Let the Paper Shine

Sometimes it's necessary to make a bulk lot of cards quickly.  They need to be simple but not boring.  This is a time when you want to let the gorgeous Designer Series Papers shine through.

This weekend while Dave and Lachlan are at Cub camp I'm working on the last bits and pieces I need for the Tawa Central Kindergarten Craft Fair on Thursday evening.  I've offered some goodies for the door prizes.  I like to put handcrafted items in door prizes at events like this as they work for the crafters, inspiration, and for the non crafters as everyone needs cards.

Here's how I put together the 13 cards I managed to make today while fitting in a whole morning at Chipmunks with Cameron and babysitting my four year old nephew in the afternoon.  They had to be quick and easy.

Choose the Designer Series Paper sheet you want to use.  You can get nine cards from one 12x12 sheet.  Add two cardstock colours and a neutral.  I've used Jolly Holiday DSP with Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Very Vanilla Cardstock.

I cut my DSP sheet into nine pieces 100x143mm sponged the edges and stuck it to the centre of an A5 Old Olive piece of cardstock.
 

Add a 10x143mm cardstock strip across the centre to break the DSP into two pieces.  You could use ribbon if you wished.
 

Finish your card with the greeting and punches of your choice.  My Merry Christmas greeting is from the 'Contempo Christmas' stamp set.

Here are my nine cards all packaged up with envelopes in packs of three ready to go to the Kindy fair.  I also added some Thank you cards as a fourth pack. 

Then I thought since I'm on a roll and I'm still three Christmas cards short of my target this week I'll make some more of these.  At that point I saw my sister and nephew walking up the path so that was the end of cardmaking for the rest of the afternoon until now when both the boys are in bed.

But now I'm back into it here's another two I made turning the cards before I attached the greeting just for something different.

With another two cards I made after tea, the two from yesterday's post and another two from yesterday made after I received my Summer mini preorder, I'm going to enjoy the Builder Wheels, I now have 8 cards made this week.  One over target.

Don't forget about the Dress Up Christmas promotion to get your cards and packaging made in record time with the FREE ribbon.  When you've sorted that out send me an EMail and I'll send you a copy of the 2010/2011 Summer Mini Catalogue so you can order in all your supplies for crafting over the Christmas holidays.