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

Fifi_Folle

CT19720 What a great idea your squirrel card was, it gave me a giggle

Rainmac Thanks for the link to the Crafts by Carolyn site. I've saved it to my favourites to have a browse as there looks to be lots of lovely ideas on there

Gemma Hope you are still having a fab time in Dubai

Rusty Love your nappy cakes. The High School Musical card was good, i liked the matching card candy. I really like the horse on your most recent card

Thomas Your card is fabulous! You are a very clever boy being able to make such a lovely card. You are much better at stamping than me. :T

Bunbun2 Great cards. I especially like the first one & the backing paper that you have used

Kim Both of your cards are lovely. I like the cupcake one the best. What have you stuck down the lefthandside of the card? It looks really effective

Melissa Thanks for the pm. I'll look forward to it! :A

craftygranny

Hi npsmama

Just been across to the craftyplace and i don't have a message about the stash swap . sorry trisha

Thomas what a fab card you are so clever just like your mummy.

Fifi_Folle

Mumhug Both of your cards are so pretty. I really like the paper that you have used on your first one. The stitching one is very nice. I don't think i'd have the patience to do one of those!

Manson666 There's some great cards on your blog, you can't tell you're a newbie to cardmaking! The MSE Green challenge one is my favourite i think, it is really cute. Hope everything goes ok at the hospital.

Debsy Well done on selling some of your cards. I'll have to find the link to your blog when I have some more time so I can check them out.

JailHouseBabe Glad your exam went well, hope the rest do too!

1982girl Glad you are feeling a bit better. Hope you're back to cardmaking soon

hamish222 Hope you're feeling better soon

Fifi_Folle

Kitiaracat Hi, I'm a newbie too :hello: There's some fab cards on your blog & the nappy cakes are great too. I love the baby bouquet, what a clever idea!

Flourgirl What a pretty card, so girly! I love it

Mookeybargirl Well done on winning the challenge! :T

I think that's everything I had to say!

I'm looking forward to doing the next challenge as I already know what I am going to make. Hope I can post pics before the end of the challenge!!

I'm going to make the effort to have a proper look at all your blogs & Craftyplace over the next few days. I'm even considering my own blog but it'll be a while before I have the time to get my head around that! I really must go to sleep now or I'll never get up in the morning! :wave:

debsy1963

rusty, thanks for the blog award and without sounding thick what do i do with it xx

CT19720

debsy1963 wrote: »

rusty, thanks for the blog award and without sounding thick what do i do with it xx

Hi Debsy,

I got one too and didn't know what to do with it. Flourgirl told me to:

CT just had a quick look on your blog, I see you have a picture and link for Crafty Place you do exactly the same to put the award onto your blog
ie save the image go to layout, add a gadget then click on picture, copy and paste your image and I added a link to cindersmacfee as she was the one gave the award to me. Im sure you can do it you are much cleverer with the computer than me and I did it. Then you just make a normal post and nominate 5 more people to pass it on to. Hope that makes sense.

As I was at work, all I actually did was save the picture of the award onto my PC, the create a new blog post, insert the picture of the award into the new post and pass it on to 5 other people - I worked out how to hyperlink the names of the blogs, so that if anyone clicked on one of the blog names then you are taken to that blog - this is how it looks on mine http://ct19720.blogspot.com/

If you want any more help with this give me a shout.

HTH xx

Popkins

:hello: Hello everyone, have been lurking for a while - you all make really great cards!! I have been 'dabbling' in making cards for a while but have only made pretty basic ones really - especially compared to your lovely cards! I want to get more adventurous!! Hopefully with you guys for inspiration I will get there!!

Have a tricky card to make at the mo as its for a man - really have limited supplies for mens cards!! Arrrgh! not sure what to do - he's really into football so if anyone knows of any good places to find printable downloads kind of on that theme I'd be really grateful!! Have been looking myself for a couple of days and not found anything yet!!! Don't want to go to Hobbycraft & spend a fortune!!! :eek:
TIA :D:D

npsmama

craftygranny wrote: »

Hi npsmama

Just been across to the craftyplace and i don't have a message about the stash swap . sorry trisha

PMing you here!

npsmama

Stash swap

The following people should know who to send their stash to. If you are on the list but didn't get the message on CraftyPlace/email/MSE pls PM me and I will give you the info you need:

dragonllew
gemm85
saveapenny
mumhug
craftygrannytrish
npsmama
CT1972
dawnteabag
rainmac
paddingtondoo
melissa1975
furrypig
hels102
cazarol
oap

Happy swapping!

CT19720

Popkins wrote: »

:hello: Hello everyone, have been lurking for a while - you all make really great cards!! I have been 'dabbling' in making cards for a while but have only made pretty basic ones really - especially compared to your lovely cards! I want to get more adventurous!! Hopefully with you guys for inspiration I will get there!!

Have a tricky card to make at the mo as its for a man - really have limited supplies for mens cards!! Arrrgh! not sure what to do - he's really into football so if anyone knows of any good places to find printable downloads kind of on that theme I'd be really grateful!! Have been looking myself for a couple of days and not found anything yet!!! Don't want to go to Hobbycraft & spend a fortune!!! :eek:
TIA :D:D

Hi Popkins,

Welcome to the thread – look forward to seeing your creations.

Have you thought of doing a 'wordle' football card, which i've done a few of and they have gone done very well. Basically you type out the surnames of all the players in a specific team, and also add the surname of the person you are doing it for on the create page of the Wordle package (http://www.wordle.net/). The more times you type the surname the bigger it gets - choose your colours and away you go. These are 3 that I have done in the past - 2 football ones (a Chelsea one for my Son, and a Crystal Palace one for his friend) and one based on my uncles hobby of barn dancing:






These are very cheap cards to make as you only need to print out the text and stick it on a blank card.

If you want inspiration for cards you can always look on blogs that people list as that is where I ofter get my ideas from when I get stuck with a particular card - mine is http://ct19720.blogspot.com/, and if you want to get ideas for girly card these are the ones that I have made in the past to http://s490.photobucket.com/albums/rr261/CT19720/?start=all


Hope this is useful.