Easy Greeting Cards
Minimalist Handmade Cards: Clean Designs With Very Few Supplies
One focal element, plenty of white space and careful placement. The principles behind minimalist cards, with three clean designs to make.
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Easy Greeting Cards
5 Simple Handmade Cards You Can Make With Basic Supplies
Five easy card designs made from plain cut-paper shapes: three hearts, color blocks, confetti dots, a single flower and diagonal stripes.
Handmade Card Techniques
How to Score and Fold a Card Without Cracking
Scoring presses a dent along the fold line so cardstock folds straight and does not crack. Here is how to score, fold and burnish a card base with simple tools.
Handmade Card Techniques
How to Cut Cardstock Cleanly: Card Sizes and Straight Edges
Straight, square cuts with scissors, a craft knife or a paper trimmer, plus the measurements for A2 card bases, mats and other common card sizes.
Handmade Card Techniques
Cardstock for Card Making: Weights, Finishes and Grain
How to read paper weights, which cardstock suits card bases and which suits layers, and how finish, core and grain affect the finished card.
Easy Greeting Cards
Card Making for Beginners: Tools, Paper and Your First Card
What a handmade card is made of, the short list of tools you need, and a first card to make: a folded base, one mat and a paper heart.