Create an eye catching Paper Strips Card – it’s easier than you might think!
There is nothing better than an eye catching design that is easy to create – and usually once you have the design, you can just swap out the supplies and get a whole new look! That’s the case with this fun paper strips card that only uses 3 long strips of cardstock for the striped design!
To create a paper strips card like this one, you have a backing piece of cardstock cut to the size you want your focal area. After that, you add the strips one by one and just trim to fit that cardstock. For me, it was easiest if I placed the longest strip first (so in this card, it’s the long Smoky Slate cardstock piece that has the Matte Dots on it in the picture). From there, I just lined up the other pieces accordingly, alternating the colours (Blackberry Bliss and Balmy Blue). The second section I placed was the one with the vertical(ish) strips, starting with the longest one and lining everything up accordingly. I didn’t worry too much about exact positioning, because it’s a “structured free form” kind of design, if there’s such a term. You could definitely play with this design and come up with countless variations.
I just eyeballed the spacing on this paper strips card, and then added some Classic Matte Dots and die cut labels from the Something Fancy dies for the sentiment from the Beautiful Balloons stamp set. SECRET TIP: (well, not so secret anymore, I guess) – stamp your sentiment on an angle so you don’t have to worry about it being perfectly straight
Potential Paper Strips Card Variations – change the pattern, use Designer Series Papers, emboss your cardstocks (some/all of them), use different colours….so many possibilities without having to work too hard!!
If you like being given patterns and ideas that you can take and make your own, you should subscribe to the YamStamps Sketch System! Each month brings you a sketch (card blueprint) with measurements, and a total of four weekly samples (with supply lists) based on that month’s sketch – directly to your email inbox. After four weeks, a new sketch and four new samples will be on their way! This monthly subscription to help your creative flow costs only $9.99CAD (billed every 4 weeks). It’s a month by month subscription, and you can stop your subscription at any point in time (though you’ll get the full set of samples for whatever sketch you’re on before you’re removed from the mailing list). I posted a bit more about the Sketch System in this previous post on YamStamps.com.
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