Ideas for card craft beginner

mary43

Brilliant card maggie..................wish I could come up with ideas like that......so professional looking:T

Maggie_Bob

I was inspired by the purple glitter, which was a present from my mother. I got her into card making last month when she visited me and saw all my stuff, and now we send each other lots of nice things that we find.

I had a huge parcel from her this week, as she has discovered a local shop called Nickel n Dime which has loads of gorgeous craft stuff!

ilovecompanies

Brill card Maggie Bob xxxxx By the way, if you go to http://www.avonsideflowers.com/ send a SAE, and get a free sample pack of satin flowers!

melissa75_2

Hi everyone - great cards as usual from everyone, I will try to post some tomorrow.
Mary, great card - very elegant!
Maggiebob, great father's day card too, I like how you have done the lettering. And I love the tail on the cat - very clever!
rainmac - missed qvc:mad: mother-in-law and father-in-law came round!

rainmac

wedidit wrote: »

Hi there, these cards that people have made look great! I'm trying to make some wedding invitations and am finding it quite difficult to find ideas. I bought the current issue of Wedding Ideas Magazine which has a How To section which shows you how to make your own invitations - which is fab! I also got 50p off that issue with a discount voucher!!!! see the website http://www.weddingideasmagazine.co.uk/content/view/421/220/

anybody have any ideas? my theme is pink vintage.

Hi wedidit, I love the designs on this site, simple (i.e. easy to make ) yet really elegant. My fave is the polka dot one, you'd need card blanks/ or card you fold yourself, polka dot paper, ribbon, lots of glue/ double sided tape! :rotfl: How many do you need to make? Are they for yourself?

Do you have word/ word processing package on your pc to type and print the wording?

Have you had a look at ebay for ideas? Loads of people sell handmade cards on there so if you do a search for wedding pink vintage and see what appears!

Do you have a Hobbycraft store near you? They have a make your own wedding stationery section (may be a bit 'old fashioned') and then loads of blank cards, papers, ribbons etc. They are not necessarily the cheapest place but good to get some ideas.

HTH

rainmac

melissa75 wrote: »

Hi everyone - great cards as usual from everyone, I will try to post some tomorrow.
Mary, great card - very elegant!
Maggiebob, great father's day card too, I like how you have done the lettering. And I love the tail on the cat - very clever!
rainmac - missed qvc:mad: mother-in-law and father-in-law came round!

I got to see about an hour of QVC broken up and spread over the 3 hours! Great scrapbooking stuff and other general bits - just need to win the lottery then I'd have it all!!!

bunbun2

here are my cards for this week's challenge:

my two colour card - green and yellow:



my father's day card:

mary43

bunbun - two fabulous cards..............love the vase of flowers:T

melissa75_2

Bunbun2 - love the cards. The colours are really pretty on the vase one, and the father's day card is pure genius - I love the little knife and fork!

saveapenny

Wedidit...these are easy to make http://www.imaginewedding.co.uk/simple%20elegance%20wedding%20stationery.htm instructions http://www.premiervolleyball.org/Pictures/Wedding/The%20DIY%20Pocketfold%20Invitations.htm

More on here http://www.blissfuldesigns.co.uk/

also here http://timelesstreasuretrunk.com/Weddingkits/weddingkits.html nice and easy on this one...just buy the program and print away

I have done a few weddings and yes its a bit scary at first but so easy and very enjoyable
The hardest bit for me when I started was getting the layout for the Order of Service right on Microsoft but once that was sorted it was plain sailing


This one is so easy to make and looks lovely http://www.blissfuldesigns.co.uk/wedding_invitations/feather_&_lily_design_wedding_invitations/husband_&_wife_wedding_invitation/
and costs pennies instead of £'s