Ideas for card craft beginner

polly1976

toniwoty2009 wrote: »

hi everyone :hello:

right bunbun a beginners guide to stamping it is

saint chris the pens you use depends upon the ink you're using to stamp. I use watercolour pencils (for this you need an alcohol based ink otherwise it will smudge when you apply the water, the best I find is Stazon) and pro markers (for this you need a water based ink again otherwise it will smudge, pref fast drying like impress so you can colour ASAP) I also tend to use a bit of gel pen with my pro markers.

ok bunbun, here goes:

most important thing to remember is take the ink to the stamp! so turn your stamp on its back and lightly tap the ink onto it, this way you should avoid splodges of ink. when the stamp is inked up you should place it really carefully on the paper, then holding with one hand sort of 'walk' your fingers across the wood mount/acrylic block.
the info on inks is above. there's a HUGE range of inks but so far I've only really played with Stazon, Ink It Up and Impress. All of these 3 are quick drying, good for impatient people like me :rotfl: Paper you just need either watercolour paper (if using watercolours) or smooth card if using markers.

Lots of ways you can colour your stamps - watercolour pencils, copic markers, whispers pens, pro markers and so on.

The best stamps to get to begin with are ones without too much detail so they are nice and easy to colour! Ones like the Magnolia Tildas, Penny Blacks, High Hopes, Whipper Snapper or Sugar Nellie.

Do you want to know anything about embossing or is that enough info? Feel free to PM me if prefer.

Hope this helps!!

Hi rainmac yeah ive seen that new range from forever friends and it looks lovely however i now am on a official craft ban untill the next craft fair in febuary :rotfl: :rotfl: ive just found this for you that toniwoty kindly posted give it a try hun i was really rubbish at stamping then when mumoftwo came to vist she helped me plus my problem was that i was putting far too much ink on the stamp and that i had the wrong ink i now use stazon black for normal stamping and clear versamark for heat embossing.

polly1976

Hi all as usual your cards were fantastic last week so well done to all who joined in :j :j
This weeks challenge

Make a musical themed card

RustyFlange

abusybee wrote: »

Fantastic card mumoftwo it is beautiful :T



I too am all for breastfeeding but a pair of boobs hanging in the middle of the card just wouldn't seem right

saveapenny wrote: »

My OH would love a card like that :rotfl:

Polly I think its the vellum it wont lie right...might just twik it abit ...maybe brad the edges

Thanks to these 2 posts I almost spat my cuppa on the laptop!

I tried to breastfeed both of mine, both I was a complete failure, my son took to it well but I had no milk and my daughter was just a stubborn mare and refused to do it (although was warned I probably didn't have any milk anyway!)

Right I need to make a card with this character on


Not sure which is the best way to approach it though! I am thinking black card and maybe using red tissue paper? or maybe just going to a shot and buying a card like a normal person lol. Also need to make a card for my dad but struggling so may just make a personal one with a picture of the children in it or something really struggling at the moment.

abusybee

Saveapenny - Really lovely card it looks great to me.:T

Rustyflange - You could google pictures of Darth Maul and print a few out and decopage them. I drew Darth mauls head for a game at my sons birthday party at the beginning of the year and out of all the star wars characters I drew I think he was the hardest one. Hope you find something that works.

mary43

saveapenny - super card it really is:T

Rusty - looks like you've set yourself a challenge there...............bit relieved my grandson has now gone through the Star Wars phase...........but now its all hi tech stuff and I get stuck with that............:p

rainmac

Rusty, now it's my turn to spit out my cuppa all over the keyboard :rotfl: , he's so ugly isn't he

Decoupage is a great idea abusybee!

saveapenny

Rust here is a nice pencil drawing of Darthmaul http://kms.kapalama.ksbe.edu/art/myimages/darthmaul.jpg

pinkladymel

I finished last weeks glitter challenge last night:

You can't really see in the photograph but all the card it is mounted on is glitter (except the silver) and the image was stamped twice - Once blue, Once clear then embossed with holographic sparkly powder. I also stamped over the blue panels with a white ink pad and some holographic powder again.

I thought i'd have a play with the HOTP TSV I got from QVC ages ago too and make these cards:


(Inside):

pinkladymel

saveapenny wrote: »

Polly so glad you had a good time I am off to the biggy this year at the NEC, I think its on for 3 days so might just take a tent...lol

Here is my challenge card for this week
I am not too pleased with it but I cant just post cards I am pleased with so here goes anyway

This is absolutely beautiful so you should be proud of it x

saveapenny

They are lovely Pinklady.. are the caligraphy swirls ( dont know what they are called) stamps? and were did you get them from I am after somethign like that for wedding invites to make monogams, which I am getting better at...lol. I made a rough one myself on Paintshop but its not very good