PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Mar 26, 2024 17:53:09 GMT
Do you use traditional cardstock (i.e. heavyweight/at least 80 lb/216 gsm, smooth or textured, solid colors) when creating layouts? TIA.
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Mar 26, 2024 17:56:32 GMT
The only time I use cardstock is for cards when I use one of my many die cuts. I will use white cardstock every so often as a background for a 9x12 layout but typically use patterned paper.
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Post by mom on Mar 26, 2024 17:58:19 GMT
Yes, usually as a base for the layout.
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Post by Linda on Mar 26, 2024 18:15:19 GMT
I love cardstock! All the colours please
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Post by dewryce on Mar 26, 2024 18:15:23 GMT
It’s rare I make a layout or card without it.
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Post by karensay on Mar 27, 2024 0:30:54 GMT
I like to mat my photos with CS vs patterned paper.
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Post by BSnyder on Mar 27, 2024 0:40:07 GMT
It depends on the layout. Mostly as a white, cream, black, or Kraft background, sometimes with mixed media. Those basic colors plus navy and aqua or light blues are my most frequently used colors. I probably am a 50/50 split on cardstock and pattern paper backgrounds. I also fairly frequently use it as a photo matte (for some reason if I do a photo matte, pattern paper doesn't often seem to work for me). I also use it frequently for digital die cutting.
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Post by huskermom98 on Mar 27, 2024 0:53:24 GMT
I use it on almost every LO either as the background or to mat photos.
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Post by janamke on Mar 27, 2024 14:14:03 GMT
I use it on almost every LO either as the background or to mat photos. This. 99% of my 12x12 layouts start on cardstock.
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Post by hoopsfn on Mar 27, 2024 14:31:12 GMT
I have a lot of c/s so I'd better be using it. It still makes a great base for a l/o and matting photos. And kraft c/s will always be a favorite.
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Post by infochick on Mar 27, 2024 14:54:26 GMT
I put myself in the "no, never" as the only time I use cardstock is when making cards, or using my Silhouette to cut file to back. Most of my layouts are all pattern paper. Even if I am cutting titles or letters with my Silhouette I tend to use a tone on tone pattern or b-side that goes with my layout.
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Post by christinec68 on Mar 27, 2024 14:57:45 GMT
I use white cardstock as the base for my layouts a lot of the times. I use other colors every once in a great while.
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Post by mandolyn9909 on Mar 27, 2024 15:13:02 GMT
I use white a lot for matting photos. I don't use coloured cardstock very often at all.
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Post by mbanda on Mar 27, 2024 15:47:20 GMT
Yep sure do! Even though I use a lot of pattern paper in my layout I would say 99% of the time I am also using cardstock on the layout as well.
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Post by Ryann on Mar 27, 2024 15:54:40 GMT
I often mat my photos with white cardstock when scrapbooking. I very rarely used colored cardstock when making layouts. It's been a very long time since I used cardstock as the base, and when I did it was probably white.
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Post by Neisey on Mar 27, 2024 17:04:54 GMT
Yes! I use very little PP, although from the stash I have you’d think I use a lot - I typically just use a small strip or two to add to my CS backgrounds, CS silhouette titles, etc.
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 27, 2024 18:44:22 GMT
Most of my layouts start with a solid cardstock. And I rarely use white.
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Post by gramma on Mar 27, 2024 21:34:11 GMT
I use a boat load of card stock. I always use the heavier versions and ALWAYS smooth. My Silhouette hates textured card stock - especially for paper piecing with little pieces.
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Post by Embri on Mar 27, 2024 21:55:39 GMT
I don't make layouts so I have not voted, but I use solids/heavyweight almost exclusively for the things I do make - die cuts, boxes, board games, storage, embellishments and cards.
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Post by refugeepea on Mar 27, 2024 22:17:53 GMT
I do use cardstock frequently, but I don't pay attention to the weight unless it's something that will be cut with an electronic cutting machine.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Mar 28, 2024 4:06:33 GMT
I sometimes use it as a base on my layout. I also use it to make tags or frames.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2024 17:51:19 GMT
Yes. I use cardstock as the background for my layouts. Patterned paper is too busy as a background for my eyes.
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Post by PaperAngel on Apr 1, 2024 3:15:36 GMT
I do use cardstock frequently, but I don't pay attention to the weight unless it's something that will be cut with an electronic cutting machine. Note I included the description of (traditional) cardstock to distinguish it from cardstock-weight pattern paper (e.g. 49 & Market, Carta Bella) & pattern paper weight solids (e.g. Echo Park Solids), which I've noticed some scrappers also refer to as cardstock.
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Post by artbabe on Apr 1, 2024 10:56:19 GMT
I probably use cardstock on 75% of my layouts. I'm fairly influenced by trends and there are a lot of designers out there using mostly white cardstock as their base.
I almost always use textured cardstock. For some reason smooth does not appeal to me. I use white or black as the base a lot but I'll use colors too.
This is giving me flashbacks to when layouts used to always be 90%-100% cardstock and I used to go to my local scrapbook stores and pick out all of the colors. Good times. Although I've gone back to some of my old layouts and added patterned paper because 100% cardstock layouts look weird to me now.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Apr 2, 2024 6:29:27 GMT
I use a lot of cardstock, mostly white, but occasionally black, navy, and lately I've used kraft. I was late to jump on the all white backgrounds trend but I have definitely embraced it and love how my photos pop.
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Post by PaperAngel on Apr 3, 2024 15:11:55 GMT
I love cardstock! All the colours please Me too!
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Post by katlady on Apr 4, 2024 15:25:14 GMT
It has been awhile since I scrapbooked, but I never used plain cardstock as a base. I always use a patterned paper. I don’t mat my photos either, although sometimes I do print out my photos with a border, so that acts as the mat.
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Post by wordfish on Apr 5, 2024 10:05:15 GMT
I use cardstock on almost every layout. I keep white/cream/black/kraft in stock and buy it in packs. I also have red and some blue. I used to have every color of the rainbow but I found I really didn't use it, so I gave all of that to a children's museum probably 5 years ago or so. That's all in 12x12. I do also make cards, so I keep cardstock in 8.5 x 11, same colors with maybe a few more for cardmaking.
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Post by needtime2scrap on Apr 5, 2024 13:41:25 GMT
I'm in the use regularly group. 90% of my layouts have both solid cardstock and pattern paper. It's rare that I only use one or the other. But usually it's white, black or kraft. I used to have *all* the colors but a few years ago I went through it all and just kept a basic set of my most used colors and donated the rest to the library. I've got a simple assortment of reds, pinks, greens, blues and browns (12x12) but I did keep all my SU! 8.5x11 cardstock packs so if I need any color for matting or the occasional card I'm set.
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Post by PaperAngel on May 1, 2024 1:23:55 GMT
This is giving me flashbacks to when ... I used to go to my local scrapbook stores and pick out all of the colors. Good times. ... Ditto. There are no LSSs left here, & I miss the in-person supply shopping experience - perusing entire walls bursting with a rainbow of Bazzill cardstock, aisles filled with multiple racks of patterned papers, pegs full of embellishments & tools, etc. <sigh>
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