Papercrafts
 

When needs must.....use whatever you have. I do it all the time except when I pick up little gems they just ping!! all over the bloomin' place! Now I try not to use them which doesn't make sense after me buying the things! Happy crafting.

cards
 

hi all love your cards , i make some too .question fore colmsmum , the ones for the weddings that you have posted here that have beem personalised with name and date , how did you do this ?? thanks maggied

I really enjoyed looking at all your beautiful cards and pictures. The calendars were gorgeous and I got some great inspiration to make some new cards.

I started making cards about a year ago thanks to a QVC craft day (missed last Christmas but had great fun making this years cards) and scanned every card I've made into the hard drive. Alas computers are not nephew proof and I didn't have anything backed up, when he dropped the thing :(

Since then I've tried not to think about the cards or 6 years of digital photographs that I never printed, all lost (so far, but maybe i can get it fixed). Anyway thanks for sharing your photographs, tips and websites - I'll be checking pix.ie in a minute as well as a few others.

All the best,
Teish

Papercrafts
 

Shame about your computer Teish - hope you can manage to retrieve your photos. Welcome to the Papercrafts thread. I am already planning some recycled Christmas cards for next year. Hope to get them up here sometime soon when I get a chance. TT

calanders
 

hi to tick tock , i said i show some of my creations i made with your free mini calanders ,they are made ages and i have only just managed to get them from camera to computer to jt .... i am sticking to crafting not so much of the teckky
talk soon
maggie

Papercrafts
 

Aww maggied, they are beeoooteeefull! Delighted to see them. Well done!

TT

thanks t.t.thats my granddaughter in the first one she is one now , were does the time go ? did you do anything with your stuff yet ? maggie

wow that's brill stuff..... does anyone do origami? I just had a bash at it for Valentines

Instructions are on http://pandacub143.deviantart.com/ar...orial-77604231

Papercrafts
 

Hullo everyone.

Maggied, its been ages since I've been on this thread - lots of things have been happening (mainly bad, unfortunately) so I've not been crafting very much lately, but hope to get back to it soon. Nice heart Gormal! I don't do origami as such but I have made an origami shirt for handmade cards, like this one on Youtube, but I don't use the same paper!!!! I really don't have the precision needed for origami, or the patience! Check it out at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8nmnOi06-E&feature=fvst

lol TickTock I wouldn't use that kind of paper either....... mind you if I was giving it as a gift in a card it would be a different way to present it!!
Thanks for that

hi all , tick tock every cloud has a silver lining hope your lining shines through soon xx watched your link for the shirt it did make me smile would abe a nice thing for front of a mens card card and gift in one . gormal no i have not tried oragami but i will try the shirt and like tick tock not sure i would have the patience for much more but your heart is very cute . happy crafting to all

more cards
 

here is some cards i have just completed,you can see by the spring colours that i am willing the sunny weather to come our way !
maggie

Papercrafts
 

Love your cards Maggied. I've not been crafting for ages. Started a card three weeks ago and not finished it yet. Lots still happening here at home and can't concentrate. But have lots of plans at the back of my mind. I'm really delighted to come on here to 'escape'. So many nice people here! I still have your envelope of goodies on my craft table and I will be using them, I promise.

Very nice cards.

I haven't made a card in years. But with all this inspiration and it being Valentines soon I decided to have a bash. Silver card from a gift box a bit of printing and there you have it. All I need now is a apt verse!

little suggestion ;)
 

How about

My dearest darling ducky,
behind your ears are mucky,
but never mind,
love is blind,
My dearest darling ducky :D

blast from the past
 

OMG iwrote this verse to my darling husband ..ehem a few years ago when he was in the navy it was written on a post card (how sillyb of me ) and to this day his nickname is ....ducky ....lol xmx

LOL! I'm doing a serious one this year for a change. Last one was

My love is like a cabbage, divided into two,
The leaves I'll give to others, my heart I'll give to you.

my wife's work:

Lovely! Great vintage look. I've been away from the cards for quite a long time due to other pressures - time to get back and hopefully do some recycling again. Well done. I'm just thinking......I do believe I have that Christmas stamp too!

Beautiful! I love all the sheet music.

Really beautiful cards.

They're fantastic really love the look.

I've been away too long!
 

Goodness me it's way too long since I visited JT. How is everyone here? Some beautiful work on here folks. Loving all the crafts. I'm a crafter myself. Anyone batch making for valentines or are ye ready? Any ideas for repurposing for valentines cards or have you repurposed a valentine card yet? Dying to hear more from ye. ;-)

Yes I love using card websites for inspiration as I enjoy making them myself with my children, such a great activity for them. Getting them involved with arts and crafts is a perfect way for them to start expressing their emotions. Another great crafts site to use for ideas is something like Cregal Art. Does anyone else use this site? It even sometimes gives great deals on crafts, another site I found recently that is good for daily ideas for cultural events ^ musuem tickets is Groupon. Thsi is a link to the Irish site, think there is a UK for those who are interested.

Gift teabags
 

I've recently found out that caffeine hates me but was left with teabags and rather than throw them out I decided to make paper envelopes for them, big enough to hold 2 teabags and gift them as a little extra in thankyou cards. Writing the tea type on the flap.

Paper Treats
 

This is an photo pf some fun me and my daughter had last weekend for a arts and craft day me and my friends held for our children.

We called it Billy the Penguin, hes form the artic. We all made different ainmals for Noahs ark game, it was a great way to teach the children and relgious events making the animals was so much fun! I collected some coupons from the sets from this website, was great as got a really good deal on the procducts!

What does everyone think?

appliqué card
 

I'd read some time ago about appliqué on cards, so I thought I would give it a go. You need to iron on interfacing onto the material then cut the shapes, I sewed the wing onto the chick first then sewed it to the card, the eggs were to small so i just glued them on. This works best on tri-fold cards, I think for ordinary cards you should just stitch everything first then glue on to give the illusion that it is sewn on. Finally add the finishing touches by drawing on the extras, so that was the easter card finished.
Then I made a Bithday card, the dress topper was made from a template found on google images, the girl was a drawing I picked up a while ago, I just changed it a bit and painted it, for the writing I copied one of my fonts lightly in pencil then went over it in pen.

here's a few christmas cards i made and also a few birthday cards, the virgo one i made for my daughter

Great cards! I love, love, love, cards made by recycling/upcycling. Funny, I was just looking at some fabric-on-card cards yesterday and wanted to have a go. You've whetted my appetite now!

Some more fabric styled cards, and a real man card for that biker in the family.

Paint charts repurpose
 

Had a pile of paint charts and decided to do a sort of mosaic on card. Settled for a bird, since I wanted to start off slow and easy. But it can lead to a whole lot of complicated designs too.

REcycled Cards
 

I've had a mini spate of card making, mostly making them for a charity to raise funds.
This is old cards to new ones, funnily enough nearly all were Christmas cards! I'll be keeping a couple of these for myself. Some of the toppers are from Crackers, I think I had planned to make tags from them a long, long time ago.

Nice cards Gormal. I haven't been crafting for a long time. Must get back to recycling my Christmas cards again.

I've had a splurge!! I've so many 'bits' saved in a box that have to be used up. And I've a rescue dog, so am out walking daily, which has led to the resurrection of my pressed flower cards.
My brother in law had an accident and have made this one from some of the bits, to put a smile on his face