The Beginner's Guide - How to Make Greeting Cards at Home

Hello and Welcome! I made this video to help the 1st time card maker to make a card at home.

To make a card at home you will need:

8.5 x 11 inch paper. Cardstock will give better results than regular paper, but in a pinch it all works.

Envelopes!
If you have time -- make a trip to Staples or Office Max (not sure Wal Mart will have this) and buy Invitation Size envelopes. Usually the cards are packed as 50 per box. Look to see if you can choose between white and ivory.

Buy the cardstock at the same time (or really nice linen paper?) -- don't mix the white and ivory colors if you are a beginner.

If you have these invitation size (A2 size -- greater than 4.25 x 5.5 inches) envelopes you can make standard greeting cards. See this video how to cut your paper:

Tip #3 How to Make a Standard Size Greeting Card
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNil1lmM9I

If you do not have invitation size envelopes and want to use small business size envelopes (No. 6 ¾ size) you can still make a card! See this video:

Tip #20 - Make Cards that fit envelopes in the House - Small Business Size
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_AJUi2_MeU

Written directions for these 2 cards types can be found on my blog here:

A2 Standard Size Greeting Cards:
http://cropwithlisa.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-make-standard-size-a2-greetin...

Small Business Size Greeting Cards:

The written directions are also in the video comments.

Good Luck with the decorating! Remember -- you can make the card really simple and go for the "classic" or "timeless" look.

Lisa
Http://CropwithLisa.blogspot.com
http://LoveToCreateMemories.blogspot.com

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[vincent82746]

This was a huge waste of time.

[gorgeousgirldivya]

Wht d hell...were u advertising envelopes during d whole session?

[aileenvlam]

ok if i want to see you talk about envelope i would tupe in envelopes but i typed in card you can make at home

[TheDarkbaby27]

dam soo much time on envelopes !!!