Go into any shop Hallmark and you'll rack after rack of pre-greeting cards-almost all the same and all the price upwards of three and four dollars each. But why pay several dollars for a generic card when you can make your own, quickly and easily!
If you can scrapbook, you can create fabulous cards. In fact, the same principles used to design the layout can be used to make handmade unique and original. Here are some tips to help you create your own card:
A lot of pre-blank cards in hand. Standard tab size is 4.25 "x 5.5"-exactly half of an 8.5x11 sheet, folded in half! Take a piece of paper 8.5x11 "and cutting it in half and you have two cards ready to decorate.
Save your scraps. After each scrapbook page that you create, use fragments on a card. The patterned paper, cardboard and embellishments are already preselected to coordinate, so it will take only minutes to make a card from the leftovers.
Use the page layouts for tabs. Scale down the different page elements, and everything that you use to design a page could easily be used for a card.
Do a variety of cards for different occasions.You will need all common occasions-birthdays, thank yous, etc.--but don't forget to do some anniversary, thinking to yourself and get well soon cards as well.
Cards use of experiment. Want to paint on a scrapbook layout but nervous that you have "wreck" the photos? Eager to give it a test pressing? Use the smaller format of a greeting card to try some of the techniques you want to embed in your scrapbooking.
Paper-making is the perfect complementary crafts for scrapbooking. Already have all the supplies and tools, now you can give them a workout and save some money at the grocery store Hallmark.
For more tips to make your scrapbooking fun, fast and fabulous, visit the blog Lain Ehmann, Layouts a day. You will get tons of scrapbooking ideas suitable for scrapbookers of all levels.
