Make Your Own Invitations – Easy, Interesting and Impressive

During your lifetime you are sure to celebrate lot many occasions starting from your engagement, wedding, baby shower, baby’s birthdays to your anniversaries. And every time you have an event, an invitation would only sound fair. Though there are many places from where you can get your invitations delivered at your doorstep, you can always make your own invitations if you are the creative one. 

To make your own invitations the best way to begin with would be to gather the supplies first. Wedding stationary offers myriad collections. Though the stationary would be the best to use for making wedding invitations, you can even use them for making baby shower invitations, provided you are sure to stick to the theme of baby shower. 

Often in handmade invitations we notice that ribbons are used extraordinarily well, may be as a bow round the invitation, or to make a rose or some lovely pattern on it. This makes it important for you to include lot many ribbons in your wedding stationary lists. Organza ribbon and satin ribbon have been around for a long time. 

Both these organza ribbon and satin ribbon can be used differently to adorn wedding invitations or baby shower invitations. If you are a newbie at making your own invitations, then internet has many DIY tutorials for you. Refer to them for help regarding the design and use of these ribbons. You can be then sure to create a unique invitation card for that special event. Amongst all remember to stick to the theme of the card or else you might mess up your card design.

DIY Papercraft - Easy Card Making and Scrapbooking ideas

There is no better gift in the world than creating something handmade for your loved ones. Even if you are short of time, all that you need is buy some scrapbooking paper, scrapbooking supplies and craft supplies and you can create some of the most beautiful card or scrapbook for your friends and family.

However, if you have never handled any DIY(do it yourself) papercraft projects in your entire life, you can easily look up some of the best websites online and follow the steps to create your very own handmade creations. In fact, you need to type "easy card making" or "easy scrapbooking ideas" and you will get thousands of ideas in split seconds! Isn't that great now?

Here are some DIY paper craft ideas, which you can easily create by using scrapbooking paper, scrapbooking supplies and craft supplies. Let's take a quick look at them to know more:

• Take different colored Origami paper and fold them into interesting shapes like - swan, flower, boat among others and stick them in the scrapbook or on your card.
• Another brilliant idea to make your card or scrapbook come alive is use Quilling strips and make animals, birds, flowers, borders and just about anything or everything by following easy to follow Quilling patterns.
• If you are concerned about the environment, find out how you can recycle or upcycle used scrapbook and Christmas cards that often go into the trash and convert them into brilliant papercraft!

These are some random card making and scrapbooking ideas for you to try out. I hope that you have fun creating them as well!