Thursday Thirteen 127: World Card Making Day

1. Started in 2006, World Card Making Day is the first Saturday of October.

2. WCMD is a holiday that allows card makers around the world to celebrate the personable and creative aspects of hand-crafted cards, and kicks off the holiday card-making season.

3. People use this day to host get-togethers with friends and family to create cards together, or can attend events and sales sponsored by local craft shops around the world.

4. The origin of exchanged cards dates back to ancient Chinese culture.

5. Card making has become a worldwide hobby, but is especially popular in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

6. Top occasions for making cards are: Birthdays, Winter holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's), Thank You, Valentine's Day, and Mother's Day.

7. 1 in 6 US households engage in making homemade cards. Cards can range from simple to elaborate designs, and almost any materials can be used: designer paper, stamps, stickers, die-cuts, photos, old postcards or store-bought Christmas cards, etc. You can also buy card-making kits that contain all materials needed except adhesive.

8. Card makers prefer stamps (me!) and rub-ons (not me!) for making their holiday cards. 73% also use their computers in some part of their design (not me).

9. 86% of scrapbookers also make their own cards, as many of the same items can be used in both.

10. Card making get-togethers are a good occasion to hold supply swaps. Have paper, ribbon, or stamps you no longer use? Bring them along to an event and swap with friends. Or, make up gift bags for each attendee using your unused materials.

11. World Card Making Day is a fun time for friends to get together to learn new techniques, or how to use old products in new ways. It can also be a good time to borrow products friends own that you don't.

12. Many groups get together on this day to make cards for charities (hospitals, nursing homes, troops overseas). Scrapbook Superstore in Madison will have a free make-and-take project, and shoppers will also be able to make cards for Oakwood Nursing Home residents. Various church groups will be making Christmas cards to send to troops.

13. If you have never created a handmade greeting card and would like to learn more about it, contact your local craft/scrapbook stores for events being held on World Card Making Day, or other times of the year. Stores like Archivers and Scrapbook Superstore hold workshops for nominal fees throughout the year.




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