Ideas for card craft beginner

cheerfulness4

Great to see the cards that you're making. I've always loved scrapbooking but have started making a few cards these past months and am loving it.

Thought I'd post up a couple of links to free backing papers, tags, etc that I've found really useful and fun.


http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/themes.html

http://www.graphicgarden.com/files17/eng/print/tags.php

mumoftwo

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Great to see the cards that you're making. I've always loved scrapbooking but have started making a few cards these past months and am loving it.

Thought I'd post up a couple of links to free backing papers, tags, etc that I've found really useful and fun.


http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/themes.html

http://www.graphicgarden.com/files17/eng/print/tags.php

Hi cheerfulness,

Oh I love scrapbooking, I have always made cards but have now progressed into scrapbooking but not very good at it.. So hard to layer everything up without it looking a mess!! Have bought some books but got a bit disheartened. With a card you can finish quite quickly but to do a whole page in a scrapbook is so daunting for me, I sit and look at it for ages.. Any tips on how to get the dimensions right?

mary43

I had a go at doing one for my grandson when he was born last year but really it ended up being a little book with poems and quotes in, birth sign and birthstone details etc. Not scrapbooking like you see on the websites.
The only other thing I've done like that is the front page of my family history folders.............I printed out a lot of images to do with shoemaking for the branch of the family who were cobblers and overlapped one thing over another ............looked 'not too bad' is best I can describe. Other pages, like the front page for grans family were anything to do with farming, flowers, old wine jars, stuff like that. The rest of the pages in the folder were just printed out from my tree programme and I added photos to them.
Would love to have a real go at scrapbooking but don't know where to start really.

cheerfulness4

Hi mumoftwo.

You know I never know where I'm going to end up with a scrapbook page. I often will keep adding to it up to a month later!
I usually pick a colour from the photo and choose a backing paper that I think will match well. I then get out all my 'colour matches' in mats and layers and embellishments.
I've scanned the net for ideas from scrapbooking sites and used ideas from lots of those on layout plans. I've 6 scrapbooks that I'm making... and I've added extra refills to two of those! :rolleyes:
I've had some lovely bargains off of ebay, too. I usually watch something like qvc or create and craft and then key in the brand names to grab an ebay bargain. Tim Coffey is one of my fav designers and I got a great bargain of 3 embellishment sheets for £1.34 one day. That poor seller must have been weeping as my local craft shop was selling them for £2.99 a sheet. :eek:

cheerfulness4

Hi mary43,

Scrapbooking childrens pages is one of my favourite kinds. Its so easy to forget some of the things that they say so I've added journalling on the pages of all the little words they used to say wrong or lines from songs that we used to sing to them as babies.

Maybe a little 6"x4" book would be a good place to start and to scan your photos into the pc and print so that the originals are still in tact should you have a mishap. (guess how I learnt that one!:o )

I've noticed that the libraries are getting in more and more scrapbooking books too which could help.

mary43

With my family history files I'm trying to write a page or two about the person -little habits, what they were like etc. Difficult with some that I know very little about but a lot I've managed to piece together from bits Mum told me about.
I've been keeping the 'scrapbooking' part of the files to just the initial page with a photo of one of that branch of the family and then a load of images that reflect their lifestyle. It's fun to do but bit trial and error before I'm happy with it.

polly1976

Think im best sticking to making cards cos i have enough trouble with them so mumoftwo whens your first card lesson lol ?

mumoftwo

:rotfl: What do you think I have been doing?? See above pictures:rotfl:

Is there a specific technique you want to know more about? More about peel offs, layering, punching, stamping, heat embossing, embossing? I don't mind but what would you like to know about? Design? Do you want step by step pictures? I have never done this before. as long as you don't ask me to go on webcam!!!! No way! I bite my nails and my hands would shake too much. Or you could all come to Scotland. And you could use all my punches, stamps etc.:rotfl: :rotfl:

mumoftwo

polly1976 wrote: »

How do u find out about them?

Our library in town has info of all sorts of groups. There is a cardmaking group in our community centre and they sell their cards for charity.

mumoftwo

here is a project for you tonight: Easter card

Cut a bit of the front of the card. Stick a strip of nice paper on the inside of the card the width of the missing piece. (see pic)
3 squares, punch hole in corner, thread through some ribbon, stick peel off on square, colour in or leave plain, stick foam pads on the back, stick on card, stick peel off eggs on the strip of coloured paper or the words Happy Easter of leave plain. Just like that! Time of making: 20min