Cleaning Up My Desk!

I had a couple of colored samples sitting around on my desk and decided to make a couple of quick cards using them.  They were made using the Beside Me stamp set - but were early trials showing poor ink choices and poor coloring techniques.  Even though they aren't my best, I decided they were good enough to be used. 

 

Card #1:

This card is a Book card - simply score card front 1" from the fold and fold it back.  Then glue between fold and this scored line.  Other than that and the focal, it was made using scraps I found in my stash.

Card #2: 

Now I only had one of those focals left and I wanted to get it off my work space!  I embossed a piece of Night of Navy cardstock (used Mini Corrugated 3D embossing folder) and went looking for a patterned paper that would work together with it and the focal.  I chose this Early Espresso DSP which makes a great backdrop for it (works with the pink in the girl's shirt, but keeps the masculine feel I wanted).

The card itself is a Fancy Accordion style with lots of folds.  Again I started with a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of cardstock.  This time I scored it at 2 3/4", 5", 6", 8", and 9".  First two score lines are folded as valley folds - then mountain, valley, mountain.  Unless you add a panel that extends more to the right than the card itself, this card will be smaller than an A2 card by about 1 1/4" (which suggests if you started with a piece that was 12" long it wouldn't take much modification to end up with a standard A2 sized card).