Cardmaking for beginners - let the paper do the work

I love making cards, but after the previous card, the interactive infinity card, (read more about it by clicking on the link), I needed to do something much simpler. I had some 'not so nice' papers in my stash and decided to turn these into cards. Sometimes these horrible craft papers, can turn into really cute cards. Let me show you what I did. These are the front covers of my two cards.

These are the back covers of my two cards.

I started by cutting the images apart.

I then grabbed a coordinating 12x12" paper and cut it in half.

I folded the halved 12x12" papers into cards..

I trimmed the cut-apart images down.

I then started playing around with different layouts, deciding what I wanted at the front, ...

…and what needed to go to the back.

I cut some coordinating papers to mount the images on.

I secured everything in place with double-sided adhesive.

That took care of the outsides of the cards for the time being.

I cut some writing space for the insides of the cards from the same paper I used to mount the images on, on the outsides of the cards.

I added some washi tape trim. I secured this in place with double-sided adhesive as these particular roles of tape have very little stickiness to them.

Some paper flowers finished the insides of the cards. I did not add any sentiments as I had no idea what I would be using these cards for. I was simply giving the ugly papers a new lease on life!

I added some bling to the outsides of the cards.

And that was done! Front ends.

And back ends.

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