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

sh3ri3

Hello All,

Havnt had much time for anything latley, so tired.

Have had a little blog hop, some excellent stuff. Saw some pics of the NEC trip, great to put a face to a name - glad you all had a great day and my gosh you all came home will HUGE amounts of Stash!!!!!

Craftygrany - got your PM thanks, havnt forgotten you. Am going to move upstairs in a bit for a true blood fix and to make sum bits for you to help me chill out.

Rainmac - amazing stuff for your Fair, im sure you will do a great trade, cant wait to hear how it went for you.

Had the worst night in work, im wishing it was me that won 45mil on the lotto to pack it all in stay home craft all day!! Going to see Father Christmas on sat with kids to get me back in the festive mood - cant wait xx

dragonllew

RustyFlange wrote: »

:eek: it has been 2 weeks!! Dragonllew has yours arrived?? I know the other 2 ladies have? I am having really bad problems with royal mail at the minute, lots of ebay stuff is going astray aswell!! :mad:

sorry not recieved any thing yet

Kim_Possible

Gemm85 wrote: »

made a card yesterday with my new Penny Black christmas stamp I got at the NEC, not meaning to sound big headed but I'm quite pleased with this card as normally I can pick out something I don't like! on my blog here

Fab cards. Is the border and the snowflake martha stewart punches? Ive been thinking of investing in some:rolleyes:

ali.b.123

hi all, just a quick visit - commented on blogs - Gemma & Dragonllew your cards are fab!!

Also, wanting to ask advice re stamping - I've got a couple of stamps but not really stamped anything yet and when I first started card making and went and bought a couple of bits I bought a black Ink it up stamp pad - is this ok - or have I bought the wrong one?

Gemm85

Kim_Possible wrote: »

Fab cards. Is the border and the snowflake martha stewart punches? Ive been thinking of investing in some:rolleyes:

yes they are both martha stewart ones, I got mine from america recently and they worked out a bit cheaper than over here. I do think they are worth the money though, they punch much more crisply and cleanly than my other brands of punches and I will carry on buying them, even at UK prices

Gemm85

ali.b.123 wrote: »

hi all, just a quick visit - commented on blogs - Gemma & Dragonllew your cards are fab!!

Also, wanting to ask advice re stamping - I've got a couple of stamps but not really stamped anything yet and when I first started card making and went and bought a couple of bits I bought a black Ink it up stamp pad - is this ok - or have I bought the wrong one?

ali there is no wrong ink pad just depends on what you are planning on doing with the image afterwards! colour with promarkers or similar? heat embossing?

thanks for your lovely comment on my card

JailhouseBabe

Dragonllew - love the birthday cards, especially all the glitter, lol. Perfect for a little girl.
Gemma - Your xmas card is gorgeous, I bet you'll be getting lots of use out of that stamp.

I finally remembered my password for my blog. I can now sign in, but I still can't leave comments on blogs. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I've been making xmas cards with some small card blanks from the pound stall at the NEC. They're such good quality cards, I wish I'd bought loads more. I'll stock up on them in March.

I also picked up some Anita's clear gloss today in Hobbycraft (will MSE blank that out as a swear word? ). I'm hoping it will work as well as the glossy accents.

pretzelnut

dragonllew - fantastic castle card, it has given me an idea to make a spaceship one for my son, i hope i can get it to work how it looks in my head.

craftygranny

JHB was it called every crafts a pound i haven't been yet but it's right by where i used to live in dewsbury.

JailhouseBabe wrote: »

Dragonllew - love the birthday cards, especially all the glitter, lol. Perfect for a little girl.
Gemma - Your xmas card is gorgeous, I bet you'll be getting lots of use out of that stamp.

I finally remembered my password for my blog. I can now sign in, but I still can't leave comments on blogs. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I've been making xmas cards with some small card blanks from the pound stall at the NEC. They're such good quality cards, I wish I'd bought loads more. I'll stock up on them in March.

I also picked up some Anita's clear gloss today in Hobbycraft (will MSE blank that out as a swear word? ). I'm hoping it will work as well as the glossy accents.

lei_armstrong

princesswoo & Marg - i'm glad you're images arrived. The stamps are gorgeous aren't they? Have fun colouring them

RustyFlange wrote: »

Lei - Thankyou for the images, they are beautiful and so crisp!! what ink do you use?

Rusty I've used Memento ink as I know you use ProMarkers so they shouldn't bleed but I actually think that Stazon gave a crisper image when I stamped some for myself...

popkins & mygeorgie hopefully your packages arrive safely too x