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

rainmac

mookybargirl wrote: »

Can someone remind me of when the challenge finishes, is it tonight?

Yep it is tonight

rainmac

Flourgirl - well done on winning the CP card challenge :T Fab mens card and what a lovely apron card

Kim Possible - what a gorgeous apron card, I'm going to have to have a go at one

Mrs Tidge - your cards are fab, I'm another follower of your blog x

qwiksave - love your CD case card, how original, so beautiful, a real work of art :T

furrypig - love your Chelsea card, your decoupage is fab. Beautiful thank you card too

mumhug - fab football caed and what a gorgeous album (please ignore my pm, I was getting confused :rolleyes:), your mum will love it :A

Popkins - have a great holiday x

mary - I followed these instructions to make the post-it note holders, it is very easy otherwise I wouldn;t have been able to do it http://ladynthestamp.blogspot.com/2008/05/post-it-note-wallet-tutorial.html

fifi folle - fab mens card, I love the use of the bottle tops - very clever Your butterfly cards are beautiful and so effective :T

npsmama - what a gorgeous mens card, I love the circles and the image is fab. Hope your migraine has well and truly gone x

Off to have a quick look at the BG links Mel posted and check out everyone's blogs cos haven't had the chance to do that for ages

THE-WIFE_3

Here's a card I made at Saturdays card making class, loved this as we did triple embossing, three layers of embossing powder onto a cardboard flower and then we inked up another stamp with silver and then stamped the silver onto the embossed flower making an impression, looks much better than the photo, We also ruched some ribbon which looks brilliant but very easy to do.

Hope its not a walloping great picture :eek:



Blast! it is:mad: As you can see by the doodling, straight ain't me :rolleyes:

rainmac

Wow, what a gorgeous card The Wife, I love it :T

How do you 'ruch' ribbon, it looks fab

Skiergirl

bunbun - fab fathers day card

kim - great male card and apron card

flourgirl - glad you had a good holiday, have commented on your blog

saveapenny - I hope you find a holiday soon

Popkins - gorgeous girly card, hope you have a good holiday

Rainmac - HUGE congratulations on doing the race for life, have left comments on your blog too

Lucy - lovely cake card

Louby - lovely stamp themed card

Furrypig - great cards, your decoupage looks really neat, are you sure you've not done it before ?

qwiksave - fab cd card

mumhug - great football card

Fifi - fab male card and a great idea to use the bottle tops, very pretty butterfly cards too

npsmama - lovely male card and the colours you've used are fab. I have commented on your blog too

melissa - thanks for the basic grey links, I'm so tempted to buy some

Mrs Tidge - hello :hello: I have 2 tabs open while I'm reading, one with a reply window and one to read iyswim. You have another follower

THE WIFE - gorgeous card

Hope I haven't forgotten anyone

JailhouseBabe

Hello all - sorry I haven't been on for the last week; I'll not bore you with the details but just really haven't been up to much of anything

I've made a card for the challenge, I'll post it later this evening when I have a bit more time. I'll also go through and catch up on all the posts I've missed, I'm sure there's lots! I haven't forgotten that I offered to do a draw and send a little something to the winner, so I'll make a list of all entries, publish it, then not do the draw until tomorrow evening in case I miss anyone out (that should give them time to let me know).

I've also just posted 2 cards on my blog for the CCC challenge.

I'll be back later!

melissa75_2

The_wife - lovely card - I really like the effect of the triple embossing. I too love how you've "ruched" the ribbon - I need to try different things with ribbon 'cos I can't for the life of me tie a decent bow.

melissa75_2

Okay ladies BARGAIN ALERT (well I think so anyway!!!). I just managed to get a fiskers border punch for 5.85 with free delivery - from Amazon!!! The design is a bit bigger than I wanted but its really pretty and for that price I don't care!! It doesn't punch through card but its fine on paper and punches through the thick basic grey paper. These normally sell for about 8-10 quid but I've seen them in some places for 12 quid:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_kh?url=search-alias%3Dkitchen&field-keywords=border+punch

Kim_Possible

rainmac wrote: »

mary - I followed these instructions to make the post-it note holders, it is very easy otherwise I wouldn;t have been able to do it http://ladynthestamp.blogspot.com/2008/05/post-it-note-wallet-tutorial.html

Where do you get the pads of paper to put inside

paddingtondoo

Kim_Possible wrote: »

Where do you get the pads of paper to put inside

They had packs of either 4 or 5 in the pound shop last week in pastel colours
The Range sell them
I think Tesco do their own and they def do the real post it ones, WH Smiths, probably the post office, Staples, Asda anywhere that does stationary really.

I bought a pack of 6 oblong pads in The Range yeaterday for 60p

HTH