I love Stampin' Up!'s printed paper (also known as dsp - designer series paper).  Often, I love both sides and in my panic not to frivolously use it up, I don't use it at all!  But sometimes, I either find the print too distracting or not suited for my project.  What is a girl to do??
The answer is to make your own printed paper!  It's super easy when you have a stamp set, rather than just one stamp.    It's one of the beauties of purchasing a coordinating set. 
Last night, I was case -ing a new fold design by fellow Ohioan Chris Slogar.  She had several pieces of the new Flowers for Every Season dsp, paired with the Celebrate Sunflowers bundle.  While this dsp is beautiful, some of it is too busy for me.  But her design needs the background or it will look too unfinished.  So, I made my own paper.

Its simple.  Really.  For this one, I did not want to stamp the entire piece, so I blocked off with washi tape. 

 I did need to cover up the bottom portion more with scrap paper, when I stamped that low, half flower.  To get the two colors on one stamp, I used the Stampin Markers.

 This is the finished inside.

 This is with the front folded.  The blue print is dsp.  As you can see, I think mixing the two worked well.  Neither over powers the other. 

 And this is the front.  The sunflower is on an arm that goes up, revealing the sentiment below.  I think this is a super cute fun fold that is easy to make.

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What will you make today?