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

Myzdamena

craftygranny wrote: »

myz i had that problem with some expensive stamps i bought from funky kits tried loads of inks and nothing worked not 1 decent image. Bought a jet black Impress ink pad think it was recommended by melissa and they stamp like a dream every time with that. Very strange.

Spooky mine is an Impress and yet the fairies and smirk girlies just won't play ball

I get one 'good' stamp, maybe 2, on a whole A4 sheet of card, so it's quite expensive so I'll go back to abstaining from stamping I think lol

npsmama

That's a fantastic card!!! :T

bunbun2 wrote: »

I have spent all morning making my first swing card for Luke's birthday. the cutting needs a bit of perfecting but I am quite pleased with it!







now I have to tidy up my mess before my parents arrive!!

paddingtondoo

Myzdamena wrote: »

Spooky mine is an Impress and yet the fairies and smirk girlies just won't play ball

I get one 'good' stamp, maybe 2, on a whole A4 sheet of card, so it's quite expensive so I'll go back to abstaining from stamping I think lol

If it happens to me I stamp on the back of the carp ones - Have also been known to draw in the dodgy bits :rotfl:.

4 more cards for the troops today - I also kind of sorted out the spare room.

A big thank you to Gemma - my card blanks arrived this morning - don't know how you did them so neatly - may have a go myself eventually

Skiergirl

I've finally managed to catch up with all that I missed

cgcockcroft - hope you are ok and your problems at work get resolved quickly x

dawn - please look after yourself x

Some fantastic cards on blogs and on here :T

Thank you for all the good wishes following our accident :A
I didn't buy a lot from the Glitter Pot as I kept thinking that I could get a lot of the stuff online from other places cheaper Their range of 12x12 paper was amazing though

Myzdamena

paddingtondoo wrote: »

If it happens to me I stamp on the back of the carp ones - Have also been known to draw in the dodgy bits :rotfl:.

Believe me...I tried that.... one of the 'back ones' stamped correctly out of about 15... someone really is telling me to swell the purses of those that sell images on Ebay :rotfl:

Tried to draw on the dodgy bits and it came out a lot darker than the non dodgy bits... so I drew on those too... and then scrunched the card up and threw it against the wall.... quite a few times actually :rolleyes:

:rotfl:

Myzdamena

Ohh...grrr.. I really need a good talking to.....

I sold some little lots of cross stitch cover kits on Ebay ending yesterday... so I could buy more stuff when they paid me etc..figured £1 postage and packing for first class was about right... and each little lot contained 3 or 4 mini kits from the front of magazines... I decided to put in a kit per envelope as a bonus as they don't have the charts with them (but you can see from the pic exactly how to do it)

....oh aren't I nice?

....and stupid!

The extra kit took them over the 'normal' large letter weight so I had to pay extra to post them

...aaagghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

....hehehe I'm a tit

paddingtondoo

Done that with the eBay postage even when I weigh them before listing .

Have you tried using the spongy back of a mousemat as a base when you stamp and giving it a bit of a wiggle :rotfl::rotfl:.

Myzdamena

paddingtondoo wrote: »

Have you tried using the spongy back of a mousemat as a base when you stamp and giving it a bit of a wiggle :rotfl::rotfl:.

No... and I refuse to stamp.... EVER AGAIN! *stamps foot*

...well for a while anyway :rotfl:

RE: Ebay it's weird... 3/4 little kits got between 1-50 and 3-00 ... but there was one of a little eeyore and tigger pair... and people bid £6 for that one!!! ...suuuch a pity Disney is copyrighted.. would be sooo easy to make up little kits like that.... *whistles*

RustyFlange

Afternoon. I am alive still just not getting chance to keep getting on here. I am currently surrounded by 2 naughty children :eek: and boxes of nappy cake stock! I have 3 cakes to make for tomorrow and I have 1 cake complete but not wrapped!! I am sooo stressed.

Paddingtondoo I am the same as you, I tend to stamp on the other side of the dodgy image :rotfl:

I also placed an order at the joanna sheen for some paper lace .... only problem was that another 14 new promarkers fell in the basket aswell Not sure how they fell in! but I couldn't get them back out again!!

Hope everyone is ok! I promise to try and get on to comment a bit sooner and more frequent.

flourgirl

Marg this is the one I bought


http://www.joannasheen.com/craft-supplies/adhesive-paper-ribbon/