Friday, 6 January 2012

Make Your Own Greeting Cards

By Shaine Murray


A good time to start out gathering materials for making New Year Greeting Cards is over the previous year's yuletide season. Obtain as much seasonal clippings, ribbons, bows and small accents as is possible from journals, gift wrapping paper, gift tags, Christmas greeting cards, the list is endless - you will not have to search far for ideas throughout the Holiday period.



After you have accumulated all of your material, store it within a special craft chest. You may desire to split your material into various themes or templates and place it in to individual storage within your craft chest.



Before you start to generate the cards, you will need to buy either some card for slicing, folding and creating your own personal card blanks or some ready-made card blanks with the envelopes - this is the swiftest and fastest way. Look in the crafts-paper crafts-card making portion of eBay for good value packs of greeting card blanks and matching envelopes or try your local craft store.



White or cream is a good background color since it enables you to utilize a assortment of shades above but you need not restrict yourself to this color, you can be as artistic as you desire. Red and green also make good backdrop colors for Christmas cards.



Sticky pads are an additional practical accessory for your Christmas card craft building kit. These small foam pads with adhesive on both sides provide certain images a slightly elevated impact, allowing them to stand above card slightly. They're good for giving more prominence to decorations.



Check out various layouts on the cards without firmly sticking them down. If an individual design fails, discard it and begin again try not to be too judgmental - the idea should be to have some fun. Some variations will be better than the others however, you is not going to develop your own style should you not give your ingenuity full rein.



When folks like your cards, you may have orders coming in for next year's greeting cards and before you realize it, you should have put together your own personal card making enterprise. You might even sell your surplus cards to good friends, at local groups and fairs as well as online. eBay is an effective starting place selling hand-crafted items online.



If you undertake start out marketing your handmade cards, be aware that you'll be able to only sell off your original styles. In case you have copied someone else's style and design either coming from a book, magazine, website or some other source, you should not sell it mainly because it will be a abuse of copyright, except it's clearly expressed that it is copyright-free design and style. Start to make your own Greeting Cards now.




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