Card Greeting Unique

Giving greeting cards for birthdays, Christmas, Valentine's Day, christenings, graduations and many other special occasions has become a social custom which can strain your budget. Solve this problem by making your own unique and personalized cards at almost no cost. Once you develop card-making expertise you could even supplement your income by selling your cards.

A Necessary Creative Skill

A most important skill for making cards with free materials is to become crow-like. You need to keep your eyes and mind wide open and collect (and organize) anything and everything that might be useful. My daughter complained endlessly about all my “stuff” until one day, while making cards, she exclaimed: “Gee Mom, you have such interesting things.”

The Card Blank

For an unlimited supply of free paper of different thicknesses, colors and textures learn to make handmade paper using recycled waste paper.