DIY Greeting Cards

DIY Greeting Cards - create lots of beautiful handmade greeting cards yourself. Step-by-step photo instructions will make it easier when making cards.

From birthday cards to baby thank you cards, you can make greeting cards yourself. Making cards using die-cuts is fun because you can arrange the die-cuts where ever you like.

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When making birthday cards or other cards like Valentine or get well cards, I like to start with a theme and think about the sentiment and where I'd like to place it. I then arrange the die-cut flowers around the sentiment, like I did with this handmade birthday card.

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Inspiration for homemade Valentines cards can come from a sticker. For this card I used the colors on the sticker for my color palette.

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It wasn't the cutest sticker I had seen but it was inexpensive so I challenged myself to create a cute card. Adding fun embellishments like ribbon and adhesive gems brought life to an average sticker.

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New Year greeting cards need sparkle so I added glitter and sparkly ribbon.

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I also used metallic embellishments on this happy New Year card. Make a feature on your homemade greeting cards pop but adding foam tape to your feature embellishment.

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You can find free clip art on the web for your homemade birthday card so take advantage and use it for your feature embellishment.

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For this card, I sprinkled glitter, added adhesive gems and painted the candles on the cake clip art I found on Microsoft's clip art site.

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Be inspired by a busy but beautiful print for your thank you card ideas.

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The scrapbook pattern paper is the feature on this card. You can change out the sentiment to make a birthday card or get well soon card.



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