Customer Reviews

Make Your Own Cards by Made By Hands

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There are many positives about this kit: Carrying case is great to put the contents back into place and has a carrying handle. Everything fits easily and velcros shut. The paper colors are vibrant. The shapes are nicely perforated and do not rip as you are taking them out. The paper is a nice weight--almost as thick as cardstock, I believe. The cards are large: 5.5" x 8.5" - a nice size for small hands.

However, I have pretty paper and envelopes. What I really wanted were a good variety of shapes for my 6-year-old daughter who enjoys making cards. Instead, the set included the following popouts shapes:

7 sheets of paper in these colors: orange, blue, light green, purple, white, yellow, and pink. Each paper contained the following shapes of varying sizes:
8 squares (3 perforated into 6 triangles each)
14 rectangles
8 circles (3 perforated into 2 semicircles each)
5 flowers
3 hearts
18 petals/teardrops
1 sheet of black paper with 48 black circles (4 different sizes).

There is one piece of cardboard with 7 examples (their website [...] has other ideas), but once we created flowers, a house, a present, a face, and butterflies, there wasn't much else to do (winter/Christmas just past). You really need to be creative with ideas to enjoy this kit to its fullest. I had hoped for more variety of shapes (birds, people, sports, furniture, etc).

For those who are imaginative, this set will likely be great. If you're looking for pre-made shapes, be aware of this kit's contents.

I bought this as a gift for my 5 year old niece and she LOVES it. Not only her but her whole family has gotten involved in making cards. An extra bonus... I've already gotten two handmade thank you cards!

My daughter received this as a gift for her 7th birthday and loves it. She uses her imagination and makes lots of creative cards. Every birthday she makes her own cards and loves doing it. My sons love it too. It helps them be creative and use theur imagination.

I gave this to my 9 year old neice for her birthday. I wanted her to learn the greatness of giving Thank You cards for items we recieve. It is a great set with a good amount of cards and paper. It does not come wrapped in celeophane, so it kind of looks like it was opened. Only bad thing.

My 6 yr old was very excited to receive this product. It is fun and easy for her to create her own card designs. It would be nice if it came with some ideas of things to write in the cards for her to copy.

What a nice collection of all the things a new artist would need to create her own cards for people. I especially liked the number of cards that could be made too. Other kits were smaller for the money! Nice opportunity for the young artist to send a card and be artistic about it! Nothing says it better than homemade.

I absolutely love this card making kit! We have purchased this exact same one twice. My girls just love it! It has a variety of shapes and patterns to use, great colors, and kids can easily punch out the shapes on their own. It's perfect for kids to make their own cards for the special people in their lives! We will definitely be purchasing it again when this one runs out of supplies!

Wow! Am I glad I ordered this for my granddaughter! On my visit, we spent many quality hours together making cards. I highly recommend this gift!

Bought this for Christmas for my boyfriend's 8 year old daughter. Really a cute gift, she has made a few cards already. Nice to have a kit with all the parts compared to buying things separately like construction paper and stickers, etc. Makes it really easy to say "hey, why don't you make a card for ..." and she can just grab this little kit. Great idea!

My 8 year old granddaughter received this as a Christmas present. She loved it. She has made cards for everyone in the family and distant family.