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

rainmac

chocolate.orange wrote: »

Ooooh Gemm what a great challenge. Challenge being the word !! Choccy and needles dont mix Will have to see what i can come up with

Don't need a needle, can use a pen and draw stitches xxx

Gemm85

glad you are feeling better rainmac, and choccy hope you improve soon xx

lovely cards from dawn, louby and rainmac!

ali b welcome to the thread, do join in with our challenges!! (see me trying to drum up entrants already :rotfl:)

Gemm85

rainmac wrote: »

I ordered the stamp on the left from Crafty Individuals on Saturday, it arrived in the post today with all the stamps on the right as a FREEBIE :T :j :T :jCan you believe it, I am so excited, look at all those stamps

WOW!! :eek: (....slinks off to have a look at Crafty Individuals....shh don't tell OH )

chocolate.orange_2

rainmac wrote: »

Don't need a needle, can use a pen and draw stitches xxx

Thats what i was thinking of :rotfl:
Wish i had inherited my mums talent for sewing and i would love to be able to cross stitch :rolleyes:. After seeing how beautiful your creations are its really something i wished i could do.

THE-WIFE_3

Welcome Ali.B, you're in the right place. All the lovely peeps on here will help with your enquiries.

It will be your decision as to how you can make your cards. Some love putting bought decorative papers on their cards, adding images that have been stamped/embossed, placing stickers, decorations and embellishments on. Some will print papers that they've bought or found as a freebie and use them, it's all down to personal choice.

Keep looking at blogs, try a challenge or two when you're happy but most of all, enjoy your crafting time. Check out a few online craft stores, there's usually a link to their blog and links to other blogs as well.

THE-WIFE_3

rainmac wrote: »

I ordered the stamp on the left from Crafty Individuals on Saturday, it arrived in the post today with all the stamps on the right as a FREEBIE :T :j :T :jCan you believe it, I am so excited, look at all those stamps

Love the stamp rainmac, lets have a shufty at your card when you make it.

The Wife slopes off to have a casual look at Crafty Individuals, all the while whistling Riff Pilchard, can't get the bliddy tune out of me head!!

ali.b.123

Thank you all for your speedy replies. Just popped to our local Hobbycraft to have a nosy - aargh the choices;) Think this could be an expensive hobby. But will have a go with the free stuff I got with the magazines to have a practice with -- ooh raring to go what with this and trying to do hampers from this site - totally addicted!!

melissa75_2

Louby-Lou-Lou - fab baby cards - I love your decoupaged images.

Rainmac - glad you're feeling better! Have you got much left to do for your craft fair, have you thought about printing off some leaflets/ business cards so that people can contact you? Those pink petticoat images are lovely, I daren't buy any downloads though because my printer is misbehaving again!! Your Dad's birthday card is brill. I can't belive you got all those stamps free!!!!

Skiergirl - congratulations!

chocolate.orange - sorry to hear you're still poorly!

Ali.b.123 - hello and welcome to the thread! I use double-sided tape for everything, it can be expensive if you buy it in a craft shop, poundland and the 99p shops sell packs of it. If you've got a decent printer you can make some fab cards really cheaply. I tend to buy everything I need online - its so much cheaper, but I tend to wait until a shop is having a sale or is offering free postage before I order.

Gemm - thanks for setting the challenge, I'll have to dig my stitching templates out!

The_Wife - who is Riff Pilchard??????????

flourgirl

rainmac wrote: »

Thank you lovely lady, have emailed back - b*gger I think is the expression :rolleyes:

Woops..... never mind

melissa75_2

I received more fabulous baby cards today from chocolate.orange, paddingtondoo and dawnteabag. Thank you so much ladies - they are all fabulous, I'll add them to my blog later!!!