Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

Addams

Morning all

Off to my sisters today, so wont be around until tomorrow.

Flourgirl - Hope you enjoy your new stash!

Dragonllew - Thank you, will let you know when it arrives

PONR - Hope you foot feels a bit better. Glad your aunties scan was clear. Great news. Cupcake punch sounds gorgeous!

Jazabelle - Those cards are gorgeous! I love the black and white one, where did you get that image, is really lovely. You definately need to get a blog. Tombolas always go really well at our school fetes, its always the stall that gets the most money. You can do a raffle too, thats the other big earner. for tombola prizes, ask people to donate stuff. You can have anything, from bottles of pop, wine etc to toiletries. Everyone has something lingering in their cupboard that they dont use that someone else would love. Just specify things you want so you dont get any tat!

Hope everyone has a good day. Hugs to all. xx

THE-WIFE_3

lovely cards, jazabelle, your black and white card is super.

craftfairies can I do elongated squares like I did with my elongated circles????????????

Carrying on from Craftfairies post on her blog about cutting layers, a little tip given by the absolutely fab ikki is to hold your nestie in place with a tiny piece of low tack tape. Especially useful when and if the cutting plates start to buckle.

Scrappy Scatty thanks for the tip on my blog, I'm off to enter it.

lizalloareds

morning everyone
went out to our next door neighbours 50th birthday party last night, had a great time
lots of ironing to do today

Jazabelle well done on the fete
PONR good news about your Auntie

Glittermum

Lovely cards Jazeblle and CT - think I may be getting that embossing folder!

Flourgirl - your new stash is amazing - what a generous friend of a friend!

TomsMom

Good morning everyone, gosh I am well behind with the thread.

I think there's been some winners since I last checked so well done :T.

Flourgirl What a fabulous lot of goodies to receive, that should keep you busy for quite a while! Loving those puss cat stamps!

PONR I've never been, nor will ever be going, to the US but I'm loving hearing about all your craft shopping and bargains. Ouch about your foot. Can you not get it looked at while you are there? Would it be covered by your travel insurance? So pleased to hear about your auntie, such good news for her. My OH had a check up on Tuesday and he's now being transferred to Outpatients rather than the unit, 6 weeks between appointments, he's thrilled and so is his consultant.

Jazabelle Your cards are lovely and the black and white one is stunning. Is that a stamp? How did you do it? Sorry for questions, I'm just intrigued. Can you set up a blog to show off your cards, they're beautiful.

Well, there's plenty I could be doing today including some ironing. Would like to get a bit more done in the garden now the landscapers have gone. If anyone would like to see the makeover it's on my garden blog. The weather doesn't look too promising though, blowing a gale and very dull, I think there's some rain on the way. Maybe I'll get chance to do a card instead .

I think Blogger is playing tricks on me, I try and do a blog catch up every day but last night there were some updates showing that were from 19 hours previous, yet I know I checked less than 12 hours before. So I'm sorry if I've missed anyone out.

Hope you all have a good day with some reasonable weather.

ScattyJan

PONR Great news about your Auntie and about your OH TomsMom and I have just been having a nosy around your garden how lovely it looks
Lovely cards Jazabelle.
xx

ali.b.123

Morning all, Sun is shining here but a bit breezy so all the bedding is out - hopefully it will dry soon.
flourgil - wow you lucky lucky girl!!! Some gorgeous things there xx
wanna b - thank you xx

Off for a blog hop x

jazabelle

Thank you very much lizallareds, scattyjan, pointofnoreturn, thewife and glittermum! Very kind of you!

Toms mum and Addams -

Thank you! No, the fairy bit is an 8x8 paper by Dovecraft. There is an eBay link for it so you can see the range. I liked some of the papers, but the others others are a bit too patterned, but there are some nice ones in there!

The dragonflies are punched out of black card, then the fairy wings and stars are coloured in with Sakura glittery silver pen.

Aw, thanks, that's really sweet. I'm quite hit and miss with cards - the wedding ones came out okay, but others come out rather bad! I will set up a blog though, so I've bought so much stuff I need to craft lots to justify it!

pointofnoreturn - I will write to some, I just feel it's a bit cheeky after some have been so generous, but I guess they can only say no! The ones that annoyed me were the local football team who wrote back to say no, they pay directly to charities to make sure the money gets to them. Umm, read the letter - we ARE a registered charity, and the only WOULD directly help people. They could have sent something - a mug? A scarf?

I have a second job at a university, which I leave on wednesday, but last night I cheekily sent an all-staff email asking for donations to the tombola! Let's see if I get anything!

But - very excitingly, I wrote to a load of doctor's surgeries telling them about us, and asking if they would put a poster up in their waiting room, and a doctor's surgery phoned to say they have flu days regularly, and they choose a charity to sponsor each time and they have chosen us this time! But then she said she didn't to check who our funders are, and what exactly we do - so I wrote a long email back, but haven't heard since. That was Friday, so I'm all nervous to hear whether we get picked!

I don't see why we wouldn't - our funders are people like the county council, local council, the NHS, etc - nothing bad!

jazabelle

Ooh, just had an idea - I could make a request for tombola donations on freecycle? Do you think that would be allowed?

Madfrog - I love your stationary set on your blog. May I ask where you got it from - particularly the post-it note holder. Everything fitting it the holder, right? That would be an idea for the fete.

I remember quite a few years ago at my school fete, someone had a piece of cardboard covered in pretty paper, with a shopping list note book in the centre, and a pen attached held down with string to keep in the kitchen to write down anything you need for shopping. They went down a storm, and I bought my nanna one for Christmas and she said it was the most helpful present anyone had ever got her.

craftfairies

elongated squares are fine!!!! you have a week to join in the challenge so don't panic!!