Free Card Making Ideas

These galleries depend on people sending them in - please feel free to add to them and submit your cards and help them grow.

Card Making Idea Gallery

Parchment Cards Gallery

Free Craft Library - Printables and Graphics

One of the biggest problems when it comes to making cards can be deciding what to do!

Many times people are stuck for card ideas and this is where magazines and online galleries come into their own - providing you with lots of handmade greeting card examples and design ideas.

• Look at the designs as a whole and then at each individual element, noting the different techniques, unusual combinations of materials or techniques


• Study shop-bought cards you get given, notice the layout, the colours and the composition of the designs (i.e. where design elements are placed on a card)


• Create a notebook with quick sketches - card blueprints - to remind you of basic layout styles and colour combinations