I buy mine from the dollar stores too!

Paid $6 for a card at the Publix for my 26th wedding anniversary. It was well received. Not happy that a 75 cent card is now $6. But, what are you gonna do? Crayons and construction paper work only up to about age 6. That was 50 years ago.

I know a gal that purchased a $200.00 paper cutter machine , $100.00 worth of "special" scissors and $90.00 worth of pretty paper , to make her own cards.

she's "Artsey"

She makes all these elaborate , three phase four paper, glitter, designer cards.
average build time: 40 minutes