Making cards - Ideas for a card craft beginner (part 2)

melissa75_2 · 15 November 2008 at 1:43PM

Abusybee - fabulous cards. I think the flowery one is my favourite, but I love the snowflake inside the xmas one, very clever.

Savvy - it does seem a shame that the other thread had to close, I hope everyone manages to find this one. Is there any way that the old thread could become one of the sticky threads so that it is always on show at the top of the board and hence always there for reference? I would hate for it to disappear to the back never to be seen again.

mary43 · 15 November 2008 at 3:35PM

busybee - they''re fabulous cards -well done:T

saveapenny · 15 November 2008 at 4:06PM

I got lost...lol I wondered why there hadnt been any new post on the other thread duhhhh
Anyway before I forget Artymiss have a sale on some great stuff for £1 and a few card packs (4-5 in) for 49p as well as a load of other stuff

the DCWV stuff some nice card stacks for £1
http://www.artymiss.co.uk/acatalog/Discount_Craft_Sale.html

Busybee...great cards...My favourite is the first one I love the colours

GreenManG0 · 15 November 2008 at 4:14PM

hello everybody!
I'm new to this thread, but would love to make my cards this Christmas and am after your money saving & card making knowledge on this forum please!
I would love to make iris folded cards, and have found some free on-line patterns that are perfect, the strips don't look too expensive (£2 inc delivery form ebay, anyone know of cheaper?) but I'm after aperture cards that I can trace the free pattern designs onto, then cut out the shape to create the iris folded design, folding the cover over so nobody can see the back. If that makes sense? The only aperture/3fold cards I can find already have windows cut out,

, any ideas on where to get "blanks" from would really be helpful.
Ideal world sell a Christmas kit, complete with patterns, cards and strips for £14.99, argh! so I would love to save money and create my own 'kit'.
Thank you, Hannah x

ikkle87 · 15 November 2008 at 5:33PM

Skiergirl, you will probably have seen a few of my cards on the last thread hun, please don't feel we are all really advanced, cos I for one am not. I made my first ever card on the 30th of September this year so have only been making them for 6 weeks.

I got started by buying magazines that come with free kits such as Lets Make Cards or You Can Craft. They are £8 each but are full with lots of projects and then your card kit which contains card blanks, papers, embellishments, and sometimes sentiments, ribbons etc

savvy · 15 November 2008 at 6:41PM

melissa75 wrote: »

Savvy - it does seem a shame that the other thread had to close, I hope everyone manages to find this one. Is there any way that the old thread could become one of the sticky threads so that it is always on show at the top of the board and hence always there for reference? I would hate for it to disappear to the back never to be seen again.

Hi melissa, unfortunately we're not allowed to have that many stickies at the top, I was pushing it putting in the A-Z that people wanted

. The old thread can't disappear (unless the site has technical issues and loses posts again etc) as I made sure there is a link to it in the first post here, and you've linked to it, and it's in the A-Z, AND regular posters should have it in their subscribed threads in their CP as well ready to link to at any time it's needed.

Back to the topic - abusybee, I love your snowflake card btw

In_debt_5 · 15 November 2008 at 7:13PM

GreenManG0 wrote: »

hello everybody!
I'm new to this thread, but would love to make my cards this Christmas and am after your money saving & card making knowledge on this forum please!
I would love to make iris folded cards, and have found some free on-line patterns that are perfect, the strips don't look too expensive (£2 inc delivery form ebay, anyone know of cheaper?) but I'm after aperture cards that I can trace the free pattern designs onto, then cut out the shape to create the iris folded design, folding the cover over so nobody can see the back. If that makes sense? The only aperture/3fold cards I can find already have windows cut out, , any ideas on where to get "blanks" from would really be helpful.
Ideal world sell a Christmas kit, complete with patterns, cards and strips for £14.99, argh! so I would love to save money and create my own 'kit'.
Thank you, Hannah x

I print the design onto cardstock, cut it out with a craft knife and do the iris folding and stick it onto the front of the card as a topper rather than fold the back to cover it over. Does that make sense?:rotfl:

ikkle87 · 15 November 2008 at 7:26PM

GreenManG0 wrote: »

hello everybody!
I'm new to this thread, but would love to make my cards this Christmas and am after your money saving & card making knowledge on this forum please!
I would love to make iris folded cards, and have found some free on-line patterns that are perfect, the strips don't look too expensive (£2 inc delivery form ebay, anyone know of cheaper?) but I'm after aperture cards that I can trace the free pattern designs onto, then cut out the shape to create the iris folded design, folding the cover over so nobody can see the back. If that makes sense? The only aperture/3fold cards I can find already have windows cut out, , any ideas on where to get "blanks" from would really be helpful.
Ideal world sell a Christmas kit, complete with patterns, cards and strips for £14.99, argh! so I would love to save money and create my own 'kit'.
Thank you, Hannah x

http://www.irisfolding.circleofcrafters.com/

abusybee · 15 November 2008 at 9:11PM

GreenManG0 wrote: »

hello everybody!
I'm new to this thread, but would love to make my cards this Christmas and am after your money saving & card making knowledge on this forum please!
I would love to make iris folded cards, and have found some free on-line patterns that are perfect, the strips don't look too expensive (£2 inc delivery form ebay, anyone know of cheaper?) but I'm after aperture cards that I can trace the free pattern designs onto, then cut out the shape to create the iris folded design, folding the cover over so nobody can see the back. If that makes sense? The only aperture/3fold cards I can find already have windows cut out, , any ideas on where to get "blanks" from would really be helpful.
Ideal world sell a Christmas kit, complete with patterns, cards and strips for £14.99, argh! so I would love to save money and create my own 'kit'.
Thank you, Hannah x

Home bargins have some packs of 3 fold cards. There are 6 cards and envelopes in each pack and come in white or a pale yellow colour and are only 59p a pack. There is no apature in them they are full so that you can do your own. Hope this helps and I hope you have a home bargins shop near you.

Maggie_Bob · 15 November 2008 at 10:55PM

Oh, a shiny new thread!

Sorry I've not been around for ages gals and guys - that pesky thing called life got in the way.

However, I was very excited to get a package in the post this morning. It was my free gift from subscribing to simply cards & papercraft - a crafters companion! It's so fantastic and I love it so much, I've been making boxes and envelopes today :j

Making cards - Ideas for a card craft beginner (part 2)

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