6 x 6 Inspiration

Today’s two cards were made by starting with a 6 x 6 sheet of paper. It had a wreath on it, but I felt that it would be too big for a card by itself. So I cut the wreath in half and used half of a wreath on each of these two cards.

I then grabbed my sweet birthday wishes, stamps and dies from Pink and Main make the sentiments.

One is a birthday card that doesn’t look too Christmasy, but the other one with the red ribbon looked too Christmasy so I decided to make that a holiday card. I already had the word sweet die cut on there, so I grabbed another stamp set and used the wording from that to make the Christmas card.

The ombre circle on the left card is there because after mounting the paper, I noticed that the perforated line was still visible. I thought it looked tacky and I needed to cover it up.

And the enamel stars on the right hand card are there because, after mounting the wreath paper there, I noticed a smudge of ink. I needed to cover that up, and the stars worked perfectly. I think it looks like they are attached to the wreath.

It’s always fun when we make mistakes and the finished product ends up looking better than we had it intended if the mistakes hadn’t been there!

I’m grateful to have such a wonderful supply of Stampin’ Up!  up card stock. For this I used Shaded Spruce and Blushing Bride. It seems like no matter what color patterned paper I have on hand, they always have a color to match.

It feels really good to take just a few scraps of things and make really sweet cards. Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope this was an inspiration to you!