Making cards - Ideas for a card craft beginner (part 2)

polly1976

paddingtondoo wrote: »

What a great idea - am feeling a bit dim today though - what should the title of my blog post be please?

Will give me something to play with over the weekend as i jusst can't do unusual shaped cards :rotfl:

Hiya hun when i enter challenge's i just title them whatever the Challenge blog is called does that make sense? xxxx

mumhug

Crazychatter your cards are really lovely (the piggy is my fave too )
saint chris you have been a busy woman love the cards (that teddy is just soo cute?)
Rusty that card is really lovely your mum will love it

s_michaels

Do any of you buy any of the card making magazines? I've seen one in the paper shop that is £7.99 which I would normall think is a bit steep for a magazine, but you get loads free with it to make about 25 cards. I can't remember the name of the magazine but it's a spring special issue or something.

Is it worth buying just for the freebies?

Skiergirl

Hi s_michaels
I've bought the march issue of 'You can craft' magazine which is 7.99. It comes with 10 blank cards in bright colours but no envelopes, 4 sheets of double sided thick paper, a small stencil, 3 foam sheets, a decoupage sheet,, 2 very short lengths of ribbon, some beads and sequins and 11 die cuts.
Although the outside says there are x number of projects they don't provide enough materials to do all of them as eg the papers are double sided so its one card or another IYSWIM.

Hope that helps

s_michaels

Did you think it was worth buying though?

Skiergirl

For me it probably is worth buying to build up supplies as I've only just started card making, also its got lots of ideas for card design. IMHO if you're a beginner I'd say yes, but if you're an experienced cardmaker you'll probably get better ideas on here.

s_michaels

I'm a beginner so I will treat myself to it. thanks skiergirl

bunbun2

I have a subsription to Lets make cards (pressie from my parents for Christmas:A ) which is great for building up papers/embelishments/ribbons etc and also for getting ideas ( I am OK at making the cards not so good at thinking of ideas!). I think it is worth the money as you get alot with it.

Skiergirl

bunbun2 wrote: »

I have a subsription to Lets make cards (pressie from my parents for Christmas:A ) which is great for building up papers/embelishments/ribbons etc and also for getting ideas ( I am OK at making the cards not so good at thinking of ideas!). I think it is worth the money as you get alot with it.

I have never bought Lets make cards - does it have the same sort of stuff in as You can craft ?

Does anyone knoww if the Papermill shop sells pearlescent card ? I am thinking of a trip but don't want to have to go somewhere else too if it doesn't. Thanks

RustyFlange

Does anyone have a helix craft room? I had the link saved for the subscription to the magazine that saveapenny posted up a few pages back, but I was wondering if anyone actually had one and if they were any good?
OH is asking me to throw a few ideas of things for my birthday