This week I’m sharing how to use your most beautiful photos and post cards – instead of design paper – to mat your cards! It’s not only lovely, but also very quick & easy. Think last-minute birthday cards, Christmas cards, etc.
Check out the video below and share your thoughts with me in the comments! ☕️
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So, the tip I’m sharing with you today belongs to what I’ve dubbed the quickscrap category, that is to say projects you can finish in 1 hour or less. Perfect if you’re in a bind and absolutely need a card or a gift pronto! And as an extra bonus it is super low budget.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve taken pictures of all of the craft projects you created thus far – and if you haven’t, start doing that right now! For the only thing you really need to create a lovely and most importantly superquick card, is a nice close-up picture of one of your own projects. And by close-up I mean: no background, no borders, just the details of your project. Crop the picture (digitally or physically) if you have to, to make it so.
Step 1
Print the close-up picture on photo paper. Crop it if that’s necessary to get a 100% close-up without backgrounds or borders.
Step 2
Get some nice folded cardstock and accompanying envelope from your stash.
Step 3
Glue the picture onto the front of the card.
Step 4
Cut off the excess of the card if that’s needed to perfectly fit your picture.
And you’re done!
How easy was that! Let me know in the comment section and have fun upcycling your old projects! 🙂
There’s more where that came from! For my other quick photo card tips, check out this post and this post. And for all of my low budget tips, click here!
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Sometimes it’s nice to be able to send some great pictures of you and your friend along with a birthday card for said friend. This card design is perfect for showcasing 2-4 pictures, together with a nice birthday wish!
It’s based on my wallet card design that’s explained in tutorial #22, so check that out of you’d like to create it yourself. It’s easy and fun!
This time I worked with Bo Bunny’s Rose Cafe collection, to coordinate with the color scheme automatically dictated by the pictures that I used 🙂
Hi all,
Today I’m sharing with you another Low Budget Tip, in other words how to create wonderful projects and presents that won’t cause a significant dent into your household budget. 🙂
There’s more where this came from by the way, check out all posts on this blog tagged Low budget!
This week’s tip is to create a picture card. For this type of card you won’t need much design paper for on the front the focus will be a picture you took (any occasion possible!), and on the back you will simply use cardstock or even printer paper of a different color than your base card.
You can keep the embellishments to a minimum by only using some glitter glue to trace around the picture and/or the journalling spot on the back, or you can add some simple decorations as I have, which still won’t have to cost a lot – especially if you’d die-cut the flowers and leaves.
So I hope you’ll enjoy this tip, let me know if you’d like to see more!