Pink & Main Beach Bum – 51 cards from one 6×6 paper pad

I recently used Pink & Main’s Beach Babe paper collection to make cards. It just seemed right to use their Beach Bum 6×6 paper pad next. The paper collection has a similar look with all the fun graphic designs. Since the colors are very patriotic with a bit of tan mixed in, I decided to make Independence Day cards. Although, I did end up sneaking a couple of Father’s Day cards in the mix. All of the Fourth of July cards will be given to a local retirement home.

I used my 6×6 Paper Pad Tutorial and one paper pad to make 51 cards.

Because I made over 50 cards, the video is a bit longer than normal. The real time recording was about 7 hours not including any of my planning, prep, or die cutting time. Watch the video below or click HERE to see it on YouTube.

There are a lot of busy paper designs in this paper collection. To help balance out the cards, I used quite a bit of solid colored cardstock. I used 29 sheets of  8 1/2″ x 11″ and 6 sheets of  12″ x 12″ solid colored cardstock.

Cardstock colors (most of them)

Deep Navy – Coredinations

Oceanic – Coredinations

Light Ocean Blue – Color Mates

Embossed Night Water – Bazzill

Ruby – Coredinations

Here are close up pictures of the cards I made, including sketches and measurements. Operation Write Home sketches are the only ones that already provide measurements. For all the other sketches, I simply figure the measurements out on my own, for what works for me. All of my cards are A2 size. Go HERE to see my video explaining how I determine card sketch measurements. All cards are made using Pink & Main’s Beach Bum 6×6 paper pad.

Sketch – MFT #366

Sentiment stamp – Hero Arts

Stitched Mod Square dies – MFT

Large star die – Spellbinders

Small star die – Paper Smooches

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Sketch – Mojo Monday #143

Sentiment stamp – Reverse Confetti

Small star die – Lawn Fawn

Circle dies – Spellbinders

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Sketch – MFT #346

Sentiment stamp – Hero Arts

Stitched background die – MFT

Circle dies – Spellbinders

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Star brads – from stash

Bling – from stash

Sketch – MFT #261

Sentiment sticker – SRM

Stitched square die – Lil Inker Designs

Embossing folder – Cuttlebug

Star die – Lawn Fawn

Sketch – Mojo Monday #323

Sentiment stamp – Reverse Confetti

Stitched background die – Reverse Confetti

Circle dies – Spellbinders

Embossing folder – Cuttlebug

Twine – from stash

Bling – from stash

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Sketch – MFT #247

Sentiment stamp – Reverse Confetti

Stitched frame die – MFT

Star dies – Paper Smooches

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Sketch – Operation Write Home #231

Sentiment stamp – Hero Arts

Brads – from stash

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Sketch – Freshly Made Sketches #300

Sentiment stamp – Hero Arts

Oval dies – Spellbinders

Embossed cardstock – Bazzill

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Brads – The Eyelet Outlet

Sketch – MFT #294

Sentiment stamp – Hero Arts

Embossing folder – Cuttlebug

Star brads – from stash

Ink – Reverse Confetti

Squared Off Cover Panel die – Reverse Confetti

Sentiment stamp – Reverse Confetti

Star dies – Paper Smooches

Ink – Reverse Confetti

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*All card sketch images used with permission.