Card Embellishments: Using your leftovers

Utilising the surplus bits and pieces left over from your crafting projects to create greeting cards, notelets, gifttags and so on might be a very good way of economizing in addition to helping to save the environment. There are numerous choices available and may be produced in very much a similar technique that you would a scrapbooking design. Try hard to maintain a simple approach and individualise as much as you are able in order to get maximum benefits from your endeavours. You may simply meet up along with your family and friends to generate a few new card making projects utilising the old scrap booking odds and sods.

To begin with select several sheets of cardstock, approximately 81/2 x 43/4 inches, you’ll find that when folded in 2, it’s going to fit comfortably into a 4.1/2 x 6″ envelope that can be found everywhere. Obviously you may create larger greeting cards than this and these naturally are going to need a larger envelope, or perhaps you may choose to make your own envelopes or maybe employing a presentation box to contain your card.

Card Making Embellishments are usually a fantastic method of embellishing greeting cards and once more, you could utilize a few of your scrapbooking embellishments for this. Generally this really is all that is required to create quite an attractive greetings card that will certainly have the attention of the receiver.3D Decoupage, Quilling and three dimensional stickers also can very often be used for decorating your handmade cards, or maybe you could potentially attempt paper layering along with different card stock clippings and leftovers after which you can finish the card using your card making embellishments.