Making your own cards is a great way to make something that is useful and thoughtful. Making a card has many benefits over buying a card from a shop. These include:

• Able to customise to suit individual
• Potential cost saving
• Fun to make
• Receiver will appreciate the effort

When making cards a good stock of things to stick on cards is handy. Keep your eyes peeled for pictures you can cutout from magazines to use.

Blank cards can be purchased from craft shops. These are useful as starting points for card creation. You can get two and threefold cards.