8 Cards in 30 Minutes: Making More With Less

The natural progression from making 4 cards is 8 Cards in 30 Minutes. It’s easy, and you have a lot less left over card stock.

I like the way I can save card stock, and getting 8 panels from a single sheet of cardstock actually made a fun panel to work with! There’s just something about miniatures that make me smile, and look what kind of a bonus I realized:

What a great way to show off that new background stamp called “BIRCH”, eh? I cut the eight pieces from Pear Pizzaz, and then knocked the measurements of the white panels down by an 1/8″ top and side. Does math bother you?

If math will bother you, cut the Pear Pizzaz and white panels exactly the same size and trim the white ones down later. If math doesn’t bother you, cut your white panels 3-7/8″ x 2-5/8″ and stamp away! I embossed the white panel after stamping everything I wanted on it, using that great 3D embossing folder called “SUBTLE”. This set of 8 was an experiment as a teaching tool, and turns out I want to make lots more!

Product List

Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder	Healing Hugs Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Birch Cling Stamp
Birch Wood-Mount Stamp	Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock
Pear Pizzazz 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad	Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad
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Leave me a comment and tell me if you like the idea of making 8 Cards in 30 Minutes!

Wanna Be Ready for Oodles of Card Making?

Score your card stock in half BEFORE cutting in half the other direction. This stack shows 200 card bases cut to the measurements of 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″, and set in mini-stacks of 20 each. I heard the term recently, “hamburger” cuts. When your card bases are 4-1/4″ x 11″ the term is “hot dog”. I…

Flowing Flowers With Freshly Made Sketches

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DistINKtive Stamp Sets in the 2022-2023 Annual Catalog

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Flowering Rain Boots With Corrugated Crumb Cake?

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Recipes For Copying Everything From the Holiday Catalog

This weekend while you’re looking through the catalog and wondering how to make some of the samples, I want you to have the Sample Recipes. Lots of pages, so you can CLICK HERE and save it to your hard drive, or print it out. All the way back on pages 68-69 there is a darling…

Hues of Happiness Coming May 3rd

Can you ever really have enough flower stamps? I think not! This is an interesting bundle coming in the new Annual Catalog next week. It’s actually a Suite, called Hues of Happiness. The stamp set (photopolymer) and die bundle is enough on its own, but wait till you see the Designer Series Paper and gems…

2 Comments

Tonya Denton says:

August 16, 2019 at 10:37 am

I love this layout and the colors you chose to do your card! Speaking of your card, it’s BEAUTIFUL!!

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1. Celia Cawthon says:
  
  August 19, 2019 at 9:29 am
  
  Thank you Tonya!
  
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