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Card Making Basics

Making a card can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be; your skill level can be minimal or very advanced. It is a wonderful craft for anyone who likes to correspond, share their artistry, or cheer up someone in need. And there are so many directions you can take it! You can explore the options in these books from the library.

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  • Handmade cards are gifts, creative expressions, keepsakes, and relationship builders. Beneath the cardstock and embellishments is deep emotion from the card maker— encouragement, celebration, commemoration, and love. Unlike many store-bought cards…
    Book, 2016Minneapolis, MN : Creative Publishing International, [2016]. — 745.5941 Wa
  • Making Your Own Greeting Cards & Gift Wrap

    More Than 50 Step-by-step Papercrafting Projects for Every Occasion

    Bolton, Vivienne,
    Give Your Sentiments the Personal Touch This big papercrafting book is bursting with creative inspiration for handmade cards that are as delightful to give as to receive. Making Your Own Greeting Cards & Gift Wrap shows how to make a host of…
    Book, 2019Mount Joy [Pennsylvania] : CompanionHouse Books, [2019] — 745.5941 Bo
  • Uncommon Cards

    Stationery Made With Recycled Objects, Found Treasures, and a Little Imagination

    Williamson, Jeanne
    The right greeting card is hard to find, but with the most basic sewing machine and a few recycled materials, you'll have cards for every occasion in a snap. With 52 sewn designs made from easy-to-follow, straightforward instructions, you can show…
    Book, 2013Philadelphia, PA : Running Press, [2013]. — 745.5941 Wi
  • 100 Fresh and Fun Handmade Cards

    Step-by-step Instructions for 50 New Designs and 50 Amazing Alternatives

    McGray, Kimber
    Provides instructions for making fifty cards for birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions featuring collage and other techniques, and explains how to make more elaborate version with pop-ups, spinners, and other devices.
    Book, 2012Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, [c2012]. — 745.5941 Mc
  • Offers tips, patterns, and examples for making innovative greeting cards that commemorate important occasions and holidays throughout the year such as birthdays, graduations, a baby's birth, Halloween, and Christmas.
    Book, 2012Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2012. — 745.594 Ea
  • The Cardmaker's Bible

    160 Inspirational Card Designs and Definitive Cardmaking Techniques

    This book features 160 card designs by top papercraft professionals, offering a wide range of styles and techniques. All of the cards are carefully organized by occasion, making it easy to find the perfect card for your loved one. The comprehensive…
    Book, 2011Newton Abbot : David & Charles, c2011. — 745.594 Ca
  • 175 Fresh Card Ideas

    Designs to Make and Give Throughout the Year

    McGray, Kimber
    Offers step-by-step instructions for creating fifty greeting cards and provides basic sketches and lists of materials for over one hundred additional cards, in a text that also covers the essential techniques for card-making.
    Book, 2010Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, 2010. — 745.594 Mc
  • Susan Pickering Rothamel, author of the best-selling Encyclopedia of Scrapbook Tools and Techniques (Sterling/Chapelle, 2005), now turns her A-to-Z eye to another popular papercraft: greeting cards. With its detailed definitions of terms, tools,…
    Book, 2008New York, NY : Lark Books, c2008. — 745.594 Ro
  • The Illustrated Project Book of Making Gift Cards and Scrapbooking

    360 Easy-to-follow Projects and Techniques and 2300 Colour Photographs

    Owen, Cheryl
    A compendium of colorful and creative ideas, practical techniques and easy-to-follow projects for every occasion including birthdays, holidays, special events, weddings, anniversaries, friendships and happy times, with more than 200 stunning…
    Book, 2008London : Lorenz, 2008. — 745.54 Ow
  • From dimensional appliqué to lively, eye-catching zig-zag designs, these greeting card techniques will delight the creative crafter in search of inspiration. It’s not a collection of projects, but an encyclopedia chock-full of fabulous ideas that…
    Book, 2006New York, NY : Sterling, c2006. — 745.594 Ro