Ideas for card craft beginner

melissa75_2

Ikkle87 - great xmas cards, my favourite is the snowman, lovely colours!

kethry

melissa75 wrote: »

Kethry - I got some clear embossing powder ages ago, its fab. It means you have so many other options re colour, as when you use it its the colour of the ink pad that you see. I also used to use a clear ink pad and apply it over the whole image and then dust with the clear embossing powder, use the heat gun and then do a few more layers like this. The finished image is shiny and looks like porcelain.

i have a feeling i'm going to be spending a lot of money on embossing powder.. LOL. I had a go earlier, i've gold, silver and clear embossing powder, and a clear inkpad (as well as several smaller inkpads in colours that i already had, that are suitable for embossing too). I had a go with a couple of stamps in different styles, and then got to work coping out and cutting out some stencils i want to reuse a different way. after i'd put it all away i suddenly thought: i could put the colour on a stencilled image, THEN top with clear embossing ink, then powder... pretty much what you suggested.

One question: if you clear embossed an image and then wanted to punch through it, would that work, or would the embossing part crack? any ideas?

thanks!!

keth
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p.s. never mind. i answered my own question via an experiment. it went through okay, it definetly doesn't like being folded in half (it flaked off with that) but the actual punch part was fine, just a little tougher than normal i think.

mary43

Yippee.................:j I've found the letters I was after that our craft shop seem to no longer stock................they're on the www.doart.co.uk site by papermania..................just wanted to say cos I'm so thrilled I've found them................................lol

rainmac

Here's my (very simple ) Halloween card for this week's challenge...



I love the pair of eyes looking at you!

Looking forward to seeing yours

kethry

i started to read this thread from the beginning: got as far as page 50 and gave up.. LOL. However, i'd like to join in if i can... Not sure i'm up for the challenges because i've a challenge of my own to make: mom's company hosts a charity christmas fair every year, and i make cards to sell via that for christmas, so i've rather a lot of cards to make by December 1st, so i can't really afford the time to make any other cards unless they're needed!! (I'll happily join in a christmas card challenge though!!! :T and join in the regular challenges after christmas...)

However, i thought i would share photos of some of the cards i've made recently... today i made a card for my sister-in-law who is moving house this weekend:

card - inside - envelope

the leaf is a real one, i saw it when i was out walking my dog this morning and loved the colours in it. So i brought it home, dried it off, then stamped it all over with a clear embossing ink pad, smothered it in clear embossing powder, then applied the heat gun. the shiny effect you see on the leaf is the result. the background paper is just a simple print of skeletonised leaves. Inside, i did a couple of green/orange hearts, and followed that theme through on the envelope.

the other card i made recently was for a friend's 21st birthday. the leaf card in the background came from an autumn pack i got from Lidl; the pebblestones were cut from a card someone sent me earlier in the year (they were originally the background photo for some flowers - i cut the flowers off for something else, and was left with these, which i trimmed into squares and used a corner punch to round them off). i think it works rather well.

I've made quite a few other cards: there's a link to the set on my flickr page here, if anyone wants to see....

keth
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polly1976

Hi ladies well im double excited today :rotfl: :rotfl: The first reason is i now own a cuttle bug woo hoo :j :j

The 2nd reason is my first design team card is on the one stop website :T :T http://www.onestopcardcrafts.co.uk/projects-12-w.asp mines right at the very bottom of the page its the jolly nation sliegh boy let me know what you think ladies and if you can understand the instructions please????

Also the challenge blogg is up and running http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ and another one of my cards is on there too Its under paulas challenge card Please enter the challenge ladies as there is a great prize up for grabs so good luck xxxx

polly1976

What great Halloween cards you have made abusybee :T :j

Rainmac love your card hun i agree with you with the eyes they are fantastic :T :j

Kethry Welcome to the thread hun. Just take part in the challenges whenever you want to hun. Love all your cards they are lovely :T :j

Im just about to do my house work sob sob but when im finished im going to do a card for the challenge xxxx

Saint_Chris

Hi all , been making some cards, would you like to see

Saint_Chris

Saint_Chris

and this is my work place in the living room