Ideas for card craft beginner

rainmac

Gorgeous cards bunbun!!! Where did you get the cutlery on the FD card? Both cards are really great, FD one is my fave, the recipient will love it! :T

ilovecompanies

Bunbun, love the cards! I made the same one for Fathers day, and the exact same one for my mums birthday!!! I really love the materials from Lets Make Cards!

toniwoty2009

Hi everyone :hello:
I've been a lurker on this thread for a while now and finally got round to making a few cards myself.
Can you let me know what you think?

toniwoty2009

sorry can someone tell me how to resize them?! :doh:

polly1976

Hi toniwoty lovely cards and welcome to the thread :j Have you posted your cards through photobucket? If so when you have uploades your pic theres a resize button click on it and resize to messege board i think thats how you do it :rotfl:

toniwoty2009

thanks polly! i'm currently trying out different effects with wedding invitations, decided to make my own as we cannot afford £600 or so on the stationery so i will post my first few attempts later. i'm starting with invitations but all in all i need to make 90 invitations, 90 rsvp postcards, 90 thank you cards 50 placecards and 6 menu cards.
i've found a website www.handyhippo.co.uk - which looks quite reasonably priced, has anyone got any experience of ordering from them? and could anyone tell me if their prices are reasonable? i'm new to this so don't know how much things cost!
have to say i''m always very impressed with everyone's cards on this thread - thats what inspired me with my invites!
x

polly1976

Hi tonywoty im making wedding invites for my friends wedding next year im doing a few samples at the moment. Ive started getting alot of my craft stuff from ebay and from my local craft shop i really recomend ebay for bulk wedding craft stuff.

toniwoty2009

thanks polly. funny enough i have been looking at ebay - i wanted to buy some of the Wedding invitation banners - found the peel offs a litte too fiddly for impatient old me!!! although i found the packs a handy hippo to be slightly cheaper than most on ebay - for what i wanted anyway but toppers and stuff are much cheaper on ebay.
does anyone know where i could find some 'thank you' vellum? i've searched ebay but its come back with nothing.

polly1976

ive just typed in wedding vellum in the crafts section you might find what your looking for and i also just typed in vellum and loads came up also you could buy printable vellum and print thankyou on it your self???????

saveapenny

ToniWoty...if your sticking the Velum down its cheaper to use tracing paper and looks just as good. Its not suitable to wrap as it curls
If you go a couple of pages back I did a big post ith loads of links in.
Imagination are very good for peel offs and peel off pens
If you dont like to use peel offs cards can easy be printing with your wording rather than using them and it gives a much better proffesional finish
I have done about 30 weddings now so anyway I can help I will