Ideas for card craft beginner

Birdie85

Hello!

I've been a bit of a lurker on the forums, posting a little but hoping to post more often!

I love making cards and in the last year I have really got into scrapbooking, I've filled an album in the space of about 10 months! I'm fairly good at making cards when I have the time and the inspiration but both have been fairly lacking recently, I hope to get back into it now that I've seen your ideas on here!

I have a question if I may? Has anyone used Fimo? I've bought a lovely pack of 8 different colours thinking that I could make some embellishments but I don't know what to make? Any ideas? I got the idea from a card magazine but they just made cats and I don't know any 'cat people'!:rolleyes:

mary43

Oh dear............I do feel like a novice (well I am really) -don't know what half these things are, like a fimo ????
Think I've got some googling to do about it all.............I'm at the glueing and sticking stage.............lol

savvy

Hi Birdie, I saw some embellishments too in a card making mag.................but also they used their stamps on it, and then coloured it with ink, and then did a negative version too. Quite clever and a very cheap way of making embellishments for cards

savvy

mary43 wrote: »

Oh dear............I do feel like a novice (well I am really) -don't know what half these things are, like a fimo ????
Think I've got some googling to do about it all.............I'm at the glueing and sticking stage.............lol

LOL I know what you mean, I'm new to card making too, but Fimo is a bit like this stuff I used to have as a kid, it was a blue grey colour, and you could model with it, then leave it to dry and it would harden, then you could paint it. Fimo comes in all sorts of colours, and you bake it to make it hard.........LOL that's very basic as I've never worked with it..........YET!

polly1976

mary43 wrote: »

Oh dear............I do feel like a novice (well I am really) -don't know what half these things are, like a fimo ????
Think I've got some googling to do about it all.............I'm at the glueing and sticking stage.............lol

Now whos being negitive about there card making skills :mad: :rotfl: Like you and mumoftwo said to me the other week we all have i different styles and levels of card making i bet your cards are just as nice as everyone elses so behave yourself woman lol ive never heard of fimo either

kisto

Birdie85 wrote: »

I have a question if I may? Has anyone used Fimo? I've bought a lovely pack of 8 different colours thinking that I could make some embellishments but I don't know what to make? Any ideas? I got the idea from a card magazine but they just made cats and I don't know any 'cat people'!:rolleyes:

What a fantastic idea! I have some fimo somewhere and would never have thought to make embellishments with it!!! :T :T :T

You could make stars, flowers, handbags, rainbows, hearts, letters, numbers....

mary43

originally posted by kisto
You could make stars, flowers, handbags, rainbows, hearts, letters, numbers....

Think I'd have to go back to school.......................lol Sounds like fun though

qwiksave

Hiya fellow cardmakers, I've FINALLY done mine! Here it is:

I ended up doing a basic one in the end (ease myself back into cardmaking gently ) using rubber stamps, embossing powders and a few confetti hearts. Hope you like it!

mary43

Lovely one qwicksave................embossings another thing I've never tried........and last time I used rubber stamps was on wallpaper.........not my best works of art so I steer clear of them...............lol

mumoftwo

What a nice card qwiksave. I love heat embossing! I love it when you see the change in the powder when you heat it Thanks for sharing. I love the bright red colour, very LOVE ly..