Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

dragonllew

wanna-b-rich wrote: »

Dragonlew - I'd definately like to go in November. Hopefully the travel lodge will release some more £9 rooms, will keep an eye out and give you the heads up. For some reason the Birmingham rooms don't go that fast, hence the reason I'm off up there in the summer hols for a few days. Personally I love central Birmingham fab shopping and nightlife and then if I can time it right the NEC:D

that would be great do we know what dates it is in november?

TomsMom

wanna-b-rich wrote: »

Right - these b@@**&^ Nellie Snellens (told you there would be tears before bedtime). I've tried cutiing one with my craft knife and it's having none of it! The base is solid and covered with a pale grey foam and I'm scared of messing the die up now,. I'm starting to think that mine aren't s'posed to seperate. I have dies MDF001 (cirlce), MDF002(square), MDF003 (oval) and MDF004 (rectangle). Can anyone advise me what I'm doing wrong or is it simply that they aren't supposed to seperate?? This picture of a card produced using my die suggests that they do seperate..........Help:(:(

wanna-b-rich wrote: »

OK - think I've sussed the Nellies - found this. So it looks like mine don't seperate, will try in a while once I've got the kids in bed.

WBR I have MFD005 and MFD008 which are those which I linked to earlier. Those definitely do separate. The picture of the blue card that you linked to shows only one frame from the set of square ones and these exampleson Nellie's site show only one of the frames from the set being used so to me it suggests they can be separated. It would seem a waste to cut the whole set out of one piece of card stock if you only want one frame of that colour.

Maybe you could contact the people where you purchased them from and ask if they should separate, or you could email Nellie's shop at the addy on the contact form here, I imagine someone would be able to communicate in English.

I do feel for you, I had a very frustrating couple of days when I got mine and had to ask so many questions on here and another forum.

dawnteabag

dragonllew wrote: »

Dawnteabag hope &son is bearing up ok, i know when my nephew died a couple of years ago it was very hard to explain to my kids why it had happened.

have loaded a couple more cards on my blog tonight, 1 is the spanish themed one I was asking about thanks to Dawnteabags suggestion of a fan card thats what i did.:)

And a beautiful fan card it is to - well done - I shall have to push fan cards up my "list of cards I'd love to make but have never quite got around to" (it's a long list!) - it looks really effective.

Good luck for tomorrow Rusty - hope things go as well as they can do.

Thanks again to you all for your best wishes. "s&on" seems to have settled down a little. He's back in his own bed for the first time tonight - he's been sleeping in mine for the last few nights "because it's safer". A gentle bit of bribery in the shape of a spiderman bedside lamp seems to have done the trick
but I found out today that his cousins all know 'the whole truth' - one of them is a bit older than "&son" and his Mum caught him googling on the internet so had to make sure he got the info as sensitively as possible. His sister is just 8 months older than Tom and she's been told too.
So - now I really have no choice but to do the same or risk him getting half a story from different people.
There's no particular rush - he's unlikely to see them for a couple fo weeks as we're away for the next 2 weekends. I'm going to take advice from his teacher, the head-teacher and the vicar before doing it though. How do you explain something like that?

Gemm85

dragonllew wrote: »

that would be great do we know what dates it is in november?

according to this its 4-7 november

dawnteabag

ooh - I'm up for Muffins on Friday as I'm not going to the NEC. Will try for November.
I am off to York for the weekend so have planned a trip to the papermill shop instead.

OAP1945

Rusty- thinking of you and yours for tomorrow

Lyndach I have blogged my entry for your sketch challenge

Bitsy I am another cuttlebug fanatic

DTB hugs for you and & son

Hope all the poorlies start to improve especialy the NEC15

I will be baking a 7 tier multi coloured Chocolate/almond/strawberry/carrot/ginger/plum and vanilla cake and it will be fat free, non calorie and for all lent giverupers, SINFREE

see you on friday:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

dawnteabag

wanna-b-rich wrote: »

Hello & welcome Bitsy Beans.I definately think the die cutters are worth the money. I have a Sizzix purely because I like to do other crafty things and wanted a machine that would cut more than paper/card. A lot of the ladies on here have Cuttlebugs which they love. I guess it's all down to what you want to do with the die cutter.

I'm a cuttlebuggler - you can use them to cut felt (as long as the die isn't too fiddly). my main issue is with the size though - most of the things you cut out are quite small and I like to scrapbook on 12x12 so they're not much good for bigger projects.
I'm saving up for a cricut (which is an electronic die-ctter) That will cut out letters up to 12 inches etc. I'll be keeping my bug though for the embossing - which I love..

dragonllew

Gemm85 wrote: »

according to this its 4-7 november

thanks gemm was hoping it wouldn't clash with Aimee's birthday and it doesn't.

dawnteabag

Lyndach
I have done a challenge card (no egg) but can't really post it on my blog or here until it reaches its recipient.
Can I still enter it - I can email you a pic as proof if you like?

craftygranny

OAP1945 wrote: »

Rusty- thinking of you and yours for tomorrow

Lyndach I have blogged my entry for your sketch challenge

Bitsy I am another cuttlebug fanatic

DTB hugs for you and & son

Hope all the poorlies start to improve especialy the NEC15

I will be baking a 7 tier multi coloured Chocolate/almond/strawberry/carrot/ginger/plum and vanilla cake and it will be fat free, non calorie and for all lent giverupers, SINFREE

see you on friday:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

OOOOOOh that sounds yummy . Please tell me it's suitable for diabetics. :rotfl:

Wifey better get your outfit ready . 7 tiers thats gonna be a real high dive.