Pretty Papers

If you are anything like me you probably have a stash of pretty papers. Maybe they are scrapbooking papers or rice papers, perhaps they are pretty papers you made yourself by watercolouring or printing. I have quite the stash in all the above categories. So in the spirit of using what I have (UWIH), I pulled out some of the pretties and turned them into cards.

All the papers on today’s cards are rice papers featuring bold colours and gold details. They were a lovely gift from a lovely person. Because the papers are so beautiful I really didn’t do much to turn them into cards. (the red one, the bluey-green one, the blue floral one)

All the cards featured today use a panel that fills or almost fills a card front. I simply added sentiments and rounded corners to the red card and the bluey-green cards. For the hello card above I used the cricut to cut the word hello from a cream panel so the pretty paper would be revealed. I added the word ‘Beautiful’ from a Darkroom Door set, ‘You are Everything‘.

The word birthday below is die cut; the other letters are cricut-cut.

I like the finishing touch of rounded corners and have a corner rounder that I really like; it’s the Kadomaru PRO which gives me the choice or large, medium or small corners. What else do you do with pretty papers? I’d love to read your suggestions in the comments.