August 20, 2009
Card Making Crafts | Cardmaking | Card Craft
Make Your Own Cards With Creative Techniques


Learning to make your own cards is a great way to express them. Combining paper cards and the high quality of the following methods, you can send to your friends and family greeting cards made at home or make great gift cards to help every opportunity to become even more special.

Computer

There are many ways to make cards on a computer. The simplest, cheapest is to use its software to process the word.

Most word processing software comes with templates for greeting-card. Once you have the blank template on the screen, you complete your own personalized greetings. You can choose from a variety of fonts, but not going too far overboard. Too many sources will give a card to look busy. For images, you can use a photo or a favorite search for free clip art online. A picture of your wedding or a photo of your child opens his birthday gift really personalize a thank you card.

Another option is to buy software to make greeting cards. This software has many more fonts, backgrounds and clip art available then a standard package of word processing.

After you submit do exactly as you want, print it out on in the paper to ensure that seems right. To see if the card is finished, check your local store to the source of office paper for greeting cards. This is available in shiny or matte finishes and is rescored, so it's easy to get a perfect fold every time.

Rubber Stamps

Rubber stamps are a great way to dress up a card. You can create an entire card with them or dress up a store-bought card.

Rubber stamps come in every topic imaginable. Combine the stamp with the perfect drapes to complement her ink on paper cards, and you immediately have a fabulous card.

The stamps are also perfect for creating party invitations and cards of thanks to the simple games of children. The stamp is so simple that young children will enjoy helping make the cards for an upcoming party.

Templates

Templates are a great way to get produced or patterns on a spelling card. Use template adds an elegant touch to your cards, especially if you're not good at calligraphy. The templates make it appear that you passed the hand-spelled many hours each card.

Ornaments

Do not be afraid to add embellishments to your card. Check the hall of the scrap-booking in the art store to see if there are sources. Buttons, ribbons and decorative letters can be used to really jazz up a greeting card. The feathers are bright for another great card-making tool. With a little practice, you can write messages or bright highlight words and letters on their cards.

In fact, you could combine all the techniques. With photo software, print a picture and paste it into heavy paper cards. After embellishment with tape and rubber stamps, add a greeting and send it off in stencil.

By Winona Sw
posted by Cady @ 2:12 AM  
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