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Making Your Own Greeting Cards

43 Homemade Greeting Card Ideas

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February 2, 2009

I have not bought a greeting card of any kind for more years than I can remember. How easy it is to make all kinds of beautiful cards with personalized photos from your own computer.

 
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April 22, 2019

Give homemade cards to your friends and family. This design is easily created with cardstock and some sticky gems for sparkle. This is a page about making a hanging baubles greeting card.

Hanging Baubles Greetings Card - finished card on table top

March 26, 2019

Spring is a time for flowers, new growth, showers, blue skies, and a riot of happy birds. This cute handmade greeting card allows you to exercise your drawing skills, use of oil pastels, and food colors as a substitute of watercolors. This is a page about creating a spring bird greeting card.

Naïve Spring Bird Greeting Card - mix up food coloring diluted with water and paint the background allowing colors to merge allow to dry

September 13, 2018

This is a page about making a best friends card. Making a handmade card and gift tag for your best friend is the perfect way to tell them how much they mean to you. You can easily customize this design with their favorite colors.

A pink and green handmade card and tag that says "Best Friends."

September 7, 2017

Brighten a loved ones day at the start of this holiday season with a lovely card and gift bag. Here is how to make a handmade happy Thanksgiving card and gift bag.

Happy Thanksgiving Card

September 7, 2017

An autumn themed birthday card is sure to be appreciated by anyone with a fall birthday. Make this 3-leaf fall birthday card for someone special in your life.

add rhinestones

September 6, 2017

For someone with an autumn birthday, you can make a fall themed birthday card to accompany your gift. Make a homemade fall birthday card for someone special in your life.

The finished Fall leaf card.

August 10, 2017

This cute card, decorated with small heart shaped balloons, is sure to bring a smile to the recipient. This is a page about making a heart balloons greetings card.

Heart Balloons Greetings Card - finished card

July 21, 2017

Colorful paper mini bunting is the focus of this handmade greeting card. This is a page about how to make a bunting greetings card.

Bunting Greetings Card - add your message to the front of the card

May 17, 2014

This is a page about making a watermelon card. Celebrate the summer with a cute watermelon invitation or greeting card that you make yourself.

A greeting card showing a semi circular slice of watermelon.

March 26, 2014

This is a page about making shaker cards. Make your own greeting cards with dimensional windows that you can fill with confetti, potpourri or anything you like.

Coffee Break Shaker Card

May 24, 2013

This is a page about making fabric covered cards. Create beautiful unique greeting and gift cards using fabric. You can use your fabric scraps or buy yardage for the project.

Fabric Covered Card

April 5, 2017


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May 28, 2010

Our granddaughter is graduating from preschool Friday. She has a house kitty that she adores. Whenever I find a card with a picture that looks like her Cookie, I buy it. I found a birthday card but not a graduating from preschool one.

New text to alter a greeting card.

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May 20, 2011

Many of us make our own cards. When it comes to using commercial scoring tools, you end up having a lot of money tied up in such a creative hobby.

 
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July 23, 2007

One woman's remnant, is another woman's reward. Every single garage sale/estate sale I have ever been to has had at least one bag of miscellaneous sewing notions: buttons, lace, beads, and threads for cheap.

 
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July 29, 2013

I have been using www.snapfish.com to create greeting cards that I can print on my own home printer. Any kind of card stock or even good thick writing paper works well.

 
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September 15, 2006

You can make your own greeting cards by savings up interesting pix you find and then mounting them on computer card . . .

 
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March 21, 2008

I love stamping and giving greeting cards to all my friends and family. These cards are made from wallpaper books that are normally discarded by paint stores. I got the books and made lovely cards using the wallpaper samples. Added a sentiment inside and I have instant cards that are beautiful.

Recycled cards in plastic bags.

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April 19, 2006

You can make your own personalized greeting cards by using blank note cards and writing in your own greeting. I use color-coordinated calligraphy pens to make the writing special.

 
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October 10, 2004

Want to make a great gift that will remind you of spring all winter long? Go out and remove the last of your pansies and daisies and press them in a book. You know that lacy looking weed that took over? Well go pick some of those leaves and press them also. Just don't pick the poison ivy. :)

 
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Homemade Greeting Card Ideas

Here are the Homemade Greeting Card Ideas asked by community members. Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community.

September 3, 2017

I wanted an idea for how to create greeting cards which would not be too

 
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April 25, 2015

I need some legal advice. Can I make cards to sell at a craft fayre or in church using the pictures from shop-bought cards I have received?

 
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August 12, 2013

My picture on the greeting card does not fill the whole front of the card there are always margins, how can i make it fill the whole thing?

 
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May 21, 2008

I'm a rubber stamper/scrapper/paper crafter. This is a photo of one of my hand stamped "purses" and matching card. I usually make 6 cards for each "purse" and give them as gifts.

Handstamped "purse" for a gift of greeting cards.

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