Ideas for card craft beginner

saveapenny

Sally they are lovely my favourite is the last one with the heart to the side

Heres a couple of Thank you cards I did this afternoon





you cant realy see the graduated colour on the pink one and I wish I hadnt have graduated the rcolour on the roses but apart from that I was quite pleased with how they turned out

SallyUK

saveapenny wrote: »

Sally they are lovely my favourite is the last one with the heart to the side

Heres a couple of Thank you cards I did this afternoon





you cant realy see the graduated colour on the pink one and I wish I hadnt have graduated the rcolour on the roses but apart from that I was quite pleased with how they turned out

Thanks Saveapenny

I love that first card (2nd one is nice too!) but first one is beautiful, how did you do the writing along the edges??

Sal
x

mumoftwo

saveapenny wrote: »

you cant realy see the graduated colour on the pink one and I wish I hadnt have graduated the rcolour on the roses but apart from that I was quite pleased with how they turned out

Your cards are fantastic, I love the Roses. Did you graduate the colour on Word? Can you put card into the printer, never tried it, maybe should read the manual and see if I need to adjust something, Just my style of card, really love them

mary43

sally -Those last two cards look brilliant :T best thing now I think would be to walk away from them and look again tomorrow.

saveapenny - love the cards, especially the black and white one.........so classic...................haven't even started mind yet...........
Looks like Wednesday is going to be card making day - just realised in BIL's 60th !! We don't normally bother with cards and stuff but as its his 60th OH said would I ??? Haven't a clue where to start..................lol

saveapenny

I use a card program for putting words on the front its called cards and invitations I picked it up from PC world for £5 and I use it to graduate the colour.
On that you can rotate the wording and choose from over 1000 fonts and colours. You can also input your own size's of the font

Not sure if you can do it in word I will have a play and let you know
Its not printed on the card its printed on tracing paper (cheaper than velum...lol) tehn wraped round the card but there is no reason you couldnt print it directly on card its just easier to adjust if its printed on a wrap

Then I printed out the images again on plain paper for the second one and on photo paper for the first one then edged them with peel off borders

here is the images for the first one

saveapenny

Just had a play and cant seem to work it out in Word but if you have paint you can do it in that
I will have a proper play later and put instructions up if you want?

SallyUK

saveapenny wrote: »

Just had a play and cant seem to work it out in Word but if you have paint you can do it in that
I will have a proper play later and put instructions up if you want?

That would be brilliant Saveapenny, the cards are fabulous! :T

Sal
x

SallyUK

mary43 wrote: »

sally -Those last two cards look brilliant :T best thing now I think would be to walk away from them and look again tomorrow.


Hi Mary

Thanks for that, - you're right, I did walk away and will start again tomorrow.

I asked the bride herself what she likes best and she likes the one with the three hearts across the top of the card - so I guess that's the one I'll go with - nice n easy too!

Sal
xxx

mumoftwo

I played around a bit on Word and this is how to do the colour grading (mind you, I haven't printed it out so not sure how it comes out)

Open a word document
- Click on Format (top of the page)
- Click on Background
- Click on Fill Effect
- Gradient tab: tick 2 colours, colour 1 pink, colour 2 white
choose style, horizontal, vertical etc
you will see a sample

Might be nice to make paper for backgrounds like this to use on our cards..

abusybee

Saveapenny Sorry to hear about your cat. The Thank you cards are fantastic.:T

Mumoftwo Beautiful notelet card.:T


Sallyuk I have to say I prefer your last two attempts. Well done.:T