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

melissa75_2

Glittermum - I love your KISS challenge card - the gold card is really eye catching. Your martini card is fab - what a great stamp!! Your new home card is great too - I love that frosty lettering.

Glittermum

Rusty - could you let me have your address. I've just found an unaddressed envleope for you and can't find your address anywhere!

Ta

paddingtondoo

Giggle wrote: »

Thanks for the links but i need more of a card case not a paper one oh boy i wish i knew what they where called

Is this more like it? Can't see white ones though

dawnteabag

CT19720 wrote: »

Hi DTB

Glad your halfway there to sorting out the washing maching. Beautiful card and scrap page on your blog, your sister will love them. What is your secret to tying your perfect bow? - do you have a bow maker or use a fork or something. Mine never look as good as yours, and I want to know how you do it (stamps feet!)

x

I don't use amything to tie them (except my hands obviously!)- I was going to buy a bow-maker at the papercraft show in Harrogate but luckily the lady running the workshop I was in showed us all how to tie them and saved me a few pounds (which could then spend on something else obviously - I was hardly gooing to save it was I!)

I'll try and explain but it might be easier with pics but my photographer is asleep in his bed (well he should be anyway :rolleyes: - I tired him out by paying hiom to shovel all the snow on the front of the house. Best £3 I've spent in a while and he was happy to do it as he's saving up for a wii)

you don't start with a knot but with 2 loops of ribbon - known in my house as bunny ears.
You then tie the loops in a knot - right over left and then up through the middle IYKWIM and then it's just a case of "squeeze and tease" until it looks right. Ooo-er missus!

Will have a go with the pics over the weekend - he got a camera for Christmas so will be pleased to help

NEgirl

Giggle wrote: »

Thanks for the links but i need more of a card case not a paper one oh boy i wish i knew what they where called

If you search for rigid cupcake cases or even nut cups which is what they use to be called at makeawishcakeshop but they dont have any in right now Will keep looking for you though as love these for muffins etc - theyre the ones i used in my avatar!

edited to add :- http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/acatalog/Nut-Cups-Cake-Cases.html

melissa75_2

For anyone after ribbon this site has 30% off everything at the minute and its free postage if you spend over £10:
http://www.ribbonmad.co.uk/catalog/

dawnteabag

being blatantly laszy now but could someone point me in the right direction for an easy to folow tutorial on teabag cards?

TomsMom

Glittermum wrote: »

Here is my entry for the challenge, and also some cards made with my latest Craftwork cards delivery!

dawnteabag wrote: »

Piccies on my blog here of
my MSE challenge card - thanks Toms Mum for setting it
and a scrapbook LO for my sis.

Both cards are really lovely.

Talking about swear words, we had our grandson stay for a couple of days during the school holidays. We got out the Wii, having just bought Wii Play. He, of course, has had plenty of practice as he's got this at home but we'd only had it a couple of days. So we were playing the cow race.

That blummin cow race. There he was romping home with his cow and my ruddy cow kept going off the track and knocking the trees down - no points for trees is there! "Get back on the f.....g road" says I :eek:. Oops . Now he's heard this word before, well he is 14 so he probably uses it, but to come out of his Nan's mouth . He was creased up with laughing, so was I. I did confess to his mom and dad, they said not to worry, he'd heard it all before :rotfl: (but not from his Nan he hadn't!).

CT19720

dawnteabag wrote: »

I don't use amything to tie them (except my hands obviously!)- I was going to buy a bow-maker at the papercraft show in Harrogate but luckily the lady running the workshop I was in showed us all how to tie them and saved me a few pounds (which could then spend on something else obviously - I was hardly gooing to save it was I!)

I'll try and explain but it might be easier with pics but my photographer is asleep in his bed (well he should be anyway :rolleyes: - I tired him out by paying hiom to shovel all the snow on the front of the house. Best £3 I've spent in a while and he was happy to do it as he's saving up for a wii)

you don't start with a knot but with 2 loops of ribbon - known in my house as bunny ears.
You then tie the loops in a knot - right over left and then up through the middle IYKWIM and then it's just a case of "squeeze and tease" until it looks right. Ooo-er missus!

Will have a go with the pics over the weekend - he got a camera for Christmas so will be pleased to help

Thanks for the instructions DTB - they make perfect sense and will go and have a go. Bet your son was happy to be paid for clearing the snow. I do that with my kids but it is usually for hoovering or cleaning my car. My oldest is saving to go to the Isle of Wight in June with the School for 5 days - £240:eek:, so I have told him he needs to put £50 together for spending money, so at the moment he will do most things for a few pennies :rotfl:.

paddingtondoo

dawnteabag wrote: »

being blatantly laszy now but could someone point me in the right direction for an easy to folow tutorial on teabag cards?

Don't know if it's easy to follow but spied one on split coast stampers earlier