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YAY!!! The local stationary shop has started selling stuff for card-making - I'm so happy!!!! I have wanted to make cards for ages 
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cards with envelopes, special paper, little handmade stickers to put on them - i also want to get a calligraphy set!!!
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yes I do - computer ones are nice but i haven't found any really good sites with great ideas!!! so i prefer hand made ones - it takes longer but i like doing it
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I enjoy making cards too. I use rubber stamps in mine. It's great fun.
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I know - there are so many craft shops in America too - we don't have many over here!!!!! It sucks ......... So it's difficult for me to get stuff - i shop online alot
......... So it's difficult for me to get stuff - i shop online alot
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I've just ordered stuff for making cards, I love it to! Can't wait for the materials to get here! 
This is the company I order my stuff from, didn't know they had an english catalogue, just googled for fun, and what do you know, there it was!
http://www.panduro.co.uk/
I looove looking in the catalogue, there's so much to choose from, and you get great ideas!
This is the company I order my stuff from, didn't know they had an english catalogue, just googled for fun, and what do you know, there it was!
http://www.panduro.co.uk/
I looove looking in the catalogue, there's so much to choose from, and you get great ideas!
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my mum makes lots of cards, she started out with rubber stamps and embossing powder but now she mostly makes them with dried flowers - they turn out so lovely. She also did some .....hmm.....what was it called!? pergamano ! they are very pretty
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beetlequeendiva said:
Great ideas for the artwork or for the words? I like doing artwork. I've been trying to market cards lately, using the artwork I have been creating. And no, I'm not trying to sell you any - I just wondered if we should be sharing ideas.
Dried flowers sounds really neat. Do you cover them?
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I would love to try dried flowers for cards but i haven't yet... not sure if you cover them!!! I want to learn calligraphy so I can do nice words..... the artwork is packaged but I am going to try some of my own - I'll post a picture when I'm done!!! Also I love to hear new art ideas so if you have any to share I'd appreciate it!!!
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I just posted a bunch over in the thread for your Sunday School class.
With dried flower cards, if you just glue the flowers on, sometimes they would fall off over time. If the cards are just for like a greeting card that would be thrown away, it's not a problem. But if people want to save them as a keepsake, you might need to figure something different.
We did try covering them with saran wrap, but that didn't work very well. You almost need a rigid frame and rigid thin plastic cover.
I guess I should ask before I keep going on.... are you talking dried and pressed flowers? Or are you refering to ones that are dried but also have some depth to them... not pressed.
With dried flower cards, if you just glue the flowers on, sometimes they would fall off over time. If the cards are just for like a greeting card that would be thrown away, it's not a problem. But if people want to save them as a keepsake, you might need to figure something different.
We did try covering them with saran wrap, but that didn't work very well. You almost need a rigid frame and rigid thin plastic cover.
I guess I should ask before I keep going on.... are you talking dried and pressed flowers? Or are you refering to ones that are dried but also have some depth to them... not pressed.
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my mum does cover her dried flowers - she has used a few different mentods to do it - sometimes non-sticky thin clear plastic which she'll insert in a 3-fold card - so that it opens like a two fold card, but the third fold holds the plastic in place and is glued together with a cutout oval or square where the flowers are displayed - kind of like a picture frame. Sometimes she uses a sticky film to cover them. I should scan a few to show you how they look.
Sometimes, because they're such nice cards, she'll include a photo frame the right size so that if the recipent wishes, they can frame it afterwards! She also does just framed dried flower pics (as in not cards) so she knows that people like to have them displayed in frames.
You can buy special microwave kits to dry/press flowers that makes it really quick and easy.
Sometimes, because they're such nice cards, she'll include a photo frame the right size so that if the recipent wishes, they can frame it afterwards! She also does just framed dried flower pics (as in not cards) so she knows that people like to have them displayed in frames.
You can buy special microwave kits to dry/press flowers that makes it really quick and easy.
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I don't press my flowers - I have some that I framed that are just dried out!!! I would love to make some cards with dried roses though!!!
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no generally when flowers dry they dry smaller - i have a couple of dried roses that would definitely fit on a card but i have them framed just now
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Yeah that's possible..... I haven't tried any dried flowers on cards yet so I'm not sure..... It would be worth trying
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