Ideas for card craft beginner

polly1976

Fantastic Card mumoftwo its so lovely thanks fordoing embossing dont think id be that good at it :rotfl: Cazarol love your cards too thanks all for sharing i love this thread xxxxxx:T

cazarol

that is gorgeous mumoftwo!! Lots of detail and love the sparklys

mary43

mumoftwo - super card ! Never done this embossing thing.......like I said before, I'm still at the paper/scissors/glue stage........lol

I've done my 'Thankyou' card for this coming week polly so will send it off to you.

Some brilliant ideas keep popping up on here.............brilliant !:j

ilovecompanies

The cards some people posted above are beautiful

Well done

marilyn

i am in need of help please. I have been making cards and scrapbooking for a couple of years - still refining my techniques! I like trying new things and have recently discovered decoupage - i love it! However, i really want to be able to do my own pictures, and need advice on a programme which would enable me to print from clip art, scanned pics etc. I need to be able to print four on a page and have them identical in size. Has anybody any ideas please?
Thank you in advance.

qwiksave

Hiya All, and marilyn, there is a technical forum part of mse that will probably be able to answer your query, unless anyone else knows here...? I personally use picasa2, a free photo editing part of google, which is great, you can edit, print 4 photos at a time, etc. Not sure about adding clipart...

Anyway, I came on to say at (almost) the last minute that I've done my B&W card. Here it is:

It took quite a while but what I did was scan an old photo that I took yonks ago, printed it out onto linen-effect paper and then embossed it with clear powder to bring out the grain (not sure you can see that on the photo). I then used some self-adhesive mirror paper, black card and white paper to mat & layer and also stencilled some hearts with a black pen. I also coloured some red heart sequins black to fit the theme;) and stuck all the various parts together. I went around the edges with a black pen and then printed out the wording 'Love you forever' in 'Word' - and there you have it! (phew!) The mirrored background, hearts and the ribbon effect are a very shiny (not lumpy!) silver but you can't tell by the photo.

mary43

qwiksave - what a lovely card............I'm just so gobsmacked at how we all come up with something different from one theme !

polly1976

Hi all just wanted to thankyou all for taking part in the challenge and for all the lovely cards made :T I will post the new challenge at sometime tomorrow dont know when as my mums over from spain and shes going home on tuesday so we are doing something tomorrow but will find time at some stage thanks again for taking part love Paula xx

mary43

Oh eck..............I thought the new challenge was doing 'Thankyou' cards and I';ve done mine already........................lol

It is.............just scrolled back to have a look

So far we have had the recycled theme the love theme and the black and white theme.For next weeks challenge me and my sidekick mumoftwo:rotfl: have decided on Thankyou cards if thats ok with everyone?

Relief...............phew !!! Unless its changed Polly ??

polly1976

so sorry mary i forgot and have changed it :rotfl: only joking xx