Mother’s Day Cards
25 Feb 2010
In an earlier post this month I spoke about the cards I make to support the children's village. Well it's coming into the season when our card making is in full swing - Mother's Day, a Baptism service and Easter are all big sellers.
Now this type of card making is different from making cards for personal use or as a business proposition.
It costs £1 GBP to feed and school one child in Uganda for one day so when we first started this venture that is what we priced the cards at. The dilemma we face is that although we want to make the cards as attractive as possible we cannot make them too elaborate as they would cost more to make than what we sell them for.
The above two Mother's Day cards are perfect examples of what people get for their £1.
The blank cards are plain white 6"x6". The front of the card has been covered with embossed wrapping paper. The blue card has been matt and layered onto silver mirror card and the lilac card has been matt and layered onto purple pearlescent card and silver mirror card.
The Mother's Day sentiments are silver peel-offs stuck to a pearlescent tag mounted onto the silver mirror card. These are fixed to the cards using 3D double sided sticky pads to give some diemnsion to the card.
Finishing card making embellishments are a blue chiffon bow and a lovely lilac spotted fabric butterfly on the respective cards.
I think they are really good value for £1 but would love to hear what you think!
Susan from Cardmaking-Companion
