{"id":80359,"date":"2023-09-20T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=80359"},"modified":"2023-09-12T06:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T10:11:43","slug":"hybrid-inspiration-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/hybrid-inspiration-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Inspiration for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday everyone, I&#8217;m here today to show off some fun hybrid inspiration I found while browsing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/showgallery.php?cat=587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hybrid gallery<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always been a huge fan of hybrid pages, cards, and creations and I&#8217;ve dabbled a bit with them in the past. I don&#8217;t own special scissors or a Cricut or Silhouette machine, so cutting things to use for hybrid things hasn&#8217;t always been easy or fun for me. However, I love seeing what our amazing members and Babes come up with.<\/p>\n<p>One of our main hybrid Babes is Esther and she has been creating gorgeous things this year. I pulled 2 cute cards that would be sure to put a smile on anyone&#8217;s face. These cards are so amazing and make me want to buy a cutting machine so bad. I just wish I had the time or the room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-blog-esther.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-blog-esther.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-blog-esther-300x22.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-blog-esther-600x45.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/showphoto.php?photo=725435&amp;title=hello&amp;cat=587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80363 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_babe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_babe.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_babe-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_babe-600x643.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_cu_babe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_cu_babe.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_cu_babe-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-2_cu_babe-600x643.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/showphoto.php?photo=725426&amp;title=hello-little-one&amp;cat=587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80361 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_BABE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_BABE.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_BABE-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_BABE-600x643.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_cu_babe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_cu_babe.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_cu_babe-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ZOO-LO-1_cu_babe-600x643.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seeing her cute cards made me want to take a stab at creating my own. I wanted to experience this as a true beginner using what I have at home without buying special machines or tools. So I examined Esther&#8217;s two cards and felt the one with the elephants seemed like it might be the easiest when you&#8217;re working at home with just basic scissors. With that card as my inspiration I went searching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/sweetshoppe\/home.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shoppe<\/strong><\/a> for a kit to use. I was looking for a product with mostly basic shapes that I knew would be easy enough to cut around by hand when I remembered there was a section of the Shoppe focused on &#8220;easy printing&#8221; for home. The &#8216;Easy Print Packs&#8217; category of the Shoppe would be perfect for what I was trying to achieve so I settled on this beautiful easy print kit, by Blagovesta Gosheva, a rainbow of possibilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/sweetshoppe\/product.php?productid=38758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80364 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bg_easyprint_arainbowofpossibilities.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bg_easyprint_arainbowofpossibilities.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bg_easyprint_arainbowofpossibilities-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bg_easyprint_arainbowofpossibilities-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bg_easyprint_arainbowofpossibilities-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bg_easyprint_arainbowofpossibilities-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the steps I used to create my card:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download, unzip &amp; open the easy print kit. I was met with 13 PDF files. 10 were patterned paper backgrounds, 2 were the journal cards and there was 1 sticker sheet of elements.<\/li>\n<li>I folded a piece of card stock in half as my &#8220;white&#8221; or neutral base. Similar to what Esther has done by having the pattern paper mat smaller than the neutral card front base.<\/li>\n<li>I chose to print 3 patterned paper sheets, 1 sheet of cards and the element sticker sheet. This gave me 5 separate pieces of printed cardstock.<\/li>\n<li>I measured (really I eyeballed it, lol) the paper sheet I wanted as the main background mat and did a rough cut rectangle that fit inside of the folded card &#8220;front&#8221; of the cardstock.<\/li>\n<li>I cut out the pocket card I wanted to use and left a little white edge around it.<\/li>\n<li>The other two paper sheets I created a mat roughly the size of the pocket card and a paper strip to go across the card front as a sort of flat ribbon.<\/li>\n<li>Then I cut out the sticker elements I wanted to use for my card. This was the fun part, but also a little tedious since I didn&#8217;t have a fancy machine to do it. lol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is what everything looks like once I cut out the cards, elements and paper mats I wanted to use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-80400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rsz_20230909_192445-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rsz_20230909_192445-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rsz_20230909_192445-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rsz_20230909_192445-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rsz_20230909_192445-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rsz_20230909_192445.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now it was time for the real fun&#8230;.assembling my card!!!! While I don&#8217;t work with paper crafts much, I am a serial creative and tend to have things I probably never would have used had it not been for this card experiment. Like double sided tape that I picked up on a whim one day in the craft section of some store that I can&#8217;t remember. lol<br \/>\nOnce I was done with the front of my card, I used a few more of the sticker elements for the inside, to write my message. I have just the person I want to send this card to and I hope to brighten their day.\u00a0I did some bends and folds on some of the sticker elements to create that &#8220;lifted&#8221; or real paper look like Esther&#8217;s cards above. They will flatten a bit when I mail it, but hopefully not too much.<\/p>\n<p>This is my finished card. I really like how it turned out!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-80395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PSX_20230911_084512-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PSX_20230911_084512-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PSX_20230911_084512-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PSX_20230911_084512-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80399 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20230909_200256-1-e1694436956426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20230909_200256-1-e1694436956426.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20230909_200256-1-e1694436956426-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20230909_200256-1-e1694436956426-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this experiment of sorts. Do you create hybrid pretties? If so, I&#8217;d love to see them, or know what else I can create with the household tools I have. Until next time, keep scrapping those memories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday everyone, I&#8217;m here today to show off some fun hybrid inspiration I found while browsing the hybrid gallery. I&#8217;ve always been a huge fan of hybrid pages, cards, and creations and I&#8217;ve dabbled a bit with them in the past. 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