Hey friends, I love a good tab in my life. Do you? If you’re a little confused right now, that’s ok, just keep reading. Tabs are so fun. We’re familiar with tabs on folders and using them for organization, but today I’ll share how to use them on card projects too. If you’re interested in reading along to create tabs for home organization projects, keep reading because you can use these tricks to make tabs for anything!
How To Make Paper Tabs Video
Watch along here to see how to cut and make tabs by hand or with a handy paper punch!
How To Make Paper Tabs By Hand
To create the tabs shown below, I cut paper measuring 2″ x 1 5/8″, then I folded it in half at the 1″ mark. I created several more decorative options than the one with square edges. To get you thinking, you could cut angled corners, use a corner rounder on the edges, or even punch a hole and insert ribbon through it!
You might want to make bigger or smaller tabs depending on the project you’re working on.
How To Make Paper Tabs With A Punch
The Keeping Tabs punch makes it super simple to create cute tabs for your paper and organization projects! Just punch through paper, then fold it in half to create your tab!
Paper Tabs Bundle & Cards
I wanted to share several card ideas using paper tabs, so take a look. The one below was really simple to create. I just cut 1″ off of the front of the card, added a tab, and decorated it with the Turtle-y Cute designer paper.
If one tab is fun, three tabs makes lots of fun! For this card, I created several flaps and added one tab to each one. What a fun gift for the recipient that gives several surprises!
I used the Paper Tags bundle to decorate the multi-flap card. It has coordinating dies that I used on each flap of the card. This stamp set is retiring and only available while supplies last!
Materials List
Use these links to order the Keeping Tabs punch or any of the other products I used!
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I hope this helps you know how to make paper tabs and cute projects with them!
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