Card making ideas and free card designs for your happy birthday cards, handmade greeting cards and decoupage prints are just some of the exciting things you will find here.

My name is Vicki and I will provide you with all the card making skills you will ever need to make some really beautiful handmade cards for your family and friends.

I want to share my card making ideas and tips with other card makers, and help you with your own projects and designs for making handmade greeting cards.

When you are lost for good card ideas you will hopefully find inspiration to make your own birthday cards, Christmas cards, or cards for any occasion after browsing the informative articles and detailed step by step guides on my site.

For a beginner knowing the correct way to use rubber stamps, peel offs, embossing powders and other techniques for card making can seem daunting at first. Keep trying and you will soon get the hang of it and before long you will master this lovely pastime.

I have provided simple, and easy to follow step by step guides for both beginners and professionals.

Follow these walk throughs and enjoy sharing your card designs and knowledge with others, whilst putting a smile on your friends and families faces when you give them a beautiful handmade card.

I will cover the basics right through to advanced card making and let you know the right products to use.

There are certain card making supplies you will find yourself using time and time again when making your own greeting cards such as gel pens, glitter glue, embossing powder, vellum paper and rubber stamps. Some techniques will be strange to novice card makers such as rubber stamping, decoupage and distressing.

Card makers may also struggle with what to write in a birthday card, what thank you card wording to use, or what sympathy message would be appropriate. This is something I will also help you with and have provided template card messages and wordings for all occasions.

Together with making cards I have also spent a lot of time making scrapbooks and want to share with you the knowledge and expertise I have acquired in this area over the years. I hope my card ideas and scrapbooking tips will be of use not only to novices, but also to skilled card makers as well.

I welcome your own crafting ideas and suggestions and if there is anything I can help you with please feel free to post your questions and ideas on the forums which are checked daily.

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You can even send me photos of your own handmade cards, and I will put them on the site in the members’ gallery for your family and friends to see.

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 Whether it is learning how to use a Sizzix machine or  techniques like iris folding you will find information and free card designs at Vicki’s Card Making Ideas.