Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Color Paper to Choose


I usually do my card with 2 types of paper, one is the half transparent paper (some call it vellum paper, parchment paper, tracing paper....etc) which is where the design is done on. The other color paper is place inside as the inner paper to write personal message of the card.

here are the inner color paper available:
 


As for the vellum paper, usually is in white (non color). but I manage to find some colored ones too. it's very hard to get so I will use it very wisely. Currently these are the colors I have.





you can refer to my previous post, the Christmas bell and the love shapes card is the one using color transparent paper number 2 and 3 accordingly. The rest are the white (non color) vellum paper with different inner color paper.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Cards for different Occasions

There are plenty of possibility that you can make use of parchment craft, just like any other hand made cards. It's the design that you need. What's good and easy for ding parchment craft is that you do not need to know drawing well, you just trace!! So it's easy and anyone can do it.  Found a nice design? trace it and make it into parchment card.
 
Some design are more generic and for some, one look you can tell what occasion it's for. There are also some design that can become the frame, and you can change the text in the center to make it suitable for different occasion. Don't be scare to explore around.
 
Here are some sample design taken from books on different occasions usage:

 
Christmas card
 
Valentine or Wedding card

Multipurpose card - the design is generic and can be use as birthday card, get well soon card, Thank you card....etc

Birthday card - the text in the center can be change to other occasion that you want to use it for.
 
Mother's Day card