Everything you ever wanted to know about cardmaking but were afraid to ask

Greeting cards is the topic for today's post. I love doing it and I also loved to sharing it in this blog. The card I made and posting right now is for any occasion, I can use it for spring greeting or just to say "HI" or thank you.

This is one of many cards I made recently. I love papercrafts, making my own greeting cards is one of it. I will be talking about these and other crafts from time to time, in addition to my favourite recipes. Thus the title of this blog. I like cooking and papercrafts & scrapbooking equally!. I am trying to make either scrapbooking page or cards as much as I could. When my daughter already in bed I just can't wait to go to the den and start my night activity. I have to choose which one I would like to do that night either scrapbooking page or greeting cards or Japanese paper doll or paper tole or taking care my stamps. It is difficult because I love doing all of them, most of the time I always make either scrapbooking page or greeting cards. One of these days I have to start again making my Japanese paper doll and organize my stamps collection.

Many people asking me why I make my own cards, why trouble myself of doing it, why don't I go to the store and buy it instead of making it.

Well the answer for all those questions are below :

1. More personal.
2. Allow your inner creativity to come out.
3. Unique - one of a kind, can't find it anywhere else
4. Less expensive.
5. Satisfaction from sending someone special a small part of yourself.
6. Write the greeting you want rather than trying to say it with another person's words

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Card making

I love scrapbooking, card making,  paper tole or 3D picture, origami and I also a stamps collector. I have lots of stamps, I inherited it from my mother, she was a stamps collector also. When my mom lived with my sister in Japan, I was the one who took care her stamps collection. She had more that 10 (ten) big albums of stamps not to mention the first published stamps. She owned lots of stamps and I loved helping her look after the stamps. It became my passion. I also learned how to make papertole or 3D picture. I loved it too. I like detail and I have satisfaction in doing it. Specially when the picture done, but unfortunately it cost me lots of money to frame it, so I have 3 or 4 finished pictures that I have not frame them yet .... too expensive. Must find a way to make my own frame ..... I wish I could make my own 3D picture frame. So far no luck. Also I learned how to make Japanese paper doll .... very interesting art, very detail, delicate.