Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

wanna-b-rich

Mel - sorry to hear about your OH's grandad, I'm sure your cards will be beautiful and bring comfort to the recipients. x

PepPop

lei Your wedding card is gorgeous and congratulations on the sale and the new job!! :T:T

Thanks for the blog list craftygranny (naughty lady) there are some on there I don't have.

Melissa - so sorry to hear your news Hugs to you and your family.

Great work Rusty - how's your download going? Good luck with the mouse disposal, my two only eat flies thank goodness.

Hassy don't do my trick of being ruthless and then discovering a week later that you did actually need that bit of paper.

TomsMom :rotfl:at you chasing a rat round your kitchen (although very glad it didn't break the skin when it bit you!)

kms26

Hi,

I am going to venture into stamping. Up till now i have only stuck things on . So can you lovely ladies tell me what i need and where the best place to get them from? Please Also i have brought a few card kits but the cards always seem small is it better to get A4 card and fold it? Or are there some kits i can get with larger cards in

Thanks in advance

Kel xx

artydoll

Melissa so sorry to hear your families sad news ,big hugs to you all.

I did enter my card in the promarkers challenge ,buy got a comment that I didnt use promarkers,so it wonr count, cant use them if I aint got none,lol.
I was trying to win some.

flourgirl

Melissa Sorry to hear your sad news, my thoughts are with you and your family xxxx

rainmac

Sorry just a quick dash in to check everyone's ok...

Mel, so sorry to hear about your OH's grandad, such sad news but as you say he is at peace now xxx

Gemm, good luck wishes to you with work, thinking of you xxx

Lei, fantastic news about your promotion and your card sale :j

Hassy, yep I'd love to do a stash ban with you, could we do it a week at a time and keep checking with each other on here how we are doing?

I've got the card swap to sort out on Crafty Place, will do that tomorrow so if you want to take part please pop over and put your name down (it's a nice easy theme this month)

I've spent most of the day looking after my friend's little girl whilst she was at the hospital having an antenatal appointment. She has has miscarriages before so being pregnant is always such a worry. All looking good so far so we had big hugs and tears earlier x

I've managed to finish my book club book even though I didn't get home from preschool meeting till 10.30 last night It's DS1's school fayre on Sunday so this weekend is taken up with organising that. I am owed some ME time next week I think

Hugs to everyone xxx

TomsMom

kms26 wrote: »

Hi,

I am going to venture into stamping. Up till now i have only stuck things on . So can you lovely ladies tell me what i need and where the best place to get them from? Please Also i have brought a few card kits but the cards always seem small is it better to get A4 card and fold it? Or are there some kits i can get with larger cards in

Thanks in advance

Kel xx

Kel, one way to buy bigger cards at a reasonable price is to go to The Works where they do sets of 50 cards and envelopes for £4.99, they also frequently have them on offer at buy 2 for £8. From what I can remember they do 7" x 5" and they might do square ones. That might be cheaper than buying A4 card then buying envelopes in the size you decide to cut your card down to. Papermania do some 5" square I think.

I've loads of A6 size cards, they're 6" x 4", and I no longer like working with that size. I bought them years ago. I think they were popular because you could buy an A4 sheet and get two cards out of it.

Do you mean rubber stamping? You'll need stamps, ink - Memento if you're using Promarkers, Stazon if you use watercolours, pigment ink if you want to heat emboss so then you'd need embossing powder and a heat gun. Stamps can be quite expensive. I've got loads of stamps that don't come out very often. I'm actually buying stamped images off Ebay at the moment, that way I can have a couple of each image I like but don't have to go to the expense of paying up to £7 or £9 for a stamp (House Mouse are very expensive, so are Penny Black).

You could try downloading free digi stamps for a start and see how you get on (google free digi images, lots come up).

craftygranny

Melissa so sorry to hear your sad news . we'll be thinking of you.

toms mum I have loads of a6 ones too. lol. I did use a couple of dozen last year when we did the cards for the troops before xmas.

Marg Do you still have the contact details for the lady who collects them i think she was from near me somewhere i might use loads more up and do some more if they are collecting them this year .

Giggle

:j:j All my new stash as just come from a card 4 you and its all lovely even better as it was all half price :j:j

kms26

TomsMom wrote: »

Kel, one way to buy bigger cards at a reasonable price is to go to The Works where they do sets of 50 cards and envelopes for £4.99, they also frequently have them on offer at buy 2 for £8. From what I can remember they do 7" x 5" and they might do square ones. That might be cheaper than buying A4 card then buying envelopes in the size you decide to cut your card down to. Papermania do some 5" square I think.

I've loads of A6 size cards, they're 6" x 4", and I no longer like working with that size. I bought them years ago. I think they were popular because you could buy an A4 sheet and get two cards out of it.

Do you mean rubber stamping? You'll need stamps, ink - Memento if you're using Promarkers, Stazon if you use watercolours, pigment ink if you want to heat emboss so then you'd need embossing powder and a heat gun. Stamps can be quite expensive. I've got loads of stamps that don't come out very often. I'm actually buying stamped images off Ebay at the moment, that way I can have a couple of each image I like but don't have to go to the expense of paying up to £7 or £9 for a stamp (House Mouse are very expensive, so are Penny Black).

You could try downloading free digi stamps for a start and see how you get on (google free digi images, lots come up).

Thanks for that Tomsmom, I don't think i will try embossing just yet. I have noticed that stamps are expensive, i am going into town at the weekend so i will have a look around and definately go in the Works, thanks again :T