Tear and flip technique

I like to visit other's blogs for inspiration and I saw one recently that was using the tear and flip technique.  If you did not know, all of Stampin' Up's DSP (designer series paper) is double sided, meaning there is a print on each side and they are different, but coordinate.  So I took some of the paper and cut pieces 4 1/4 wide and 6 inches long.  Then I tore the paper towards one end and flipped the paper over and had 2 coordinating color designs for the front of each of my cards.  Below are a few of the cards I made using this technique.  

This first card I love the green and the grey colors together.  I found a very old Stampin up stamp set with this adorable fairy and stamped it onto a piece of whisper white cardstock and colored in with my blend markers.  I then mounted it on an olive green slightly larger piece of cardstock and put it on my torn card front.  I tied a piece of olive green gross grain ribbon on and then this was all mounted on white paper and then placed on the card base of  pink (I think Pretty in Pink but not 100% on that).

This next card is all in hues of blue with white accents but on a light grey card base.  This true friend stamp almost has a purple hue to it as I think I had some old ink on the stamp that I had not cleaned off before I stamped onto my paper (but I love the way it looks!).  Then I used this fun folded and stitched satiny blue ribbon and a little gem to dress it up just enough!

Back to my green and grey color and I was trying t think of what to do, I added the olive green ribbon again, but then I went to my stash of die cuts and saw the outline for the sunflower and thought, hmm.  So I pulled it out along with a little yellow sunflower I had already sitting aside that I had colored with my stamp blend markers and had not decided what to do with yet.  and popped that on top.  Lastly, I took a piece of black cardstock and embossed the friends image in white.

 So that was kind of a fun thing to do.  I am usually about clean lines and asymmetry.  So to take a piece of paper and tear it and put it on the front of a card was a little bit different for me.  But sometimes that is fun!  

Right now I am working on another project I found on the internet.  It's a "One Sheet Wonder".   Using one sheet of 12x12 DSP to create 10 different cards!  I am almost complete, just one card left and then I will share that with you as well. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Melanie