If you’re like me you collect card kits from all the amazing craft companies. My favorite kits are by Kindred stamps because I love all of their pop culture sets. I realized I have been hoarding my kits and not using them, so it was time to create with one of my older kits. I picked the Toy Box kit but any card kit would work for this. I challenged myself to do the “as many as” challenge with the papers and stamps included in the toy box kit. I used ever inch of paper and was able to create TWENTY FIVE cards.
I started out by choosing a card design that was a bit more paper heavy that way I knew I would have plenty of paper to play with. I started my paper crafting journey as a scrapbooker so I tend to be drawn to fancy fold and layered card designs. Since the stamp set had 6 character I made 6 cards in each style.
I went through my scrap bin to find some solid cardstock scraps that coordinated with the paper collection, to add some interest to the designs.
with this design you can see the inside of the card, which meant I couldn’t leave it blank. it inspired me to finish off the inside of all my cards. plus it was a great use of the smaller scraps.
For the second set of six I used a rectangle leftover ( 4 1/4 x 1 7/8 Inches) and solid color strips at the bottom of my card. This set is very simple card design to add a bit more dimension, I fussy cut each character and pop them up with foam tape.
For the inside of this set I used a simple pattern paper strip along the bottom.
The next set is another simple design that was made with another leftover rectangle (5 3/8 x 1 7/8 inches). I stamped sentiment under each character to ground them. to make my focal point stand out more I matted it with solid cardstock scraps. I popped the main image up on foam to add more interest.
The inside of these card got a white card stock mat because I used a black card base. again I used a pattern paper strip at the bottom to finish off the inside.
My last set of cards are square ( 4 1/4 x 4 1/4) because I had these triangles leftovers from creating my first set. I added a solid color strip to the triangle edge to make them bigger and take up more of the card front. I stamped each character with a sentiment on a smaller square (3×3 inches) to create a focal image. I love layers so I again matted them on solid colored cardstock scraps.
At this point I was down to tiny scraps of paper but still wanted to add a little something to the inside of this set so I made little flag/banner out of scraps left from cutting my strips down.
I got to the end of my fourth set and had 6 small squares of pattern paper left and I wanted to use ever inch of this adorable paper so I made one last card with all the characters. This ended up being my favorite card.
I did a ton of coloring I used my Copics and my Zig clean color real brush markers and played with the no line coloring technique with both. Here are my color combs.
Cowboy:
Copics: E51, E31, E23, E19, E29, E57, E79, R14, R29, B24, B18, B39, C1,C3, C7,C9, Y13, Y17, YR24
Zig: 036, 032, 030, 072, 071, 072, 064, 091, 095, 010, 022, 020, 051, 050, 067, 066, 065, 062
Cowgirl:
Copic: C1, C3,C5, C7, C9, Y18, Y06, Y11, YR24, E31 E23, E51, RV10, RV20, R27, E07, E19, E29
Zig: 060,260,029, 022, 026, 028, 095,091,900, 071072,064,050,051, 067
Horse:
Copics: E23, E31, E51, E79, E29, E57, R01, Y17, YR24, C1,C3,0
Zigs: 072, 064, 065, 062, 071, 091
Alien:
Copics: V17, V25, C9, C7, G05, YG06, YG03, B12, B16, B18, B24, B39
Zigs: 041,004,045,036,030,084,803, 090,091
Spaceman:
Copics: C1,C3, C5,C7,C9, V09,V17,V25, YG03, YG06, G05, R14, R29, E51, E31, E23, B000, B0000
Zigs: 803, 084, 303, 206, 020,090, 091, 041, 045, 096, 072, 071, 064
Dog:
Copics: E31, E35, E79, E29, E51 YR24, Y13, R29, R14, C9,C7, C5, C3, G05,G29, YG06, YG03
Zigs: 044, 041, 010, 090, 091,020, 260, 062, 065, 064, 072
I had so much fun with this challenge! I have several more kits to play with, let you know if there is something you want to see me create. I hope you enjoyed all these cards. I’ll be back soon with more craftroom creations.
Brandi M
The Craft Bean
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