Tips and Tricks - Making Your Own Designer Series Paper

I love making my own Designer Series Paper. Choosing the colours I love, and stamps that fit my mood, there is no right or wrong. What could be better?
It is easy to do, just select 3 or 4 stamps and ink colours, and you are ready to start.

Today I chose Balmy Blue, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, and Silver Embossing. I used the Snowflake Wishes stamp set. I recommend starting with your largest stamp first. Stamp randomly on your paper, I have used 8 1/2 x 11 Whisper White cardstock. Add your second largest stamp and colour, and so on. Continue until you have added all colours. You can then return to fill in white spaces if you want, or leave larger gaps. You can overlap your stamping, stamp off your page, whatever. As I mentioned there is no right or wrong!

Once you are finished you can create whatever you like with your very own DSP. I decided to create a One Sheet Wonder set of cards today, so here is what I did.
I cut the whole sheet of cardstock into pieces, as outlined in the diagram.

From these pieces I created 7 cards as follows.
1 - 4 pieces, 2 1/4 x 1 1/2
1 - 1 piece 4 3/4 x 3 1/2
1 - 2 pieces, 4 3/4 x 3/4
1 - 3 pieces, 3 x 1 1/2
1 - 2 pieces, 3 3/4 x 2
1 - 1 piece 3 3/4 x 2
1 - 1 piece 3 3/4 x 5

I sat down with some Christmas sentiments, some cardstock layers and some embellishments, and created!

These were fun to make, and I’m really happy with the results. No one else will have cards exactly like these!
Make some of your own DSP, and have some fun crafting and creating today.