Beautiful Gallery use up That paper cards

 Do you have any of "That" paper? You know the one that is drop dead gorgeous... but? But you don't know how to use it? But it's just to difficult to see beyond the whole image? Well today's inspiration are made using just one such paper! The paper for me that is "That" paper in the Beautiful Gallery papers pack. The paper in this pack are 6"x 6" and are all gorgeous but this particular one is a stunning botanical print and it was very difficult to cut up! But after class on Saturday I realised I wasn't the only one who had this problem! So I thought let's just do it!

Here is the beautiful paper...

Is she just stunning 😍 The vintage botanical illustration is so beautiful that all it needs is a frame! But I was tasked with using it on standard A6 cards. So today's inspiration is 2 simple cards to show how careful cutting can make the paper do all the talking.

Start by cutting the paper, I know it's ouchie but it will be worth it just wait and see 😉. I started by covering half the paper with scraps of card to see where the best vertical line to cut was. For this paper I decided to cut 8cm in from the right-hand edge. As the paper is 6" I did have to trim a fraction on the bottom as our card bases are 14.85cm tall.

To overcome the deficit of pattern paper on the left hand side I added a small stip of mossy green cardstock then a beige layer that I embossed using the gorgeous Damask Designs embossing folder. Both the paper and the embossing folder are a part of the Beautiful Gallery suite collection and are a part of the Sweet Suite buy one get one half price offer that's available during the months of June 2025. So you could purchase the paper and recieve the embossing folder for half price!

The colour palette used on both cards are drawn from the paper itself.  The dark green is called mossy meadow and the flash of soft corally pink is called petal pink. The basic Beige works well with the dark brown called early espresso. 

For the second piece of paper I rotated it so that it became a horizontal image. This allows the panel to be used on a landscape card base rather than the portrait orientation of the first card.

 If you look back at the whole sheet you'll see that there is a fine line drawn around the image. As the paper is now trimmed down I took a fine marker pen and drew lines to continue this look.

The card base is in the deep mossy green with the petal pink as a mat. The petal pink ribbon adds texture to the card as do the pressed flower embellishments. 

So 1 piece of "That" paper cut to create 2 cards.  What do you think 🤔  was it worth cutting this beautiful paper up?