Card Making

How do you feel when someone gives you a homemade card? I know I always feel touched that they have taken the time and made the effort to create something unique and heartfelt for me.

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
  
• Working with Chalks
  
• Crayon Resist Technique
  
• Dry Embossing
  
• Heat Embossing
  
• Faux Metal
  
• Glitter Embossing
  

  

• Faux Silk
  
• Gatefold Cards
  
• How to make your own envelopes
  
• Inchies
  
• How Do You Find Inspiration? I show you one way to be inspired in Stamps Craft 2
  
• Folding can be a great way to add interest to your cards. Try a Folded Greeting Card (also known as a Stair Step Fold or Accordion Fold card) or
• - Iris Folding
  
• Kissing Technique
  
• Masking
  
• No Adhesive Cards
  
• Paper Piercing
  

  

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  Now Here's More Card Making Techniques For You:

• Paper Craft Punch Cards
  

  

• Using Recyclable Products in paper-crafting
  

  

• Reflections Cards can really dazzle!
  

  

• Twinchies
  
• Rub Ons - Custom Made!
  
• Shadow Technique
  
• Stamping with Bleach

  

• Tearing Ruler tips
  
• Two Step Stamping
  
• Water colouring tips
  

  

• Sometimes you need to match your card to your wrapping paper too, if you are giving a gift at the same time :)
  

  

Have you made a card lately and have fallen in love with it? Do you have a picture of it too? We'd love you to share it!

Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...

Diorama Daisy 
This card was made using a template, the stamps are from the new range called Daisy and Dandelion which were coloured in with copics.

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Valentine's Day Card  Not rated yet
I made several different patterns of Valentine cards for my friends and family. This was my favorite style that I made. I used plain white card stock and ...

A Quilled Card  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

Here is a card we made using the quilling technique. You mentioned this technique in one of your newsletters.

Desire

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Parchment Bookmark  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

We used the basic parchment technique I told you about last time to make a bookmark as well.

Desire

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Parchment Card  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

I taught a basic parchment class (Parchment for Dummies #1). Here is one of the cards our craft ladies made.

Desire

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Chalked Card  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

This Prick and colour card was made using pastel chalks - a very delicate process.

Desire

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Hi Desire

What ...

Gift Card  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

I followed your instructions for making a gift card (the one you showed us for Father's Day) except I made a different kind of closure for ...

Christmas1  Not rated yet
I used Cuttlebug embossing folder 'Holly' on my card. I used two different coloured green chalks on the embossing and coloured the berries with a red ...

Distress Inked Stamped Flower  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

Here's a card I made. I stamped on the paper flower and used distress inks to make the green harlequin pattern on the chipboard button.

I ...

Birthday in pink  Not rated yet
Again I used the spellbinders fleur de lis pendant die.
It comes with a large die, a center die and two small ones. I cut the smaller center one in two ...

Wedding card  Not rated yet
I just got the spellbinders fleur de lis pendant die. I call it the die to die for. It makes such pretty cards.
This is a wedding card I made for a ...

Glitter Card  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

I made this card using a template for the butterfly and glitter.

Tanyah


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Hi Tanyah

How pretty!...

Stamping and Twinkling H20s  Not rated yet
Hi Susan

This is a card I made with stamps inked up with different shades of Twinkling H20s. I made faux stitching on the main image by using a white ...

Repeat Stamping and Leadlighting  Not rated yet
I made my background by repeatedly stamping my images (I didn't ink up my stamp each time so there are some lighter images which gives more depth), and ...

Alcohol Ink Card  Not rated yet
I love making cards with alcohol ink backgrounds. Here's a bright one I made so you can see what I mean. I use this technique in scrapbooking too to make ...

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