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

Gemm85

hiya everyone, long time lurker, first time poster here!

I've been following this thread with great interest for about 3 months now (since it was 'part 1) and have been making cards for slightly longer than that. I am certainly addicted now! I would love to start joining in with your challenges, if you'll have me of course!

The cards you all make are absoluteley gorgeous and I can only aspire to one day be as talented and creative as the rest of you!

A bit about myself, I live in Staffordshire, married, no kids, and work full time in administration. I'm sure you can all guess what I spend my precious spare time (and money...) doing!

Hoping this post will be the first of many!

p.s. congratulations to melissa on your happy news! :T

ZLS1984

Welcome Gemm85,

JailhouseBabe

Hi Gemm85 - we're a friendly bunch; I've only been posting here for a few weeks and everyone's made me feel very welcome. I'm sure you'll fit right in, and I look forward to seeing pictures of some of your creations

bunbun2

ZLS1984 - what a fab card. wow for drawing that yourself. I admire anyone who can draw cos I so can't. it looks like a stamp or a printed picture.

polly - fab card. love the stamp and the colours

jailhousebabe - great card - very original

gemm85 - welcome

melissa75_2

Gemma85 - welcome, I hope you'll be showing us some of your creations soon! Are you going to enter this week's challenge?

CT19720

Hi

I've seen these cards on the WHSmiths website and think that they are very good value. Has anyone every ordered from this site for delivery to a shop and can confirm how long it would take before I could pick them up - it's just that I am away next week on business out of the country so couldn't pick them up until the week after and so wouldn't want to order for shop delivery and turn up to collect them to be told I didn't do it within a certain time.

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-Greeting+Cards+Design+Your+Own-31779623.html

Thanks

melissa75_2

CT19720 - I have ordered from WHSmith before, but I've always had it delivered to my home, they have always been really quick - about 2 days. So I can't really help about delivery to store. I have ordered these cards before though, they are good quality and quite large, the box you get though is EITHER pastel, pearlescent, metallic or the other one, when I ordered them I didn't think this was clear, I thought I would be getting a selection of all of them, I ended up with a pastel box, but they were nice colours and I have been using them recently (on the forever friends one that I posted).

RustyFlange

Ok so here is my card for the challenge. Not sure what it is called but I got the image from Saveapenny so thankyou to her as it was a MSE card. You can't tell from the first picture but there are different layers to the card (see 2n'd pic) My first attempt at anything like that, not sure I am 100% happy with it but ho hum, least I tried



Now I shall go hang my head in shame at the poor pathetic attempts to my cards :rotfl: Come on BunBun you can do better than this

JailhouseBabe

Nice card rusty - it looks exactly like a friend of mine at uni, and for halloween she wore that exact same outfit complete with horns :rotfl:

RustyFlange

I saw it and had to make it :rotfl: it reminds me of me ... always standing next to a glass ... a funny shape, scruffy dark hair and an evil twist