Potentially controversial comment about Card-Making.....

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OK, I appreciate that I may get shot down in flames for this, but honestly, this is a GENUINE question about card-making, based on something I've observed since the whole 'home made card' thing took off a few years back -

What is the real satisfaction in making cards from those 'ready cut'/ ready stick 'embellishments' that everywhere seems to sell these days??

Now, I TOTALLY get the whole 'home-made card' thing, but only in the sense of a truly 'one-off' self-designed piece of artwork, where someone ahs used their artistic skills/ paint/ self cut shapes, whatever to create something truly unique.

But what I see these days is just crass 'ready cut' combinations of the same bits and pieces thrown together in mostly similar ways?

That's not a 'handmade card' in the artistic sense surely?

And those peel off/ stick on italic phrases like 'Happy Birthday'/ Good Luck' etc --- Yeurch!

AS I said, I really don't mean to upset people, but I just don't really see the point. I mean it's not 'art' is it? Or is it?

I'm gonna do a suzywong!

has this kicked off yet? lol

'Naffotastic'.

I love it!

PMSL Just had to look because of the title!

Where's that bowl of popcorn that was being passed round? has it got lost in the crowd?

sorry mascara was just sat here quaffing it

Go WWB!

Go Fio!

WWB - how dare you bring my good name into disrepute. My solicitors will be on to you straight away. Tatt indeed!!

ClintonCardLdy, your cards are horrid. Wanna fight?

Tat and nothing but tat. Mass-produced crap that tries to make people feel guilty if they don't celebrate Grandparents Day/Secretary's Day/Nurses Day and every other day that Clinton's Cards* can invent.

*or any other manufacturer of crappy tat

at WWB. you mean you never learned to spin thread as a little girl. My goodness what is the world coming to these days. All these precious skills being lost. I blame those bloody machines. Back to the horse and cart I say and send the kids backup the chimneys where they belong

This is such a brillaint Friday thread. Im gonna be sitting on the tube home tonight thinking of this one.

munch munch...slurp!

I spin my own thread. And knit my own bread.

dont forget giving your dog a good old bath day, followed by worming your dog and new flea collar day every six months of course day

It's so difficult to get the raw materials these days though, moorhen, and the last time I tried keeping a sheep in the garden, it tried to eat my dd.

and she caught sheep-pox

I made a lovely card for a friend the other day. It said "Sorry Your Dog's Got Worms" on it in twinkly gold and purple writing and I crocheted some little worms and glued them on with a big red cross over the top of them and a speech bubble saying "NO!". I could tell she really appreciated it. You wouldn't get that in Clinton's.

Knitting knitting pah to all this new fangled stuff. I remember the days of naalbinding before they had all this fancy looping the thread stuff. Pish pash and as for paper!!! what was wrong this a few good runes on a lump of stone. GAH!!!

Sorry Im feeling really silly today Its that Friday feeling.

PMSL CML love the crocheted worms

Well actually, Fio, you're not far wrong. She caught scrapie, and you really don't want to go bringing that into the house.

FGS MARS pass it over...

I suppose they're very nice and all that, but home made cards and that other thing - scrapbooking - How DO you find the time to do it???

Also, I like to have a selection of flimsy cards with a coach or a naff photo of a candle on for Christmas. There are loads of people to whom we must send cards and they to us. It's the rules! We're locked into a ghastly card conspiracy from hell and there is no escape. Even though we never ever see each other. The flimsy candle and the coach cards have been specially made for this reason

I know other people are locked into this too because although we have lived here 12 years a flimsy coach/candle card arrives without fail each year for the previous owners of this house!

ROFL TinyGang, you are soooooooo right, we still get cards for the people who lived here before the people we bought the house from !

My cards are all beautiful. I fully intend to get a bit more money out of you this year as well. Thinking of introducing cards this year to celebrate losing your virginity, starting your periods, starting school, leaving school, half term and end of term etc. Any other suggestions gratefully received.

Someone has got to pay for my huge house, 3 cars and 6 foreign holidays a year and it may as well be you mugs. Bloody amateur card makers, make me bloody sick, they'll never be able to compete with me.

Big sticks ... get your big sticks here ... just right for beating ClintonCardsLady to a pulp ... Biiiiiig sticks ...

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