Big Plans – Quick Card Ideas

Wanna make a bunch of pretty cards quickly and easily? You can!  One of my favorite accessories in the Stampin’ Up! catalog are the Memories & More card packs. These card packs were designed for scrapbooking or memory keeping. The cards in the Memories & More packs make it so easy to decorate the pocket pages of your photo albums. But these little Memories & More card packs are also perfectly sized for creating some beautiful greetings cards! And as an added bonus, it’s a very inexpensive option too!

Today I am featuring the Big Plans Memories and More card pack. This particular pack comes with 50 double-sided cards (2 of each of 25 designs) in 4 x 6 inch and 3 x 4 inch sizes. The card pack also comes with 6 single-sided silver foil specialty cards and 4 sticker sheets!

The nice thing about the Memories & More card packs is that you need minimal supplies to create some very pretty greeting cards. You need some cardstock for the base of your cards.  I typically use a basic color like white, vanilla or black.

If you want to add a colored matte around the 3 x 4 inch Memories & More cards (which come in the pack), I would recommend using a cardstock color that coordinates with the colors of the card pack.  The greeting cards below were created with the Big Plans Memories & More card pack so I used Basic Gray for all of my matting.

All of the sentiments and flowery embellishments used to create the 4 greeting card featured below, came in the Memories & More card pack. However, you will need some type of stamp set (with sentiments) to use when you run out of stickers. And you will run out of stickers because you are able to create a ton of greeting cards with the Memories & More card pack. You would be able to create 56 cards if you use just one Memories & More card on each greeting card that you create!  That’s a lot of cards!

The only other supplies you really need are some adhesive and a scissors (or paper trimmer).  If you like embellishments, like I do, you can use a few adhesive backed sequins, pearls, rhinestones or any other embellishment you have on hand. These cards feature the sequins.

So here’s a bit of information on how each of these greeting cards were created with the Big Plans Memories & More card pack:

Card Idea #1 – The greeting card was created with one of the 4 x 6 inch Memories and More cards. Simply cut the 6 inch side down to 5-1/4 inches and adhere it to your white card front. Add one of the sticker sentiments from the Memories & More pack. Embellish with some adhesive backed sequins

Card Idea #2 – This greeting card was created by layering two (2) 3 x 4 inch cards together.  Stickers were used for the sentiment, the flowery images and the border which covers up the “seam” in which the Memories & More cards overlap.

Card Idea #3 – This greeting card was created by using two (2) 3 x 4 inch Memories & More cards and layering them together. A 1/2 x 5-1/2 inch piece of basic gray cardstock was adhered across the lower half of the card. The card was embellished with one of the sticker sentiments.

Card Idea #4 – This greeting card was created with a 4 x 6 inch Memories & More card for the background (cut the 6 inch side down to 5-1/2 inches). The focal point of the card is a 3 x 4 inch card matted out with a 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 inch piece of basic gray cardstock. The card was embellished with one of the sticker sentiments.

There are so many possibilities with these cards. Have fun getting creative!

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