Ideas On How To Make A Creative Handmade Greeting Card

If you want to add a personal touch to your gifts

, creating a handmade greeting card is the best way to go. Aside from the fact that handmade cards say so much more than a greeting card, from your local high street. It also provides you an artistically enjoyable hobby. Beautiful handmade personalised greeting cards are truly unique for all occasions and will never fail to make your love ones smile.

If you are interested in making cards for your friends and family to celebrate their special days, you will find a wide range of materials available.

Why not bring your homemade personalised cards

to the next level, check out the following ideas that may help you to achieve the perfect card for all those special occasion.

PAINTS

Love painting? Do you want to free up the artist in you? If so, investing in a good quality paint set and just let your ideas flow, you will be surprise what you can achieve. Purchase blank greeting cards or recycle old coloured papers that will serve as your canvas. Sketch the design with a pencil, paint the design and allow it to dry before writing your message in the greeting card.

USE JUNK MAIL & OLD MAGAZINES

All you need are junk mail or old magazines, craft glue and a creative mind to come up with a nice greeting card, especially if youre on a budget! Sort out old magazines and pick out cool stuff that you can use such as graphics, cartoons or even quotes to decorate your handmade greeting card.

SILK FLOWERS AND BUTTONS

Love sewing? Why not make a lasting impression with a uniquely crafted silk flower and button combination greeting card? Its pretty simple to do. Just grab some blank card, silk flowers, a good looking button, thread, needle and a double sided tape. Sew the button to the silk flower and attach it to the greeting card using a double sided tape. Write your personal message and voila! You have a beautifully decorative and much more interesting greeting card.

EMBOSSED CARDS WITH STENCILS

Stencils are a cheap, creative alternative to spice up your greeting cards. Often available in packs or by designs, you just need a steady hand and patience to have an embossed greeting card in an instant.

Here are some other materials you can use to bring your card to life.

Buttons, Ribbons, Dried pressed flowers, Glitter, and Lace.

The above ideas are just a few of the many options you can choose from. Even if we are advancing into a paperless world, there is a lingering fact that there is something particularly special about a personalised, handmade greeting card.

Start adding a unique touch to your greeting card today!

by: Jannet Ellis

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