Card Making

If you're into the habit of spending $2 or $3 for a greeting card at the grocery store, you are missing out on the awesome fun you can get from making your own. All it takes are a few ingredients like construction paper or card stock, rubber stamps or colored pencils, paints, glitter glue, or anything else you can use to decorate with. My favorite thing is to use two different colored pieces of construction paper and use one of them as an insert. After that, you can make your own sayings and write them in or take them from other cards you've seen or quotes you've found online. I like to decorate the outside of the card with rubber stamps. You can get elegant ink colors such as silver or gold and make a sophisticated looking piece with your own personal touch. The best thing about making your own greeting cards is that you can make them however you want and the only money you spend is on the supplies you used to make it, and you get to enjoy yourself in the process! Now, for all the parents out there, this is also a great project for the kids to do and you can spend some bonding time together. During the holidays or when someone has a birthday coming up, you and your kids can secretly make cards for each other and surprise each other at the end. That is one way to make a holiday or fun event more fun without spending a lot of money, and in today's economy, we all know how important that is.