Making greeting cards is entertaining, unproblematic and a fantastic way of showing-off your imagination. This is an commentary that will provide you with an introduction into a selection of card making strategies.
With just a small number of essential accessories and craft-supplies,
along with some simple tips and techniques, it's possible create unique handmade greeting cards for many different occasions which includes Birthday, Christening, Mother's Day, Father’s Day, Valentine's, Anniversary, New Baby, Get Well, Bon Voyage, Good Luck, the list is endless…
You can design a choice of simplistic or complex
greeting cards and you don’t need lots of spare time or money. Generally, the most valuable cards may be completed in under 30 minutes, using just a few essential components.Once you have started, you could quickly be adopting a range of methods to make hand made greeting cards and much more, from wrapping-paper and attractive gift-boxes to scrap book pages and memory albums.
Here are 6 descriptions of some of the most popular techniques for making handmade greeting cards
Card Toppers: These are previously made decorations, usually with a self-sticking back. They give an appealing 3-D effect and are a good opportunity for beginners. No glue is necessary and a simple card need only consist of a card-topper, attached to a blank greeting card.
Decorative Embellishments:These are effective for creating a special finish to your handmade greeting cards. Embellishments are available at many craft stores and sold as luxury items that compliment the design, they include stickers, wooden shapes, wire, beads, ribbons or eyelets, foam shapes, pom-poms, gem stones, little petals, mirror tiles and many more.
Embossed Designs:Dry embossing - this method utilizes either a light source, for example a light box, metallic templates and an embosser device or specialised embossing compositions in order to generate a raised design and textures on the card, vellum, paper and metallic foil. For extra effect, the raised exterior can be colored with a felt-tip or pencil. Heat Embossing - this procedure uses embosser powder, pigment or special clear embossing ink as well as a heating device to generate lifted designs on card, paper or art foam. This technique is most often used to compose an additional dimension to rubber stamped images.
Glass-Painting: This requires the use of special water or solvent-based glass paints and glass paint outliner or peeling stickers to create artwork on to glass type acetate.
Iris Folding: This simple technique involves folded sheets of coloured patterned paper, that are layered, according to a template, into a swirl pattern at the rear of an aperture in blank greeting cards. The term comes from the folded paper designs likening to the iris of a camera.
3D Decoupage:3 Dimensional Decoupage is concerned with producing 3 dimensional images while using several copies of just one picture. Single elements are cut-out and stuck into tiers to ‘build-out’ the image, through foam pads or glue spots, bowed-tip scissors or a craft knife and a cutting mat.
There are numerous methods that are used to produce amazing handmade greeting cards, and this is simply 6 of them, you might want to perform further research into the technique that seems most suitable for your greeting cards projects. There is a well established website titled
www.cardly.co.uk, providing you with a lot of special variations of handmade greeting cards, including a number of of the techniques cited here.
