I am interested in making my own greeting cards with the lovely coloured papers which can be bought. It is easy to make one’s own greeting cards and that is much more interesting than buying them. To make a greeting card, I will take a piece of drawing paper twice the size of the finished card I want.
I shall double it in half either length-wise whichever will suit my chosen design I would then cut out the picture parts on various glazed or plain-coloured papers and stick them down on the card. Sometime the paper has gum on the back but if not, I shall use smooth paste and apply very sparingly so that it will not squeeze around the side and look messy.
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Flower pictures are easiest to do because they can be cut out by using coins of different sizes. I would like to prepare a Birth Day card and I will take green paper and cut the shape of a bowl from it. I shall make the flowers by cutting two circles the size of a naya paisa.
One will be of dark mauve colour and the other will be in light. Then I shall pencil a small circle in the centre of each, and thereafter I shall cut the petals. After the bowls on the leaves and the light-green had been stuck, the flowers will be pasted on it so that one slightly over-laps the other.
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The leaves will also be cut out of small edges of paper. But I shall trace them from a nature book so that they look like real leaves. After that I shall keep some bold design of lettering from a magazine or a picture book. I would rather like to cut it out in the paper to match the rest of the picture.
I shall put the pencil marks only on the back of the paper and I shall use a small very sharp pair of scissors for cutting out. I shall be careful to keep the outlines clear.
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I shall also prepare a New Year’s Card and that shall be very quickly done with a bright blue strip down the side, vivid green leaf, red candlestick, pale yellow candle with a deeper yellow frame which has an orange wick in the centre and the greeting in the same blue as the strip.
I shall also put inside some figures and the small chicks, with two tiny chicks in the bowl. The chicks will all be made of yellow paper with orange beaks and feet, and the bowl brown, with brown words on yellow strips at the top of the card. In this way I shall make set of greeting cards for the Hobbies Exhibition at my school.