Card Making
There are more and more occasions these days for which we are
exhorted to buy cards. It used to be Christmas and birthdays,
and then we had Easter cards and Mother’s Day cards. Now there
are cards for Fathers Day, Grandparents Day (it’s in September,
for those of you who didn’t know) and every other sort of day
you can think of. Buying cards can cost a fortune!
So why not make them instead? It can be fun, the cards are
more personal and so mean more and it will save you money! You
can put patterns or pictures onto card, you can embroider the
card, you can make your own or buy kits. The options are almost
endless – and you are limited only by your imagination.
You can buy special ink pads, stamps, paper and card and all
sorts of things to add as embellishments. You can be as simple
or as complex as you wish. As you get more confident and your
expertise improves, you can make cards that are more and more
ambitious but that will cost a fraction of the price of
shop-bought cards.
You can get a taste of what it’s all about at
www.docrafts.co.uk
This is a commercial website but it does detail how to do
certain projects and it will give you an idea of what’s
involved.
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