October 1, 2022, was World Cardmaking Day and I did something I have never done before. I set aside all my usual Saturday tasks to make cards most of the day. The bathrooms did not get cleaned, the laundry still sits in the dirty laundry basket, the living room remains un-dusted. The only thing I did was to cook supper. BUT I had a great time making cards.
I decided to use papers from a 6 x 6 pad of fall designed paper. I looked for ideas on designs and chose two methods to use as my idea base. I ended up making ten cards:
The papers are basically the usual fall colors - red, gold and orange with a tiny bit of green thrown in, so I used metallic brown, metallic rust, and metallic green papers for the bases of the cards.
The first six cards I made using a template for a 6 x 6 one sheet wonder, which made three cards from one sheet. I used two papers to do that. These are the cards I made with that template, which I found on the Internet:
The other four cards I made using an idea I found on Pinterest where you cut four sheets into four pieces each, stack them up by shape and size, then place one of each sheet onto the front of the card.
Here is what I made, and if you look carefully, you can see one piece of each of the four sheets on each of the card fronts. I was not sure I would like it, but as it turns out, I really enjoyed making these cards ... simple but the result is quite effective, I think. By changing the backgrounds, the cards looked different (I am not good at making all the same ... I would never have been able to work in a factory where I had to do the same thing over and over and over!).
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