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Card Creating Ideas Sites?
Submitted by Gamedame on Tue, 02/22/2005 - 06:43.
I'd love to not only make my own Christmas Cards this year, but to also make several gifts -- assorted card collections that the recipients can use year-round for birthdays, anniversarys, holidays, etc.
I've gotten some great ideas from www.twopeasinabucket.com, but I'm looking for more! Does anyone know of any other sites that I can use to "borrow" some creative card ideas?
I scrapbook, so I've got absolutely anything a person could want in the card creating department. Die-cut machines, hundreds of dies, embossing templates, paints, markers, thousands of different papers, glitter, beads, mylar, ribbon... you get the idea! You name it and I have it. LOL
You can do it!!
You have SOOOOOOOOO much you can work with!!!!!
Try going to www.stampinup.com and locating a demonstrator in your area - tell her what you're wanting to do, and I bet she can help you - if it was me, I'd love to help! :)
Use your diecuts to cut out Christmas trees, or stars, or bulbs; make whatever sized card you want to, and use a piece of Christmassy (doesn't have to be outright Christmas, as long as it adds to the look!) background paper. Mount your diecut on top with some foam tape/dimensional dots - a quick and easy card! :) If you don't have any rubber stamps with a saying, you can run your cardstock/paper through your printer first, and print out the greeting - or even everything you want to say! - before you fold the card.
Hope this helps!
Lori Stilger
www.mygabbygoodies.biz/585
Some on My web site
I have a web site and have some sample on it, I also have been emailing samples out for the 12 weeks of Chirstmas. Please feel free to take a look or even ask to be on my email list.
Amanda
Close TO My Heart Conultant
www.Amanda.MyCTMH.com
amanda@myctmh.com
Take a sheet of cardstock a
Take a sheet of cardstock and fold it in 4ths so it looks like a greeting card. Open the paper back up and determine which part is the front of the card. Use a decorative stitch on your sewing machine with pretty, shiny thread (metallic or rayon, etc) to sew down a scrap of fabric. For instance, cut a triangle of Christmas fabric, and sew it to the paper so that one thread color & stitch will start somewhere at the top of the front (or a few stitches past the top so the thread end doesn't show) and go in a straight line, catching one side of the triangle. Then change threads, if desired, and sew a line from side to side, catching another side of the triangle. Repeat with another color thread for the 3rd side. Snip off any loose thread. A drop of Fray Check will keep the thread from ravelling, but probably isn't needed. Envelopes for this size folded paper can be found anywhere (they're called invitation envelopes at Wal Mart). These cards are very inexpensive, yet handmade, personal and thoughtful.
I used the santa and snowma
I used the santa and snowman from http://www.members.shaw.ca/christmastime1/coloringbook.html and colored them in. I thought they came out really nice. I gave these as Christmas presents along with a few other non-christmas designs.ÂÂ
Connie