Creative Crafting is always fun, but it is even better when you can make useful items from recycled materials. My favorite is discarded wallpaper sample books. This is a free source of beautiful designs with unending possibilities. Need some ideas? Take a look at my Wallpaper Pages. Be sure to check out the second page, too, for even more ideas.





Now that you have some ideas, you need some great computer software to design these cards. My favorites are Print Artist by Sierra, and Micrografx's Draw 6. With these two programs, you can create very professional-looking cards, labels, calendars, and many other computer-generated crafts. Need more info? Check out some of these links:

Print Artist is not only one of the best programs for computer crafting, it also has some of the greatest people in the world using it! This wonderful group, known as PALS (Print Artist LoverS) has the most talented, creative, friendly and helpful artists on the internet.
To find out more about the PALS, go to PAM's Hideway (Pals and More) PALS@Home or PAFUN

Draw6 is probably one of the most complete packages ever on the market. Included is a version of Picture Publisher for editing photos and scans, a Media Manager to catalog your graphics as you want, ability to import and use most every type of graphic format and edit them, and so much more. To find out more of this program's capabilities, please take a look at Sue's Drawing Room page .





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PAL Florence has generously sent her famouse Wallpaper Box instructions to be included here. See for yourself how easy and fun this project is!