Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

THE-WIFE_3

WBR let us know how you get on with the silicon spray that'll be a great help if it just shifts them a bit, the MC's are great but I always ask myself, "do I want to faff about?" especially if I've got a deadline.

elysia2003

Thankyou The-Wife for the info on the cuttlebug. It's been a great help. I'm off to buy some nesties now.

Edited to add: I would join in the card swap, but I'm not sure my cards are up to scratch yet. Hopefully in the not too distant future, they will be ok.

SallyUK

Hi Ladies

I'm wondering if any of you are clever enough to make backing paper?

I'm doing another set of wedding invitations ( my niece is getting married in Scotland in December, and I'm sooo excited, can't wait!)

The men are wearing kilts and I would really like to incorporate a piece of tartan backing paper, the same as the kilts, on the invite, if at all possible?

Sal
x

flourgirl

Jowri I have to apologise to you cos for some reason I wasn't following your blog.... sorry... I have now become a follower. You have some fantastic makes on there, beautiful colouring with your Aquamarkers too. I noticed your photos of Plymouth, my son lives in St Budeaux, and we often caravan at Down Thomas.

flourgirl

Sorry Sally I can't help I'm afraid I'm a bit useless when it comes to things like that. Can you find the tartan on the internet and download a copy somehow to print off... someone will be able to help you x

jowri

thank you flourgirl, your son is just down the road from me then, I'm very close to St Budeaux, sown thomas is not to far either, i'm not sure but is it near Kingsbridge, I love living down here but do miss the shopping centres you seem to have further up north

craftygranny

Rainmac can you heat the fluffy stuff by holding the card over the toaster a friend of mine did it with embossing powders and it worked . She said she was too tight to buy a heat gun when she had something else that would do. lol

PepPop

melissa I'm gonna collect the charms myself so I can make it more personal.

Congratulations Soma

Thanks for the freebies everyone

wbr Glad you survived and hope DD is not to much of a nightmare today. That sounds like a brilliant bargain - wish the shops weren't so far away from me

rainmac Glad your OH got home in time for your night out. I fancy going to see Inception, might talk OH into going next weekend. Enjoy your week together.
Susan

Wam, Sally and Thrifty :TYou're back :T

TomsMom If your new puppy is even half as gorgoeus as that picture she'll be a cutey. Can't wait to see some piccies. :T Hope your first night together went smoothly. Just checked out Poppy's blog and she is absolutely gorgeous, please give her a big cuddle from me.

craftygranny Sorry to hear about your stepdads brother. Sending you all hugs.

CT I didn't realise your Alton Towers ghost tour was on a Friday 13th :eek::eek: Hope you enjoy your camping trip.

Thrifty I've got a breadmaker and I'm afraid it's kept in the cupboard for the same reason - if I use it the bread lasts about an hour, not good for the waistline

Sally I've seen people using an image and using the watermark function to make it pale - I've got photoshop if you want me to try to help I'd be happy to.

I can highly recommend Jamie Oliver's cooking OMG it was amazing!!! We had to queue (you can't book tables - this was the only down side) but when we got inside they took our names and sent us downstairs to the bar for nibbles and some wine while we waited on our table. For starters I had Courgette Fritto with a dip and OH had bruscetta with ricotta and tomatoes. For mains I had meatballs and twirly parpadelle, OH has wild truffle tagliatelle. Pudding was vanila + honey, strawberry and chocolate icecream with honeycomb and crushed nuts. It was one of those meals that everytime you took a mouthful you just couldn't believe how good it tasted and how it things just went so well together (if I told you the tomato sauce for my meatballs had cinnamon in it, strange but amazing) I can see us going back again real soon and it was so reasonably priced too. Now that I've made myself hungry I'm off the make a snack and a cuppa.

pointofnoreturn

SallyUK wrote: »

Hi Ladies

I'm wondering if any of you are clever enough to make backing paper?

I'm doing another set of wedding invitations ( my niece is getting married in Scotland in December, and I'm sooo excited, can't wait!)

The men are wearing kilts and I would really like to incorporate a piece of tartan backing paper, the same as the kilts, on the invite, if at all possible?

Sal
x

Sally

If you can get a square image of the tarten you can put it into Word and then just copy and paste it all over the page. If you need to fade the colour first then you could do that in paint or another editing programme. I think this should work!!

flourgirl

jowri wrote: »

thank you flourgirl, your son is just down the road from me then, I'm very close to St Budeaux, sown thomas is not to far either, i'm not sure but is it near Kingsbridge, I love living down here but do miss the shopping centres you seem to have further up north

To get to Down Thomas we go through Plymstock and Staddiscombe towards Bovisand. To say Plymouth is a city I think the shopping is a bit poor, even the new Drake Shopping centre!