Card ConnoisSUEr - Susan Boback: FLIP the STRIP - a paper quilt-look card design

Saturday, April 6, 2024

FLIP the STRIP - a paper quilt-look card design

"FLIP the STRIP" created by Susan Boback

Strip cards are one of my favorite card designs, especially for two reasons:

1) Using up your paper pieces at the end of a season or catalog

2) Putting together papers in a design that is revealed as it goes.

Strip cards can be by one color family or by using the various prints in one theme package of Designer Series Paper.

Take a look at these Strip Cards first. Then I'll show you how to "Flip the Strip" and make a varied design, and how it came about.

Here are a few Strip Cards

So now that you've seen how Strip Cards look, you will understand the concept for my idea, "Flip the Strip".

After Christmas I sorted out the colors of papers, greens, reds, and blues. Often the papers are matte prints on one side and metallics on the other. I was hoping to find a way so that I didn't have to cut the strips and then re-align the pieces to set them together in the pattern.

As I was lining up the strips, I folded one in half at a right angle, which revealed the reverse and made the strips look like two strips - this was the initial "Flip the Strip."

Take a 1/2" piece x 6" or longer. Fold it in half at a right angle - now that reveals both sides of the paper. Line them up in a "V" shape on a solid piece of cardstock that will reveal an "arrow" of color that makes the pattern too. Use 4 or 5 pieces to build your pattern. Add this finished piece to a layer or attach to an A2 or 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" base.

The ultimate look to this is to emboss it to add texture which makes it look "quilted." Use a small, close design for this look.