Fortunately, these handmade greeting cards, below, don’t require a degree in Scrapbooking. They also utilize a variety of skills, so you can look for the methods that suit you best. So check out all the tutorials, pick your favorite, and get started making something special to send to someone even more special!
Quilted Greeting Cards
Because you don’t need to know how to papercraft if you know how to sew!!! Modify your favorite quilt block or use the stitch-as-you-go method to sew a handmade greeting card that will wow its recipient.
Embroidered Handmade Greeting Cards
Get an awl and some embroidery floss, trace a pattern or go freehand, and stitch a lovely greeting. As you can tell in the image above (lol!), this project is very kid-friendly. If you don’t trust your kid with a sharp awl, pre-poke the holes and give them a blunt tapestry needle for stitching.
Bunting Greeting Card
Although the author of this tutorial uses teeny fabric scraps, this bunting would also look cute made with teeny scraps of paper–and not necessarily scrapbook paper, either! Glossy magazine pages, book pages with cool text, or even the insides of envelopes with the security pattern showing would also look lovely. If you’re an artist, you can even use blank paper and draw your own designs.
Scrap Cards
Here’s another project that you could use fabric or paper scraps for. If you use paper scraps, there’s no need to do any stitching, and you could probably get away with gluing even the fabric scraps if you used a stronger PVA glue or Mod Podge.
Paper Candle Greeting Card
Get the wow factor of a 3D card without mastering any skills beyond the ability to roll up a piece of paper really, really, really tightly! If you don’t have stamps, it’s just as cute to handwrite the sentiment on the front of the card.
Photo Card
The tutorial above includes a free downloadable template for the Polaroid-style cardstock frame, but you don’t have to stick to the Polaroid theming. Consider printing any of your favorite artistic, family, or holiday-themed photos and then using photo corners to attach them to the front of a greeting card.
Puzzle Card
You don’t have to have thick chipboard to make a puzzle card–even heavy cardstock will do! For the easiest and thickest option, have kids draw their greeting on the inside of an opened-up cereal box, then you or they can hand-cut it into pieces. Your recipient will be so surprised!
Record Album Cover Greeting Cards
This is one of the easiest tutorials around, because the main skill being tested is your ability to thrift a really cool record album! I’ve been finding more and more that the record albums I thrift have spent the past 70+ years being improperly stored stacked in someone’s hot attic, so they’re basically ruined for listening. Might as well trim up the record album cover, then, and send it with a heartfelt greeting to someone you love!
Washi Tape Cards
In this tutorial, washi tape is the secret ingredient to crafting professional-looking greeting cards. If you feel like you’re pretty precise with your cutting and gluing, you could substitute paper strips–even fabric if you’re feeling fancy!
Watercolored Greeting Cards
This Strathmore blog post has three different methods for making watercolored greeting cards. I love the splatter-painted one in the image, above, bu the tape design one is even more beginner-friendly!
Coloring Page Cards
What’s easier than filling in a coloring book? Absolutely nothing! Get out your favorite colored pencils or markers, then spend a nice evening in front of the TV coloring in the cutest custom cards your recipients will ever have seen.
Watercolor Cake Card
Here’s another watercolor card that’s as easy as it is cute. Make sure you have a really high-quality black pen to draw in the details, because that’s what makes the picture look like a cake! P.S. Do you LOVE to sew? Here are even more greeting cards to stitch and sew from scratch!
