Ideas for card craft beginner

rainmac

Maggie_Bob wrote: »

Wow, what a lot of great cards Chris.

Love your Halloween card rainmac - sometimes simple is best!

Glad everyone is liking the stuff the One Stop design team are coming up with - feels weird to see my cards up among them!

Just back from a week in Amsterdam. Picked up a few Dutch magazines (I speak very little dutch, so the language is a struggle, but I'll get by), plus I found the famous stamp shop, and even found a great craft shop. Plus, in order to pass the 5hr train journey each way (which was much less stressful than flying), I've now taken us cross stitch!

I love stitching Maggie, would love to see any of your stitched creations

Maggie_Bob

rainmac wrote: »

I love stitching Maggie, would love to see any of your stitched creations

I'm half way through a cute little pixie/imp thing, so when he's done I'll stick a picture up here.

kethry

Thanks for the welcome guys... Saint_Chris - i think if i had my crafting stuff spread out like that my OH would go bananas!!! i like your cards though, especially the blue holographic snow one. very eye catching.

Worked on a card this morning.. I'd gotten chatting to the owner of a crafting shop and he'd shown me these incredibly beautiful pieces of parchment craft, and of course, i was itching to have a go. Its not very good (that's not me putting myself down: its great, for a firsttimer, but compared to the works of art i've seen.... its like a child's drawing next to a Monet!) but i'm happy with it, and thought i'd share here...



there's links to some closeup photos of this card and examples of the really gorgeous stuff, and tutorials on this subject on my blog here if anyone wants to know how to do it... its not easy though!

melissa75_2

Kethry - that's a great card! I love the colours together. I had a quick go at parchment craft once, but I never really tried again. I've seen a lot of finished samples on the create and craft channel and some of the finished cards are gorgeous, it looks really time consuming though.
MaggieBob - congrats on your first card for onestop, it was lovely.
I am right aren't I - its my turn to set the challenge? I was going to do an exploding box card one, and I was trying to make one myself to show everyone, but everything went wrong, so I think I'll save that one 'til next time. Instead how about animals? I know its not very exciting but I don't think we've had an animal challenge before, (I might be wrong though).
I have let the side down and haven't been making many cards. Instead I've made a start on my Mum's scrapbook that's to be her present for xmas. I've done 3 pages so far, (I know that doesn't sound much). I wasn't going to fill it completely, I thought I could do her extra pages later and give her them for her birthday. Does that sound really mean?

mary43

Lovely parchment card - wouldn't know where to start with that.......I tend to stick to the usual run of the mill things and really ought to have a go at being more adventurous. Maybe next year ???

ikkle87

Late entry to the halloween challenge.



Think the animal challenge sounds good, looking forward to seeing everyones cards,

Lovely card kethry, am not skilled enough for parchment though x

melissa75_2

Great card ikkle87, I love the ghosts. Who's that asleep on the couch??????

ikkle87

Lol its my grandad, he's been out on the ale today lol, came in ate his dinner and zonked out. x

abusybee

Rainmac -Love the eyes they are spookily great. A really great card:T

Kethra - welcome and love all the cards they are great. :T Look forward to seeing more.

Maggiebob - glad you had a great time. Great cards on the blog.:T

Polly - Dont forget to come out of your craft room for air:rotfl: now you have got a cuttlebug. Great cards on the blog. well done:T

St Chris - Great cards, you have been busy! If I made that much mess I think my:eek: OH would divorce me. I have to be a tidy crafter.:A

Ikkle - love the boo ghosts they look great. :T brill card.

Saveapenny - Thanks. I dont know how you find the time to put and sort all that stuff on photobucket but it is appreciated:beer:

abusybee

melissa75 wrote: »

Great card ikkle87, I love the ghosts. Who's that asleep on the couch??????

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I hadn't even noticed I was that busy looking at the card. Ikkle you will have to tell him he is really famous and women from all over the country have seen him snoozing. lol:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: