Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

lei_armstrong

wanna-b-rich wrote: »

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Emzy81

Lol well I typed in card making and found a thread which I flicked through and found a part 2 and so on until I found this one, a mini adventure :rotfl:

I have had a quick look through and ill have a better look in a bit
I haven't started card making yet but I really want to try it! Ive just been searching the internet on how to get started, should I just buy a kit or do I need some special tools? It seems impossible to get my head around at the moment embossing, stamping and who knows what else....I just want to make pretty cards

Anyway a big hello to everyone and I hope you don't mind if I join this thread?

TomsMom

Hello Emzy and welcome.

We'll soon have you making pretty cards, if you'd like to see some inspiration, most of us on here have got card making blogs. Click on some user names and a lot of us have got our blogs as our home page. Have a wander around the blogs then see if there are any styles you like.

You'll need to decide what you want to do. Rubber stamping, digi stamping, decoupage, etc. See what you like the look of and where you'd like to start.

You could buy a kit, that's a good way but you might find you have too much of the same thing. You'll need some basic stuff like card stock or card blanks, double sided tape or other adhesive, craft knife and cutting mat, pretty papers and perhaps some embellishments. The list could be quite long!

You could take a look at Create and Craft on Sky (671) or Freeview (can't remember the number on there, sorry). Also some craft programmes on Ideal World (644) and sometimes on QVC (640). You'll see lots of different techniques, particularly on Create and Craft.

Once you've seen something that takes your fancy, come back and ask some more questions and we'll point you in the right direction. Tools? Ah, lots of lovely things to buy, we'll tempt you as we go along :rotfl: . On this thread MSE stands for Money Spending Experts but don't tell Martin!!!!!!!!!

Emzy81

Thanks Tomsmom
Ive just had a quick look at a few peoples and the cards on your blog are exactly the type of cards I was thinking of when I decided I wanted to make cards and then all the different terms got me confused lol
So ive no idea what type of cards they are but I want to make cards like the ones on your blog or is that still too vague? Sorry if I sound stupid I don't usually sound this stupid.. more a little mad

And lol at the money spending experts.... on some threads I save money only to go and spend it again because ive looked at others threads!

Ive just had a quick look on create and craft...looks interesting (more confusing but interesting )

Thanks for the reply I thought everyone would be in bed!

ETA: Where is the best place to buy card blanks? Im looking around but have no idea if its cheap or not

TomsMom

I'm a bit of a night owl and just about to go off now.

Most of my cards use digi images. They're images you can either find free on the 'net or you can buy and they're emailed to you, then you print them off on some good quality cardstock at the size you want.
Rubber stamping is where you buy a wood mounted stamp, or clear acrylic stamp you mount temporarily onto an acrylic block, then ink up with the appropriate ink and stamp onto card stock. You can then colour these images how you like, most of us tend to use Promarkers but they're just about the most expensive colouring pens on the market!

You'll need to buy the size of card blank you fancy, or make your own from a sheet of A4 card stock. Then you'll need some pretty paper, lots available to buy, lots available as freebies off the 'net.

Once you've printed and coloured your images you'll need to mat them onto some other card, maybe using punches or dies for different shapes then you can add them to your card. Raising them up on foam pads (I use 1mm depth so they don't cost too much to post) looks nice, then there are lots of embellishments you can buy, flowers, buttons, adhesive gems, etc.

Papermania stuff is fairly reasonable, take a look at https://www.docrafts.com for products, ideas and card galleries for inspiration.

For a start, how about this for freebie digi images from Cuddly Buddly. There are plenty of others and this site puts links up daily, you should find something you like if you plough through.

I've had lots of free printable papers from this site, you'll need to scroll through and download something you like.

That should keep you busy for the next week :rotfl: .

If you fancy decoupage there's lots of die cut decoupage you can buy which is much easier than cutting out.

Check out a few of the Create and Craft programmes over the weekend if you've got time and see if there's anything you fancy trying then we can point you in the right direction.

Oh, just thought. You can buy stamped images off Ebay, just put "stamped images" in the search box and "craft" section and you'll see quite a few come up. That way you can see if there's a style of image you like too. I've bought some off Ebay and they can work out at about 20p each.

Must get to bed now. Don't forget to check other blogs as we all have different styles and tastes.

P.S. Just seen your edit about card blanks. I've got a load in my stash I bought yonks ago so not really sure where the best place is at the moment. Papermania do some and Craftwork Cards but you can also find some at The Works. Ebay probably has some. Where abouts do you live as someone might know if you've got any craft shops in your area.

Giggle

Morning, Lovely day again and i have had a great start to the day have had a e-mail from a friend asking me to make them some sweet Bouquets for the tables at her daughters wedding just need to find some deep red sweets now

RustyFlange

rainmac wrote: »

Rusty, that stamp is gorgeous!!! What a lovely friend you have. The pink and blue flowers you used on your cards are from Pink Gem

CG, well done on winning the challenge :T

Mary, how's your back?

I've just ordered white card from Rymans for stamping/digis as going through my Craftwork Cards card far too fast. Someone from Cards for Men recommended Rymans 200gsm coated card so going to give that a go, used Quidco too

Our Sky box has collapsed today, OH has been on the phone ranting at Sky for half an hour. They have finally agreed to send out an engineer on Saturday at no cost to us. Result :

Off to see a friend tomorrow after I've dropped kiddies at school/preschool to celebrate her birthday and 1st birthday of her daughter. Need to remember to take the pressies and cards x

Thankyou! I need to send the spendy elves to pink gem! :j

Thanks for all the replies about my new stamp, I love it! She must know I have a thing for house mouse! Can't wait to make a card with it over the weekend!

Hope everyone is ok? Managed to get to home bargains with bun bun yesterday, we got more of the lovely stickers for 29p, oh asked on the ozone last night if I was starting up a sticker shop! I'm so tired, was up till gone 4 with restless legs:( found out on Wednesday that my pregnant friend is having twins :j so bought some cuty Ty monkeys from hb! Will be my first proper expensive twin cake so want to do a jungle theme!

lizalloareds

Morning everyone, raining again here, need to go food shopping soon then will have to get on with some HW
Thanks Marg put my blog link on
Well done Giggle on the sweet bouquet order

hugs to all be back later x

Nici

Hi all,
I did lurk on here last night and catch up reading but got too sleepy to add any message on. Didn't get any papercrafting done yesterday but did do a little knitting. Got to sit and make up dh accounts spreadsheet this morning as the figures have to be to the tax credit peoploe by the end of this month else they stop the payments. Can't afford to risk that happening.
Right so I should probably be doing that instead of typing here but hey ho, I'll leave the window open and keeping checking back to see what going on!
Nici x

wanna-b-rich

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