Card Making

Paperwhite Creations is a fairly new homemade greeting card and gift business, and right now, our main focus is on card making. We’ve made cards for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Birthdays, Babies, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Thank You, and Just Because occasions. We are hoping to make more cards for different occasions soon; weddings are at the top of our list, and then invitations as well.

We take pride in the fact that our cards are unique; we design them all ourselves and make them by hand together. No two cards are exactly identical and that’s how we feel we make the cards personal and special.

We thought we’d share with you our card making process

Before we start making cards we always decide on a “category” whether it be a holiday or any other occasion. We come up with a flexible number of cards to make and then brainstorm and design together by sketching them out or by discussing our ideas. At first we didn’t use our time so wisely in the early stages of making cards. We would spend time coming up with an idea, make the card, and then move on to the next, not very efficient, but you learn these things as you go along.

 

 

Once we have the designs we start pulling out material: colourful cardstock, embossing powder, glue, scissors, stamps, etc.

 

Then we decide on a card and go for it. Nicole is the paper lady always pulling out different colours of cardstock and matching them together as I sit in the comfy chair and give my opinions.

We both have different jobs that we enjoy and are better at. Nicole has the mathematical mind and is good at measuring, so she uses the paper cutter to cut the cardstock to the right sizes and measures everything that will be included on the card. I enjoy stamping and embossing and then colouring the images if needed; I think it is so neat how you heat up a stamped image with a heat gun and then the finished product looks so polished.

Basically after we have all of the parts of the cards cut and prepared, we put the card together and take pictures of it and then post it on Etsy for people to see and hopefully buy.