Card-Making

Today I thought I'd share some thoughts on card-making with you.  Card-making is a great way to relax and just create. No big canvas staring you in the face screaming in blinding white, "Make me perfect".  No huge investment of time and commitment.  Just a little space whispering, "Have fun!".  And you get the added pleasure of sending it to someone and making them happy.

If you get serious about card-making be prepared to empty your bank account.  This craft is the most tool intensive hobby I have but each tool adds needed detail and polish to your card.  There are dry embossing tools and heat embossing tools for adding dimension to your paper.  Die cut machines and many different dies for cutting out specialty shapes from paper.  Stamps and more stamps to add sentiments or images to your card. Of course you'll need the basics:  paper cutter, markers, tape and glue, ribbons, glitter, stamp pads, bling, beautiful scrapbook paper pads and a way to store all this stuff.  You get the picture!  

I needed lots of storage for all the do-dads so I bought a desk unit called the ScrapBox MiniBox.  It is awesome for maximizing a small space.  Take a look at the this ScrapBox link and you'll see how the unit opens with tons of space for storing stuff.  Here are some pictures of my work space on the rare occasion it was clean.

This is the unit closed.

This is the unit open.

This is the top of the desk space.