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Austintown library teaches how to make your own cards
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Caren Harker of Austintown was one of the attendees of the make your own cards event at the Austintown library. She said she loves things that are given to her that are handmade.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Austintown library clerk Cindy Mawhinney (left) worked for 10 years at Michaels Arts and Crafts store, making her well qualified to lead the make your own cards event.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Various kinds of cards were on display at the Austintown library to give attendees of the make your own cards event some inspiration.
By TIM CLEVELAND
In another new program that the Austintown library has started, it hosted its first make your own card event on Sept. 11.
The event attracted four ladies who wanted to make their own cards.
“It’s something I do on my own and I was just approached to maybe do it here and offer a small class here,” Austintown library clerk Cindy Mawhinney said. “For 10 years I worked at Michaels [Arts and Crafts]. I was in charge of the classroom there and I started to get into it that way and I got hooked.”
A table in the library’s meeting room was full of various materials needed to make your own card. There was also a collage of several different styles of cards on display.
“I’m going to tell them about the different inks to use, the different stamps, we’re going to use punches, different qualities of paper, how to clean your stamps, how to cut your paper, different adhesives,” Mawhinney said.
One of the attendees was Caren Harker of Austintown.
“It’s really a way to say something really from your heart, a personal expression of yourself,” she said of making your own cards. “I love things that are given to me that are handmade.”
Mawhinney said she used to be into scrapbooking but now works on cards.
“It’s fun, it’s an accomplishment,” she said. “I dabbled in scrapbooking but it overwhelmed me. I could do a card and get a sense of fulfillment. It didn’t take me like two hours.”
Harker said she learned of the event by chance.
“I just love crafts,” she said. “I was so surprised. I saw it here in the library and if I’d have seen it before I’d have been here.”