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DIY Greeting Card Idea Description
If you are looking for a simple but really cute and effective way to make your friends remember you, then present them with greeting card that you make all by yourself. There are many reasons to choose DIY greeting cards over store-bought versions including cost and personalization. DIY Greeting cards are the perfect way of balancing two things, that of making someone special and minimizing your budget. You can save money by designing them yourself. You can create a more personalized greeting card that expresses who you are, fits a specific theme, or incorporates personal elements such as photos. A greeting card you make yourself is more meaningful to the recipient and just as attractive as any store-bought greeting card if you apply a few simple graphic design principles.This powerful application will fit your desire in creating greeting cards by yourself. The tutorials are quite easy to follow. The best part is you can make the card as simple or as complex as your skill allow you. In this collection, there are some greeting cards tutorials for birthdays to festivals , you can also make some card for all occasions for engagement, wedding, baptism, get well, and good luck cards among many other occasions. Since it is handmade, you can totally suited to the person you are giving to. All you need to get started are the following materials :
-card paper in different colors along with scissors, glue, and a ruler.
-Quilting tools.
-Labels for sticking on.
-Pencils, pens, crayons, and sketching pens
-Glitter pens, stick on glitters, spangles
-cute little bit of fabrics or pictures
-paints and brushes
You can make a greeting card any way you like. But become familiar with the basic aspects of cards first. And while the exact steps can be re-arranged, you may find this basic step-by-step useful.
• Planning Your Greeting Card
Fold a piece of paper in half. Decide on a feature for the card. Plan a design around your chosen feature Decide whether you would like a greeting on the front of your card.
• Making Your Greeting Card
Put your design together. Write your greeting on the front of the card. Write your message inside the card
• Making Homemade Envelopes
Find a square piece of paper. Place your square on the table so that it looks like a diamond.
Fold the left (triangle A) and right (triangle B) corners in so that they match the lines of the ‘X’. Fold the bottom corner (triangle C) so that its point is about half an inch above the center.
Place a piece of double sided tape on the inside points of triangle A and B. Press triangle C against triangles A and B. Fold the top corner (triangle D) so that its point, or tip, folds over the tip of triangle C. Place your card inside the envelope.
• Additional Ideas for Greeting Card Designs
You can excite your loved ones with a pop up card. Pop up cards are fun 3D cards that are great for kids. For Christmas, you can even make a pop up Christmas tree card. You can also draw the recipient’s silhouette. Silhouettes give cards a historical, romantic feel
Start to make your fascinating greeting cards now and when done right, you can be sure that people will remember and cherish them while they see the efforts you have put into it.