Smooth White Card on Offer at The Papermill

Happy New Year to you all, hope you had a great Christmas and brought in the New Year in style.  Well here we are into another year and my first DT post for the Papermill.  This week's Special Offer at the Papermill is 260gm Smooth White Card, a midi box (approx 260 sheets) for £16.00 or a mega box (approx 645 sheets) for £34.00 - that's just over 5p a sheet!

Just a reminder that the  Luxury Antique White Envelopes and Artists Pads will be reverting back to full price next on Friday 17th January, so still time to grab a bargain.
               

Here are two cards made using the smooth white card, this is excellent for stamping and colouring and as you can see from both cards it embosses well too.  

My first card is for my granddaughter as it is her birthday this month, she is a girly girl and loves blue.  I started by making a 15cm square card using pink card, embossed a square of the smooth white card and matted it onto the card, to this I added some patterned paper, a doily, a square and a round aperture cut from glitter card and a stamped image using a LOTV stamp which was coloured with Promarkers.  A computer generated greeting and a few crystals were added to finish.

This male card, which is to be put in my birthday folder for use later in the year, is one of my favourite styles for male cards.  It was made using the smooth white card.  I embossed a piece of the card with a spellbinders embossing folder, coloured it with distress inks and a little treasure gold, stamped  a Tim Holtzs sentiment  and an image stamp which was a freebie with a magazine last year.  I added a few cogs which had been sprinkled with embossing powder and heated to give a rough texture to the shiny card.  The finished panel was attached to a top fold card leaving a small white border. I have used this technique before for male cards and the smooth white card works beautifully with the embossing and inking.