Below is a
selection of valentines day greeting cards I have found online to help you get
your romance blooming.
Thursday, 4 January 2018
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Birthday cards
A selection
of Birthday cards that I have found on the internet to help you get inspiration
for you own cards or to help you select a card for a loved one or a friend.
Saluki(fawn) birthday card Saluki (fawn) Birthday card
by alpendesigns
by marshaliebl
by funneestuff
by C_Katt
by PAMECards
by dryfhout
by dryfhout
by jimkayalar
by outlander
by quipology
Thursday, 6 April 2017
Mothers Day
Mothers Day is fast approaching, have you
chosen her card yet? If you are still looking for that perfect card for your
wonderful mother, then have a look below at some of the Mothers Day greeting
cards that I have found. They may not be the one that you are looking for but
hopefully they will give you some ideas and you just have to click on the image
or link to go to where I found them.
She does a lot for you so why not find that
perfect Mothers Day card for her.
by FINEandDANDY
by DebraBronson
by quipology
by stargiftshop
by CardsnSuch
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Save money on your greeting cards
Save money on your greeting cards
Looking to save money on buying your
greeting cards now is the time to get ready. With Black Friday (25th
November) and Cyber Monday (28th November) coming up many stores
will be offering gargantuan savings, each store trying to outdo the next, some
have already started.
To make the most of these savings you need
to have a plan of attack. After all, if it is a site wide sale you can also get
the greeting cards you need for the whole year and not just the festive cards. So
let’s make a list (I love lists);
- Who do you need Christmas or New Year cards for?
- How many Birthday cards will you need next year?
- What anniversaries are coming up in the next twelve months?
- Are you planning a wedding, why not get the invitations now?
Have a list for each occasion and then add
the name of each person under each occasion (on a separate line), so your
husband will appear on Christmas, Birthday and anniversary. Once you have your
lists you are ready for the next part.
Find a site that you like or maybe more
than one and register as a buyer with them. The reason for registering with
them is so that you will get the emails from them telling you what sale they
have on and what code to use at the check out. Now that you are registered with
the site do not sit back and wait for the email with the sales code to arrive
in your inbox, as some of the sales that have the biggest savings are over and
done in a short time (flash sales).
Instead you should start to pick the
greeting cards that you need. Add the cards to your basket but also make a note
of the product number against the name of each of the people on your list just
in case your cards disappear from your basket. This way you will be ready when
that email arrives with the big discount code.
This may not get you a saving on all your
greeting card needs for the year but it will give you a big saving on most of
them. To start looking why not try some of the sites below.
Sunday, 30 October 2016
Save Money on Christmas Cards
This year and every year going forward.
The holidays are coming and you can sense
that your credit cards are taking a deep breath in expectation of all the debt
that is going to be put on them. How do I know that the holidays are coming,
the stores are starting to expand their Christmas products (that have been in
store since August) out over the whole store. This is the time to start to plan
your holidays, what gifts to buy and for whom, how many Christmas cards you
will need and who you will be sending them too, checking the list twice to make
sure you have not left anyone out. Time to put that year planner to use and
mark of days that you will not be available as you have already agreed to go to
a social gathering.
Let’s get one point straight, saving money
on Christmas cards will not mean that you will be sending poor quality cards or
that everyone will be getting the same card for the next twenty years but if
you do find value cards at hundreds for pennies then I will show you haw you
can use them letter on. Knowing how many Christmas cards you will need and for
whom will mean that you are prepared when you come across an opportunity like a
sale in a store. I know some people that got some or all of this year Christmas
cards in the January sales (that would be me). So get that list written after
you have finished this post so that you will be ready for the next opportunity
you come across.
You may have missed the January sales but
there will be other sales both on the internet and in the high street before
the holidays, in fact it feels like not a week goes by without me getting an
email telling me about a sale with 20%, 30%, 40% or 50% off. When I find cards
that I like and want to buy I make a note of the product number in a file on my
computer, I group them together under the site if found them on like Zazzle,
Greeting cards Universe or Cafépress so that when I get notice that the site is
having a sale I can go straight to the cards on the site, saving me both time and
money.
Making your own Christmas cards can be fun
and very enjoyable with the added advantage that the card will be uniquely yours
and that the recipient will not be getting the same card from anyone else. You
maybe thinking that you have no skill in making cards so yours will look
terrible and cheap but with a little practice you can be producing wonderful
cards that your friends and family will love.
Everyone has some skills that can be
applied to card making, weather that be sewing, scrap booking, photography,
calligraphy or even finger painting that you loved back in kinder garden. All
of the skills used in card making are easy to learn but you do not need to
learn all of them, just the one or two that you need to make the card you are
working on at the moment.
So now I guess you are thinking “how are you going to save money after
buying all the card making equipment and the materials you will waste learning
the skills needed”. First off, do not buy any card making equipment, let me
say that again DO NOT BUY ANY CARD MAKING EQUIPMENT not at first anyway because
at the moment you do not know what you need. Make do with what you have around
the house and as you make cards you will learn what you want from your tools,
maybe you need bigger scissors or smaller scissors or it is not scissors you
need at all but a craft knife. Rather than learning new skills using your card
stock try honing your skills using plain printing paper, the cost of a ream of
printing paper is less than one or two greeting cards and before you have
gotten half way through the paper you will be confidant in many new skills that
you can add straight to your card stock.
Not everyone is confident to make greeting
cards starting from just an idea; some need a little help before they can
believe that they can do it, so here are two methods to help you get started.
The first is kind of like a kit greeting
card. When you buy a greeting card you like you down load a file or a PDF that
has all of the key elements on and maybe some extra ones so that the PDF could
be used to make a birthday card or a thank you card. If you make an error you
can just reprint the PDF and start again or just use the element that you need.
This bring us to the money saving aspect of this kind of greeting card, the PDF
sits on your computer and if you need another card you print it out again, if
you need 10, 20 or 100 you just keep printing out as many as you need. It does
not stop there, as you get more adventurous you can start to mix and match
different elements with different cads giving you more unique greeting cards. A
good place to start is Digi Design Resort or at Crafts U Print as well as
having many card templates they also have lots of tips and an active forum
where you can ask questions, they also have a selection of free templates for
you to down load and try to see if it is for you.
The last method is to alter cards to make
them uniquely yours, remember them bargain cards you found. You can add as
little or as much as you like after all the card did not cost much or was even
free. From adding glitter to highlight a few elements to a complete makeover so
that you can not recognize the original card. If you want to cover large areas
of the card in glitter it is easer to paint on the glue and then sprinkle on
the glitter but if you want to add glitter to smaller elements of the card like
the trim on a Christmas tree you can buy glitter in different colours already
mixed with glue and this method is like drawing with the glitter or like piping
icing on a cake. I design greeting card on my computer and then print the image
on to card blanks of different colours to get different effects One time I
printed the image upside down, rather than throw the card away I cut in two and
added it to one of my bargain cards (the right way round) with a strip of
coloured paper on the spine of the card to make it look a bit like a book so
that the only part of the bargain card my recipient would see was the inside
massage. Altering bargain greeting cards can also be a great way to get your
children involved to make personalized Christmas cards for their grandparents
and friends.
If you have found this post useful then
please share it or leave a comment or both. If you know of any other money
saving tips or crafting sites leave a link in the comments so others can
benefit.
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Finding Wedding cards
Planning
your wedding can be a stressful and frustrating, not lest time consuming. All
that time spent finding a venue for the ceremony, meal and the evening event
and will they meet the needs of the size of the wedding you are planning. Great
you have ticked all the boxes including a location that all your guests can
reach but hang on, what style of wedding are you having. Will it be formal,
informal, or themed and will the location fit your needs.
This can be
a challenge and I have not even mentioned what people will be dressed in or the
flowers let alone the other little things like place cards, thank you cards,
and invitations.
Finding the
perfect Wedding cards can be hard, especially on your feet as you travel from
store to store only to find the same type of cards. There is another way and
one that your feet will love you for, the internet. Sure, you can go to the
online versions of the stores you visited on the high street to see their full
range that they did not have in the physical store but there are many stores
that only exist on the internet and these are the ones that we will be looking
at today.
POD or
print on demand sites, these sites have hundreds of thousands of designs on
file and only produce a product when someone buys one. This way they can offer
you all the designs and not just the popular ones. Because the card designs are
created by artists from around the world you get a lot of different styles and
themes to chose from. On Greeting Card Universe below says “any greeting card
imaginable, if you can’t find what you are looking for just ask”, you can post
your request to the site and this will be sent out to every artist to invite
them to fill your brief. Another way is to contact an artist whose style you
like to see if they would create a wedding card for you or make changes to one
of their cards to suite your needs and this can hold true for the other sites
to.
Here are
some of the POD sites that I like to use but there are many more to be found on
the internet.
Another
place to look for ideas is Pinterest where you can click through to buy a
product. One of the problems of buying from the internet is that the colour you
see on your computer may not be the same as the card in your hand. This is because
not everyone’s computer monitor is set to the same specifications as the POD
sites printers and each POD site can be different. For this reason it is easer
to order one of each of the cards that you have narrowed down so that you are
sure about the look and feel in your hand. One of the advantages of buying from
a POD site is that they are not going to run out of the card you have chosen so
you can wait till they have a sale on (they are always having sales) before you
place your order.
Still not
found that unique card for your special day, why not have a look at hand
crafted cards. Many skilled artists on sites like Etsy and Folksy. Another
option is to make your own, at sites like Crafts U Print you can buy a file
that has all the key elements that you can print out over and over again to
make as many cards as you need including you practice attempts. Still not found
what you want, why not have a go at making your own cards. If you are not sure
how to do this then the book below is a great place to start.
The Complete Practical Guide toCard-Making: 200 Step-by-Step Techniques and Projects with 1100 Photographs
Beautiful to
receive as well as fun to make; here is a sparkling selection of fabulous
card-making projects designed for maximum decorative and creative effect. There
are cards for holidays and festivals, birthday celebrations, special
anniversaries and red letter days, plus cards to express love, friendship,
apology, sympathy and much more. The introduction outlines materials and
equipment you will need and demonstrates over 50 papercraft techniques to help
you achieve your desired design. Bursting with ideas and illustrated with 1100
practical photographs this book is a treasury of inspiration for every creative
crafts enthusiast.
I hope that
you have found this post useful, if so please leave a comment. If you know of
any places to find great Wedding cards post the link in the comments to help
other people find them
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Halloween
Halloween
is fast approaching and you should be thinking about ordering your party
invitations and greeting cards, with this in mind here are a few spooky ideas
to get you in the mood.
Skull Surprise 1: Halloween Card by CharmaineZoe
Add your photos and text to blank greeting cards at Zazzle
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