Handcrafted Cards with Book Pages – World Card Making Day 2015 #JPHalloween

Woohoo it is World Card Making Day 2015! So, PaperCrafts, the magazine that created this whole shindig isn't doing it this year but the world has decided that World Card Making Day will still go on. So here we are, doing a hop with my friends at Clearsnap. If you're a card maker, you totally need to know who Clearsnap is – they are the people who make ColorBox inkpads and those really rad Rollagraph rolling stamp wheels, among other things. I have loved their ink from my high school days, when I had that 5 color rainbow pigment inkpad that every gift store had in the 1990s. Now, there's a TON more amazing stuff that Clearsnap offers besides Rollagraph and inkpads. Today I am sharing simple way to make handcrafted cards with book pages and a faux decoupage technique you'll be sure to love. The cards are all stamped with ColorBox Chalk ink, my favorite formula from Clearsnap. So without further blabbing from me…

What's cool about these cards is that you can use any book pages or paper for the background and then stamp on it. The white pages from the phone book work great! This is a fun way to recycle paper you might have considered trash. Now, before the book police get all cray cray with me, these books I am using were thrown in a trash bin a few years ago and I asked the person throwing them out if I could have them. They are water-damaged and many of them are out of date, like encyclopedias. So I feel I am giving them new life. And no, I did not cut up the Bible (someone accused me of doing that once!).

You don't have to stick with fall colors – change the colors and the stamps for any occasion. I like to think these look sort of like those book page prints that are so popular on etsy:

Here's how to make this fun card:

Here are the supplies you will need to make this super amazing coolest card you ever saw…. okay, it's not the most amazing but it is easy and easy is good, right?!

Xyron XRN500EN 5 Inch Create-a-Sticker Machine Xyron Clearsnap ColorBox ANTIQUING -CATS EYE CHALK SETS ColorBox Chalk Ink – Chestnut Roam Sizzix Framelits Dies 20/Pkg W/Clear Stamps-Birds & Tree Sizzix $27.58

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This post is sponsored by Clearsnap as part of my 30 Days of Halloween here are Just JP and on the Hydrangea Hippo YouTube channel. Thank you Clearsnap! And before you go, don't forget to continue on the hop and enter to win a selection of your choice of TEN ColorBox inkpads… I wish I had 10 inkpads. For real! That is a lot! Be sure to comment on everyone's blog post in the hop to enter to win. The hop is short because we really really really want you to be able to visit everyone and enter to win 🙂

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