Homemade Cards with Wallpaper Samples
Make your own homemade greeting cards from paper and fabric scraps and a few gems and jewels from the craft room! You’ll never need to buy a greeting card again if you make your own with simple supplies you have around the house.
The kids have been making homemade Christmas cards here in my daycare this week, and in the evenings I’ve been busy making gift sets of homemade cards for friends and family.
See our Fabric Scrap Christmas cards here.
A homemade greeting card is so nice to give and to receive. You can make your own cards to suit almost any occasion and they cost a lot less than a greeting card bought in a store.
Fun and Addictive
Homemade cards are fun to make, and rather addictive to make once you get started.
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Where to buy blank cards and fabric scraps
You can get them here on Amazon, but I got my blank cards at Michael’s Crafts when they were on sale a few weeks ago. Packages of 25 cards with envelopes were going for 2.99 so I picked up several packages.
You can even get your fabric scraps on Amazon as well.
For the gift sets, I’d planned on making an assortment of about 10 different cards for each package but the process took a little longer than I’d expected, and being so close to Christmas, I just didn’t have time to make that many.
Packages of 6
I ended up giving everyone a package of six:
- 2 birthday cards
- 2 “congratulations” cards
- 2 cards with hearts on them, that could be used for anything really (the arrival of a baby, “thinking of you”, Valentines etc.)
I’d love to start earlier next year, and make a bigger variety.
The Christmas cards I made from wallpaper samples were much faster to make.
I cut my trees from co-ordinating wallpaper samples, and decorated them with small crafting jewels.
Cute aren’t they?
With enough time, you could make up a stash of homemade cards for all occasions, and never have to give another store-bought card again!
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
