Pergamano - Parchment Craft
The Ancient Art Of Parchment Craft
Pergamano Parchment Craft is the ancient art of bringing parchment paper to life. Some of the magic that you can apply to your parchment paper includes: embossing, perforating, stenciling, painting and cutting to beautiful shape. The final result, as seen in the picture attached (one of my own parchment cards, so please do not copy) is a lacy design that can be given as gift or present for any occasion. Ever since I've been involved with parchment crafting, I have created hundreds of parchm...

Collecting Vintage Greeting Cards, Hallmark and other retro Cards for Birthdays, New Baby, and Holidays
Collecting Greeting Cards begins with fascination :)
I stumbled across a collection of baby boy greeting cards from the late 1950s and I was so fascinated by them, that I thought here at Squidoo might just be a good place to share them. Enjoy the pictures :) If you are looking to buy some old greeting cards to add to your collection, or to make a scrapbook with, then I hope you will find some interesting ones on this page. Page updated 8/13/2011

Making Greeting Cards
Use Koloron Art Fabric.
This remarkable material is a cross between paper and fabric; it gives amazing artistic effects and is a perfect solution for many of the practical requirements of card construction.   Koloron Art Fabric has the perfect surface for stamping, painting, drawing and screening. It cuts easily with scissors and knives, glues permanently with PVA and will fold thousands of times without failing. Great for those cards you want to last. Squidoo Lensmasters can join a Group on LinkedIn Makes sense to ...

Greeting Cards Provide That Personal Touch
The Power of a Simple Greeting Card
Greeting cards have been around for more than 200 years. Some of the first cards were sent by Egyptians on papyrus scrolls and until the early 1800's were mostly sent by the wealthy. Cards of long ago were fine pieces of art, many hand painted on quality paper. When the postage stamp was introduced in 1840, this slowly changed and more people used the greeting card method of communications. By 1850, greeting cards became a trendy and inexpensive means of sending a salutation mostly for major...