The year-round, all-occasion make your own greeting card book

My copy of this book was published in 1977 and has no color illustrations or photographs, just gray-tone illustrations. There are techniques in here that I haven't seen since I was in Girl Scouts, such as potato-print cards, and crayon-melt cards. No mention is made of a computer, although the section on "Machine-Printed Cards" does make use of an "'Instant' printer (such as Postal Instant Press.)" The techniques that are used for almost every greeting card, such as cutting, scoring, and folding the card, as well as transferring and gluing the design are explained at the beginning of the book. I was happy to see the section on using an X-acto knife, as my blade often wanders off where it isn't supposed to go. I also learned that I was scoring the wrong side of my cards. All in all, I found this section to be quite useful. The basic card-making methods that are explained and diagrammed within this book: collage; paper doily; letter cutout; embossed; pop-up and cutout; photo; stencil; spatter; hand stamp (literally hand- and foot-prints!); stamp-out (here's where the potato comes in); stained-glass-look; crayon melt; paraffin print; linoleum print; simple silk screen and silk screen; and machine printed cards. The designs to trace are full-size, which is very helpful, and the directions on how to construct the cards are quite clear. You and your children, or your class could have fun with this book. Most of the techniques (except for silk screening and machine printing) are quite easy and could be done in a classroom setting.