Card making for the uncrafty

This is one of those posts for those who like regularity and predictability in their blogs, better known as "filler".

So, despite all the crochet featured around here lately, I am not really a "crafty" person. Truly. I did art and photography up until the end of Year 11 at school, and loved them both, but then dropped them to pick up 4 Unit Maths (big mistake, very big mistake — I could do it, but have I ever used it since? — nope — and does anyone ever use that level of mathematics outside the education loop? — I am waiting to meet them, though maybe, somewhere deep down in my education store, it helps me join up 12 pentagons) and 3 Unit English (this was not a mistake and I would do it all over again — it was the best thing about Year 12). All that to say, that while I like and appreciate art and photography, and I do like making things, I am not so much into the classic "craft", especially craft that involves paper. What I like to do with paper is write or draw on it or read things off it.

But, I do try to make cards. I order blank cards from here, which is about the cheapest place in Australia to get them, but then I have trouble trying to think of something to actually put on the front of them (well, OK, trouble trying to think of something to put on the front that isn't going to take two hours or cost as much as buying a card, because that would make it rather pointless since I don't do paper craft for the love of it). So, here is one of my solutions for card making for the not-so-crafty.

You just buy or find somewhere amongst your stuff some material with small motifs on it that you can cut out individually, team it up with some other kind of material that is plain or has a smallish print/pattern on it (or add in other coloured bits of cupboard) with a bit of "craft glue", and voila!, a card that doesn't take two hours to make — because for some of us there is a fine balance between time and money when it comes down to the value of making things. It's nothing too marvellous but looks OK, yes?