http://playingwithpaper.com Having fun in making cards Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:25:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Simple greeting cards made from simple and easily accessible materials - card stock, color papers, gift wrappers, 3D craft stickers, corrugated card, plastic beads, etc. [caption id="attachment_26" align="aligncenter" width="257" caption="Simple handmade birthday card"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_28" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Simple Just-For-You Card"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_29" align="aligncenter" width="244" caption="Pink gift tag with heart"][/caption] http://playingwithpaper.com/card-making/simple-handmade-greeting-cards-and-gift-tag/ 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 ... http://playingwithpaper.com/card-making/make-chinese-new-year-cards/make-own-chinese-new-year-cards/ 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 ... http://playingwithpaper.com/card-making/making-cards-with-card-making-kit/ It's the first post in this blog. Will just show some photos so that you know what I meant by playing with paper... ;) [caption id="attachment_4" align="aligncenter" width="371" caption="Make own Christmas cards"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5" align="aligncenter" width="245" caption="Make own Christmas cards"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_6" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Make own Christmas cards"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_7" align="aligncenter" width="286" caption="Make own ... http://playingwithpaper.com/card-making/make-christmas-cards/into-card-making-making-christmas-cards/