I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again... you don’t always need to buy the stamp set. This may feel like shocking advice from a Stampin’ Up!® demonstrator but I know times are tough for many people right now and I would rather help you find ways to keep crafting than see you give it up for financial reasons.
Here are three cards I made using Take to the Sky Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up!® I don’t have the coordinating Adventurous Sky stamp set because, frankly, I didn’t think I’d get much use from it. But I love the paper featuring masculine patterns, planes, maps and clouds, and think it could be extremely versatile.
I want to show you three cards I made using Take to the Sky Designer Series Paper combined with other Stampin’ Up!® sentiment stamps. All of them are CASEd or sort-of CASEd because, honestly, I don’t have a lot of crafting time at the moment.
The first card makes use of the strip of tags on this sheet from the pack. This is the sheet which means you don’t need to buy the stamp set, especially if you only want to make a few plane-themed cards. You can cut up this sheet and have several focal points for your cards, as I have done here.
When I first looked at this sheet of Take to the Sky Designer Series Paper, I saw a strip of tags to be cut up and used on cards. And yes you could do this too – remember, you get two of each design! But at the weekend I was looking at this sheet and saw the opportunity for a concertina fold using that same strip of tags.
Looking for concertina card inspiration I happened upon this card created by US demonstrator Maria Mench.
This is a fun fold card which is actually quite easy to make, and features an exciting concertina element as well as two bookmarks. Perfect for the recipient to use in all those books about aeroplanes!
Please see Maria’s video for how to make. And if you’re converting to UK measurements, I just made a Copper Clay card base that’s 14.8cm x 22cm (instead of the standard 21cm), scoring at 10.5cm from each side to create a card with a “spine”.
I trimmed down the tags so they didn’t overwhelm the inside of the card, then created my layers using the beautiful cloudy paper (yes, it pained me to cut it up) mounted on to Misty Moonlight.
I decorated a few of the tags with birthday greetings from Keeping Tabs and a small panel of plane paper to echo the bookmark designs.
For the front of my Take to the Sky card, I simply cut up a piece of the same Designer Series Paper featuring planes and mounted it onto Misty Moonlight cardstock to match the inside.
This greeting is one of my favourites ever and comes from an Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up!® stamp set called Sweetly Scripted. Buy it. You need it. Trust me.
It’s all finished off with some Copper Clay Jute Trim through the holes in the tags and bookmarks.
My other two Take to the Sky cards are shamelessly CASED from US demonstrator Mary Knabe, as I needed some samples in a hurry for my Annual Catalogue Launch Party the other weekend.
Mary’s cards use this same sheet of paper. She uses the stamps and dies in some of her designs but I chose to CASE two of the clean and simple ones which focused on the paper only.
This card features a fabulous scene which could have come straight out of a vintage children’s book.
I mounted it onto some Copper Clay and white cardstock, on a navy patterned background and Boho Blue card base. The greeting is stamped with the new Keeping Tabs stamp set and punched out using the new Keeping Tabs coordinating punch.
Best of all: this Stampin’ Up!® punch is also available as a die, so you get to choose. I chose the punch because it makes crafting easier for some of my older ladies. Although I do have one older customers who prefers Stampin’ Up!® dies because they are easier on her hands. The main thing is - you now have a choice, which is fantastic.
My final card is really simple and again CASEs from Mary Knabe. The DSP panel is mounted onto white cardstock and stuck on a Boho Blue panel on a Night of Navy card base.
The white strip across the front is stamped with that must-have Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up!® stamp set called Sweetly Scripted again.
I hope you like my Take to the Sky projects and are inspired to try making cards using Designer Series Paper. This method is perfect when:
You want variety in your craft stash without a huge outlay.
You only want to make a few cards for a plane-lover, and know you won’t get lots of use from the stamp set.
You are just starting out and don’t have lots of tools. Simply add a sentiment set, a black ink pad and a pack of Basic White Notecards and Envelopes, and you have a world of possibilities.
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