A Sheetload of Masculine Cards

There is a youtuber that I have been following for a while. Her channel is called Call Me {Crafty} Al and she does something super cool every month. She calls it a Sheetload of Cards. The idea behind a Sheetload of Cards is to get the most out of your paper. So if you are familiar with the concept of a One Sheet Wonder it is similar. Each Sheetload can yield you anywhere from 6-12 cards. For me I love this because I love making batches of cards. Here is the link to her video where she shares the cards she made and tells you how you can download her cutting templates. I also wanted to include her process video where she shows you how she made the cards. For this card I used the November 2019 templates and was in love with the end result.

When all was said and done I had two cards of each layout and was so glad I was able to add some masculine cards to my card stash. Here are close ups of all the cards. For the Father's Day cards I typed out the sentiments and printed them out on cardstock for all the details check out the blog post here.

 Supplies

 1 - 8 1/2"x11" sheet of Basic White cardstock

1 - 5 1/4"x 4" piece of Well Suited DSP

1 - 3 3/4"x 2 1/4" piece of Well Suited DSP

1 - 4"x 2 1/2" piece of Night of Navy cardstock

1 - 3 1/2"x 3/4" piece of Basic White cardstock

Scrap Basic White cardstock

The Open Sea stamp set (retired)

Whiskey Business stamp set

Memento Black ink

Pacific Point ink

Instructions

Then take the 8 1/2"x11" sheet of Basic White cardstock and cut it down to 4 1/4"x11" and score it at 5 1/2" along the long side.

I then adhered the 5 1/4"x4" piece of Well Suited DSP to the front of the card. I then took the smaller piece of DSP and adhered it to the piece of Night of Navy cardstock. You will then take this piece and cut 1 1/4" off the right side.

I then took the scrap piece of Basic White and stamped the ship from The Open Sea stamp set in Memento Black. I took the anchor from the same stamp set and stamped it in Pacific Point. I wanted to add more variety to the cards which is why I chose two different images. I then fussy cut the images out.

I then took the piece of layered DSP and cardstock and adhered it to the front of the card leaving about 1/2" from the bottom of the DSP layer. The smaller piece will go on the left with the wider piece on the right. Make sure you line them up right against the edge of the card base.

I then stamped the birthday sentiment from Whiskey Business on the thin strip of Basic White cardstock. Depending on the image you are putting on the card you will want to decide if it will be behind the sentiment or in front of it. Based on this decision you'll adhere them in that order.

I really loved the simplicity of this design and while I used two different sheets of DSP you could always just cut the DSP pieces from the same sheet and use the front and back. Unfortunately I felt that the patterns on the back side of the DSP were going to be two busy to work with everything.

I wanted to share another set of cards I recently made using the same layout to show you the versatility of this layout.

For this set of cards I chose to make them Anniversary themed. In order to accommodate the sentiment I had to cut that piece slightly larger and I felt it still looked really nice. And as you can see I decided to add some Gold Enamel dots instead of a stamped image.

I hope you'll go check out Call Me {Crafty} Al and see some of the other sheetload layouts she has.

Happy Paper Crafting! 

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