piece in the Nature's Poem DSP, which is one of the packs on sale this month. It's one of the popular designs from this year's Annual Catalogue.
I kept the front of my card fairly basic, as the inside is where the magic is! The contrast between the two patterns in the DSP is so lovely.
The paper is folded (no cutting!) in such a way that it forms two pockets on the inside - how cool is that? I've cut an insert for each pocket, but Di's instructions also include an adaptation so that you can fit a few cards/envelopes in each pocket.
Here's the two inserts. You can see that I've used another small piece of the DSP to create a place for a gift card. You could probably just tuck the gift card into the the pocket on the card base, but this way it's not going to accidentally slip out of the card. I left the back of the inserts plain, but it would be great as a group card, as there's lots of room for many people to sign. You could even add a photo or two to the back. Lots of ideas!
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, my friend and fellow South Aussie, card maker extraordinaire Kathryn Mangelsdorf.
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Bye for now,
Tina
