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

CT19720

Rainmac – hope you start feeling better soon, and the antibiotics have started to work for you.

Sally – no problems with sending you the peel offs, glad they were what you wanted. Lovely things on your photobucket as usual

Lei – great cards of your blog, I love the cracker one.

Choccy – hope your son is feeling better very soon.

Rusty – great news that your daughter has a place at nursery in January – she will love it and I am sure she will not have any problems fitting in. It will be great for you to have some ‘me time’. Don’t do too much and try to rest your back as much as you can. Great cards on your blog – love the embossed Christmas tree ones, they are so effective, and the gems set them off beautifully.

Craftygranny – absolutely fabulous news about Alicia, it must be a great relief that she will get the treatment she needs without you having to raise so much money. Are you still in need to things to sell, and have you got anything you need card wise in particular? I’ll have loads of time to make some more over Christmas, and will want an excuse to try out the Craft Robo I’m getting.

Louby – good luck for Monday, and welcoming your new baby into the world.

Thriftyscotslass – as the girls have said, I too use a mix of DST and sticky glue, which give me time to wiggle the papers, embellishment that is am using at the time, before the glue sets.

Tomsmom – great news your OH is finally home and in time for Christmas too.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. We are all excited here as my 17 year old niece, who lives in Greece is coming to spend the next 3 weeks with us, so have been clearing and tidying the house today, so she has somewhere the sleep, so haven’t managed to do any crafting today.

jamtart6

thanks so much for that CT much appreciated!! XXX

paddingtondoo

I've put some new stuff on my blog.

Have a great weekend everyone will have no internet access until Sunday afternoon

Gemm85

RustyFlange wrote: »

Wow that is fabulous news craftygranny!! I bet you are all over the moon!! For once the NHS does what is right!!



Thankyou Gemm, However resting this weekend is not going to happen as we are decorating the little room for DD to have her first bedroom, then we will put DS in there so we can redecorate his, OH wants them both done before christmas but personally I can't see it happening :eek:

How are the kittens?

aww, well good luck with the decorating and take it easy if you can! make OH do all the physical work and you can be the project manajer

the kittens are gorgeous and getting crazier by the day! ambers cold is much much better now, just the odd sneeze. they are booked in to be spayed next friday as they will be 6 months old then, hopefully they will calm down for a few days after that! I can't imagine the house without them now, it would be so quiet with no baby elephants herding up and down the landing :rotfl:

dawnteabag

Just popping in to say hello before I go back to bed - works Christmas do yesterday. My head is a little sore!

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THE-WIFE_3

rainmac I can sympathise with the sinusitus, I have had on and off for years, the docs link it to my asthma etc. Best advice is to send OH for Olbas Oil paper tissues if you can get them, Boots have them in little packets or Olbas Oil, you should be able to get Flixanase nasal spray over the counter, I have this all year round. Keep your ears warm if you go out, the cold wind can give you face-ache ( I have that all year round too )

Keep your dairy intake in check, it can make extra mucky stuff or snot for a better word. My osteopath's wife is a alternative medicine practitioner and passed the word to keep off bananas as they are considered as bad as dairy. Not eaten a banana for over a year now.

jamtart6

Can I just thank everyone who helped when I asked for "which eyelet tool?". I have decided that as I dont make loads of 12 x 12 layouts, I would go for the Cropadile. I just ordered it from QVC with 400 free eyelets and a box for £16 plus £4.45 postage. = £20.45 but for new customers of QVC they have a £5 discount code (you have to ring up can't get cashback but never mind!) so I just paid £15.45 for a cropadile and 400 eyelets which I think is a great deal! The code is on hotukdeals, can't post it here sorry

rainmac

jamtart6 wrote: »

hi again,
its me the pest - i feel im always asking for something on this thread rather than ever being able to help!

I would love to make an easel card but I can only find instructions for making a 4" x 4" one, can anyone help with a template for a large easel card please?

thanks again xxx

I've made some 6x6" ones and that's a great size. All you need to do is score the base card (which need to be 6x12" in size) at 3" and 6" and your second piece of card would need to be cut to 6x6 for the stand-up bit. Does that make sense . The rest of the instructions for the 4x4 card would be the same for 6x6. Sorry, just seen CT has already answered your query, I need to remember "MUST READ ALL COMMENTS BEFORE STARTING MY OWN"... x

OH has taken DS1 to his first rugby match this afternoon. And hopefully they are going to football next weekend.

My sinuses are still painful but feeling better than yesterday so I think I am on the mend. Thank you for the get well wishes and advice. Need to get on with Xmas present wrapping tonight.

I've won a beautiful stamp... http://janeslovelycards.blogspot.com/2009/12/unclaimed-candy-new-winner.html. It's this stamp

rainmac

THE-WIFE wrote: »

rainmac I can sympathise with the sinusitus, I have had on and off for years, the docs link it to my asthma etc. Best advice is to send OH for Olbas Oil paper tissues if you can get them, Boots have them in little packets or Olbas Oil, you should be able to get Flixanase nasal spray over the counter, I have this all year round. Keep your ears warm if you go out, the cold wind can give you face-ache ( I have that all year round too )

Keep your dairy intake in check, it can make extra mucky stuff or snot for a better word. My osteopath's wife is a alternative medicine practitioner and passed the word to keep off bananas as they are considered as bad as dairy. Not eaten a banana for over a year now.

I am trying to keep my ears warm cos the GP said they are full of fluid which is why I can't hear properly and they hurt.

OMG does chocolate count as dairy Hope not

mary-op

rainmac - I think chocolate might count as dairy intake .........thinking 'dairy milk chocolate' ?.....OH avoids anything 'dairy' as much as possible -having said that he was told at the hospital when he went to have his endoscopy that his nostril tubes -think that was something to do with sinuses but can't remember.....were too narrow for them to put a tube up so they had to go down the throat.............sorry a bit graphic but don't know how else to put it. He's had sinus problems since he was little and maybe thats why.
Hope you feel better soon..............cut out milk in coffee -that might help