Playing with Paper

Simple handmade greeting cards and gift tag

Serena — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:25:10 +0000

Simple greeting cards made from simple and easily accessible materials - card stock, color papers, gift wrappers, 3D craft stickers, corrugated card, plastic beads, etc.

Simple handmade birthday card

Simple Just-For-You Card

Pink gift tag with heart

Make my own Chinese New Year cards

Serena — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:21:05 +0000

Still celebrating Chinese New Year, so here are three CNY cards that I made, used for decoration purpose. The materials are simply papers of different weight and colors. The flowers and lanterns and Chinese character were cut from red packets. Yes, besides putting in money to give away as ‘ang pao’s, one can also make use of the nice prints to make Chinese New Year cards. A great way to recycle things, right?

Make own Chinese New Year card

The flowers were from Jusco’s red packet, while the lantern was from Sasa’s.

Make own Chinese New Year card

Can’t remember from which red packet I took the Chinese character from. The borders were also cut from red packets. The white band is actually glitter dust sprinkled on glue. Should have used double-sided tape for a straighter and neater glitter band.

Make own Chinese New Year card

The Chinese character (meaning: spring) was from a red packet. So were the yellow polkadots; just use a paper puncher. The paper with very nice oriental floral print was bought from MidValley. It is said that this paper is printed with soy ink. Wonder what’s the difference…

Making cards from ‘You Can Craft’ card-making kit

Serena — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:35:34 +0000

Continued to make cards using materials provided in the card-making kit that came along with the craft magazine “You Can Craft”. Have only tried making a few, because the designs and techniques involved in this particular issue of the magazine are slightly challenging. Will try to make a couple more this week…

Make own birthday card

Make own thank you cards

I don’t know if I’ll ever have the opportunity to use these cards. But for now, at least they make good decor items on my table.

Into card making - making Christmas cards

Serena — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:19:10 +0000

It’s the first post in this blog. Will just show some photos so that you know what I meant by playing with paper…

Make own Christmas cards

Make own Christmas gift tag

I made these Christmas cards and tags using the card-making kit that came together with the craft magazine “You Can Craft”. Materials needed to make the Christmas cards — card stocks, patterned papers, die-cut embellishments, snowflake embellishments – were provided; instructions and templates for the various projects were given in the magazine.

It was my first time buying the magazine, and guess what? I bought my second copy of “You Can Craft”, and started making some more greeting cards. And now, I have a new hobby — card making!

More photos coming up!