Make your own greeting cards
A homemade card brings more joy than a shop-bought one, and with basic techniques you can get a neat result without expensive tools. This guide covers the card base, decoration and posting.
You will need
- Card stock (e.g. 220–300 g/m²) and envelopes
- Paper scissors or a paper trimmer
- A bone folder or scoring tool and a ruler
- Double-sided tape or paper glue
- Decorations: stamps, patterned paper, stickers
Steps
Choose the card size
The most common folded card is A6, meaning an A5 sheet folded in half. Get envelopes in the same size in advance so the card is sure to fit.
Score the fold
Plan the layout
Make layers
Stamp the patterns
Add highlights
Write the text
Post it correctly
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