I made a Facebook Live video last week demonstrating how to make four cards very quickly by stamping a sheet of cardstock then cutting it down to make four card fronts. For the video, I used the Sweet As A Peach stamp set which has solid images. If you missed the video, you can watch the replay here. For the example I’m posting here, I used the Celebrate Sunflowers set, which has outline images that need to be colored.
Whether you use solid images or outline images, the concept is the same. Stamp the larger piece of cardstock, then trim to make four card fronts. Since I layered the card fronts onto a coordinating color card base, I trimmed the Very Vanilla cardstock to 10 3/4″ x 8 1/4″ before stamping.
I used memento ink to stamp the images onto Very Vanilla cardstock, then colored them with Stampin’ Blends using the following colors: Dark Daffodil Delight, Dark Pumpkin Pie, Light and Dark Old Olive, Dark Crumb Cake, and Light Soft Suede.
After cutting the cardstock to 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″, I embossed each of the four pieces with the Tasteful Textile embossing folder. I adhered each piece to a Crushed Curry card base of 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, scored at 4 1/4″.
To finish the front of the cards, I stamped a greeting onto a piece of very Vanilla cardstock, cropped with a die from either the Stitched So Sweetly or Stitched Rectangle die sets. I added the greetings onto a coordinating cropped piece of Crushed Curry cardstock, then used dimensionals to adhere them to the card front.
For the inside of the cards, I simply stamped the small sunflower image onto the lower-left corner of a 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″ piece of Very Vanilla cardstock, again using Memento ink and coloring as I did for the card front. I stamped a sentiment with Memento ink on some of the cards, and left others blank to write my own message.
I decorated the envelope by stamping the small sunflower to the lower-left corner of the envelope and repeated the coloring as before.
I hope you give this technique a try. It’s really a time saver if you’d like to make several cards in a small amount of time.
Here are the products I used for this set of cards:
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