I started cross stitching to help while the hours away after loosing my dad, it kept my mind occupied a little. I picked up glass painting and thenmoved onto
card making but I have been knitting ,crocheting and embroidering since primary school.
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Posts: 4353 (30/04/2008 17:15:42) |
i started years ago when my children were babies i used to do dress making make all there bits then i did rug making as i needed rugs then would turn my photos
into cross stich but then my eyes got bad so gave up cross stitch and went into card making. i do like sewing but these days only on the machine
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Posts: 1068 (30/04/2008 17:19:15) |
like many others I've dabbled over the years with different bits n bobs - got into cross stitch with my children when they were little - my granny taught
me to crochet when I was 16, got into dress making when I got married/had family. Got into card making when I bought my first computer and bought Printmaster
card making CD and its spiraled from there - have graduated to Greeting Cards Factory and Joanna & Sharon's CDs now!
Janet x |
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Posts: 5674 (30/04/2008 17:53:31) |
I started papercrafting about a year ago after having to stop my cake decorating buisness due to ill health, have recently started to become very interested in
the computer after discovering Joanna & this forum, it's VERY addictive!
Jan x |
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Lavender |
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Posts: 9689 (30/04/2008 18:17:47) |
Have dabbled for years, but took up card making in a serious way around two and a half years ago in a bid to preserve my sanity... although I'm not sure
being influenced by certain folk on here is helping my case at all
 
Lavender XX |
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Posts: 383 (30/04/2008 18:22:06) |
I began about 18 years ago by painting strawbaskets, and spent a fortune on paint, but I loved it. But in the end my relatives got tired of getting a basket
for every Xmas and birthday so I began making my own earrings, since I only found rubbish in the shops. I made them out of fimoclay...then I stopped buying
Xmas cards coz I thought them rubbish too and havent bought a card since 1999. I made Birthday and Christmas cards. I have also painted in Oils for two years
at a local craftcenter. Well, I tried all the different kind of painting medias, pastel, aquarell, acrylic painting, croqui. But it was only from 2005, when I
got "burnt out" and clinically depressed that I seriously got in to cardmaking. It was the only thing that made me feel sane in a very dark
world.....It began when my mother visited me here in Lund one day to comfort me, I felt really bad and could only face so many people at the time, We went into
a magazine shop and I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw there were actually magazines about making cards!!!!!!! My mom bought me two magazines and it really
made my day! And from that day onwards......
I am really proud of my cards, If one is allowed to say that, but I just cant figure out how to make a thumbnail of the pictures of my cards.....sorry, I will try ....I would really like to show them here on the forum so that I could get opinions of them.........well, well..... Love Eva |
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Posts: 532 (30/04/2008 18:52:21) |
i got into crafting due to illness,mother and joanna sheen.lol was off sick and flicking through channels on sky and found c&c, where joanna was
demonstrating,told mum about it and she lent me some cds,some craft supplies and a monster was born..lol
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Posts: 4950 (30/04/2008 18:55:52) |
I needed something to do as I was getting fed up playing computer games and they were quite expensive.............. tripped over C&C...............
and found out what spending money was REALLY like!
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Posts: 1303 (30/04/2008 23:27:56) |
like most of you i have been crafting in one way or another. knitting, sewing - not clothes but making christmas decorations for the tree, crochet, tapestry
but knitting will always be my first love but now i do not knit anymore, the wool is either too cheap or too expensive and all the wool shops have disappear.
i got into card making when 2 years ago i brought 6 cards and the price was over 25 pounds. i have to buy around 30 birthday cards each year. i went straight to a well know kitchen shop and brought a card kit and that is how i started to make cards. i brought most of my embellishments from them. a year later i got sky and soon found create and craft and QVC-dawn. i wont say how much money i have spent since making cards BUT i get so much enjoyment in my card making and once you have the tools all you need is card and paper and glue, well maybe a few more other things. love june b |
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Dot93 |
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Posts: 1424 (01/05/2008 00:06:39) |
I've always done something crafty, but l got into card making when l commissioned a beautiful Birthday card for my daughters 21st. Then l thought hmm l can
do that....Dot
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