Cardmaking----A New Hobby ?

With all my spare time, I needed a hobby, so I decided to try cardmaking.
Beryl said that she would show me how to make greeting cards if I would like. One day a few weeks ago she came to get me and we spent part of one day making cards at her house. I made only two that day (and only one of those looks like anything!), but she showed me how to do lots of things. She also took me to a craft show at Exeter (about 45 minutes away). There were 3 other ladies from church at the craft show.
This is one of the cards that I made at Beryl's house.


I have had fun this past week making cards. The only really good store in our little community is a big craft store called Yandles, and people from all the towns around come to it to shop. The biggest section of the store is for scrapbooking/cardmaking. The store was having a cardmaking contest, so I decided to make some cards to enter the contest-----it was a good incentive to get started! (Besides if they turned out horrible, I did not have to give them to friends or family because they were to be donated to a hospice charity! Aren't you glad!) There were three categories of birthday cards---children, men, and women. Entries were supposed to be made mostly of items purchased at the store. Of course, most of the entries were made by people who have been doing this for a while and people who have collected a lot more supplies and tools than I, so I didn't think I had much of a chance to win. Julie asked for pictures of the ones I made, so here goes....

Here are my first attempts at cardmaking.....if you are a scrapbooker or cardmaker, don't judge too harshly!!

First, the two children's birthday cards- front and inside.

This isn't a very good picture, but the stuff I used for the cake icing looks so real!
On the next one the bear is layered with part raised for a 3-D look.


Next the women's birthday cards--(The colors of the outside and inside really do match better than the photos show!)




This one I used a stamp and then painted the flower with Julie's water colors that I had borrowed.


Here are the men's cards-- The first one I made using the printed sack from the card shop and the ball is raised for a 3-D effect. The ball is also embossed with dimple-like spots to make it look like a golf ball. I didn't like this card much, but I am including it anyway!



The leaves on the next one are done with a stamp, then painted with watercolors and a little glitter added.



This is my make-shift worktable in the spare bedroom. It is made of two nightstands pushed together! Julie, you will notice that I am putting the little plastic containers that you left here to use!