Here's a card  I made a while ago and completely forgot about. It's only because I am at home with the dreaded Covid and have been looking through my photos. That's when I realized I hadn't posted it. I can't think how I forgot, I had a lot of fun playing with this technique and made a lot of inky mess trying out different colour combo's.

It's a quick and simple card to make and suitable for a lot of occasions. It doesn't require much in the way of tools or materials either. 

You can make this as a single layer card too, so even less materials needed.

I started by folding a piece of copy paper in half length ways and in half again width ways.

On the  corner where both folds overlap,  measure in, half a centimetre /quarter of an inch and draw a line on both sides. ( I realize it says 1 cm on the photo but when I opened out the paper it gave me a gap 2 cms wide between the panels and I felt that was a  little too wide.)

With the paper still folded, and your punch upside down,  line up the edges of the punch with the two lines you have drawn and punch all four apertures at the same time. I used the rectangular postage stamp punch from  Stampin' up. But you could use any shape punch or die. Think about the size  and shape of your card before deciding on a different shape.

Open and flatten out the copier paper and position it over your card and tape down to prevent any slippage.

Now, I used the pieces of paper I punched out of the apertures to mask of the apertures I wasn't working on, but they did move, resulting in me getting ink where I didn't want, in the end I swapped over to post it notes.

The Post it's, meant I could be as liberal as I wanted with the ink without getting ink where it's not supposed to be.

Here you can see I masked off two of the apertures and applied some lilac ink to the other two apertures with a blending brush. I started by applying the ink in one of the inside corners and gradually blended the ink to the opposite corner to create a graduated  look.

Once I had applied the ink, I stamped the images over the post it and the aperture. It's best not to stamp the whole image in the aperture, unless  it's a sentiment of course.

 

I've add an extra photo here so you can see what I mean .

You can change this up in so many ways. You could do each aperture in a different colour, do the whole card using just one colour in ( see example at the bottom of this post) or use two colours as I have.

You could have the sentiment  running between the panels in  portrait position or turn it around and have the sentiment running through the middle in the landscape  position,  depending on the direction and style of your stamped images.

You could place the sentiment below the panels  This could be a single layer card or one with multiple layers. The choice is yours.  

On the Header card and the one below  I went a step further and used a stencil to add some subtle interest to the background of each panel.