Craft supply also had a card-making class for Valentine’s Day. Courtesy | Facebook
Hillsdale Craft Supply is hosting a greeting card workshop Feb. 25.
“We enjoy ourselves,” said Sydney Kubien, a representative from Close To My Heart paper company, who teaches the workshop. “We sit around the table and we share our cards. I tell them to color outside the line and each person has their own take on that card.”
Between 1 and 6 p.m, crafters can come in and choose between eight different card kits made by Close to My Heart paper company, said Shelly Mangus, owner of Hilldale Craft Supply. They will learn how to cut paper with a die cut machine and layer the paper on a greeting card. The cost to complete a card is $4.
“We teach you how to do each one of these layers and then put that whole thing together for a finished card,” Mangus said.
Last month, the craft shop hosted a Valentine’s Day card making workshop. According to Mangus, more than 40 people attended the event. The store will continue to host crafting events on the fourth Sunday of every month.
Kubien said she loves watching other people get creative during card crafting events.
“If there is a new person in class, I like to sit one-on-one with them so they can understand what all the different pieces to the card are for, but then I let them take over,” Kubien said. “They might want to become creative. They don’t have to follow my design right down to the letter.”
The company comes out with new paper campaigns every two months, inspiring Kubien to create new crafts.
“This campaign had hummingbird paper, so I was trying to find different ways to do the hummingbird,” Kubien said. “I would go on the hunt for papers that would match the hummingbird. Hummingbirds look for flowers, so I had to have flower paper in there. I play with the paper.”
According to Mangus, the event is rooted in her passion for making and sharing craft kits.
“At a young age, I became addicted to crafts,” Mangus said. “I started making kits and writing instructions. My mom sold the instructions to companies, they made the kits, and people are still buying those kits today.”
Kubien said she loves making greeting cards because of the joy they bring to the recipients.
“When they get their cards, they know you took the time to make the card,” Kubien said. “You made this and whether it’s perfect or not, it’s the feeling that that card gives you as you made it.”
