Sunday evening I was checking out some YouTube videos for making cards.  I ran across a couple that were using the retired Stampin' UP! Boughs of Holly dsp.  I really like one that was made like this only using a horizontal layout  By making it vertically I could get a lot more cards from the dsp.

The lady making the cards on the video used a piece of dsp measuring 4" x 5 1/4".  To me that was a waste of the beautiful paper since so much was covered up.  I took a few minutes and using copy paper came up with what I needed.

I used a border die from Stampin' Up like she did in the video.  I had a full 12" x 12" pieces of the dsp and wanted to get the most cards possible.  I started by cutting strips of 4" x 12" strips and then cutting them down to 2" for a total of 18 pieces.

The white card stock was cut to 4" x 4 1/8" and then using the die cut the card stock into the two pieces needed.  

In order to assemble and achieve the right size for the front of a card,  I had 4" x 5 1/4" pieces of copy paper for the pieces to be assembled.  I just placed the bottom white piece on the copy paper, slipped the dsp under just far enough and drew a line along the top edge.  Then I adhered the dsp to the copy paper, added the bottom piece and the top piece.  

Once I got the first two done it went very quickly.  The assembled pieces were then added to the card base.  I added a white card stock piece inside for the sentiment which was also stamped with Real Red ink.

Thank you for coming by today!