Tips tricks and techniques Tuesday Pattern Paper Week

 Wow was the weather hot yesterday 🌞 I thought I was going to melt! Are you a fairweather crafter? Or do you craft whatever the weather? Usually I'll craft whatever the weather but yesterday was so hot I'm not sure I would have... except I did craft for my weekly Facebook live! ( if you want to go check out what I made go have a look on our YouTube page )

Any way what about today's inspiration using pattern paper ? Well today I've chosen to work with a trend in paper at the moment for scene papers. These are pattern papers that feature a whole scene that can be especially useful for scrapbook pages or for quick cards. But I wanted to show how you can get the most cards from such pages by creating a cutting guide. Now the papers I've chosen to showcase today are 6" x 6" ones called Lily pond lane which are one of the papers in the 15% off offer till the end of the month!

I picked out 4 papers from the pack to use for today's samples. 3 of which are scene papers and 1 which has multiple images to cut out. I applied the same cutting guide to each of the same scene papers. Here is the cutting guide. It's supe easy.

The first paper when cut looks like this

The second like this...

 And the third I rotated the guide so that the bottom became the top ..

These pieces plus the duck and foliage fussy cut from this sheet...

Created 10 cards! The cards are cute and suitable for any age. The sentiments used are from a variety of sets but are the only stamping required. This make for quick and easy bulk card making for sure!

So here they all are!

The first trio of cards are these ones...

Can you see how they correspond to the cutting guide? 

The third trio show how the cutting guide has been turned upside down.

The 4th small panel from each of the 3 sheets of paper have been used to create card number 10.

All together these 10 card were fun to make and so cute with their ducky elements 🦆.