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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Making Your Own Doggie Greeting Cards


Homemade Greeting cards from your dog to your friends and family and their pets are a cute way to show you care at the holidays or for a special occasion. These memorable cards will stick out from the pack of generic greetings, and they make a great family activity.

Even the least creative of us can make a fun card by starting with a ready-made kit from the craft store. These usually include card blanks, envelopes, and embellishments for creating your card, and often include a theme, such as dogs. Everything you need is in the package --- sometimes even the adhesive!
If a kit is too restrictive for your imagination, you can get blank cards and envelopes and decorate them with paper, stencils, stamps, stickers, photos, ribbons, glitter, decorative pens, and other embellishments you collect on your own. The scrap booking aisle of your local craft store will give you tons of ideas. When I see cute paper, card stock, ribbons, stickers, hang tags, or anything that is dog related, I often buy it and tuck it away for another time so I have a ready supply of materials to work with. If you are artistically talented, you can draw or paint on your card too.
Advanced crafters can even fold their own envelopes out of decorative paper, using a template, or attach embellishments with special decorative eyelets.
If you want to send out many copies of your card, your local print shop or copy center will be able to make color copies and sometimes even fold them. Just be sure the size you choose fits in the envelope you select.
Sign the card from your pet (and you, if you like) add a "paw print" with a rubber stamp or sticker in that shape.

Old dog magazines make fun, inexpensive wrapping paper. After you're done reading them, store them until you need them. When you have a small gift that needs to be wrapped, tear an appropriate page out of a magazine and use it to wrap the gift. For example, use a picture of a Labrador to wrap a gift for a Labrador. For larger gifts, glue or the images onto larger paper, then wrap with that. This special wrapping will personalize any gift.

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