After making a bunch of cards with the Share Sunshine PDF download the other day along with Sara Douglass during the Facebook Live for the Stampin’ Up! Day of Service, my daughter asked me to make more Share Sunshine cards for her. Some I copied from what I had already made and some I had to resize or change because my designer paper was dwindling!
Sara used, and I also used, the Follow Your Art Designer Series Paper, which is cute and has great patterns for crafters! If you want it, you can still grab it in the Online Store in the Last-Chance Products for quite a discount! There are some coordinating products with the paper you also might like at a discount!
These full-size cards I was able to make while I still had some decent size designer paper pieces! I tried to copy some of the designs I had already made the other day on some. The greetings are from the Share Sunshine download, printed out on Whisper White cardstock, and you can just cut them apart with the Paper Trimmer or use punches or dies….whatever you like! You might add some embellishments like enamel dots or sequins, but I was keeping these quick and simple.
For these cards, I cut the card base at 4 1/4″ so that I could just use 4″ square pieces of designer paper. You can see on the first card I used a die from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. Some of the rectangle and square dies are good to use, but mostly I just used my Paper Trimmer. Once you cut the greetings apart on the cardstock, you can then use dies or even trim down further with the Paper Trimmer to make it fit your card and layer.
Here’s a card I made for my son. You can see that I used the Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut out the greeting and the layer. You can reposition the dies sometimes to change the size of the die-cut you want to end up with. I’m not sure I did it exactly right but I got it.
Just for fun I cut out more of the sayings and adhered them inside the card! You can leave the inside of the card plain and stamp or write your own personal message inside. If the cardstock is too dark, add a white layer of cardstock inside, perhaps decorate with a strip of matching designer paper.
And after all that Share Sunshine cardmaking, these are the designer paper scraps I have left!
Probably just enough to make just a few more cards!
You don’t have to use this Follow Your Art DSP to make these same cards, use whatever paper looks fun for you to use! And if you make a lot of cards, it’s a great way to use smaller strips and scraps of the designer paper, even if you just use a small piece. Get creative!
If you missed it, be sure to check out my Facemask Cards I finally got to make! You might want to make some of those yourself to send to someone who might enjoy or appreciate a card! That’s what #ShareSunshine is about!
