Sentiment

• When creating your card remember to make it a card that the recipient will enjoy. The sentiment in your card is a gift from you to the recipient and is extremely important, and the appearance of the card is the delivery vehicle for the sentiment. Your sentiment can be a creative rhyme or heartfelt message written in prose or just a thoughtful note carrying your well wishes for a speedy recovery.
  
  

Put Creativity to Work

• Homemade cards can be made with many items readily available at home or you can purchase notions and art supplies to use for your cards. Handmade cards can sometimes be intricate and special enough that the recipient may even want to turn it into artwork by framing it. Fabric and felt scraps, yarn, buttons and glue, pretty printed paper and markers can be put to good use when creating your cards. A flower with petals of printed fabric scraps with a big brown or black button for the center and a colorful ribbon tied in the crease of the card might coax a grin on your recipient's face. Many little white buttons glued into a circle on a green card can certainly be made to look like a golf ball for your favorite golf enthusiast who is under the weather. Just put your creativity to work remembering who the recipient of the card is and try to gear what you put on your card to her particular interests.
  
  

Design Option Details

• You may want to print your card by hand, or you may choose to print the text of your card on your computer in black and white and then add colorful artwork to the front or you can print the entire card including a cover design. Cardstock or heavy paper works best but if your card is being created and printed on your computer and your printer does not handle heavy paper easily you may want to print your text on paper and glue your text page onto the cardstock with a standard glue stick or craft glue. Many commercial greeting cards are designed with the inside text on separate paper glued inside the card.
  
  

Shapes and Sizes

• Cards designed in landscape format and folded accordion style in three are easy to create as the entire design and sentiment is all created on one side of the paper and folded with two creases. When done on heavy paper or cardstock these cards will stand up to be displayed. They also fit into standard No. 10 mailing envelopes. Of course, homemade cards can be made in any size or shape.
  
  

Even Children Can Help Make Cards

• Creating special get well cards for people is also a particularly nice way to include children in the process of showing kindness and concern for others while sharing a creative activity. Cards for special relatives made by children can include their pictures in the design for a really extra special personal touch.
  
  

Sincerely Express Your Get Well Soon Wish

• Designing and making a special homemade card for someone is a wonderful way to express how important they are to you and that you sincerely hope they will get well soon.