Do you make your own greeting cards?

What is your favourite method? Stamping, Tea-bags, decoupage etc? Can you recommend some good card-making websites? Also looking for places I can find free verses.


Any tips on selling cards and for how much? Thanks

Do you make your own greeting cards?
I make needlepoint coasters and attach them to card stock paper with printed computer sayings in them. I don't buy cards for any occasion.





When my grandkids come for summer vacation, we all make cards for all occasions, and then they give out boxes of cards to other relatives for gifts.
Reply:Yes, I make cards like crazy. There are tons and tons of websites out there with ideas and inspiration. I like stamping the best and use different embellishments. Just type rubberstamping card techniques in a search and you will be mesmerized for hours!
Reply:While I have made my own cards when I couldn't find a specifically appropriate one (i.e. dad's 80th birthday), unless your cards are spectacular there's not much of a market. You can buy cards as cheaply as 99 cents, but many of the premium brands are bought for name recognition, i.e. "When you care enough to only buy the very best."





Plus card makers make thousands at a time which cuts their cost. What does the card stock cost you? How about the cost of a stamp, the ink? How do you figure the extras like glitter, charms, ribbon and lace? And, not least, what is your time worth? Below are sites that may help with your questions.
Reply:I often go to card making classes at my local scrapbooking store, i'm going to one in a couple of weeks time.
Reply:Yes, I make my own cards. I use my computer's photo editing program, and fit two cards on a sheet 8 1/2 X 11. I use my own photos, or maybe clip art from the web, and text. Once in awhile, I trace stencils and cut out the shapes on colored paper from http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com. I've had my cards in two shops, but they don't sell well, due to card shops selling cards for 88 cents, and they're bigger than my 4 X 6 cards. Mine are priced at $1.95. Tourists will pay more than locals, in a rural area like mine.
Reply:I stitch designs or sayings on perforated paper and cut the front of a blank card to make a frame. After attaching the perforated paper to the back of the front page frame, add a plain, colored, or foil backing to show through the holes.





You can also add embossing designs around the framed part.





Although I don't sell mine, local handcraft shops often buy cards for sale in my area. People who do craft work seem to appreciate that done by others.
Reply:Made cards using stamps and sold the big ones for R10.00 each and the small ones for R5.00. I found a wouderfull book with verses at the local Libary. I have just learned to do some on my embriodery machine. If you go to www.embrioderylibary.com they show you how to do it.


I would like to know how you do TeaBags cards.





Love Christine