A few cuts and folds, and you’ll have an easy continuous pattern card that’s sure to impress!
Here I am with another quick and easy card – a continous pattern card that is one of my favourite layouts of the last little while. It works especially well with border print papers, like one of the pages from the Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper that you can get for free with a qualifying purchase of $60CAD product during Sale-a-Bration/while supplies last!
For this card, it’s a standard sized cardbase – so in North America, that’s cardstock cut to 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″. It’s folded in half, and then the cardfront is folded in half again. It’s an easy fancy fold style. I used Crushed Curry Cardstock, since that’s one of the colours used in the paper patterns.
I cut a piece of Designer Series Paper that was 5-1/4″ tall, and 6″ wide – which is great, because you can get 4 cards from one sheet of the paper! The paper was further cut down into 2″ wide strips and then I added a 2″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Basic White, closest to the inside fold. You’ll want to keep the strips of DSP in order while you decide how to adhere them onto your card. There’s a couple of ways to make a continuous pattern card!
The fun thing about this continuous pattern card is that you can decide what order to adhere the strips onto the card – if you want a continuous image when the card is closed, or if you’d rather have the entire continuous image flow from from left to right.
Which version do you prefer? A continuous pattern from left to right, or a continuous pattern when the card is closed? Either way, it’s a great card, I think!!
If looking at cards is a source of inspiration for your own crafting, a reminder that my Lovely Cards Inspiration Book is available for purchase until the end of next week (18 Feb 2023). I’ve rounded up one hundred photos of cards celebrating love and friendship using Stampin’ Up! Canada products that have been created over my twenty years as a demonstrator. It’s a digital photo gallery that will give you ideas for your own card making! Available as an instant download when you complete your purchase. Check it out!
