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

MrsTidge

LeiArmstrong - happy birthday for yesterday. Welcome to the bug club!
cgc - happy belated birthday too.
Saveapenny - good luck for today.
JHB - wonderful nappy cake!
xx

rainmac

flourgirl wrote: »

Rainmac Willows teacher loved her Survival Kit and card, so many thanks to you for sharing it x The headmaster at her school is leaving tomorrow so today he threw a party for the whole school and the kids presented him with a folder and in it each child in the school had drawn a picture of him and either wrote a poem or a letter, it was fab and apparantly he loved it. He will be missed by all the kids.

No problem I am making my dad an old age survival kit for his 65th next month. He has a good sense of humour otherwise I wouldn't be sooo cheeky

rainmac

npsmama wrote: »

I'm afraid it's nothing much but in the April issue they described a flower as 'The sort of plant that would cover the walls of an upmarket Balkan bordello.'

I just thought it was really out of place and frankly quite insulting to people from the Balkans, as if bordellos were their only distinguishing feature..
Some friends of ours work hard in ex-Communist countries to give people skills which mean that they're less likely to fall into the snares of sex traders so I guess it's something particularly close to my heart. I've met some of those young women who were saved at the 11th hour from having been offered a 'job' when in fact they would have been kidnapped and sold as sex slaves.
I know not all bordellos use criminal means to get their staff but in the ex-Communist countries, the likelihood is very high.

I just didn't think it was necessary to mention the sex industry in a family gardening mag. In the same issue they have a double page feature on gardening with kids.
Kids need to know the reality of life but there's a time and a place.

Anyway, I'm sure my letter will fall on deaf ears but if no one wrote letters of complaint (and I rarely do) then everyone would get away with everything.

I agree that is completely out of order. I hope you get a response to your letter. I once wrote a complaint letter about something written in a magazine as I felt really strongly about it.

rainmac

Wow you ladies can chat :rolleyes:. I didn't let myself on the pc yesterday as I had so much to do. Still have loads to do but feel a bit more organised It's cleaning and tidying today and we're sort of stuck in as it's chucking it down with rain - 2nd day of the holidays, typical I suppose!!!

saveapenny - thinking of you, you know where we are x

cgcockcraft & lei - very happy belated birthday wishes :beer:

JHB - congratulations auntie :j I love your nappy cake, it is gorgeous :T :T :T

I have sent all my Crafty Place swaps so if you are expecting something from me, it should be with you very soon

Off to have a look on blogs now...

cgcockcroft

thinking of you today saveapenny xxxxx

happy belated b day lei :beer:. so jealous of your cuttlebug, think i'll have to save up and buy it myself


any ideas what to swap my 2nd guilletine for i have £12 but can top it up myself, and think i would like to buy something tool like. i have a heat gun and embossing powders and a dry embossing set and some corner rounders. i also have a circle/ oval cutter. thank you in advance for your help.
have to go and clean now!

flourgirl

:T:THappy Belated Birthday to lei_armstrong.:T:T

Hope you had a fab day yesterday, and congrats on becoming a bug babe

THE-WIFE_3

Morning all! Special cyber hugs and good wishes going out to saveapenny, hope everything goes well.

Beautiful nappy cake, JHB. It won't be long before you have that little bundle of sugar in your arms to cuddle. Gorgeous name by the way.

Happy belated birthday wishes to lei and cg. I hope you had a good 'un.

Choccie, your pocket card is leaving a very damp Essex today.

I'm home for the day as I've been feeling absolute cack for the last few days, where would my little pink turned up nose be (;)) without Kleenex Balsam tissues.

mpsmama good for you in complaining. It just make you think as to how the writer would know what a Balkan bordello would look like in the summer. A place he (assuming it's a he) has frequented often???????

cgcockcroft

i give up on the craftyplace. cleared cookies but still nothing but the magician

hels102

Good morning everyone,
Oh it's wet and miserable here in Wales! Not a happy bunny!!
Happy belated birthday wishes to Lei and CG Hope you both had lovely days!
Npsmama good for you for complaining, to say something like that in a gardening mag just isn't appropriate! Let us know how you get on!
The Wife sorry to hear your not feeling well, hope you feel better soon.
Rainmac thank you so much for the card it arrived this morning and really cheered me up on this wet and windy day :-)

rainmac

cgcockcroft wrote: »

thinking of you today saveapenny xxxxx

happy belated b day lei :beer:. so jealous of your cuttlebug, think i'll have to save up and buy it myself


any ideas what to swap my 2nd guilletine for i have £12 but can top it up myself, and think i would like to buy something tool like. i have a heat gun and embossing powders and a dry embossing set and some corner rounders. i also have a circle/ oval cutter. thank you in advance for your help.
have to go and clean now!

How about a border punch?
Do you have a large enough craft mat?
Do you have enough craft storage? Hobbycraft has 20% off the Really Useful Boxes at the mo.

Does that help