Handmade Greeting Cards

With today being Mother’s Day, you might have already picked out and purchased a card for yours. However if you haven’t might I suggest you make her one instead.

Remember making cards in grade school? The time and care you put into them to make sure they were just right and something you thought your mother would treasure forever, maybe even frame for family and friends to gawk at while visiting or a representative from Hallmark will spy your masterpiece and offer you millions of dollars to create cards for them because you were able to capture just exactly what their team of experts have been unable to do? Okay, so maybe not that far, but you get where I’m going with this… right?

It isn’t so much the effort to make the card as the smile on the recipients face when they receive it. A handmade card, whether it be for a birthday, get well, holiday or thank-you, carries a lot more weight than a store bought card in the emotions department, but just because you don’t have a creative bone in your body doesn’t give you an excuse to not try to make one yourself.

For crafters, you probably have a medium or twenty you could utilize to create a greeting card. Rubber stamps, collages, fabric patchworks, photographs, line to fine art, all work well to create a one of a kind card for that special someone. Of course, with the computer you have even more options to play with, but please hand write the message inside. Even if you have horrible handwriting, I still suggest doing so to really make it personal. And if all else fails and you have to come up with a quick card fast, a plain piece of paper with a note inside and maybe a stick figure or flower on the front will work. So let your inner child free and have fun in the process, because if you enjoy making it, the person receiving it will see that in the final product.