Card Making

The advent of the world wide web means crafters can buy craft materials and cards and also sell their wares to an international audience. Whether it's setting up your own website or trading through ...

Card making has become one of the fastest growing creative pastimes in recent years. The craze for card making has meant a boom in supplies readily available on the highstreet. There are many card ...

You don't need a lot of expensive tools and materials to make cards. Start with a basic kit and add to your collection as you become more proficient. Blanks A blank card is essential for ...

If you are a crafter copyright is an important issue to avoid other people copying or passing off your work as their own. You also need to be aware that you aren’t infringing on anyone else’s ...

Parchment craft uses specialist translucent papers that change colour and become stretched when pressure is applied with tools. This technique is known as embossing. The essence of parchment craft is ...

Quilling, or paper filigree, is the art of rolling and gluing thin strips of paper into different shapes to create decorative designs. These beautiful three-dimensional embellishments can then be ...

Rubber stamping is the technique of printing a design using a rubber stamp. It is a relatively new papercraft but it has become so popular that it is probably the most widely practised. There is now ...

Teabag folding is a paper folding technique which originated in Holland. It involves folding tiny squares of patterned paper and combining them in attractive geometric patterns to form a larger ...

Peel-offs, or stickers, can be used in many ways as the central feature to a card, to add a message or to add a border. The designs have really become more intricate and modern, appealing to all ...

So you have been making cards for quite a while and think that you are now ready to go professional? Well there are many ways to sell handmade cards, from doing a few for a local coffee morning to ...

Card making is an increasingly popular hobby which more and more people are starting to enjoy, not only to avoid paying for shop-bought, mass-produced cards, but also as a way to express a sentiment ...

There are many ways to use stencils in card making which are simple to use but give stylish results. They can be used as a central design or to make background patterns. A stencil is a sheet of ...

Embellishments are any bits that you want to use to decorate cards. They might be bought, found items or recycled items. Here are some ideas for creating your own and how to use ordinary objects to ...