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

THE-WIFE_3

Great card., sunrises OH!

flourgirl

Marg wrote: »

The Cards for our Forces challenge is due to end tomorrow Tues about 6pm and as soon as I can after that I will post a list of who I think has entered. I've only received cards from 4 people so far though I believe more cards are on their way. So can you please let me know if your name isn't on the list & it should be.
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I had even wondered about leaving it running another week? What do you think?

I think its a good idea to let it run another week Marg. Everyone seems to want to try and do more than one to send you and it will give them more time. So I'm in favour

paddingtondoo

flourgirl wrote: »

I think its a good idea to let it run another week Marg. Everyone seems to want to try and do more than one to send you and it will give them more time. So I'm in favour

I think that's a good idea - I've done 2 so far and want to do at least another couple (am planning on getting the most from my large letter stamp :rotfl::rotfl:)

Marg

Padster & Flourgirl - Thank you for your replies.

Padster - Love the bit about getting value from large letter stamps - a girl after my own heart:beer:

Furry - think I've sent you a pm by mistake - please ignore it! Got a bit mixed up (my dh would say situation normal!)

craftygranny

paddington what a fab card it's beautiful.

sunrise your oh is clever it's certainly unusual .

Marg Fab idea to keep it going another week . I finished the last 3 in the 12 days of xmas set today link here And a birthday card for my father in law . Do you want them in cello bags i forgot to ask. If anyone wants the 12 days of christmas stamping just pm me and i'll send you some.

melissa Your stash will be on it's way hopefully tomorrow sorry it took so long. I put you some 12 days of xmas images in lol.

craftygranny

paddingtondoo wrote: »

I think that's a good idea - I've done 2 so far and want to do at least another couple (am planning on getting the most from my large letter stamp :rotfl::rotfl:)

I love it .:T I like to get my moneys worth too lol.

mygeorgie

paddingtondoo wrote: »

Today's creations on my blog - only managed 2 though .
Had grand plans to do some more troops cards but it all went pear shaped - will try harder tomorrow - plus DD is at after school basketball so have an extra hour.

When you said you had post it notes all over the place Mary - I got a vision of that scene in Bruce Almighty :rotfl::rotfl:

Hi Paddingtondoo,
I hope you can help me, whenever I try and print any of the freebies like the pollycraft ones they always printout huge, I'm a novice as you can tell, so can you tell me what I need to do to print them out in the correct size for card making please? when I try to use the custom size option they appear the right siz e on screen but still print out as big as an A4 sheet,
where o where am I going wrong?

paddingtondoo

mygeorgie wrote: »

Hi Paddingtondoo,
I hope you can help me, whenever I try and print any of the freebies like the pollycraft ones they always printout huge, I'm a novice as you can tell, so can you tell me what I need to do to print them out in the correct size for card making please? when I try to use the custom size option they appear the right siz e on screen but still print out as big as an A4 sheet,
where o where am I going wrong?

I'll try and help .
I use open office rather than microsoft word but expect it's the same or similar:
Open the image
Copy into word or open writer
Right click on image select "image and size" tick keep ratio box and then resize to something around the 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches (the size is up to you)
Then copy and paste the image so I have about 6 on a page save and print.

HTH am sure someone who uses word will be able to help coz I don't know what the options are called on there

Myzdamena

rainmac wrote: »

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

Well I worked out I won once per over 1000 competitions entered so you can't do it with a 'normal' job lol...but you get the chance to win super things for free.... you can also stop doing it for ages without guilt when you aren't so well so it was perfect for me.. until I started actually spending money getting cardmaking stuff.... and making cards.... suddenly there isn't so much time :rotfl:

Morning everyone xxxxxxx

*hugs*

Myzdamena

furrypig wrote: »

Myz I am soooo impressed by 5K in a year thru comps wow!!

Was about 7K worth of stuff not the actual cash

..I made it 5K for if I'd bought the things I won ... thriftily as I do hehe.. I enter comps mostly for things that we want so it's nice to have them just turn up

My fave was definitely seeing Kraftwerk in Manchester the other month though that was ace :beer: ... was my first concert and I was amazed I was well enough to go :rolleyes: hehe