Ideas for card craft beginner

polly1976

Now im confused do it the way i did it lol much easier lol

mumoftwo

Katgoddess wrote: »

I have 11 :eek: new baby cards to make for my NCT class and friends and relatives that are dropping at the moment. I couldn't find any toppers that I liked in Hobbycraft so I brought some of these and I'm going to make my own with layers of paper.

What's the best glue to use to stick them (hard plastic) to paper?

this is the glue I have always used and still do for all my embelishments:



It dries clear and I glue all my gems etc and they always stay put. I use a cocktail stick to apply it, that way you can apply the smallest amount of glue. Personally me and gluedots don't get on especially on small gems, but a lot of people love them.

mary43

polly - I've just done a handbag card. I stuck some black and white floral paper on, then added a piece in black shaped like the top of an envelope, added a silver button and some silver little gems at the corner of the black shaped piece and some peel off lines in silver going from the gems in the corner to the button (hope this makes sense)
I also added (OH's idea.........lol) some silver cord so it looks like a shoulder bag sort but don't know how to stick the cord to the spine of the card inside in order to keep it in place. I've got to stick it with something otherwise it will fall out of the card...........lol
Help !!!! I've done it to give ex foster girl and its her birthday on Saturday............!!

polly1976

mary43 wrote: »

polly - I've just done a handbag card. I stuck some black and white floral paper on, then added a piece in black shaped like the top of an envelope, added a silver button and some silver little gems at the corner of the black shaped piece and some peel off lines in silver going from the gems in the corner to the button (hope this makes sense)
I also added (OH's idea.........lol) some silver cord so it looks like a shoulder bag sort but don't know how to stick the cord to the spine of the card inside in order to keep it in place. I've got to stick it with something otherwise it will fall out of the card...........lol
Help !!!! I've done it to give ex foster girl and its her birthday on Saturday............!!

Hi mary yours sounds nice. i did a handbag with a strap but i used ribbon but i didnt attach it inside the card i stuck it at the back of the card i just used clear cellotape stuck 1 end of the ribbon got that in place then the did the other end does that make sense?

mary43

Thats what OH said to do but I'd got some double sided tape..........tried that and it didn;t work so I got some black ribbon, stuck that over the silver cord on the inside of the card to keep the cord in place, then I cut out a little ''luggage label' in a nice card with a sheen to it, stuck on Happy Birthday with a few bits of silver peel off twig types I'd got.and a ivory ribbon at the top to it looks like it's tied to the black ribbon (all that bit is inside)...so its all done. Think I''ll use ribbon next time............should have thought of that in the first place............lol
It looks quite classy.............not dissimilar to yours, paper is almost the same.
Glad you showed us that. I'm always running out of ideas. Thanks:T

polly1976

Your very welcome glad you liked it im trying to think of a new project so far ive got brain freeze again lol:rotfl:

mary43

Think if I do another handbag card I'll have to modify it a bit...........OH says it looks a bit like an envelope with a black flap....................lol Men !!!!!
Get your brain in order for tomorrow Polly................I could use a few more ideas.
Going to give mine a rest now and absorb some mindless tele...........:j

amateur_saver

I have now found you on here, and it's great to see very like minded people. I have been making cards for a couple of years now and scrapbooking too. I love making my own cards as it's very theraputic.

I have put two of my cards for children on here so you can see what the sort of thing i do............. hope you like it...........

polly1976

They are lovely amateursaver really nice im just doing a bob the builder card for my friends little boy and a thomas the tank one for my nephew i will post the pics when ive done them.

reehsetin

any help will be much appreciated, i've just made this, any ways to jazz it up for a start main thing is ive just realised i wont have an envelope for it!!! and i dont know if im going to have to post it oops (i blame docrafts they never mentioned an envelope)

thanks

edit: embellishments added a couple of posts down