Apologies To Everyone

I apologise to everyone. I haven't been around for a while but I'm back. And to prove it i have a few tutorials going online in the next couple of days.
I have been very busy with my business Milly Molly Cards so i have SADLY neglected my blog.
In fact i have sadly neglected alot of things but im getting back on track and have plenty of tales to share.

Disasterous Occasions

Any body got a story of an occasion that has gone wrong. Then let us hear about it at forum page.


Come and have alook at this site anyway. I could do with the traffic. (and the sales)

Thank you.

It has Arrived

milly molly cards have eventually arrived.

www.millymollycards.co.uk

come and have a look.

it has took me weeks/months/years (ok two perhaps three nights) to pull this site together so personal attacks will be taken to heart. but orders will be greatly recieved. Thank you.

Thought i would pass this on

If you have time take a look at this please

http://www.howgreatthouart.co.uk/maddie.htm

My basic range

Well everyone i have made up my first set of cards that i hope to sell. All comments are welcome even the really bad ones. What do you think, do you think they will sell.



This is my basics range. You can have your own personalised message printed on the front of the card. (hows that for a sales pitch)



They are not for sale yet but i would love to hear from you if you would like to buy one or two of them. AND I would certainly love to hear from you if you want to buy the whole lot.

All cards can be adapted easily for invitations to parties. But don't worry bulk discount available



My personal favourite is the ballerina outfit. What is yours.



Please don't be shy, all comments are welcome, no, strike that all comments are NEEDED



hopefully by the end of the week i should have the rest of my Christmas cards made up and ready for you all to pull apart.

Thank you in advance for your comments. (i really know your not going to give me any)
but if you decide you are see the word comments just below this sentence click on that and let your fingers do the talking.

Teacher Thank you card

Tommorows tutorial will be a Teacher Thank you card. just in time for the end of the school year. I just have to remeber to buy some smarties.

Nene in Mexico

Nene in Mexico, if you could contact me in regards to the cards you plan on making and selling for the donkey shelter in mexico. I would love to learn more and if possible help in any way. perhaps i could write an article on my blog advertising your charitable venture.

email me at

amandajanejohnson@talktalk.net

or just click on the word comment at the bottom of this post to leave a message for me.

Thanks.

Tiger Card Demo if any one is interested

Free Tiger card tutorial and pattern if anyone is interested in making kids cards. It might be a good card to send to the keike charity.

It is also easy for kids to make. so it should come in handy for those long six weeks ahead of us all.

Tutorial is on my other blog

http://millymollytutorials.blogspot.com

Clutter Nutter

I have just attempted to make my very first clutter card. What a refreshing change. It has the same annoying detailed cutting as decoupage yet the end result looks much more pleasing. I have another one to do but my darling daughter has hid the draws. Now she is desperate to peel erything back off the card. What do you think of my first attempt.

Will definatly be doing mre in the future but need a rest from all the cutting out.

I survived

Sorry i havent posted lately but you will probably be happy to know that i have survived Friday 13th unharmed. now if only i could say the same about Thursday 12th.
Thursday i was going to post you some new cards that i have made but my computer took a disliking to them and wouldnt let me online. What was suppose to be an early night for me turned into an early morning. Eventually gave up trying to fix the computer and went to bed only to disturb my daughter who is teething. Eventually got to bed 4.00am before getting woke up at 6.00. not to worry because as soon as i turned the computer on everything was back to normal. TYPICAL

Later on too day i am going to post some of those cards. and perhaps a template or tutorial or something to fill your weekend.

New Blog - for tutorial purposes only

It has arrived the new blog is up and running and i have included the new tutorial for the quilled flower card.

There will also be patterns for cross stitch, paper embroidery, quilling, and perhaps a tutorial or two going on next week so keep coming back and looking.

This blog is still going so keep popping back here and i plan on posting some of my cards and other bits and pieces here too.

Somebody was after sending me some of her cards to show me then that is great perhaps i can post some of them up on the blogs for inspiration to others.
maybes just emailing me a picture might be best as i am shoulder deep in cards at the moment.

But i would really like to see what others are making.

Have you any queries about supplies as i am always happy to help.

another thing i am getting allot of people asking to link to this site in exchange for me linking to them. well I'm trying to have a good look through your sites and see if any of the content is relevant to my site. If it is then i will be more than happy to link to you.

I think that is about all for now.

Oh apart from

http://millymollytutorials.blogspot.com

link is at the top right hand side of the blog just click Milly Molly Tutorials.

Thanks

Sorry for Delay Everyone

sorry everyone for the delay on the next card tutorial. im setting up a seperate blog for these tutorials so it is going to be tommorow morning. you can have a sneeky peek at the new blog at

http://millymollytutorials.blogspot.com

I will still be posting here regullarly so keep coming back.


Sorry once again for the delay.

Cards for charities.

I have found this brilliant charity for all you card making addicts. Keiki cards.

its basically a non profit charity that asks people to make handmade cards that they send to seriously ill children.

They ask that you dont make get well soon cards for obvious reason but a nice cheery message would be nice.

You send them your finished card and they pass them onto the children. Its a nice way of letting them know that there are people thinking of them.

I personally think this is a great idea. and i am currently making cards for them as we speak.

If you would like to know more about this charity then there web address is:

www.keikicards.org

or there is a perminant link at the bottom of this blog

Thank you Everyone

Thank you every one for all your kind words. Im so much happier now. My guest book isnt so empty, got replies to my free card offer (still one card left to go if anyone is interested)

And to show how happy i am. I shall be giving you the choice of two card tutorials.
Just leave a comment of which card you would most like to make and i will post the winning tutorial tomorrow.

Here they are.




Lets call this card CARD ONE:




And this can be CARD TWO

Click on the word comment at the bottom of this post.

first tutorial - rubber stamping

After everyone begging me to show you all how to make my cards i have decided to do a tutorial. (OK so one person, and they asked not begged)



WHAT YOU NEED



the stamp is from the whispers range which is available from docrafts.co.uk
the black pen is a permanent thin marker pen
The ink i am using is not water proof (so couldnt use watercolours etc to colour in the image.)



The blue and yellow paper on the bottom is glitter paper, and the yellow patterned paper and blue textured paper i printed off free of charge from canons printable site
http://cp.c-ij.com/english/scrapbook/
The plain paper is good old printer paper.

Oh and you will also need a card blank any colour, size and shape will do really.

STEP ONE



Place double sided tape around the edges of the front of the card.




Stick blue printed paper onto the right hand side of the card blank.






Tear one side of the yellow printed paper





Then stick this onto the left hand side of the card blank





Cut around the edge of the card blank to remove the waste paper.






STEP TWO



Stamp your image onto a sheet of white paper and cut it out into a rectangle.





Stick this image onto the yellow glitter paper, then cut around that, mount that onto the plain white paper and cut around that. so you are building up the layers framing the stamped image.




Finally mount it onto the blue glitter paper and cut around this.





Stick this using double sided tape onto the center of the card blank.







You can now colour the leaves of the flower. I have applied chalks using a make up applicator. just dabbing the colour on carefully and blowing off the excess. You could use colouring pencils if you wish.



STEP THREE

The messy part. throughout step three it is worth checking regullarly that your fingers arnt coverd in ink. If you follow these instructions properly and in this exact order you shouldnt have any problems with smudged ink. trust me i know ive had to restart this card three times already.



Stamp the bottom half of the design onto the blue sparkly paper. careful not to touch ink







Now go over the stamped image with your black perminant marker.







and cut it out carefully.








Do exactly the same with yellow glittery paper. Only this time you will need to stamp the top half of the image. and cut out the centre of the flower.




Stick double sided pads on to the stamped image on the card blank. this is to give the card a 3D effect.

Then Finally



Stick the cut out pieces in place.










WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK.

I might make this a monthly thing if there is enough interest.
leave comment by clicking comment at the bottom of this post.
Thanks.

Pay per posting

I signed up to payperpost.com today after reading about it in a forum.
Basically it gives you money for writing and telling people about certain products sites etc. on your blog.

For my regulars i will keep you all updated on how much i make.

For lost bloggers that have stumbled upon my blog just click and wonder over there.

and for those of you who have there own blog why not sign up and see if you can make some money.

Was that obvious or what.
I get paid 10 dollars for this post. hopefully.

how much is that in English pounds or is it pence.

ads on blogs

Im very disheartend

if i cant even tempt you all with a free handmade card how am i expected to sell them.

I can only hope there isnt any weedings, christenings, birth anouncements, anniversaries, birthdays etc etc going on any where in the world just lately.

please refer to the post 'Handmade card offer
below'

Thank you.

My guest book is still empty

Im begging will somebody please sign my guest book.

You dont have to put a photo on but it would be nice to see what you look like.

see the map with my face floating around it at the bottom of the blog. go on scroll down and take a look.

after i finish telling you what to do that is.

Click sign this guest book. its the half hidden yellow link on the very bottom of the map. It has nothing to do with any of the three pink links underneath the map.

The rest is straight forward but let me know if you have any difficulties.

handmade card offer

Here goes the sale pitch.

For a limited time only i am offering my services and skills to make you a unique one of a kind card for any occasion. the first three people to reply to my offer will receive a beautiful hand made card made by the one and only. You will be able to choose what you would like me to incorporate into the design including the message. Give me three weeks to complete the card and post it out to you.

All i ask for in return is a message from you saying what you thought of the card which i can use on my blog and website along side a photo of the completed card.

Now who could resist a chance like this.

Email me now with the subject title milly molly card offer to

amandajanejohnson@talktalk.net.

I will reply as soon as possible if you are one of the first three to reply.
And i will then ask for all the details and messages etc you want on the card.

Sorry for some reason my email link on the blog is not working so you are going to have to email me manualy the good old fashioned way through your own email provider.
Please please do not reply to this post in the comments link.

The offer is now officially open. So get your skates on and Good luck

Thought I would show you what I can do

I started crafting a long long time ago now.

Starting mostly with needlework, embroidery, cross stitch, black work, etc.

I then progressed onto stamping. It is so much faster than sewing and you can achieve some great effects. I'm actually in the middle of designing my own range of stamps to use in a collection of cards i hope to sell later on in the year.

Ill let you have a sneak preview later on when i have got them made up.

Any way next will be my Iris folding, teabag folding. i must remember to find some examples of these cards to show you.

And now it is Quilling, my favourite. Quilling can be so simple and relaxing to do. I haven't long been doing this but i have certainly made up for it. My house is littered with coils of paper

I do a large range of cards, trying out as many different techniques, and materials as possible.

I also do cards for Goths.

In fact i will do cards for anyone, in any language, with any message, in any style, using any of the above techniques.

So now that you have got an idea of what i can do lets see what you think of my cards.

Place your comments now.

How true is this.

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

What is a monolith? (Dictionary time)

How To Contact Me

Just found out how you can contact me and tell me exactly what you think about my cards, my blog, my free patterns and templates etc. etc.
See the word comments at the bottom of this post. it is a link so just click it and it should pop up ready for use.

I'm actually begging for criticism, as i hope to make my business and of course this blog the best they can be.

All comments greatly received. Thank You.

Well Hello

What a way to start a blog two scary kids and now a monster. Sorry for scaring you but i thought it would be polite to introduce myself face to face so to speak.

Well here i am. Amanda the crazy single mum of two looking to create her fortune in a new business adventure. yep another one who thinks she can make money from handmade greeting cards. we crazy card makers need to find the money somehow to feed our addiction.

Any way this blog is going to turn into my personal diary where i will keep you posted on anything and everything that happens on my journey into Milly Molly Cards. (my business name, do you like it)

Lets get the name thing sorted first. I chose Milly Molly Cards as when i was growing up i used to always get the rhyme

Milly Molly Mandy,
Sweet as Sugar Candy,
Sweet little bot wipe smells.

not exactly what i should want to be associated with but no one is going to know. oh apart from you lot.

MY KIDS

My daughter isn't she a cutie takes after her mum always tries to create wonderful art, somehow always ends up in a mess.

My son apparently he takes after spiderman, and has his heart set on being a super hero when he gets older.