Ideas for card craft beginner

mary43

savvy- thats a beautiful card..........lovely idea.

Thanks for your kind comments on mine and thanks Polly for putting it on for me.
I used some cream textured card, cut the aperture myselt and edged it with peel off (twig like). The ribbon at the left hand side is laura ashley peel off I got from the crafty shop - flowers were also from the craft shop, sort of 'arranged' them and stuck them on with glue dot, then stuck ribbon on with another glue dot and added the Happy Birthday peel off.

(first one I did was purple,had flowers on the outside of the aperture then I added some on the inside as welll...............over the top it certainly was......flowers and ribbons everywhere..................lol

qwiksave

Goodness me what a flurry of activity since I was on yesterday morning!

Love your card, pap, I was going to ask you how you did that lovely aperture so thanks for sharing (I want one of those 'wizardy nesty' things now! ) Thanks also for the idea of colouring with pigment inks, I wouldn't have thought of doing that. Chalk ink? Are those the felt-tip type with chalk in? Also, what is a 'crafters companion?' - any links?

Hows melissa getting on? Have you been inspired yet?

Shame about ilc leaving, I hope she is still cardmaking...

I like the way you've used tones in your card mary, nice use of beiges and gold.

What can I say savvy & edinburghlass, you both sound 'kerfuddled' - to quote a well-known MSE personality! Took me a few read throughs to work out what you were saying! Well done savvy for making an attempt at what was quite a difficult theme. I love putting personal photos in or on cards too.

And finally, thanks for your description, mary.

mary43 wrote: »

(first one I did was purple,had flowers on the outside of the aperture then I added some on the inside as welll...............over the top it certainly was......flowers and ribbons everywhere..................lol

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

melissa75_2

Hi, quiksave, no inspiration so far I'm afraid. I keep looking at the card thinking that I must finish it, everyone is putting me to shame with their creations. I WILL finish today, (so that I can use my new digital camera!).

polly1976

Savvy and postingalwaysposting your cards are really nice thanks for sharing xx All the cards for this weeks apperture challenge are fantastic so thanks everyone xx:j :T

melissa75_2

Okay - I've been naughty. Instead of finishing my aperture card I've bought more things!!! I was just looking on Liz's crafts and she's got 10% off until Monday. I got a mini decoupage book (yes - more decoupage!) of flower fairies for £3.59. It says there are 24 images to decoupage so I thought that was good value.

savvy

mumoftwo wrote: »

Savvy, cardmaking is supposed to be relaxing, not causing you so much stress!

LOL I know, gawd only knows why it was all going wrong, the other ones I've done have all gone so smoothly!! Anyway, I made myself do another so that I got 'back on the bike' so's to speak, and that one came out great and went very smoothly...............PHEWWWWW!

savvy

mary43 wrote: »

I used some cream textured card, cut the aperture myselt

WOW mary, you did a far better job than me, but it didn't help that my knife kept snagging :rolleyes: Next time I'll send it to you to do for me :D:D:D

savvy

qwiksave wrote: »

What can I say savvy & edinburghlass, you both sound 'kerfuddled' - to quote a well-known MSE personality! Took me a few read throughs to work out what you were saying! Well done savvy for making an attempt at what was quite a difficult theme. I love putting personal photos in or on cards too.

Cheers for the kind words qwiky, as for the thing with Edilass.................she's obsessed with all things pink :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mary43

originally posted by savvy
WOW mary, you did a far better job than me

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Amazing what a bit of that 'peel off' stuff can cover up..................lol

The cards for MIL's birthday (not till June but might as well use one I've made) so hope she doesn't notice the bits that I do...........lol

reehsetin

anyone here have an idea about where i can get some reasonably priced gift boxes, (like these - the bigger ones) i dont even need the lids because they will be covered in cellophane (any cheap suppliers of this will too be much appreciated) to make like display boxes
thanks!