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Inked Botanicals Easy Scrap Cards

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Bet you can’t make just one card using this technique! These Inked Botanicals Easy Scrap Cards are so easy and a great way to use up the strips you probably have cut off from 6″ x 6″ designer paper. I used the Inked Botanicals 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, but certainly, you can use any designer paper you like. When you make a card layer, you primarily use a 4″ wide piece of designer paper, leaving 2″ for scrap. Now you can trim those scraps and use them to make interesting cards with different patterns!

To make these easy cards, cut four pieces of designer paper to layer on the card base. Cut the pieces of designer paper at 1 7/8″ x 2 1/2″. On this card, I used two patterns, placed on diagonally opposite corners of the card base. On the right of the card in the photo above is a leftover 2″ strip of designer paper after cutting a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece for another card. So it is easy to trim this paper down to the size that fits on the card!

This card has a Lost Lagoon cardstock card base. After adhering the pieces of designer paper, I stamped a greeting from the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set in Lost Lagoon ink on Very Vanilla cardstock. Then I diecut the greeting and the Calypso Coral layer using the Stylish Shapes Dies. I thought about turning the Calypso Coral layer on a diagonal to make it more interesting, so that’s another fun option. I added some gems from the Tinsel Gems Three-Pack to the greeting.

As I said at the beginning, I bet you can’t make just one of these cards using these little scraps! Think of the number of designer paper scraps we all have and we each could make hundreds of cards! This card also uses the Inked Botanicals Designer Paper, but this time I selected four different patterns. I stamped a greeting again from the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set on Very Vanilla cardstock using Calypso Coral ink. This was layered on a piece of Calypso Coral, both circles diecut with the Stylish Shapes Dies, the stitched circles. This time I adhered the greeting flat on the card and added some gold Festive Pearls to the card.

Get out your 6″ x 6″ designer series paper packages and see what scraps you have that would make easy work of cards like these! Just have fun!

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Inked Botanicals Thank You Card

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Inked Botanicals Thank You Card

This Inked Botanicals Thank You Card is one of those super easy cards to make. And that’s okay to make super easy cards! We like the fancy folds and the multi-layered textured cards a lot of times, but this card design is a basic one and you should keep it in mind because you can still make beautiful cards with a basic design.

I just love the colors on this card! The card base is Calypso Coral. The designer paper is the pretty Inked Botanicals 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is extra-special because it was hand-crafted by the Stampin’ Up! in-house artists. They inked up these florals and pressed them onto paper to create the design. This gives a textured design of all these botanicals, which results in this beautiful paper! Don’t you just love to hear how the artists come up with all these beautiful products?

This Inked Botanicals Paper is 48 sheets, four sheets each of 12 double-sided designs so you will have lots of designs to choose from for your cards and projects!

This card uses two different patterns of the designer paper. There are so many combinations you could choose, all of which would be pretty together. The top paper is cut at 5 1/4″ x 2 3/4″ and the bottom portion is 5 1/4″ x 1 1/2″. When I use two papers like this, I leave some extra room for them to overlap. In this case, the overlap is about 1/4″. The measurements can be modified according to how wide you want each part to be so you can make them whatever works for you.

I usually like to add a ribbon or at least some piece of cardstock covering the seam of where the two papers meet. I think it adds to the design of the card. On this card, I added the beautiful Gold & Vanilla 3/8″ Satin Edged Ribbon around the seam and then I added a separate bow and adhered with Glue Dots.

The greeting is diecut from Very Vanilla cardstock using the label in the Something Fancy Dies. The greeting is stamped in Calypso Coral ink using the Sentimental Park Stamp Set. I love the font they used on some of the words in this set. For a little more embellishment, I added three gold Festive Pearls.

Here’s another card I made with different patterns of the Inked Botanicals Paper.

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Inked Botanicals Thinking of You Card

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Inked Botanicals Thinking of You Card

I only recently purchased this designer paper that I used to make this card, but I really like it and it will be easy to work with! I loved making this Inked Botanicals Thinking of You Card with the pretty patterns and colors of this paper. This Inked Botanicals 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper was designed by the Stampin’ Up! artists inking up actual flowers and pressing them on paper. Most of us have probably done something like this when we were in elementary school, maybe with colored fall leaves. Clearly, the Stampin’ Up! artists do a much better job with all kinds of flowers and leaves!

This card base is Lost Lagoon, one of the coordinating colors of the paper. I chose a Lost Lagoon patterned paper with whitish flower stems for the layer. It’s pretty and adds texture and interest without being overwhelming.

For the focal point, I just diecut another floral pattern of the paper which had multiple colors of flowers using the Stylish Shapes circle dies plus a larger diecut layer of the Lost Lagoon cardstock. These dies give a nice stitched edge which looks good. On the back, I adhered some Pool Party 3/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon back and forth and then popped up the circles on Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

The greeting is stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock with Lost Lagoon ink. The greeting is in the Go To Greetings Stamp Set. I diecut the greeting using not the tiniest die, but the next one in size in the Countryside Corners Dies. I like the look of that shape on this card.

For a finishing touch, as I often do, I added some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels on the flowers in the circle for a little sparkle! On the inside, you can add a layer of Very Vanilla maybe with a strip of the floral pattern I used on the circle at the bottom of the inside layer for a little decoration.

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