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Nifty Multi-pocket 1-sheet Card

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Happy New Year everyone!

And let’s start 2023 with a lovely vintage 1-sheet card, its browns & grayish blues so suitable for autumn and winter, and yet its pink roses remind us that Spring is coming (well, eventually it will).

There are many ways to fold beautiful cards with only one sheet of paper. You could also use cardstock and mat it (which would technically make it a 2-sheets card) but much easier is using a double-sided sheet of design paper.

I designed this particular card type myself, it takes a bit of folding, one cut with a paper trimmer and a little bit of glue, and it will turn into this very nice multi-faceted card with two pockets and a little doorlet on the front to tuck some extra niceties behind.

If you want to know the nitty-gritty of how to make this, there’s an excellent PDF tutorial in my Etsy shop, it’s Tutorial #9. (It’s very affordable btw).

I’ve made several of these over the years, and here’s my latest, using the beautiful vintage Time is an Illusion paper collection by Stamperia.

Opening the front flap and finding a nice removable bookmark on the inside
Checking out the center pocket, which holds a lovely tag, which I decorated with some stamps and a die cut image of a cup of tea
On the back of that same tag, I attached an actual bag of tea for my friend
Back pocket
The back pocket contains a booklet
The inside of the booklet offers room to write a message on the left, and a nice stamped sentiment on the right

Vintage Trifold Card

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When your double-sided paper is beautiful on both sides and you cannot decide which one to mat on a card, it’s time to create a card without cardstock! This way, you can showcase both sides of your gorgeous design paper sheet.

For me it was a sheet from the Time is an Illusion collection by Stamperia. That design paper collection is truly a work of art!

Cut a 12″ inch strip of your sheet, at the height you want your card to be. Fold in two places to create a trifold – make sure one panel overlaps the other.

Use a strip of paper or a tag to create a closure. Watch the video on my latest steampunk mini album, which actually features this card and in which I go over the closure technique in more detail.

Decorate the front of your card.

Add a journalling spot on the inside. You don’t have to add anything else since your paper is already lovely in and of itself!

Add a decorative element on the back. I chose a cutapart with a sentiment. Done!

Have you made any cards without cardstock? Tell me about it in the comments, I’d love to hear about it!

Stamperia Vintage Birthday Card

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Today I’m sharing a birthday card with Stamperia’s lovely vintage Time is an Illusion collection. There’ll be some more cards the coming days, for I – finally! – finished the new mini album (mini tome, rather 😅) using four of Stamperia’s vintage collections. And as per usual I’m using the leftovers to create all kinds of nice cards and booklets.

This one is in fact a pretty simple card to make: you only have to decorate the front, and you only need three pieces of design paper to layer. Decorate any way you like. Done.

For instance, I used some dimensional tape between the layers of design paper to achieve a 3D effect. I also put some Tim Holtz Distress Grit Paste through a flourished stencil, and colored it with Distress Embossing Glaze – which also adds some nice shine & gloss.

Do you like Stamperia papers? What is your favorite collection?