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

rainmac

JailhouseBabe wrote: »

Hi Pinkcoke :hello: Let's see if you get as addicted to this forum as I've become!

I've just updated my blog with a card I made last night when I should have been studying :rolleyes:

Love your pink card Is it studying tonight then

JailhouseBabe

rainmac wrote: »

Love your pink card Is it studying tonight then

It will have to be - as the assignment is due in tomorrow :eek:

hels102

Rainmac thanks for the tips, I shall print some more legs and heads and see how I get on..! Sometimes I think I'm not cut out for the card making!

Jailhousebabe what a lovely card, well done!

Thank you all so much for your comments! You are all so lovely! x

Gemm I've had a look at your fudge recipe I'm going to make some this FridaY!

Mary I've got all my bits and bobs ready for the scrapbook I've just not felt ready to put it all together yet! I'm hoping to create some kind of scrapbook page that I can frame for fathers day so I've got sometime to get my act together!

Pinkcoke

Gemm85 wrote: »

welcome to the thread Pinkcoke :T

JailhouseBabe wrote: »

Hi Pinkcoke :hello: Let's see if you get as addicted to this forum as I've become!

I've just updated my blog with a card I made last night when I should have been studying :rolleyes:

Thanks guys I've posted around here a few times before (re: crimpers) but it moves a little fast for me to keep up with properly

Don't you think there should be a Craft section in the forums? Are we able to suggest this to someone? then we could have more organised threads with specifc purposes (at the mo the few there are seem to be for any craft themes/talk )

cgcockcroft

hi just wanted to re-ask my question about embossing, do i need differednt coloured stamps and powders or will a clear powder go with any colour stamp?
also what about clear stamps and different embossing powders? which is the best option?

also i have joined blogland!

http://alee81.blogspot.com/

just getting started, so just using the basic layouts, but where do you get the glorious backgrounds from?

thanks in advance!


forgot to say that i am alee81- alison, husband is cgcockcroft, just can be bothered to unlog him and log in myself so just post as him now.

paddingtondoo

cgcockcroft wrote: »

hi just wanted to re-ask my question about embossing, do i need differednt coloured stamps and powders or will a clear powder go with any colour stamp?
also what about clear stamps and different embossing powders? which is the best option?

also i have joined blogland!

http://alee81.blogspot.com/

just getting started, so just using the basic layouts, but where do you get the glorious backgrounds from?

thanks in advance!


forgot to say that i am alee81- alison, husband is cgcockcroft, just can be bothered to unlog him and log in myself so just post as him now.

Hi,
I personally prefer to use coloured ink with clear embossing powder - that way if it gets on the card or whatever it doesn't show as coloured bits.
I have used coloured embossing powder but have found the image isn't quite so clear - not sure if that makes sense.

Also it's cheaper to buy ink pads than embossing powder that you might only use once or twice.

HTH

Pinkcoke

alee81

cgcockcroft wrote: »

hi just wanted to re-ask my question about embossing, do i need differednt coloured stamps and powders or will a clear powder go with any colour stamp?
also what about clear stamps and different embossing powders? which is the best option?

Hi Alison I think you meant to say ink rather than stamp; on that basis:

Clear ink with coloured embossing powder gives the same colour as the powder
Coloured ink with clear powder gives a gloss effect with the ink colour showing through
If you try coloured ink with a pearl powder you get a pearlised effect of the original ink colour (when I tried orange ink with white pearl powder I got a pearly peach colour)

Pinkcoke

paddingtondoo wrote: »

Hi,
Also it's cheaper to buy ink pads than embossing powder that you might only use once or twice.
HTH

Paddington made a good point there: I have many coloured inks but only basic embossing powders. (clear, white, black, gold, silver & pearl)

JailhouseBabe

cgcockcroft wrote: »

hi just wanted to re-ask my question about embossing, do i need differednt coloured stamps and powders or will a clear powder go with any colour stamp?
also what about clear stamps and different embossing powders? which is the best option?

also i have joined blogland!

http://alee81.blogspot.com/

just getting started, so just using the basic layouts, but where do you get the glorious backgrounds from?

thanks in advance!


forgot to say that i am alee81- alison, husband is cgcockcroft, just can be bothered to unlog him and log in myself so just post as him now.

Ah, I wondered who alee 81 was :rolleyes: I've left comments on your cards - you've had a busy day! My background came from the cutest blog on the block, they've got a huge selection.

Marg

Thank you jailhouse that's the answer to the question I hadn't got round to asking yet!!