One Sheet Wonder Cards

Recently I came across the so-called One Sheet Wonder technique. It is not new but it was to me.
If you are not familiar with the concept, here is a quick description.

The main idea is to use up a complete sheet of paper, so no little remnants which often get collected but never used. (Sounds familiar? If not, great, if yeah, welcome to my life.) Once you have your paper selected, pick a few uni coloured sheets that match the pattern as well as different colour stamp pads. Look for some stamps that you think convey a message you will need in the near future (birthday, mother's day, Christmas, Easter etc). If you like you can also select some dies that could embellish the paper but if you are like me, those ideas might also come as you go along. Finally, pick some bling to add if that is your style. Besides some basic tools (glue, scissors etc) you will also need same blank cards and maybe some white cardstock in general.

So, here I am going to show you the ten cards I created from one sheet of 12x12 DSP.

I will start by showing you all the materials I intended to use at the beginning. (I will post a list of the basics at the bottom.) Then I will show you the pattern I created to cut my sheet into smaller pieces, before moving on the the cards themselves.

Somewhere hidden in the middle you can see the sheet of paper that I selected. It came from the 2018/19 Tea Room suite and was the only sheet from that series I had, so I decided it was time for it to be used up.

Here you can see the sheet after I cut it into sections according the a template I created before hand. In order to do this, you need to keep in mind the size of your cards. I used half sheets of 8.5x11, so my cards were all 5 1/2 x 4 1/4. (If you are wondering about the right bottom corner, I had used a small section of the sheet during a workshop where I was given the sheet for a project.)

This is the cutting template which I created on my computer after the fact.

These cards are made from the first row of pieces.
A couple of them, especially the first two, were inspired by Daniela Hödl who recently created a  YouTube video (in German). Her website is called Die Wunderwelt aus Papier (.com) if you would like to check it out.

   
If you wonder about the second last strip (1 1/2 inches), it became part       of the next row as I used two piece in the first card. I simply turned the
first piece of row two over to use its backside.
      
 

 

 These are the cards from row two.
 
  

And finally the cards from row three.


Materials used:


1 sheet of DSP (here Tea Time from StampinUp)
4 sheets of coordinating colour cardstock (yellow, orange, blue and purple)
5 sheets of white cardstock for the cards
a white remnant for cards 1+2
StampinUp ink pads:
Rich Razzleberry and Sky So Soft from the old collection
So Saffron and Grapefruit Grove from the new collection
Clear glue, double sided tape and glue dots
Ribbon and crystals
A variety of stamps for the respective greetings
I also used a variety of dies but mostly the Flourish Thinlits and the Detailed Bands


I hope you like this post. If you have any questions, I am just an email away. :-)