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

Skiergirl

princesspoppypop - gorgeous handbag cards, are the handbags die cuts or did you buy them ?

mumhug - lovely anniversary card

rainmac - fantastic card, I love the circles backing paper

CT - brilliant idea for a special birthday card

Do you think I could persaude my DH that a weekend away in Harrogate in september would be nice ? :rotfl:

Skiergirl

Quick question for anyone who has done stitched cards...

What do you use to make the holes ?, I have a xcut pokey thing but am wondering if the holes will be too big ?. Any advise welcome, thank you

rainmac

SallyUK wrote: »

Did anyone else order the Cardmaker's Yearbook which someone kindly posted the link to a few days ago?

My one arrived today and it looks super from what I can see, I'll enjoy browsing through it tonight when OH is watching footie :rolleyes:

Sal
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I did, mine came today too, going to take it to bed tonight and have a flick through before I nod off

rainmac

Skiergirl wrote: »

Quick question for anyone who has done stitched cards...

What do you use to make the holes ?, I have a xcut pokey thing but am wondering if the holes will be too big ?. Any advise welcome, thank you

Flourgirl is the expert on these

I had a pokey tool but I found the holes were quite big so I used several strands of thread to make it look ok. I bought a smaller one after asking Flourgirl for some advice and broke it :rolleyes: I have pierced a design using a long pin but it was blooming hard work so I need to buy another thin tool

CT19720

Does anyone have some polka dot backing sheets that they can share with me please?

I'm looking for pink dots (a middleish colour between baby pink and fusha pink), and then black dots on the same colour pink). Also a mid purple colour on black and black dots on a mid purple colour.

Also is it possible to get the dots in the colours I am after and print them on to the appropriate card is black dots on the screen, and put in purple card to the printer, and purple dots on the screen, and put black card in the printer.

Thanks

cgcockcroft

Doncaster - June 21st
Harrogate - September 12th & 13th.

Maybe see you there if I'm not on a no spend month
thanks for this! have to drag my husband or book my friend!!!- The doncaster one is on the same day as a max papercraft show in leeds. i think the harrogate one is closer.

Hi cgcockcroft,

the one of the crafty place site that saveapenny has set up runs until the end of May, if this is any good to you:

http://craftyplace.yuku.com/topic/84


i managed to look at this, thought i'd try and log in and the maintence men moved in again- need to do that cleary thing but not sure how! thanks though- have noted down the page address for when it works!

JailhouseBabe

Alee - when I got stuck on the log-in for craftyplace, I deleted just the yuku cookie (Tools/Options/View cookies - or something along those lines!), then just delete the one you want to. I then used a different email address to sign-up again and had no problems.

saveapenny

CT..pm me your email and I will try and get some done for your tonight
I wont be around for a few days after tonight but I will try

Paddington...I use silicon glue to stick the candy one but pva would work as well

qwiksave

rainmac wrote: »

I did, mine came today too, going to take it to bed tonight and have a flick through before I nod off

What was the link for this? - I've had a look but seemed to have missed it. Is the offer still on? If so, I'd quite like a Cardmaker's Yearbook. Thanks.

pinkladymel

Just wanted to remind everyone not to make any purchases until the weekend as there should be loads of offers on for National Scrapbooking day.

Someone asked the other day how I ink my edges. I use Colourbox cats eye inkpad queues. Starting with the lightest brown at a 45 degree angle around the edges. Then the darker brown at a less angle and finished with the dark brown just dragged quickly along the edges.

You can also use really dry old inkpads or use those makeup wedge sponges to apply ink to edges. HTH xx