Use It Up Framed Paper

 

Today's cards started with a piece of paper from my stash.  Unfortunately, I didn't think to get a picture of it but though it was a "patterned paper" it had a LOT of empty white space on it.  Essentially it was just a frame with a couple of flower clusters in two corners.  What to do with it.

 

Card #1 (above): Since I wasn't that excited about the paper, I decided to play with the card shape itself to add interest.  As you can see from the picture, it's definitely "different". 

 

I started by cutting off the bottom half of the card front to make it a cutaway card.  On the inside of the card I added a piece of the plain border paper as you can see in the picture of the inside, below.  

 

Next, I fussy cut a corner piece to fit the cut off portion of the card (with just bits of the ribbon hanging off) and turned the piece sideways before gluing in place on the card front - overlapping the border paper on the inside of the card.  It felt unfinished and I decided I wanted to use those strips I had fussy cut off to create narrow border strips.  I didn't like the look, though, unless I extended them to meet the border on the inside.  This meant I needed to back them on card stock and also needed to piece one of the strips to fit.  Then I went looking for a sentiment.  As you can see, I ended up using two (both from Sassy's LLC).  I added one to the flower cluster, and one to the border at the bottom.  I felt it needed something in the upper right corner, so inked some card stock in deep yellow and punched three small circles to add there.

Inside:

 

Card #2: 

For this one I just used a standard card base and one of the plain corners of the paper.  To this I added an up-cycled embellishment (one my mom stamped).  Then I just added a matted sentiment (another of hers) and called it good.

Inside:

Card #3:

 

This time I made another fancy fold card. In addition to the one I added on the pop-through circle (2" die, 1 3/4" scalloped punch, misc from my stash), I added a dimensional bee to serve as a latch and hold the card closed.  As you can see, though it's partly covered, I used a flowered corner for the lower piece.  The upper piece uses a lavender ribbon as a border on which I placed my sentiment (Sassy's LLC).  The paper used there is some from my stash.

Partially opened:

Here's what it looks like when unlatched with the circle pulled back through the hole.

Fully Opened:

And here's what it looks like when fully opened.  It's not my best work, but I used enough of the paper that I'm happy to toss whatever scraps remain - and if I decide I don't want to send this one, it can simply serve as an example for me of how to make another card using this structure! :)