Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Handmade cards

When you consider ways of making handmade Christmas greeting cards you could effortlessly come up with many ideas. The crucial point lies in your collection. The quantity of several collections you have to fashion your beautiful card, directly stays in ratio to the best card you would be in possession of. The assortment of decorations one could gather to make a fine-looking and eye-catching Christmas card would be the focal point of card making. It is not just a month's labor; you have to be inventive enough to look for stuff around you right from day one. These collected works would someday prove to be useful. Before sitting out to make your card, wander around to look for materials that would make Christmas greeting card truly exceptional.

Tips for Your Handmade Christmas Cards

1. It is significant that the resources you bring together should be colorful enough. Consequently, whenever you come upon several colored sheets with various thickness and you find them of no use, take out a punching instrument and punch out small balls. The balls should be of varying sizes. Try to get a hold of them with the use of compass and scissors. These groups of balls could be glued at the borders of photographs, to make frames for any photo, to lay them as a bed for a new embedding craft.

2. Gather several different colored ribbons to create beautiful bows and glue them in your Christmas card wherever essential. It would be magnificent to tie a bow around your card to hand them exclusively as a gift to your loved-ones. These ribbons could also be placed parallel to give the impression of beautiful Christmas trees.

3. Punch out star figures and parallel strips of colored papers to attach stars and hint trees using parallel strips. It would be nice to use silver and gold colors for stars.

4. Put aside colored threads that lay unused. If the threads’ colors are, gold and silver gather them to make out your own picture. Give them a classic touch using these golden threads. You can also use the golden threads in letters printed on the card. Glue them consequently and place them tight in place.

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