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

melissa75_2

Rainmac - lovely cards - the colours are really classy!
Saveapenny - I love the effect of the decoupage on these cards, did you do it yourself, or was it a die cut sheet, I have never seen a teardrop shape used before. All the elements co-ordinate really well on the cards!
I might have to invest in some of those gems myself from ebay, I don't think you can ever have enough!
ZLS 1984 - really pretty card, I love dragonflies.

melissa75_2

Here's a couple of cards I have made this week:

melissa75_2

And here's the one that I'm entering in the challenge:

rainmac

I love that card melissa, cute and stylish at the same time

rainmac

Wow love your second one too, is the girl a stamp and if so how did you colour her in? She's lovely

furrypig

Lovely cards everyone!

I will pull my finger out and get crafting!! Also DD wants to make a card too so hopefully there will be 2 cards being entered this week (get us!!)

minimacka

Those are lovely cards melissa, what did you colour in the tilda stamp with and was the stamp expensive?, im thinking of buying some stamps but i dont have any watercoloured pens and they are quite expensive to buy, i usually just download some dottie and george coloured in ones.

furrypig

minimacka wrote: »

Those are lovely cards melissa, what did you colour in the tilda stamp with and was the stamp expensive?, im thinking of buying some stamps but i dont have any watercoloured pens and they are quite expensive to buy, i usually just download some dottie and george coloured in ones.

Hi I just ordered some Whispers pens from www.craftsuperstore.com as they are bogof and were recommended by Pinkladymel in her stamping tutorial on youtube (also on her blog)

hope that helps!

melissa75_2

Thanks everyone for your comments.
Minimacka/ Rainmac - I actually don't have the stamp. I bought a set of stamped images from ebay, as I didn't want to commit myself to buying a stamp in case I never used it, I have never got my head around colouring in stamped images. After seeing Polly's lovely cards that she used watercolours on I dug out my cheap watercolour pencils that I bought from ebay too and used those. You can buy special water pens for shading on the images, but I didn't have one so I improvised and used a cotton bud dipped in water to sort of blend it. The glitter pot stocks loads of these stamps and last time I looked there were a few in the sale.

minimacka

furrypig wrote: »

Hi I just ordered some Whispers pens from www.craftsuperstore.com as they are bogof and were recommended by Pinkladymel in her stamping tutorial on youtube (also on her blog)

hope that helps!

Thanks for that furrypig ive just ordered some aswell. :j