Card Making

You can make your own cards at home with your scrapbooking supplies. You can also use rubber stamps to embellish your card making in almost infinite ways.

The first site I found that illustrated literally hundreds of different stamping techniques was SplitCoastStampers. I still go there to browse member's cards for new ideas and technique tips. It's a very friendly community!

I made the 'Happy Everything' card shown at the top of this page with a few basic supplies and some sponge daubers. Sponge daubers are little cylinders of plastic or wood that are tipped with a dome of sponge. You can press them into an ink pad to pick up some ink, then apply them to your paper. Make sure you rinse them well before changing ink colours!

Here's how I made the 'Happy Everything' card:

• I used a pink coloured cardstock as a base and
  
• Versamark ink to stamp the pattern on the background and
  
• two different coloured papers to mount the main image on and
  
• a Stampin' Up! stamp to make the flower from the set 'Greetings Galore'. The image is stamped on glossy white cardstock with black Stazon ink. Then it is coloured in with chalk pastels and a blender pen. The background has been sponge-spotted yellow with a sponge dauber
  
• last I speckled the image with more ink to give it a random and completed look.

You might like to try making one of these handmade cards yourself. Or here are some other ideas:

• Card Spinners
  
• Crayon Resist Technique
  
• Embossing
  
• Faux Silk
  
• Gatefold Cards
  
• Iris Folding
  
• Kissing Technique
  
• Masking
  
• No Adhesive Cards
  
• Paper Piercing
  
  
  
  
• Rub Ons - Custom Made!
  
• Shadow Technique
  
• Tearing Ruler tips
  
• Two Step Stamping
  
• Water colouring tips