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

saveapenny

Is £46 inc PP good for a cuttlebug?

Pink.

saveapenny, That is a really good price so if I were you I'd grab it with both hands. From what I've seen they generally seem to retail at between £50 - £65 including p&p. Mine has cost £54.00 which I know I could probably get cheaper online, but it's from my local craft shop and I like the owner who has been really helpful to me as a card making beginner so I'd prefer to give her the business. Not very MSE I know, but it's how I feel.

Polly, I love your card using the lace tree emossing folder!

paddingtondoo, thank you so much for your help!

bunbun2, please share your cards with us. I'm sure they're lovely and I bet they'll give us all some ideas.

Pink

CT19720

Fab cards everyone. I've had time to make some more today as my DS is off school sick.



and a couple of christmas cards that I am quite pleased with.



My DS saw me making the mum one, and wanted to do one for Daddy so together we did this:



He likes my cards a lot so has requested me to make him one for him for Christmas, he is only 5, bless him.

mary43

CT - lovely cards -no wonder your 5 yr old wanted one:T

abusybee

Hi. Wonderful cards everyone:T :T (sorry im not mentioning them all I am knackered and going to bed very soon as I can't keep my eyes open) I am just catching up as I havent been on since last week as I went to Dublin for the weekend. I didn't have enough time to find any craft shops but did walk past the most georgeos ribbon shop. I didn't go in as I have loads of ribbon but it looked fab.

To join in with the conversation my mum has bought me a cuttlebug :j for christmas. When I was shopping around for them I wanted as many extras as I could get and near the end I have to say I was sick of looking at sites that sold them. But I came up with this one and had to put some money towards it. It cost £70 for a cuttlebug, a cuttlekids and the tadpole alphabet. To buy seperate I found the cuttlebug at about £54, the cuttle kids between £20-25 and the alphabet was £14.99. My son at the minute is mad on doing craft things so I thought this set was quite good as he gets to be even more creative and I get an alphabet until I can afford a better one. The girly alphabet set was nicer but I could get that having two boys. (incredibly unselfish moment:rolleyes: ) This is the site http://www.art-of-craft.co.uk/acatalog/Cuttlebug_Machine_and_Accessories.html

I hope that this link has worked as it is the first time I have put one on.

CT19720

Hi,

Seen alot being mentioned about cuttlebugs, and have seen a few bits and pieces in Hobbycraft for them when I have been in, but can anyone please explain in simple words what one is and what it does. Maybe I need one!

Thanks

paddingtondoo

CT19720 wrote: »

Hi,

Seen alot being mentioned about cuttlebugs, and have seen a few bits and pieces in Hobbycraft for them when I have been in, but can anyone please explain in simple words what one is and what it does. Maybe I need one!

Thanks

It's a die cutting and embossing machine where you wind a handle and either cut shapes out or make an embossed lumpy design on it. Very much like a sizzix machine but IMO better.
You can emboss really cheap awful bits of paper look quite posh! (I'm using up loads of bits i've had lying about for ages.

Something I tried today was embossing some letters that I found in my stash - they started off flat blue and boring and ended up bumpy (used spots and dots) and really effective.

OH told me off last week for not buying an xmas embossing folder as I was saying I would hardly use it so ordered myself another alphabet instead

CT19720

paddingtondoo wrote: »

It's a die cutting and embossing machine where you wind a handle and either cut shapes out or make an embossed lumpy design on it. Very much like a sizzix machine but IMO better.
You can emboss really cheap awful bits of paper look quite posh! (I'm using up loads of bits i've had lying about for ages.

Something I tried today was embossing some letters that I found in my stash - they started off flat blue and boring and ended up bumpy (used spots and dots) and really effective.

OH told me off last week for not buying an xmas embossing folder as I was saying I would hardly use it so ordered myself another alphabet instead

Thanks for that, am I right to think that the embossing folders, are just different templates that make different things depending on which ones you buy. Sorry to sound thick, but am just getting into card making, and looking for new ideas for a lot of the paper/card I have accumulated in the last 6 months. Are they really easy to use?

Pink.

CT19720 wrote: »

Thanks for that, am I right to think that the embossing folders, are just different templates that make different things depending on which ones you buy. Sorry to sound thick, but am just getting into card making, and looking for new ideas for a lot of the paper/card I have accumulated in the last 6 months. Are they really easy to use?

Hi CT19720,

paddingtondoo owns a cuttlebug and is much better placed to answer you than I am as I just had a play with one in a demonstration but I found it very simple to use.

These videos on Youtube might help:

How to cut and emboss using a cuttlebug

How to use a cuttlebug

I'm getting one for Christmas and I can't wait, but beware! Choosing die cuts and folders can become addictive!

Good to see you back abusybee.....I hope you had a great time!

Pink

paddingtondoo

CT19720 wrote: »

Thanks for that, am I right to think that the embossing folders, are just different templates that make different things depending on which ones you buy. Sorry to sound thick, but am just getting into card making, and looking for new ideas for a lot of the paper/card I have accumulated in the last 6 months. Are they really easy to use?

The embossing folders are a folded piece of plastic with the design in lumps in one side and as dips on the other. You put the card or paper in between the 2 sides and as it squeezes through the rollers the design embosses into the paper to make it lumpy and dippy.

Sorry not very technical but you get the idea:rotfl:. It gives a really clear raised image and I luv it . Even OH is impressed and he's not even slightly crafty.

Pink is right though it can be very addictive looking for folders and playing with them although I have been good and bought ones that I think I'll use lots. They do seem expensive on eBay though