I don’t know about you, but when spring begins to roll around, so do numerous invitations for different reasons to celebrate. From Easter to Mothers Day, birthdays, baby showers, bridal showers, picnics and more, this is definitely the time of year I hunt for fabulous new greeting card ideas. That is where Card Art comes into play. It gives you great ideas for ways to combine a love of fabric and papercrafts (and a lovely opportunity to reach into your stash). A great card is like a little work of art to share with your friends or family.
We are celebrating the arrival of spring and all of its grand occasions by giving away a copy of Card Art by Susan S. Terry. With over 50 original card designs we know it will inspire you. All you have to do to enter the drawing is post a comment here telling us who you want to make a card for and why. The winner will be chosen at random from all comments made by 9 AM PST on Monday, April 13.
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My mother always loved my fabric postcards. I lost her a few months ago just after her 99 birthday. But I’ve continued to create cards for my “surrogate” Mom who is 92 now and also for my grandchildren who post them on their bulletin boards. This looks like a great new book of ideas!
Nancy
I would love to make a card for a special friend who just suffered a stroke to help brighten his day.
We have a nephew getting married in May, so I’d love to make an original card for the happy couple. Thanks for the chance.
This book looks like a lot of fun!
As the long distance P.O.A. for an elderly relative in assisted living, I feel guilty that I don’t live closer so I could visit regularly. I started sending postcards and greeting cards to this relative to brighten up her day. Fabric ones are such a GREAT idea. I have lots of fusible web now I just need to get to work on it.
I would like to make a card for my siste-in-law who has 2 small autistics kids under the age of 3 1/2. She loves hand-made gifts and I know she would cherish it and it would brighten her day.
THis is a bit different for a comment, but I don’t want to make a card, I want to give the book to my DIL who loves to make cards. SHe’s got 4 little ones under 5 right now, and little time to browse either the net or library for ideas, so That’s what I want the book for.
My wife loves this stuff and I would love to give it to her as a gift. She would use it to make cards for our entire families.
i am regularly a paper crafter, but my sister just gave me a huge fabric swatch book (12×12) this would be perfect to help me get started using it.
this looks a great book, would like to make a card for my sister who just broke her arm. Because she is having chemo for bone cancer they do not want to pin it as it would mean stopping her chemo. Would like to send her a “chin up” card to cheer her up.
Our mom died in January, so for our first Mother’s Day without her (and she was BIG on holidays) I’d like to make a card for my brother and sister to remember her and them.
I want to make a beautiful birthday card for my SWEET daughter who will be turning 20 years old on May 10th. Thank you for the opportunity to win such an awesome book, have a SWEET day!!
My mother turns 95 in July, and as promised, I will be going “home” to Canada from Australia for the event. She has been my inspiration for all textile crafting and her diminishing eyesight is making this less and less feasible. I would like to create cards for her that I can send regularly before and after my all-too-short visit as a point of contact that recalls the influence she has had on my interests.
I would love to make a card for my 89 year old mother. She loves my cards and I would love to win this book to get more ideas, especially incorporating fabric with paper!
sandyh502001 at yahoo dot com
I want to make a card for a friend of mine who’s kinda having a hard time….
I would love to gift this book to my dear quilting friend Pam. She always sends me her beautiful handmade cards. I think she would love the book. I would like to make a card for her.
I would like to make a card for my friend Mary. She’s such a great friend and so generous with others. I think that should be recognized.
I would like to make a card for our granddaughter, who is going to start collage and will miss us.. she is a great kid, so kind and sweet. She is the kind that would take it away to the school with her..to remind her we love her. Diana
I’ve never made a fabric postcard…has always been on my ‘learn to do’ list. :>) I think I’d make the first for my mom…she has postcards that we used to get when we traveled when I was a kid…and she is now sending those to the grandson of a friend who is collecting post cards. I think she’d get a kick out of getting a quilty one!!!
Sally in TX
I’d love to make a card for my mom. She enjoys every crafty thing that I’ve started in the last year and is always so excited to see what I’m working on.
A good friend has a birthday coming up soon; I think a fiber birthday card would be perfect for her.
I participated in a postcard swap a couple of years ago. Since then I have sent a few to my father-in-laws girlfriend. She’s also a quilter and really appreciates the artistry that goes into them!
I have two graduations coming up! One child is graduating from the Naval Academy and the other from high school, so I’d love to make something special that could go in their scrapbooks, something to recognize their accomplishments and the times we’ve had as a family.
I love my new addiction of cardmaking! I decided to try it using my leftover scraps of paper from my scrapbooking. I have been making cards for family and friends and have used all sorts of materials to experiment with.I would love to have a book with more techniques and ideas to help me with my new craft! Thank you for this opportunity!
One card I want to make is a card for my husband, Kevin. He does so much for our son and me and never asks for anything in return but our love. I want to show him our love through a card and just to thank him for all he does for us and tell him how much it is appreciated and how special he is.
I want to make a thinking of you friend card. My friend just had a baby 2 weeks ago, they brought him home & then he got some sort of infection & has been in the hospital for a week now. She needs some caring words.
I have a younger friend who is waiting for the results of tests to determine if she is facing another battle with breast cancer. I made her a quilt the first time. At this time I would love to be able to send her special cards as she deals with the next few months.
I would like to try my hand at postcards and this looks like a great book to ge me started.
I want to make a card for my husband because, even though I see him all the time, I really do appreciate the things he does, and I want him to know it.
I would like to make a card for my dd who is away at college – much too far to come home weekends, so we hardly see her…I think such a card would brighten her day!
Wow what a fun idea. If I won this fabulous book, I would make a fabric card for one of my quilting friends who had major surgery in February this year & is having lots of trouble from it & has fallen on hard times & I’m sure a fabric card would cheer her up. Your book looks Fantastic…
Jan
I’d love to make a card to my mom. She’d love it.
What a great giveaway. That books looks really nice!
just found this website! Fantastic! I paper, knit, sew, paint. so excited to see card book. never have joined a blog before. Help?
oh, how I love blog candy!!!! thanks for putting my name in the hat. I am a wife, mother of 5 and a grandmother to almost 16. I have a gazillion nieces and nephews, aunts, cousins, mother, father and mother in law and siblings and siblings in law. Lots of friends. those are my reasons for making cards! I love that creative outlet. along with quilting, cardmaking is my life!
thanks
Lorene
I love making cards and this book would be a wonderful resource to own!
I have a special friend named Geri that I haven’t seen in eight years having moved to a different state. She’ll be 80 this year and isn’t in the best of health. I want to make her a special card as not any store bought card will do.
I love making cards. I would make cards for my mother and grandaunt for Mothers Day. The book looks like fun.
Erma
i would love to see this book. i love making cards and sending them. always can use new good ideas for fabric cards. i think i would make one to send to my grandmother who is 95. i think she would really love one. i think i will get on that this week! getting the book would be great tho.
lynne
Great Ideas and what a better way to use scraps. I would make cards first for my mother and then the summer weddings planned in my family. If I start now, maybe a few Christmas cards.
I have a few friends…well children of friends who are getting married, graduating from college, having babies….take your pick!! LOL It would come in really useful I’m thinking!
I would love to make a special card for my mom for Mother’s Day. After almost losing her to heart attacks and congestive heart failure last May, I’m very blessed and grateful to still have her with me!
I love making fabric post cards. I would like to make a special card to send to a dear friend of mine, Joanne. Joanne is in her late 70′s and has been in the hospital for two weeks. She loves quilts and art, and I know she would be cheered up by a unique card.
I would love to make an orginal birthday card for my nephew Tom who will be 50 in August. His wife is gathering photos and stories about him for a memory scrap book and I think a specially made 5oth birthday card from me and my family would be a very welcomed addition. She is also going to surprise him with a birthday dinner with family and friends from all over the country attending.
My father and my uncle will both be 80 years young this year. I would like to make a very special card for each of them.
Looks wonderful! I’ll have to look for a copy!
I have been in assorted group swaps and always enjoy creating PCs and receiving them. Recently realized how busy I have been with ‘groups’ that my family and friends have been neglected.
So on Valentine’s Day I sent cards to my MIL and to my granddaughter. Their pure joy and enthusiasm at receiving the cards has me determined to make more cards to send for b’days and special occasions. My next non-group card is being made for my friend’s birthday. Boy will she be surprised!
warm quilt hugs, sue from CA
I have never made an art type card. I would like to learn how to make them so I can make cards for friends that are now in care centers and can no longer quilt. Hopefully having a little fabric arranged on a small card will give them joy.
I’ve wanted and thought about making fabric cards, but have never found the time. I’ve received a couple and they are so neat. Jan
It looks like a great book. Maybe I can win it.
hugs
I would like to make a card for my Mother. She is soon to be 82 yrs. old. Her health is failing but she still finds time to sew and give quilts for benefits and when a neighbor’s house burns. She worked hard to raise her family and still does her housework and finds time to sew.
I would love to make a special card for my daughter who just quit smoking!
I love to make cards and don’t do it enough. This book would be a great jump start!
I would make a card for my Mother among many others. This looks like a fun book.
I love making cards; having a whole book of ideas would be wonderful!
This book looks like a lot of fun. I’ve wanted to try my hand at ATCs. This could get me started!
I’ve never made cards before except on the computer… what a wonderful new way to send someone some cheer!
I have made a few fabric postcards and they are fun to do. I want to do more….so a book of ideas would be wonderful to have!
Hi, I’d like to design a card for my Mom, who is 88. She has health problems, but remains optomistic. She loves bright flowers and trees so the card will be nature oriented. Thanks for offering the book!
Betty
“Anyone” can go to the store and spend $4.99 for a greeting card that will go to a million other people. However, if I make a fabric card, it is an absolute original, no one has ever received it before and most likely no one will ever get another just like it! What an exciting concept!!
My daughter and I are having our annual (3rd) card making day in early May. We save bits and pieces all year for this day. We try to get as many made on this day as possible. Always looking for new ideas!!!
Thanks!!!
I would love to be able to combine my fabric with card making.
My oldest son is getting married in July and I would love to make them a very special card to celebrate the occasion.