CardmakingHobbies & Crafts

The Cardmaking category features creative projects and instructions for crafting all sorts of greeting cards, from classic occasions like birthdays and holidays to unique, personalized designs. Learn how to make envelopes, add special touches, and find inspiration for cards that suit any recipient or event.

If black and orange and scary things are getting old each Halloween, change things up this year by making a fun Halloween card that's bright and cheery instead. This one features a friendly spider with googly eyes and looks best using fun, colorful papers.

This video shows a fun way to get your kids involved in making Halloween invitations that you're going to hand out -- because they're too bulky to mail. It's a really clever idea: hand-write all of the details about the party on a tiny pumpkin!

I've had a sheet of under-the-sea paper for awhile, and it was just screaming out for beachy seahorse accents. The Doodlecharms cartridge for the Cricut Expressions has this cute seahorse, so I finally used the paper to make this seahorse card for my friend's Birthday.

This birthday card is for a lucky friend spending the summer with her family at the beach in North Carolina. See how I incorporated a beach theme for this sand castle card and matching envelope.

There's a new form of stamping on the rise. It's called digital stamps or digi stamps! Here's everything you need to get started with digital stamps, including what digital stamps are, where to find them, and how to make your own.

Is there a new baby in your life? Whether the baby boy or baby girl is a neighbor's, friend's, or relative's, there's nothing better than making your own handmade baby card to welcome the new bundle of joy. Here's how to use rubber stamps & cute paper to make your own baby greeting cards.

See how to make birthday card greeting cards yourself. Watch step-by-step as I make this handmade birthday card that features a cupcake, a birthday candle and extra special wishes.

This diaper pin baby card is one of the many fun cards I've made using the Wild Card cartridge for Cricut. I love this card and its cute matching envelope. See how I made this adorable baby gift card.

See how to reuse cards that play music with your own design. Yep, you can personalize them for your friends and family and still have the fun of the music! For this one I made a Spongebob card for a toddler.

I made this Snowman Buddy card as my Christmas card for 2008. It's never too early to start thinking about Christmas, so I wanted to share this fun idea with you now.

Chances are you have several rubber stamp sets sitting around that either already served their purpose OR they have so much dust on them you can't even read the title on the package. If so, then you're a great candidate for hosting a stamp swap! Here's how to organize a stamp swap.

This is an adorable Halloween card that's simple to make from cardstock. It would also make a fun Halloween party invitation!

See how I made a glittery Birthday card. It's simple and fun!

edge-and-flap-envelope

Simple instructions, and a video, for making your own envelopes for handmade cards.

This is a new card style for me... it's a pocket card with a pull-tab. It's now one of my favorite ways to make handmade cards! Here's how I did it... there are 2 different versions.

This handmade card for Father's Day is a fun project for kids as well. I made this Father's Day card with my God-daughter - it was a lot of fun!

Here's an easy-to-make Father's Day card that cuts right to the point: Dad, You Rock!

This is a graduation card for my 5-year old nephew who is graduating from pre-school. Obviously this card can be used for any type of graduation ceremony, and for graduates of any age.