Let’s face reality – we have a reasonably expensive hobby.
So in these current economic times -I’m all about making cards on a budget.
One of my favourite things to make are 1-sheet wonder cards.
Here’s a sheet I recently made for a Colour Inkspiration challenge.
But the other day I saw a Youtube video that was made by my team leader -Jacque Williams.
And she used a 6″ x 6″ template designed by Jacinta Ryan & Chris Carmichael.
It’s such a great use of 6″x 6″ paper.
But what if you don’t have a massive supply of pretty paper -or even none at all?
Maybe you’re just starting out in this hobby, or you are on a strict budget.
Well, I have you sorted!
In this blog post, I’m going to show you how I made my own 6″ x 6″!
And then I used that paper and created the cards in the template.
Your basic requirements for making cards on a budget
For these cards you will need:
- Cardstock of choice – I used Soft Sea Foam, Fresh Freeshia, Gorgeous Grape & Misty Moonlight
- Stampsets of choice – I used Nature’s Prints & Layering Leaves
- Inkpads of choice – I used Soft Sea Foam, Fresh Freeshia, Misty Moonlight & Crumb Cake
- Ribbons of choice
- Embellishments of choice
- Glue of choice
Stamp your designs on a 6″ x 6″ piece of cardstock.
I decided to use soft sea foam as my base colour.
Then using the template below, cut your “DSP” as follows:
I will now show you how I created the different cards using the pieces:
Card 1: For this card -use the 1 3/4″ x 2″ pieces of cardstock.
I put them onto a matte and did some simple stamping with some ribbon.
Card 2: For this card, you stamp in-between the two triangle shapes.
Again, just matte them and you can add some ribbon or leave as is.
Card 3:
This card is stepped up a little by doing a tear technique.
It’s a favourite of mine and really changes how a card looks.
Add some twine and a tag.
You can also emboss the background if you like -or leave plain.
Card 4:
This card is also very easy to put together.
You just matte it -leave it plain or you can add some interest with embossing powder and embossing folders.
So, this is a very easy and affordable way to stretch a piece of cardstock, when you need to make cards on a budget.
I hope you give this a try -and remember you don’t always have to have patterned paper to make designs that you see!
Simply make your own one of a kind DSP!
Happy crafting!
