Card Making Techniques

Three handmade greeting cards, inspired by tattoo designs, feature floral and butterfly motifs. One reads "thanks," another says "you're amazing," and the third states "I have been thinking of you." Perfect for expressing heartfelt sentiments.

How To Make Cards Using Tattoo for Inspiration

Use different tattoo types for inspiration to make unique, daring, and beautiful cards. You’ll find step-by-step instructions on how here. All of the cards in this article were inspired by Altenew’s Transcending Tattoo Techniques online class. Prior to taking the class, this author thought that using tattoos to inform cardmaking seems like a kind of […]

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A birthday card featuring an optical illusion and a happy birthday message.

How To Create Optical Illusions With Graphite

Learn how to use graphite on your greeting cards to create optical illusions of depth and dimension. Step-by-step instructions are here. We’ll begin making the card by doing some partial rainbow blending with a stencil. We’ll do this by taping the A2 card panel to Altenew’s Woven stencil from the backside. Then, we’ll begin to

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A group of Fantastic Floral cards on a table.

How to Create 3 Fantastic Floral Greeting Cards

Learn how to make three fantastic floral cards using fun techniques that produce stunning results. Read on for step-by-step instructions. The inspiration for all three cards comes from Altenew’s Progressive Cardmaking Online Class. Something that is nice about this class is that beginner, intermediate, and advanced techniques are provided for each lesson. Fantastic Floral Die

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A set of astronomy-themed cards, perfect for astronomy enthusiasts or as gifts.

How To Make Gifts Using Cardmaking Techniques

Learn how to make gifts using cardmaking techniques with step-by-step instructions and links to supplies, and, supplies for 5 gift tags too. Gifts Using Cardmaking Technique #1 – Planet Trading Cards What 8 or 9 year old doesn’t love cards to play with? I made these trading cards for my nephew who plans to be

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