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Card Trio

Hi everyone, Laurel here.  I have been trying to increase my stash of clean and simple cards that are a little bit more ‘postal friendly’ than what I usually make.  Believe me, it is harder for me to make simple ones than it is the much layered, stitched and die cut type of cards.  With clean and simple I have a hard time stopping!

 

Supplies:Market Street Nob Hill: 6 X 6 pad, enamel dots, decorative buttons;Necessities Metallics Stripe Foiled vellum; Other supplies:  Acrylic Stamps: Precious Remembrance

 

The 3 X 4 cards that come in the collection made it a bit easier for me today.  I let them do all the work and I just added some stamps and a little bit of pattern paper and embellishments here and there.

 

 

Watercolors are very trendy right now so I love this journal card.  So simple and yet, so on trend.  All as I had to do was add the stamped sentiment.

 

 

I am happy with how these turned out and I am sure will be even more so when I go to mail them!   

 

 

What about you?  Are you a clean and simple card maker or are you like me and craft with the mantra  ‘the more the merrier’?

 

Laurel

 

Product Spotlight | Market Street 3x4 Cards

Hello there and Happy August!  Missy here today to share a fun layout featuring the beautiful Market Street collections.  I have always been a 12x12 scrapbooker.  Even though I don’t do pocket pages or Project Life, that doesn’t mean I don’t love those small cards that are used for it.  The last several MME collections have had 3x4 and 4x6 Journaling Cards in them, and I challenged myself to create a 12x12 layout using ONLY the small cards from the Ashbury Hill line.  It was actually very easy because they served as my patterned paper.  Once I decided on where to place my photos, I pulled lots of fun embellishments from the Ashbury Heights and Nob Hill lines.  Here is what I created.

 

Supplies:  Market Street Ashbury Heights: 3x4 Journaling Cards, Mixed Bag, Label Stickers, Chipboard Elements, Decorative Brads, Chipboard Buttons; Nob Hill: Mixed Bag, Label Stickers, Decorative Tapes, Decorative Brads, Chipboard Buttons, Flair Pins; Necessities: Metallic Decorative Tapes, Metallic Metal Shapes; Other: cardstock, Stampendous Ink, Golden Modeling Paste, Crafter’s Workshop Template, thread, Sharpie pen, black thread, Amy Tangerine date stamp.

 

I love that so many of the cards have fun sentiments on them.  I decided not to give my layout a big title since there were so many fun sayings scattered all over the page.  I raised my photos up so I could layer chipboard, thread and stickers underneath.  The cards also leave room for journaling.  I strategically placed them so my photos wouldn’t cover up and words, and then the one I journaled on had plenty of space for writing.

 

 I know I sound like a broken record, but I can’t get enough of the shiny gold pieces in these collections!  I layered this fun gold piece with some chipboard pieces and added a fun brad.

I used some of the metallic shapes (the arrows) here as well as some chipboard buttons and sentiment stickers.  I think one of my favorite parts of this layout is the strip of metallic tape at the very bottom.  It’s a rose color, and it is SO gorgeous once you adhere it to your page!  I just wanted to stick it everywhere, but I restrained myself…haha!

 I hope this gives you some ideas on how to use those 3x4 cards on a regular layout.  Just pick your favorite ones and cover up the entire background.  It’s a fun way to get lots of color spread around the page as well as give you lots of fun little titles.  I had so much fun creating this one!

 

Thanks for stopping by today!