Last year Stampin’ Up! released the new Two-Tone cardstock, which we had years and years ago. I got several packages of it and have just now tried it! I guess it got lost in the shuffle and I forgot about it! But it is current in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on pages 76-77 if you want to learn more about it and see all the colors. It is sold in packages of 12″ x 12″ paper, 12 sheets in a package. When Stampin’ Up! introduced it, it came in scrapbooking kits in an assortment of several colors. This card is made with the Two-Tone Granny Apple Green.
The big deal about the Two-Tone cardstock is that one side of the paper has a light shade and one side has a darker shade both of the same color! So you can do all sorts of things with just one sheet and two shades of colors! PLUS, the paper has a “white core” which means that you can emboss the paper and sand it lightly and expose the white underneath the color. Or if you tear the paper, the white inside will show.
For this card, I chose Granny Apple Green and went off a sample I saw in the Stampin’ Up! catalog on page 79. The card base is Basic White with a layer of the darker shaded side of the Two-Tone Granny Apple Green as the layer on the front of the card. Next I took another piece of the same paper and diecut smaller and larger circles using the Stylish Shapes Dies and the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.
Before adhering the Granny Apple Green layer to the card base, I glued these circles on to the front of the paper. Since the layer on the card is the darker shade of green, adhere the circles with the lighter shade facing up. You can play around with their placement or only use on size. Allow some to go off the sides of the paper, then trim along the edge when they are all glued down.
Next, either stamp a floral image or some focal point you like and adhere that to the card. I chose some yellow flowers in the Fully Flowering Ephemera Pack on page 29 in the Annual Catalog. This piece is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is stamped in Granny Apple Green Ink using the Simply Said Stamp Set. I wanted something narrow that I could place over the flower stem. I used Dimensionals on each end of the greeting so it would be even with the popped up flowers. I also added my last three Iridescent Foil Gems to the card. These were some of my favorite gems to use out of my whole collection.
That’s all there is to the card! You can definitely see the difference in the lighter and darker shades of the Granny Apple Green two-tone cardstock on this card, having the lighter side of the circles facing up against the darker side of the card background layer. I’ll be playing around more with the things you can do with the two-tone cardstock! Check it out in the catalog!