Making Cards - Ideas for a card craft beginner (Part 3)

Marg

Flourgirl - Huge Hugs to you & your sister & family - I can't even imagine what they must be feeling right now - I want to cry for them but it wont do any good so I'll say a prayer & inside out. xxx

THE-WIFE_3

Wearing the knicks inside out for your family, flourgirl and hoping you hear better news very soon, everyone must be holding their breath.

I'm OK, ta, rainmac, been up since 1.30am, I woke up and could have swore blind that my two grandaughters in Canada were standing by the bed laughing and telling me to get up and do some crafting. So I did. I have to be like a church mouse on tippy-toes ( a 12 stone one at that ) when OH is on early earlies and can't get to do much. At least I finished off the the US card swap that was for Valentines Day and finished some thank you cards for Canada that are 4 weeks late.

:j Got me some Pro-Markers for my birthday from one of my boys and a set of PM's from Joanna Sheen from the other. Should be here on Monday. :j

JailhouseBabe

Flourgirl - how awful. I really hope that things work out ok, and soon. It must be an incredibly stressful and scary time for the family.
Lou05 - poor littlies, they're too young to understand why they're ill. I hope they both get better soon x
Wifey - so I'm not the only one who 'sees' people (& dogs, lol) when I wake in the night. The difference is, it freaks me out! I could never dream of getting out of bed.

Hope everyone has a good weekend - I'm off to do some marking before messing around some more with the new blog x

cgcockcroft

well i'm back from new york and i'm going to go and catch up on the blogs. we had a great time but soooooooo tired we never stopped! hope your all ok x

THE-WIFE_3

jhb where 'bouts is your blog info on CP, went over looking for you in the night but you were hiding in there somewhere.

That was so strange in the night because I'm not usually a dreamer but I swear blind I've seen my old dogs before now.

THE-WIFE_3

Hi! cg did you do lots of shopping??? Craft shopping??

chocolate.orange_2

Flourgirl Sending you all huge hugs.. Not sure if this is coinsidense I went in shower this morning got dressed,into freshly ironed clothes. About 10 minutes ago youngest son asked if i was making a fashion statement.... my t shirt was inside out :rotfl:I just left it and laughed. Then come on here and seen you need inside outies ( I will keep t shirt as it is )

Lou05 Sending your littleones lots of get well wishes. Hope you manage to at least get some rest today

The-wife Ooooh how exciting getting new promarkers for your birthday. Hope you are feeling better too.

Rainmac Thankyou soooo much. The postie came this morning.. I love my bling !! That flower is beautiful... Some gorgeous stamps there !! Im going to have to add a few to my ever growing NEC list.

Jailhousebabe I cant wait to see your new blog additions. I will be clicking my favorites later today

Skiergirl My toothache is better today... its gone to my ear now !! Making me think i wonder if it was my ear all along... I now have cotton wool in there and it seems to be alittle better. I think i need drs on Monday though to find out wheres aching :rotfl:

Sorry if ive missed anyone.
Im off to sort my stash swaps for Thrifty and Dawnteabag.
Then i have some stamping to do . Im trying to keep my spendy elves in the box until NEC.:rotfl:Im not holding out much hope ...but im trying really hard

jazabelle

THE-WIFE wrote: »

Which stamps did you get then, jazabelle, Tell us more, did you do a make?

I got the roller stamps (both the bigger and little one) and various designs for those. They looked really effective. I got turquiose and pink ink, the stamp-a-ma-jig which helps you put stamps in exactly the right placed on your card. Ooh, and this awesome stamp cleaner - you have it open next to you and spray some cleaner on it, and after you've stamp you clean it on the 'wet' side and then dry it on the other side. It saves you from keep getting up to clean the stamps. The spray seems to last a long time as well, one lady had hers for 18 months and it was still going strong.

I didn't buy any actual stamps, but I qualified for two free sets of them (whoops!) and you get about six/seven stamps in each set. I got a birthday one, which had things like 'happy birthday' and presents and bits like that, and the other was a frames set.

Ooh, and I got scallopers! A square one and a circle, and a border one.

She demonstrated a couple of quick and easy card designs. She also had a pile of ready made cards, and on the back of each one it had the list of products needed to make it.

We all made a little sweetie holder, using folded up paper, then stamping a flower onto a bit of card and colouring it in with her brush markers and aqua pens.

Glittermum wrote: »

I can't remember who went to the Stampin Up party, but I'm having one here in a couple of weeks. One of the mums at school is a demonstrator so is coming round when my conservtory is finished. There's an offer on at the moment for a free set of stamps if you spend £45 though so I may put in an order before the party (offer ends this month) - I think I'll stock up on their paper that is supposed to be really good and lots of little coloured ink pads.

Yes, the offer is a set of 6/7 stamps. As I said, I qualified for two sets because I spent rather a lot. The stamps were really good, you hardly needed to press down, or use a mat and they came out really well.

The inks are a special design when the lid slides off, and so it stores the ink upside down at all times, so the ink doesn't dry out.

I really wish I'd bought some white ink, as it looked really effective on the darker paper.

Ohh, and I also bought some card selection. There are four different colour familes that all go together. I bought bold brights, and you get three of each colour.

You can also buy small squares of all the ink pads, rather than the bigger ones.

craftygranny

Flourgirl So sorry to hear things aren't going as well as everyone hoped. I will keep everything crossed for better news for you,

Glittermum

Flourgirl - sorry to hear that things aren't so great for you at the mment. I only popped on to say thank you so much for my amazing stash swap. You sent so much, and the card is just beautiful (as is the post it note holder!). Thank you xxx