Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

melissa75_2

Well ladies - I am feeling sorry for myself today - I've got a rotten cold plus my pins and punches still haven't arrived!!! On the plus side though I ordered some Magnolia stamps the other day and they arrived this morning!!!

Rusty - Am I right in thinking that you used to order the Magnolia releases from their store - I wondered whether you thought it was worth it?????

Marg - I've still not heard back from that website re the nesties - I might send them another email.

Dragonllew - congrats on your win!

RustyFlange

melissa75 wrote: »

Well ladies - I am feeling sorry for myself today - I've got a rotten cold plus my pins and punches still haven't arrived!!! On the plus side though I ordered some Magnolia stamps the other day and they arrived this morning!!!

Rusty - Am I right in thinking that you used to order the Magnolia releases from their store - I wondered whether you thought it was worth it?????

Marg - I've still not heard back from that website re the nesties - I might send them another email.

Dragonllew - congrats on your win!

Hi Melissa,

Yep I did, and encouraged choccys spendy elves to join mine!! ... for the price then yes I would say it was worth it, providing you know that you wont get the *full* release, and there will be others that are released which you may want, it works out a lot cheaper, think it was about £28 or something silly? worth it for what you got though!

Hope you feel better soon The-Wife

I stripped DS's room to Vac, OH joined me and has pulled all the units and wardrobe off the wall, then we stripped the paper off one of the walls, now looks like we need a trip to ikea!! :rotfl: oh well about time it got done!

Skiergirl

Hassy - thank you for the gorgeous card and stickers, it arrived today. Welcome back, hope you're feeling better x

lovely cards Padster, bunbun, Rusty, THE WIFE, JuJu, Marg, Wanna-b, flourgirl, artydoll, Scatty, Dragonllew, TomsMum, OAP, Mad-Frog, and Jowri :T

Addams - well done on finishing the cross stitch, I think all those greys would make me go cross eyed

Congratulations Rainmac, Melissa, Scatty, CGC, bunbun, Tomsmum, Dragonllew and wanna-b :j

Welcome Bolton and Emzy

TiredMom - hope you had a fab time in London. Glad the elves have moved a couple of miles away

Rusty - well done on your weight loss :beer:

Great news about Kaitlyn Craftygranny. Hope your daughters foot is better soon x

Wifey - glad you had a good day even if you didn't win

Gemm - hope today has gone well for you x

Glad all those with DS and DD doing school visits are enjoying the experience

wanna-b - hope your appointment and biopsy have gone ok x

Jowri - hope you all enjoyed the zoo

I'm glad the spendy elves have left my house, all my orders were delivered in the week except LOTVand SU. Luckily DH left early today and LOTV arrived 5 minutes after he'd gone :rotfl:

melissa75_2

Rusty - thanks for the reply - I think when I looked the other day it worked out at £44!!!! The next release is nautical I think - I might wait for the next one, as I don't think I'd use them much!

artydoll

Skiergirl ,you,ve been blogging then,lol.
i wish my cards looked more professional,being an OAP ,cant really afford all the lovely papers and trims,i really love the martha Stewart punches ,but cant justify spending out just now.
I will have to wait for some birthday or Christmas money .
I usually use wrapping paper for my backgrounds,or wallpaper samples,need to buy a printer so i can print out some papers.
I have won some Tilda printouts today,on flea bay, and have found my water colour pencils ,at last,so I,m ready to try colouring them in and seeing how they will look .

Mad-Frog

Have finished sorting out my craft stuff, goodness I have loads of papers... I think I had best not buy anymore until I have used some up

Things have been going wrong today, can't get internet to work on my laptop, no idea why as everything is plugged in and seems ok. Took my mixer thingy out of the dishwasher and it is all cracked so will have to throw the processor away.
Now my printer won't print, I think I have bought some ink that are not canon ink so I am hoping that is the problem, oh well fifteen quid wasted if it is, if it's not I think I might cry

Wanna b, thanks for your help I have a picture appeared on my blog so I am guessing I might have done something right today

craftgirl1960

Hi Ladies,
Just popping in briefly to say hello, I've been away on holidays for the last week so I've got lots of catching up to do :j

Congratulations to all the winners!

Can I ask what you will be making with the test tubes rusty? I'm intrigued!

Can I also ask if anyone can recommend the cheapest place to buy the scalloped punches, I really have to give in and order one now!

Gemm85

evening all, well done to all the winners! it seems like we have one or 2 winners a day recently, yay!

had quite a successful day today, was so incredibly stressful with the setting up and organization but we got there in the end and didnt do too badly, covered the cost of my table which was the main thing! The best sellers were decorated notebooks! only sold 4 cards though so questioning whether it's worth taking them, people seem to prefer the little gifty items. I got there about half 9 and got home about half 4, and have been asleep since then! hope everyones having a good day!

melissa75_2

Gemm - congratulations on your sales!!!!

Rusty - I think I bodged up my KR conversion - I think it works out at £32 ish which isn't too bad - turns out I'm too late to order the summer kit anyway - I think I'll get the autumn one though!

Mad-frog - I hope your day gets better!

Crafty_JuJu

craftgirl1960 wrote: »

Can I ask what you will be making with the test tubes rusty? I'm intrigued!

Me too Hope you had a great holiday? We're off to Legoland in 4wks can't wait :jI don't know whos more excited us or the kiddies :rotfl:

Mad-Frog - I went up in the attic last week & too was shocked to find as much card stock & paper as I did! I've not looked at it since Alex was 3, now he's 6 :eek: I'd completly forgot about it!

Rusty - I'm going to get your friends bookmark made up tonight if you could let her know please I'll be able to post it monday if she'd like? x Well done on your weight loss :T:T:T

dragonllew - Congratulations :j:T

Gemma - Congratulations on yous sales xXx

I've made an Alice In Wonderland Charm bracelet today, been wanting to make one in ages, the charms arrived today so I just had to make it lol Its on my blog if you'd like a nosey...I've used a couple of the small glass tiles with it too with Alice images in x Tonight I'm going to get one of my orders sorted with a glass of wine me thinks ;D Alex has a birthday party to go too & we're having a little party for Emily in the afternoon tomorrow so I think I deserve it in advance x