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Making Cards - Ideas for a card craft beginner (Part 3)
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Good Morning Ladies.
Rusty Im so sorry to hear your DD is poorly hun and about your MRI scan i hope your DD is much better real soon and that you get the MRI sorted.
Mel Ive stopped watching that annoying woman on QVC she drives me batty and whenever i have tried doing things she shows ie inking flowers or lace i end up looking like ive murderd someone ( I used red ink ) and the blooming flowers still aint dry 6 months later lol
Well its a new Challenge over at Creative Card Crew this week and there is a sketch to follow and mel has made her debute lol http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/
Oh and heres my card too http://paula-pollys.blogspot.com/ what do you think? xxxx0 -
I think maybe I've fallen into the trap that I usually do... 'nothing is good enough' ... it doesn't have to be spectacular I guess she'll like even the most mediocre effort as I made it myself... but I hate churning out anything less than 'perfect' which is why I hate most of my cards usually...
...but on the other hand I don't like copying someon's ideas...I have done that in the past and although the cards look great I feel like I cheated...
.....ok so I need a shrink more than Whoopidoo I guesss... *blush*
lol
Do you think I should buy a huge lot of 12 x 12 papers like a complete mix and see what i like? The papers aren't cheap so I don't want to spend money I don't need to... spesh after buying those Nesties lol but I Got Them For Nan's Scrapbook Didn't I?
Hmm I bet they are really nice! in my opinion the key to a good scrapbook page is making sure the colours match/contrast well. If I am hating a scrapbook page I'll usually find it is the colours I've picked that don't quite match. Far too many shades of colours!!
:ABeing Thrifty Gifty again this year:A
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..and can anyone tell me why I have Sakura Jelly roll and souffle pens? I'd sold things a few months back on Ebay and someone had said something about them... and I saw this guy in hong kong selling them for pennies instead of pounds... so I got some
...nooooot sure what to do with them though.... lol... do the souffle's just write on anything like the dufex pens? Their name suggests they should puff up?:j A-well-a bird, bird, bird...b-bird's the word :j0 -
Hmm I bet they are really nice! in my opinion the key to a good scrapbook page is making sure the colours match/contrast well. If I am hating a scrapbook page I'll usually find it is the colours I've picked that don't quite match. Far too many shades of colours!!
So you think I should search out a load of papers that are mostly sepia type colour, browns? From a set that all matches so I can put on embellishments to sparkle it up but it won't spoil the colour scheme?
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:j A-well-a bird, bird, bird...b-bird's the word :j0 -
Well its a new Challenge over at Creative Card Crew this week and there is a sketch to follow and mel has made her debute lol http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/
Might have a go at that if I can calm down a bit.. don't even have to show anyone but it would take my mind off this scrapbook madness for a day or so :rotfl::j A-well-a bird, bird, bird...b-bird's the word :j0 -
Hello Myz - I think we are all our own worst critics & it's sooo easy to be 'put off ' starting by that thought.
My advice (from someone who has never done a scrapbook!!) is to DO SOMETHING even if it's not dead right, once you've started the ideas will flow......and copying a layout is perfectly ok 'cos the pictures & words are all your own aren't they?
Try printing your own papers?
Melissa & Polly - love your cards - I'm inspired to try this time.0 -
My advice (from someone who has never done a scrapbook!!) is to DO SOMETHING even if it's not dead right, once you've started the ideas will flow......and copying a layout is perfectly ok 'cos the pictures & words are all your own aren't they?
Yeah guess so xxx
I'm sort of glad that my printer isn't good enough to print out the digital scrapbook things I played about with yesterday really.... I'm sure I'd feel like that was cheating lol... but I guess I have that as backup in case the 'proper' scrapping goes terribly wrong...can find someone with a good printer and print them all out
Funny though... the digital ones I made of Little Myz and stuff I loved right away... probably because it isn't so 'important' to get that right?... nurse? ... hehe:j A-well-a bird, bird, bird...b-bird's the word :j0 -
Hello Myz - I think we are all our own worst critics & it's sooo easy to be 'put off ' starting by that thought.
My advice (from someone who has never done a scrapbook!!) is to DO SOMETHING even if it's not dead right, once you've started the ideas will flow......and copying a layout is perfectly ok 'cos the pictures & words are all your own aren't they?So you think I should search out a load of papers that are mostly sepia type colour, browns? From a set that all matches so I can put on embellishments to sparkle it up but it won't spoil the colour scheme?
ETA: as for the cheating concept...I don't believe that at all! Someone somewhere had an idea, someone else took inspiration, followed by someone else and bang - we have an explosion of scrappers drawing inspiration from other people. Sometimes I like to follow a tutorial such as those on Anso's blog as I just can't be bothered thinking but know I want to do a page. Other days I'm thoroughly inspired and make my own! which to be honest I couldn't care less if anyone else liked them or not - I like them and thats what matters to me! THIS is my first scrapbook page (or one of them) from a design aspect it is shocking...the journalling is terrible and the paper does all the work for me, but I still like the page! THIS is a more recent page which is probably equally as hideous to some due to the very pink nature of it, but so what! I like it!!
:ABeing Thrifty Gifty again this year:A
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Try printing your own papers?
Just tried printing out some photos to play with on a page and they have lines all over them.. only the printer doesn't need cleaning... I think I must have killed it :eek:
I'll need 12 x 12 papers I think so my printer couldn't cope anyway as it only does up to A4... might look on Ebay and see whether someone took up scrapbooking, bought loads of papers and then decided not to scrapbook after all... that's how I get most of my cardmaking stuff cheap lol...:j A-well-a bird, bird, bird...b-bird's the word :j0 -
I agree with Marg. Much better to be 'doing' than 'stressing about doing'.
I 'did' or 'tried to do' yesterday which is why I'm doing the stressing today as I'm rubbish :rotfl:... I need a craft buddy.. little Myz tries but she's only 4 and has *the* most weird ideas :rotfl:
Lovely pages on your blog... I must admit I really love the newer one more.. I think that's what most of mine will look like for 'personal' books. It gives the impression of *fun* if you see what i mean... which is what the page was all about I think:j A-well-a bird, bird, bird...b-bird's the word :j0
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