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

Bangerchick

flourgirl wrote: »

Thank-you. The note books were so easy I just used a piece of pretty paper cut to size with an overlap at the back then a piece of plain card to finish the back off. The letters are stickers by Basic Grey and the flowers from Calico Crafts. The notebooks are 15p Asda smart price ones and the long ones are 5 for 79p from the Range

Thank you :T
Going to make these to go with the kids journal jars for christmas

flourgirl

Bangerchick if you look at page 105 you will see a picture of the back of the pad.

All the praise should go to the lovely Rainmac, I only copied her idea

mumhug

rainmac wrote: »

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(watch out for postie mumhug and thewife )

mumhug, I am in love with Izzy, I am not going to show her pic to my OH as he is desperate to have a dog

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Thank you for that as far as Izzy is concerned we love her too, only not so much when she howled all night.:rolleyes: and made a mess in her crate.

mumhug

skiergirl Thank godness you are ok it must have really shaken you up.

bunbun i love your swing card its really funky.

I am off to look at blogs.

flourgirl

rainmac wrote: »

I am here :hello:

Been very busy in our house last couple of days getting ready for new school term. Dropped my monkeys off to school/playschool, went to post office (watch out for postie mumhug and thewife ) then came home to a quiet house - first time in 7 weeks and put the kettle on, my dad then phoned and he and my mum kept me busy looking for a blinking TV for them on the internet until I had to go and collect DS2 from playschool. So my morning of leisurely doing nothing didn't happen. Oh well, have to try again on Thursday :rolleyes:

Wow bunbun, what a fantastic card, your son is going to love it!!!

Flourgirl, your notepad/calendar board looks fab with the post-it notes, so are you going to enter it for the altering challenge, I think you definitely should

Skiergirl, oh my goodness, hope you were all ok when your car was hit, must have been such a shock. Lovely to see you back and so sorry about your poor car xxx

mumhug, I am in love with Izzy, I am not going to show her pic to my OH as he is desperate to have a dog

I made a card for the Basic Grey challenge last night, thought I'd give it a go as I have so much BG paper http://rainmacsplace.blogspot.com/

Going to make a few more coaster calendars tonight, had a sort through my BG paper stash last night and I need to use more of them so I can warrant buying some new ones

Hope everyone's ok today . Have checked blogs and left comments, some beautiful creations :T

Rainmac I have added a pen and some card candy, taken a better picture and entered the challenge x

flourgirl

Bunbun Fabulous Swing Card:T I love how you have used shades of blue. Would you like to do mine for CP swap haven't a clue where to start

rainmac

flourgirl wrote: »

Rainmac I have added a pen and some card candy, taken a better picture and entered the challenge x

Fantastic :T It is beautiful and such a great present, fingers crossed for you x

rainmac

Myzdamena wrote: »

He tries to enthuse but he really can't understand why I don't just buy cards I think... as it costs a lot less to do so in the long run :rotfl:

...I keep giving cards to people to send to other people you see so I pay for the mats and don't get a return :rotfl:

...I think it's because I've been so unwell recently though.... he can't see why I'd make myself feel worse by playing about to make cards when I could be resting... but it's therapeutic even though it's tiring ... makes me feel good about myself.... like I'm actually making a difference instead of just being 'me at home doing sod all'

...then again cardmaking has replaced doing competitions in that respect and I'm not going to make 5k a year making cards like I did on the comps so maybe he's got a point :rotfl:

...so bye then :hello:

lol not really...you won't get rid of me that easily! :P

My OH is the same with what I make so to be honest I don't make him very much :rolleyes:

5k on competitions, wow, that's so impressive, was it really hard work?

furrypig

craftygranny wrote: »

Dragonllew fab cards i love them

Flourgirl i haven't made one yet i was finishing my cards for the troops

My beer mats were delivered tonight lol not 1,000 just 100 .

Here's my new cards to send to marg not very good pics sorry .

Apologies to flourgirl i put your atc on one side as you were away and forgot to post it when you got back.i just found it . sorry i'll try getting to the post tomorrow.

Thanks for showing me your cards craftygranny I am now in love with those stamps!! Fab!

mary-op

Brilliant work all - yet again......:T How do you do it ?

flourgirl - how did you fix the pen on the top of your note book/board ?
Might have a go at something like that.
When I've ploughed through my key ring post it notes............lol four done that I actually like -two discarded as naff...........enough mini post its for four more............:rolleyes: I'll be dreaming about them.............lol