Cardmaking: Use Your Watercolour Paintings

I had a lot of fun at school doing a couple of small watercolour paintings to pass the last days of school last year, after the kids had finished their exams. Not having any real purpose for these little paintings, I decided to turn them into cards. I show you how simple and easy, but effective this is in today's blog.

Select matting paper and cardboard to compliment your painting.

Fold the cardboard in half.

Cut the painting and the matting paper to size.

Stick the painting to the matting paper.

Mount the picture on the card.

Add a small line of evenly spaced glue dots along the side of the card.

Add some bling to the card to finish it.

Select matting paper and cardboard to compliment the snow-woman.

Crop the painting and the matting paper to the required size. Mount the picture on the matting.

Fold the cardboard in half.

Mount the painting on the card.

Apply an evenly spaced line of glue dots to the side of the card.

Finish the card with some bling.

I had also shown one of the other teachers at school how to paint this cartoon-like ladybug.

Find coordinating matting paper and cardboard.

Fold the cardboard in half to make the card.

Cut a frame from the matting paper.

Crop the painting to the required size.

Frame the painting with the matting paper.

Mount the framed painting on the card.

Add some wooden ladybugs to the frame to finish the card.

The completed card.

Find complimenting matting paper and cardboard for the forest landscape.

Fold the cardboard in half.

Crop the painting and mating paper.

Mount the painting on the matting.

Mount the matted painting on the card, leaving a line to the right of the card.

Add some bling to finish the card.

The completed card.

Find complimentary matting paper and cardboard for the tropical landscape.

Crop the painting and the matting paper.

Mount the painting on the matting.

Space the painting evenly on the card and mount it to the card.

This time I did not add any bling to the card.

Five completed cards.

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