Making own cards

**purpleprincess**

Recently I've been giving hand made cards and I've bought some really beautiful (but really cheap!) wrapping paper (with bold patterns on eg circles, flowers etc etc) and cut them out and stuck them onto plain card. Stuck a peel off on saying "thank you" "happy birthday" etc etc and they look really cool!!! Friends love them! I always write in brightly coloured ink too! ........................... I've even cut things out of magazines and made a card for friends, eg for a bag lover I've put loads of pictures of bags on the card. And have reused old cards too! The world is your oyster!!!

WeirdoMagnet

I often make my own cards. Over the years I've acquired quite a lots of bits & pieces.

I bought a box of coloured paper from The Paper Mill Shop for about a fiver ages ago, and I've still got half left. I keep any coloured gift boxes (like the things that mini-cosmetics come in), especially corrugated ones. You can use shells, pressed flowers etc etc. I buy some metallic/glitter pens, and sometimes pick up bargain things/sequins in novelty shops to stick on the front.

You can print pics off the internet, hand-tear them (instead of cutting with scissors), and use your glitter pen to outline it on the raw edge.

Most of mine are A4 folded in half, a 'hand torn' square of paper, a smaller quare of corrugated card/other paper, then a 'thing' stuck on top of the squares.

culpepper

When I first stopped work to bring up the kids,I made hand painted cards with a watercolour set and a book of water colour paper.
Over the years I've made computer printed cards too.If you use nice paper and a colour printer it can be quite economical( you dont need fancy card printing paper).
You can get rubber stamps with Christmas and birthday motto's if you dont think your writing looks neat enough.
Definitely worth it if you dont buy them as kits.

Tracey04

where can I buy cheaper card making /scrap booking stuff. Maybe you know a good internet site. Thank you

thriftlady_2

This thread might help you Tracey

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=237183&highlight=card+making

dianasnan

Try poundland, they have had scrapbook sets, card toppers, paper and card packs, wire jigs, sequin sets fairly recently.

thriftlady_2

thriftlady wrote:

This thread might help you Tracey

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=237183&highlight=card+making

Weird, a circular link :rotfl:

Anastacia

thriftlady wrote:

Weird, a circular link :rotfl:

thanks quite cool - i could stay here all day now......

JillD_2

I make a lot of my own cards when I am organised enough as there is some effort that goes into them and often I am too tired in the evenings,

I think they do work out generally cheaper than shop bought cards (except the reaaally cheapy ones) but this does not apply to Christmas cards.

My two tips though are:
1. I made all my own wedding invitations,thankyous etc using rubberstamps and embossing powder. The cost of the powder and heat tool were covered by the saving on 80+ invites, order of services and thankyous.
I bought a few extra stamps - flowers, balloons, cats etc and wordy ones that say Happy Birthday, Thankyou, congrats etc and most of the cards I make are a torn square of coloured card with a stamp on stuck on a white card with a stamped greeting below.
The stamp stamps on clear ink/glue, you sprinkle over embossing powder and shake off the excess, then heat it and powder bubbles up to shiny gold or silver. Bit of faff but a lovely card for about 30p if that.

2. I was in an book/art shop called "The Works" today and they had loads of cheapo cracfty stuff,I had to tear myself away as I really dont need it!

Lie others I save cards,postcards, coloured cards, sequins, ribbom, and bits ofcards given to me

My goal for next year is to make all the years cards in advance in January:p

Hinni

I make my own cards too. I bought my first supplies on Ebay, someone had got fed up and was having a clearout. There was loads of stuff and it saved me ££££'s. Wilkos do some card making kits and accessories and are reasonably cheap. I also take photos (flowers, wildlife etc) and stick them on the front. I never throw anything away and recycle the cards that I receive too. I have also found which has loads of bits n bobs to download for free. There are themed sets e.g easter, xmas, valentines etc. Very useful!