Back in September and November, I made Christmas cards with this Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper. I’ve made other cards with this paper, too, but for the ones I am referring to I used a “scene” from the paper to be the card front. The other day when I was using this paper for more cards, I decided it was time to cut out more scenes to use. It is a little tricky because you have to figure out what area you can cut out without getting something you don’t want in the scene. But it can be done, and making the area smaller, like with a layer underneath rather than directly on the card base might make it easier. It is handy to have a ruler that you can measure with to get an idea of what scene will work.
In the top photo, you can see the large-enough “scenes’ I could cut out of the paper. This paper is just so cute with bears and other forest animals on other sheets. I didn’t use all of the scenes yet, but here are some cards I made with the scenes that I cut out. I was sort of copying the two previous cards I had made, but you usually can’t get the exact same scenes. Maybe this will give you some ideas!
On these cards, I was able to cut out the exact same scene as on the top card from the second sheet of designer paper. But the card on the left has a different scene. I wasn’t in the mood to do embossing, so I just stamped a new greeting in the Brightest Glow Stamp Set and die cut with a banner die in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I put the greeting up against the edge of the paper so I cut off the banner end to just have a straight edge on the right. I tucked under a little piece of Silver Trim on the banner end.
The top card is the original one I made. The bottom card matches the top card, but then the two middle cards have different scenes. You may even have to move your greeting around to different spots depending on the scene on the card.
I also added some Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels to some of the cards and some Iridescent Adhesive-Backed Discs on other cards.
I didn’t do anything yet with the bears floating on the ice or the snowflake paper, which is the opposite side of the bear on the ice. But I went ahead and cut out the paper so it is ready to go.
This Beary Christmas DSP is still available in the Online Store but will be retiring in January. So if you like it and don’t have it yet, get it while you can!
Don’t forget to shop the Clearance Rack in the Online Store as well!
