Crafting a few handmade cards

Another of the crafty projects I enjoy doing is making handmade cards! With the scrapbooking papers/punches and the like readily available these days (even in my little country town!) - it is really easy to whip up your own personalised card. And I have found cost-wise, the bits of paper etc you buy are often on par with the cost of buying a ready-made card.

Here are a few I have done up recently:

50th Wedding Anniversary 

A special one for my Aunt & Uncle's Golden Wedding Anniversary 

Hello Baby

My adaption of a a design I quite liked on Pinterest. 

This one is for dear friend who's baby boy is due in mid-June 

Engagement 

For my recently engaged cousin 

AND in regards to paper - gift wrapping paper is a cheap alternative to scrapbooking paper! 50c for quite a large bit versus the $2+ for one square of scrapbooking paper. The $2 shops have usually got a pretty good range of wrapping paper and it's glossy too! I used a heart patterns one as the background overlay on the 50th Anniversary one. AND being a graphic designer and all - it is pretty easy for me to create a digital graphic and just print it out! The ring and the congratulations section of the Engagement card are both graphics I created. The best thing about this is I can get the exact effect I am after.

x Angel x