Ideas for card craft beginner

melissa75_2

Great card quicksave - perfect for a boy - very colourful. My 6 year old keeps saying he wants to see it too, there's loads of speed racer toys in the shops already, especially woolworths.

mary43

Brilliant card qwiksave - very professional looking.

Thanks for the tips...............never thought of using eye shadow and I know I've got some lurking somewhere.................

stokechick16

1982girl your card is gorgeous !! I love the butterflies on it.

Also if anyone is looking to sell cards etc. Just a tip - you could try making retirement cards. My grandad tried to buy one in morrisons but could not find a single one

xx

Saint_Chris

Hi All

I've not been on this thread for a while making cards, but i have been reading.

We've had a bit of upset in the family, dads brother died the other week, he was in a nursing home a bit away from us, and dad used to visit him once a week (uncle had alzimers) but when we found out he was dying, dad wanted to go and visit each night, so after work i was out and about, not had time to get the box of cards out.

Well it's back to normal now, and i'm back in with the challenge,

so what is this weeks challenge. I'm up for it.

mary43

Sorry to hear that Chris............but good to see you getting back to normal.
This weeks challenge has been something to do with using tissue............next week it's decoupage.
If you can fit a tissue paper one in before Sunday night that should be ok - if not, concentrate on a decoupage for next week.
Whatever you feel comfortable doing.

qwiksave

mary43 wrote: »

Brilliant card qwiksave - very professional looking.

Thanks for the tips...............never thought of using eye shadow and I know I've got some lurking somewhere.................

Thanks Mary, don't forget if you use eyeshadows, like chalks, you need to 'fix' them so they don't smudge - with a cheap hairspray... (Haven't tried this technique myself so don't quote me! )

zzzLazyDaisy

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Thanks mary

Im actually from messingham just outside s!!!!horpe,that any closer?

Hi, I'm just lurking - my 'hobby room' has been taken over by junk, but it is on the list, and hopefully I will be joining you all card making soon, this thread is such an inspiration. But I just had to reply to this post, as I was brought up in S,,,thorpe and I used to be a teaching assistant at messingham infants many years ago. Such a small world!

melissa75_2

zzzlazydaisy I went to uni with a girl from Sc...horpe, Yin Ip, I am desperatelty trying to get back in touch with her. Her dad owned a take-away and one night my other half rang round all the chinese take-aways in Sc...horpe trying to find her - no luck!!

zzzLazyDaisy

Hi Melissa, sorry I don't know her. But 192.com shows someone of that name in Scunny Have you thought of writing a letter to the Telegraph?

I once needed to track down a friend who I'd lost touch with. I wrote a letter to the S!!!!horpe Evening Telegraph, giving as much detail as I could remember (in that case, the street she last lived on, names of her husband and three children, stuff like that). The Telegraph published the letter and she contacted me the next day - so it does work!

Apart from that, have you tried friendsreunited? It is now a free service, so might be worth a shot.

Good luck!

melissa75_2

Thanks for that zzzlazydaisy, it was a bit of a long shot!! I think she lives in London now, but I'm sure her family still live in scunny. I will definately check friends reunited again, she registered on there years ago but hasn't been back to it since. Now that its free though she might come back, fingers crossed. I never registered myself so I'll do it now, I'm not sure how it works, but if I send her a message does it go to her email, if so that might work (unless she has changed it!).