Hand Made Greeting Cards

To start D.I.Y a card you must first prepare your tools

TOOLS LIST:

Colour Papers
Colour Pencils bbb Colour Pencils
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb bbbb Paper-shaper Scissors

Glue



I prefer to use UHU because its more safety

The more colours of paper you have the more colourful card you can make.

The colour pencils can help you in drawing some pictures.

The paper-shaper scissors can make amazing effects for you.

Glue helps you to sticks your design.

bbbbbbbbAfter preparing these tools you are now ready to make a card.

OOpsss.... you still need one more thing.... a creative idea

I am sure everyone know what is handmade greeting cards. Have you tried to make a card by yourself before?
Most of us experienced on making cards in our childhood, its a nice memory.
Besides that, some of us may even make a card for their lovers.
How long have you stop from making card by yourself?

Most of us stop making handmade cards, because we think that the cards that we made is not that nice after all!!

BE MORE CONFIDENCE !!

Sending greeting cards to friends and
family is a tradition that goes back about 200 years. They  were mostly
sent by the elite and wealthy in the early to mid 1800's.  Most of the
early greeting cards were hand delivered and many were quite expensive, but
they soon gained mass popularity with the introduction of the world's first
postage stamp issued in 1840 

and a few ambitious printer's and manufacturer's perfecting printing methods,
hiring artists and designed both elaborate expensive cards as well as simple
affordable ones by the 1850's.

 

As you visit our galleries you will see that cards of the past were fine
pieces of art. Manufacturer's used quality artists and many of the large
manufacturer's held "art" competitions to generate interest and to
get new ideas for cards.  Some of these competitions awarded as much as
$1,000.00 to the winner!



The oldest known greeting card in existence is a Valentine made in the 1400's
and is in the British Museum.  New Year's cards can be dated back to
this period as well, but the New Year greeting didn't gain popularity until
the late 1700's.  The Valentine and Christmas Card were the most popular
cards, with Valentine's offering us the most "mechanical",
"pop-up" and filigree cards, followed by Christmas,  St.
Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween and Thanksgiving.  Cards gained their
highest popularity in the late 1800's and early 1900's offering us cards with
some of the most unusual art.  The Victorian age give us the most
prolific cards.

Valentine greetings were popular as far
back as the Middle Ages, when lovers said or sang their Valentines.  Written
Valentines began to appear after 1400.   Paper Valentines were
exchanged in Europe where they were given in place of Valentine gifts. 
Handmade paper Valentines were especially popular in England. In the mid to
early 1800's, Valentines began to be assembled in factories.  Early
manufactured Valentines were black and white pictures painted by workers in a
factory.  Esther Howland (see below) known as the Mother of the Valentine
made fancy Valentines with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as
"scrap".  She introduced the Paper Lace Valentine in the mid
1800's.   By the end of the 1800's, Valentines were being made
entirely by machine.

Christmas cards were introduced and popularized by John Calcott Horsley (see below), the artist of what is known as the world's first Christmas Card and
Louis Prang (see below), known as the Father of the American Christmas Card.

Greeting card is a piece of paper that we use to deliver our words to greet someone. Through the card, we can show our concern to the receiver. Through our hand writting, we can show our sincere of greeting.

Nowadays, technology has become widely use, it has become a part of our life. Most of us are facing computer everyday and thus I dare to say that our life has been full by digital signal.

Each sentences and each words in our mind has no longer to be written out, but is was presented in digital form. How many words you write everyday? We can no longer see the hand writting from our friends or family.

Today, people rather to send a greeting card through internet (e-card) than old fashioned greeting cards. They claimed that e-cards is much more easier and attractive than a piece of paper.

I do agree with this.

But, this made me feel bad because lesser and lesser people will choose to send old type greeting card.

Here, I would like to introduce my friends to hand made card. Card that will make our greeting more surprising and unique today. We can also show the sincere of our greeting through the hand made cards and the words written by our hand.