Jennifer Schaerer
Aaaaaand…it’s back by popular demand!
Here at Paper Crafts magazine, we pay very close attention to what we hear from our readers. One of the things you’ve told us consistently on our annual reader survey is that you struggle most with what to add to the inside of your cards after you’ve created a masterpiece of a card on the outside.
A few years ago, we published a special issue called Card Creations: Start to Finish Vol. 2, and it was incredibly popular:
Card Creations: Start to Finish is back by popular demand!
We know we’ve created a great special issue when we can look back at it almost three years later and the designs are still fresh, the ideas are still relevant, and even the product used looks like it is a brand new release. But most of all, it solved a problem for YOU, our readers, by providing a ton of inspiring ideas to finish off the inside of your card with a cohesive design, punny sentiment, or coordinated color scheme to match the outside of the card.
It was a no-brainer to reprint this one, so if you missed it the first time you can snag yourself a copy in our online store today.
Here are some sneak peeks from the original promotional week:
And don’t miss the challenges that Cath featured over on the Moxie Fab World blog, because there are link-ups you can visit to see dozens of inspirational ways to finish off the inside of your cards:
Card Creations Start to Finish Challenge
Five for Friday: Card Creations Start to Finish
Card Creations Start to Finish: Challenge Winners
Now - if you absolutely positively can’t-wait-another-day MUST HAVE a copy of this issue, I’ve got some copies sitting right here waiting for an eager winner to claim them. Just let me know in the comments if you’ve got a tip or trick for finishing the inside of your card. I’ll pick three random winners from the comments left by this Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 3pm MST.
Go ahead – finish what you started!
Neglect on my insides of cards too! need somehelp!
thanks!
I love coordinating the inside of my cards ! thank you!
I love either stamping a coordinating image inside my cards or using pieces of the pp. I stamp on the envelopes, too.
I love cards
Not very original but the one thing I sometimes remember to do is to stamp a smaller version of a coordinating image from the front on the inside. Love this issue.
I struggle with this sometimes too. It has gotten better. Thanks to all the inspiration from your magazines:)
I always like to use one of the papers that I used on the front and tape it inside. I then stamp a nice sentiment on it and embellish it with something cute.
oooo! would love to win a copy!
ooo i love making the inside as good as the outside and would love to have more tips and tricks
Wld love to have a copy of this fab issue!
I love finishing the insides of my cards! One thing I always try to do is to bring some element from the outside of the card to the inside of the card. Sometimes, I reverse the colors…whatever was dominant on the front is the accent inside, for example. I keep a file of good sayings in Microsoft Word, so I always have a good selection of sentiments to finish things off.
i leave mine blank, and then i get a blank in my brain when i have to fill up all that white space with words! time to fill it up so much that i have to squeeze a word in!
What a great prize. Sounds exactly what I would find very useful. Thanks for the chance to win.
I don’t like “canned” sentiments for the inside of my card so I usually write whatever I want to say myself. I think it makes the card more personal to the recipient and I can express my thoughts more directly.
I am so bad at finishing the inside!
my card is also covered with same papers as the front card. A free space for sentiment, some embellishment and/or stamped image or sentiment.
I like to stamp an image inside that relates to the front. I also like to make the image from the front appear to continue or move visually from the front to the inside. Don’t forget to sign and date the back as well!
Know I should stamp a coordinating image (have done that sometimes) but usually stamp a sentiment that goes with the card front or just write my own message. My DH laughs at me because I always fill up the space right to the bottom with my own words appropriate for the occasion. Could definitely use help in this regard from start to finish. Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
I always stamp a coordinating image inside my cards…not really a tip or a trick but would love to win the new Card Creations!
I usually use something inside that I used on the card front–the same patterned paper, stamped, punched, and/or die cut image. Most of all, I love to put a pop-up inside. They are easy and fun to make and the recipient always enjoys the surprise.
I normally leave the inside of my card blank.Would love some inspiration for the inside. Thanks for the opportunity.
I like to repeat a pp strip on the inside surrounding my sentiment to connect the two parts. Thanks–we need more inside tips.
I need help. Blank has been the thing for me latey.
Washi tape or a border punch. So easy but it really does a nice finishing touch and leaves plenty of room for a message on the inside too.
When I don’t stamp a sentiment, I like to add a strip of pattern paper to coordinate with the front of the card.
This would be a great prize to win. I need all the help I can get and this issue would be perfect.
My cards are always blank inside, so I need all the tips and hints people offer! Thanks for the chance!
It tends to be neglected, but sometimes I add a border strip or stamp a sentiment.
This is a wonderful magazine, I want to read it
Sometimes I put a sentiment inside my card.
I love to look at card magazines. Thanks for the chance to win this awesome one!
I really need help with the insides of my cards! I would love to win this issue! Thanks for the chance to win!
I really NEED this issue!! Thank you very much
The tips would come in handy since I’m new to paper crafting.
I like to stamp the inside with the inside verse and add something related to the front of the card. Envelopes, too!
I like to put something inside the coordinates with the front. If I am really ambitious, I will do the envelope, too. I would love a copy of this magazine to get more ideas!
I love to stamp the inside of my cards or leave them blank.
stamp the inside
I like to stamp a sentiment or die cut some shape to put in the inside.
I often will stamp or hand – write a sentiment inside in conjunction with some elements from the card front or overtop of a lighter version (as in ..stamp the image on scrap first , then on to card inside) of the stamped image I used on the front.
If I use a border punch for the edges, I coordinate the inside with paper trim under the punched area. Also, I try to continue the sentiment in the inside.
I am a matchy matchy card maker, the inside has to have at least one element from the front of the card and so does the envelope lol thanks for the chance to win.
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