Card Making & Scrapbooking

Card Making & Scrapbooking

Card Making is essentially hand making your greeting cards. Many people who design there own greeting cards are coupled to other crafts like scrapbooking and stamping. Due to these interests clustering together is has made card marking an exceptionally popular hobby. This is especially used in Wedding stationary and formal invitations.

The custom of sending greeting cards is back to ancient China, where they exchanged messages in the New Year period of good will. Previous to that the Egyptians would express greetings on papyrus scrolls. In Europe 1400's hand made greeting cards where traded. By 1843's this trend continued and Christmas cards where first published in London.

Scrapbooking is a great method for preserving personal information in the form of printed media, photographs and memorabilia contained in a scrapbook or album and the great thing is that you do not have to be a professional to accomplish this.