Ideas for card craft beginner

mary43

Anyone any ideas for a sort of sympathy card for a lad in his early 20's who's grandad has just died ? He was very close to his grandad but I don't want to send something too gushing or flowery............more like a 'thinking of you' type really.

polly1976

mumoftwo wrote: »

You could make a wee 'pouch' or bag and sit it in there on top of the card, makes it quite heavy though. or tie ribbon around the neck and punch two holes in the middle top of the card and thread the ribbon through so the nailvarnish dangles IYSWIM? You would have to play about with it. Great idea, really cute if it works..Or if you have a spare bit of denim, cut a patch, make a wee pocket on the card.

ok here is the male card of the day... If you can't think of find an image, just the Happy Birthday as the topper. As I thought the letters looked a bit flat I stuck tiny gems on them, cocktail stick is great for applying glue (tip of the day) blue birthday cake is from some confetti I had in my craft box, have had it for years never seems to come to an end. lol

Hi mary what about somthing like this that mumoftwo did?? without the birthday cake and happy birthday sign instead just put thinking of you in its place??

mary43

Thanks polly - but think I've sorted it. I found an image I'd got of a cost kitchen with the door open into the garden............OH said it would convey that our door is always open.......thought that would be nice for him as he was one of our foster lads many years back and he'd remember the kitchen where we used to sit round the table and solve all the problems (well almost)
The picture had a sticker on it saying 'Thinking of you' so it seemed perfect for him.

I'll bear you're idea in mind though. This situation is bound to crop up again.

pennyshahin_2

I work in a picture frame buisiness and we have tons of mount board cut outs that goes into the re- cycling (it's good quality stuff) if any one is interested please send me a pm and perhaps we can work something out

bunbun2

at last I have made a card that fits in with the weekly challenge:D

I had a few problems with the glue but will amend that next time:D hopefully the first recipients will appreciate receiving a hand made card not look at all the flaws:rotfl:

card for dss' 9 year old friend



card for my cousin's 3 year old ds



card for my friend's 10 year old dd

polly1976

Fantastic cards bunbun :j love the dr who card where did you get the darlic pic from? the winnie the pooh card is so cute :T and my favorite is the handbag card because i love pink and i love flowers and of course us women all love handbags :rotfl: well done xxxx

bunbun2

polly1976 wrote: »

Fantastic cards bunbun :j love the dr who card where did you get the darlic pic from? the winnie the pooh card is so cute :T and my favorite is the handbag card because i love pink flowers and of course handbags :rotfl: well done xxxx

thanks polly. I got both the dalek and winnie the pooh pictures from yahoo.

mary43

Brilliant cards bunbun !! Well done :T

Love the handbag one..........would just do for my grandaughter

pennyshahin_2

Thinking of making my ow cards ,do any of you use a laminator

qwiksave

Hi pennyshahin, I use a laminator but I haven't used one in cardmaking yet. I bought myself one in January and asked in a thread here what type of things do other people do with one:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=703821&highlight=laminator