30th - National Honesty Day - celebrate the day by sharing some of your craft work with others and asking for honest replies. Getting feedback on your work is important, particularly if you want to start to sell your handmade cards and other hand stamped items. Asking people to tell you three things they like as well as three things they don't like will encourage them to give you balanced feedback. See these pages for information about selling your handmade cards - How to Sell Your Cards.
Card blanks can be a great time saver when you are making a lot of handmade cards or invitations. Card blanks can, however, work out more costly in the long run. As card blanks are simple to make from folding a piece of cardstock, making your own can be a good way to save money. One of the most cost effective ways to make your own card blanks, particularly if you have a lot to make, is to use standard sized cardstock. Standard sized cardstock can be folded in a variety of ways to produce different end results. Therefore a single pack of cardstock can be used to create a wide number of different shaped cards. See Cards from Standard Sized Card Stock for more information.
When you make your own card blanks, ensuring that you have good crisp folds is key to achieving professional looking results. Take a look at this tutorial for a step by step guide - How to Fold Cards.
Do you have pictures of handmade cards that you'd like to share? You are welcome to show off your work here - Handmade Cards Show and Tell!
Look at this great Mother's Day card that has been created by Lesley Shepherd, our About.com Miniatures Guide. Lesley has kindly shared the printable template for this project, along with full step by step instructions and this can be found here - Mother's Day Card Template.
© Lesley Shepherd
This project will work well with rubber stamps and can be customized with all sorts of embellishments.
More Mother's Day rubber stamping and craft ideas can be found here - Mother's Day Projects.
28th - Poetry Reading Day - add some poetry to cards or other stamping projects. A poem can be great inspiration for handmade cards and scrapbook pages. If you fancy writing your own, but get stuck for rhymes, then why not use an online rhyme generator.