 Hey stampers! Welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Beth, part of the stamping gel creative team, and I have a very simple idea to share with you today. I am a simple stamper. I love to make a quick project that has a wow factor, but that doesn't require a lot of time or effort or talent because I just don't really have a lot of those things. I love when we get a new designer series paper pack that has scenic designs in it. We have this new one called Meandering Meadow. This is an online exclusive designer series paper and it comes in six by six and it has these beautiful scenes on one side of meadows that are water colored. They have such pretty colors in them, but they're so beautiful. This is the hardest part of this kind of designer series paper is you don't want to cut it up and ruin the scene because they're just so pretty. So, when I saw this paper, I wanted to make a card that featured the designer series paper, which is right up my alley. I wanted to let the DSP do the work for me. So I came up with this card idea, let me show you, where I use the entire piece of the six inch by six inch designer series paper with very minimal stamping and I just let that beautiful image do the work. The nice thing about our designer series paper is that it's double-sided. So on the inside of my card, you get this beautiful coordinating watercolor look without doing the work. You just let the DSP so let me show you how I made this and give you a couple other ideas and tips along the way. I'm going to start with this piece of the meandering meadow designer series paper. I'm going to pull in my trimmer and I'm going to cut this piece down to five and a half inches. So it's like the size, it's the size for my card. I'm just going to trim it off of the bottom because I want that beautiful scenic color at the top. So it doesn't matter where you cut it from as long as it's the top or the bottom for this idea. I just liked having the darker one. Okay, so first cut it off to five and a half and then I'm going to turn it and I'm going to score this piece at one and five eighths inch. So just a little over one and a half. I'm going to do it on the left hand side of my paper. So I'm going to score that and that's going to be the front of our card. I also need to trim this little leftover piece because I want to use this on the card as well and I'm going to trim it to three and three quarters and then I'm going to have this little piece that I'm also going to use. So we'll set those aside for now. Also for this card I have a piece of fresh frija that is four and a quarter by five and a half. This is going to serve as the base of my card. I have a piece of basic white that's going to go on the inside of my card that's three and three quarters by five inches and then I have a little piece just for my sentiment. So whatever sentiment you're using. I'm using this stamp set. Hope you know. This is from our annual catalog. I found this stamp set recently. It's new this year but I haven't really paid attention to it the last few months. This is an amazing sentiment stamp set. It's got a nice front sentiment that you can use and then a great one to use on the inside of your card so that you don't have to write as much. That's what I use them for. But let me show you what I'm going to do with this. So let's put our card together. Really simple. We're going to take this little three and three quarter inch piece by half inch that was left over from our designer series paper. I'm just going to add a little bit of adhesive onto that and I'm going to adhere that onto my basic white piece just across the bottom just a little strip there. And then I'm going to put that on my card base. Just center that just like that. Now let's add with Highland Heather. I liked it a little bit darker than the Fresh Frieza. So I'm going to add the sentiment on the inside. Just stamp that and then we'll create our card here. So we're going to fold on our score line right there. Now to adhere this, this is the best way I've found that I like the best to make sure that it is even with the card front because I want that not to hang over at all. I don't like it when it does. So I'm going to take my card base right here that I've already created and stamped and put together. I'm going to lay it right here on my designer series paper and line it up. And then I'm going to take and put adhesive all down that. And then I'm going to take it and just press it over. So you do have a little bit of the overhang that looks almost like a book jacket. I like it. I think it just wraps the DSP around and keeps showing it off. And then we've got our card front here just like that. So this paper coordinates with the inside but it's not exactly lined up which I like that contrast. It looks like I worked really hard on this card so far. Then I'm going to finish off the front of my card just very simply. I'm going to stamp wishing you comfort on just a little piece of basic white. Then I'm just going to trim that just to give it a little banner edge. Okay. And then I am going to take my little piece, my small piece. I think this is like two and a quarter by a half inch leftover from that DSP. And I'm just going to pop it behind just to give it a little bit more of a contrast when I add it there. The nice thing is it coordinates because it goes with the colors in the paper but it's not exactly the same. So it kind of pulls that interest. So let me just add that on. I'm just going to put a little bit of adhesive on the back there just to add that and have it come out kind of part way. And then I'll add that with some dimensionals and pop it up. I'm going to put it on the darker part because I like the contrast of that purple watercolor there just like that. And then I'm going to take a bow. I want to tie a bow and I want to do this a double bow. This is kind of a fun technique. I'm just using our linen thread and I'm going to take and just double it here. You could trim it right here at this point if you want to. I like to. It makes it easier for me. So I've just got two long pieces and then you're just going to tie a bow with both. Now if it gets away from you and you can't keep them together just don't cut it yet. Leave them together. Tie a big cute floppy bow. I just love that. It adds a lot of interest to your card again without too much work. It kind of gives a lot of loops. It's kind of fun. Add that on with a glue dot just to the corner here of your sentiment. And then we will add just some little coordinating pearls. These colors worked really well with this paper. This is the blooming pearls. They're kind of iridescent so they cover all of the different colors that are in the paper. And there you have it. Just a really simple card where you let the DSP do the work for you. Let me show you a couple of other ideas that I came up with using the same meandering meadow designer series paper. Here's this one. I went with a little brighter because I liked the pink in the sky and the flowers. I used that same stamp set, the hope you know stamp set. So hello friend and you are the sunshine that brightens so many of my days. I thought that saying went really well with this paper. And then here's Truly Deeply Grateful and the inside. It's a little bit darker on the inside so I went with Night of Navy for the base and I thought that was a good contrast with it as well. I hope I've inspired you to look through your collection of designer series paper that you already own or look on our website at Stampin' Up and find some new paper to create these easy cards with and let the designer series paper do the work. If you are interested in any of these products I've used today, please check the description of the video below. The links will be there for you. And thank you so much for joining us and we'll see you next week for another Watch It Weekly Wednesday.