Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

rainmac

Oh my god, just noticed I have posted more than 5000 posts on MSE :eek:, I should think 4090 of them have been on this thread, sorry I'm such a gasbag

Tired Mom, bet you can't wait for your order to arrive :j :j :j

Forgot to say earlier, Happy Christmas everyone :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

craftygranny

PONR Thank you we're hopeful that it will stay away this time but unfortunately we get no guarantees. I have Alicia's brothers Thomas and Josh staying over tonight . Kaitlyn is so excited i'll be lucky if any of them are asleep before midnight. lol

Rainmac hope you have good weather and a great time at the safari park tomorrow.

Flourgirl Enjoy your day away from the shop and hope you find some bargains at the market.

Rainmac you're not a gasbag you've just been very helpful.

Marg

Welcome sweetbabycakes & Hogshead

Craftygranny - LOL at Kaitlyn demanding her hugs & kisses how lovely to be young & carefree to sing & dance round the house:)

Tired Mum - cheque in post - hope you enjoy the caravan. I also post pics direct from my desktop to my blog. I had the same problem as you at first though!

Glittermum - Hope you enjoy West Wales & you don' need the central heating on.

Tomsmom - loved the cartoon - good to hear that DH is holding his own and continues to improve. Is he a naturally slim person anyway? My godson is 6' & 8 stone but has always been the same.

Sal - Your boxes are all gorgeous! Good that your friend chose the easiest to do. Love Horace! Is your daughter planning to make more? I bet her friends will all want one when they see him!

Rainmac - Well chosen name there! Hope the weather stays good for your trip to the safari park. Roll on the next 5000 posts! I love reading them! Chores & errands for me today too. Although my local craft shop have demo's on today so I might pop in.....

Hogshead - Beautiful card! you should pop on here more often.

CraftyJuJu - Craft beautiful email says there's a sale on here & as the saying goes I thought of you!! www.beadsdirect.co.uk

PONR - hope you get your sleep pattern sorted out soon!

Mary - hope you can figure out how to do pics so I can [STRIKE]nosey[/STRIKE] admire too.

Flourgirl - Enjoy your days off, is that it for a while or are you going back next week too? I can remember being put off sweets (only for a short while!) when I worked on the sweet counter @ Woolies in the summer holidays back in the day when they had 'proper' counters. Hands up those who can remember those!

& finally...... 'Happy Christmas' to you all however you spend it.

Crafty_JuJu

Marg wrote: »

CraftyJuJu - Craft beautiful email says there's a sale on here & as the saying goes I thought of you!! www.beadsdirect.co.uk

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Thanks I'm off to look now, a lady at work last night asked if I could make her 5yr old little girl some for her birthday, so I've got a great excuse to go shopping

lei_armstrong

rainmac wrote: »

Choccy, I have ordered Princess Tilda too, she is sooooo gorgeous and had sold out at the NEC. She'll be perfect for cards for lil girls, well big girls too I think

Ooh I only noticed the new Fairytale Tilda's last night as I didn't get round to the Magnolia stall at the NEC! Where did you order from? x

flourgirl

Crafty JuJu Thank you Thank you Thank You !!! :A :j:D xx

flourgirl

Ah well thats the shopping done the washing done and dried on the line the baking done curtesey of M&S chocolate fudge cake, walnut cake and fruit scones Jam and thick cream yum yum all for my guests of course lol

Now I have sold my NEC Promarkers (doh) I need a little visit to Joanna Sheene, I need a couple of skin tone, bear tones, greys and pale lemon, any suggestions please..

Right off to cut some leaves on the silhouette.... well I'll try lol

SallyUK

Hiya Crafty JuJu

Thank you, I'll tell her!

The boxes are quite easy to make, if not a wee bit fiddly.

The pyramid one was a Pink Petticoat one that was featured a while ago, the link is here to that one:

http://pinkpetticoat.typepad.com/pink_petticoat/2010/01/free-pyramid-box-template.html

The pillow box and the opening one is on You Tube and there's several different video tutorials available - believe it or not that was the one I found hardest! lol

Hi Marg - thanks for your comments re the sock monkey - I'm not sure if she's planning on doing any more monkeys, although she did say this morning that her friend asked her for one last night! lol

Happy Easter to Everyone!

Sal
x

Crafty_JuJu wrote: »

Sally - Your daughters sock monkey is Fantastic he's brill x
I love your boxes too, how do you make them?

ali.b.123

Afternoon everyone, playing catchy up again!!! Just wanted to let Rusty know I have been to check out the new Range at Stockton - I dont know if it would be worth over an hours drive as there is only about 4 aisles of card making stuff - never been to any others though so I dont know how it compares. However, the elves came out to play and I got the new for men/boys Smirk range (its so cute), card blanks, anitas tacky glue and little alphabet stamps:o so just a little shop!! Would have got more if I didnt have hubby with me;) ...maybe next time!! lol

pointofnoreturn

Oooh it's quiet on here today!!!!! I slept at 4am today but got up at 11am so hopefully by this evening I will be tired enough to sleep at a more normal time!!!
Well I have been sorting through a small amount of my stash from the US!!!

These are the papers I bought


and these are the stamps


and here is a MS Double Edge Doily Punch - I love this one!!!!

Will take more photos to show you as I unpack it all!!!!