Post Author
It feels kind of special when someone gives greeting cards to wish you on your special occasions, right? When these cards are handcrafted, it shows your loved one’s effort, hard work, kindness, love, and care they have put into the greeting cards for you by making them with their own hands and investing their precious time and I guess this is the thing that makes handcrafted greeting cards even more precious and appealing. Also, it’s not difficult to make greeting cards on your own. So, below are the easy steps to craft your handmade greeting cards.
1. Gather the essential materials
Firstly, gathering some essentials is necessary to make a beautiful handcrafted greeting card from scratch. Depending on different embellishing styles, you may need many and varied materials. However, some of the basic must-have essentials include a pencil, a plain card, an eraser, fine liners, calligraphy brush pens, scissors, glue, and colorful water brush pens.
Comment
byu/MadiasHell from discussion
incardmaking
2. Select a design and make a layout
Now, once you have gathered all the essentials, it’s time to plan or select a design for your card, so you can start making a layout. In this step, you can decide what shape you want for your handcrafted greeting card and what designs you want to add according to the occasion you are making it for.
3. Start writing
It’s time to write your main text, which is about the occasion or person you are making your greeting card for such as joy on this day or happy celebration. Also, this text will be your main text, so ensure that you write it with light pencils before finalizing it as it would be easier to make modifications without spoiling the card.
4. Make some doodles
Now, you can turn your simply written main text into a doodle design that gives greeting cards a prettier look. However, if you are running out of ideas to make doodles or thinking of impressive wishing lines or quotes, try searching it on Google to get the top suggestions. Further, if you are worrying about drawing doodles, it is very easy and you can learn it from YouTube tutorials, which will merely take five minutes.
5. Add a few enchanting colors
Once you are done making doodles, it’s time to fill colors into the main text. Depending on your choice and occasion, you can fill in the vibrant or glowy light colors to make your card more fascinating. Also, you can try making some small cute shapes like hearts, circles, or patterns around the text and color them as well.
6. Add text, adorn, and send out!
Moving on, now your card is ready to get final enhancements. Now, you can add some text on the card and if it’s foldable, then inside the card, there can be some quotes or wishes in your words. Writing this text in cursive looks more artistic. Further, you can paste stickers and crystals to add some embellishments to your cards and applause, your card is ready to send out now!