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This morning I was working on a card using brads as stems for flowers. I paper pierced the holes, and had to do a bit of wiggling to get the brads through. Well, one came through a bit more forcefully than I expcected, and went right under my fingernail - it was like a horror movie! Seriously - blood spurted out. My poor DD was so upset (me too!!!). So it got me thinking: what have others done to themselves in the name of a cute card?
I've burned myself with a heat tool, stabbed myself with the paper piercer (and now a brad), and whacked myself with an eyelet setting hammer (thank goodness for the invention of the Silent Setter and the Crop-a-dile!)
Come on - fess up!! I want to hear about other mishaps, so I don't feel so silly about my finger!
Mine would be stabbing myself with my micro-tip scissors. I sunk those babies into my leg 3/4 of an inch. Surprisingly there wasn't as much blood as you would think. By the time DH came in the bleeding had stopped. So painful though, and now I have a scar to prove I have a dangerous craft! ;)
__________________ Kate
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Oh, the pain! I almost think I can feel your pain. My injury was a deep bruise caused by punching a bazillion stars for cards for a card exchange. Yes, I have that thing that helps punch. No I didn't think to use it. Duh! That bruise was in the "heel" of my hand and was sore for at least a week. I use my punch helper now, or my punches with the easy leaver. (I LOVE those!)
Suzy Que
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for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
(borrowed from the quirkey card sayings thread).
I dropped my craft knife on my foot and it stuck in it!! OUCH! Yes, it bled and bled. But, I was on a roll, so I slapped on couple of bandaids and kept going! I'm fairly clumsy, so I'm surprised that I haven't injurred myself more than I have.
When I was trying out the curvy cutter that Creating Keepsakes sells, I very carefully slid the blade to the top of the track before lifting it to remove my paper.
Unfortunately, I forgot that it has TWO tracks and TWO blades, and I managed to slice across 3 of my fingers with the blade that I hadn't moved to the top of the track. Thank goodness I had an ample supply of band-aids in my purse. They bled like crazy and didn't heal for over a week.
I pinched the middle of my hand with the Cropadile a couple of days ago. I was punching a hole in something small and got my hand in between the setter I guess. I have a decent sized hole there right now and it's still pretty sore.
I was in process of unmounting my stamps and I was using exacto knife to scrape as much foam off the rubber (those darned stubborn Michaels $1 stamps) and accidentally sliced my left middle finger tip approx 3/4 inch deep all way down to bone. So needless to say I was rushed to ER. I was still in shock when it was spurting blood while I walked outside to my dh where he was working on laying bricks. He dropped everything and got us in truck and we went. Got stitches and lots of goodie pain meds. I'm all good. I actually had to be out of work for a week. I teach American Sign Language at college and of course I needed my hands and arms to do the work. :rolleyes:
OMG!!! Some of these injuries are amazing! :eek:
I guess I should consider myself lucky! Nothing nasty to report here - yet!
(cue the omnious music):cool:
Yikes, ladies! My injuries pale in comparison. As some of you know, I only have one hand. So when I cut out stamps I hold them in the crook of my left elbow. I inevitably snip myself with the Kai scissors. I have...let me count...7 wounds at the moment, all from my first order from the new TAC catalog.
__________________ Debra ---artist * teacher * designer Say yes. Be generous. Speak up. Love more. Trust yourself. Slow down. ---Patti Digh
When I clean my craft scissors, I usually suffer a slice or two. I've also burnt myself doing embossing, but I have to say the biggest injury, as others have said, is my budget.
Do any of you ladies have the brads slip under your finger nail and make them sore when you are opening them or is that just me? I hate it when that happens it is sore for like a week!
I done most of these listed above - burnt myself, cut myself, had something sharp poke me under the fingernail (that hurts like the dickens), but my weirdest injury happened at a crop in May. I was walking back to my station and reaching to get my purse to get money for a coke. I apparently hit the metal label bracket on my paper organizer and it sliced the heck out of my finger. It was pretty deep, but not to the bone. It also bled like crazy. It literally took me 20-30 minutes to get it to stop gushing. What was so weird about (besides the way I did it) was that I felt no pain until a couple of minutes later - then it hurt like heck! I actually had to sit down to keep from passing out as it bled so much that it freaked me out. I did finally get it to slow down and thankfully, another nice lady had one of those bandaid sort of things that rolls down over your finger (I called it a finger condom), and that both helped to stop the bleeding (as I kept bleeding through regular bandaids) and kept my work clean!
Funny you should start this thread as my elbow is still hurting from falling...yes falling out of my chair last week when I was reaching for something. Everything hurt for a day now it's just my elbow. My two young daughters came running and we all had a good laugh.
A banged head when a drawer fell on top of me last week.
I'm only 4 feet 11 and a half inches tall (that half inch is SO important LOL!) so some shelves are high for me to reach.
I stretched up and was edging a drawer out of a storage unit but the whole unit shot forward and ejected the drawer rather forcefully - it landed smack on the top of my head and the corner dug into my scalp - it was SO painful!
I'm just waiting to see Jessica (faerygirl) post on this. She needed stiches after closing a stamp pad on her finger. Ouch!!
Hey I was just about to post that!
Yes, I was closing a Pretty In Pink Classic stamp pad and snapped the pad of my finger in the side and sploosh....blood everywhere and three or four stitches....yep.
Knocked my large paper cutter of my craft table -- grabbed for it and grabbed it by the cutting handle/blade - sliced my palm -- hurt like &(*$%. Fortunatelly did not need stitches.
Yes, I was closing a Pretty In Pink Classic stamp pad and snapped the pad of my finger in the side and sploosh....blood everywhere and three or four stitches....yep.
You win. What a crazy way to end up with stitches! I bet it hurt like the dickens, too.
I burnt three of my finger tips with the embossing gun. It took over a week for the redness and tenderness to go away. But I never drew blood like some of these ladies did!
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Hot glue is, well, hot - it will burn fingers, lips, and thighs (trust me, don't put your burning finger in your mouth or rub it on your bare thigh to get get the glue off). Cutterbee scissors will cut fingers and thick CS, at the same time. A Cuttlebug will do more than emboss - it can break your foot (shamefully true - I was so embarrased that I actually lied to work colleagues about how the injury happened).
Funny you should start this thread as my elbow is still hurting from falling...yes falling out of my chair last week when I was reaching for something. Everything hurt for a day now it's just my elbow. My two young daughters came running and we all had a good laugh.
OMG - I did this too! All 4 kids and DH laughed hysterically for hours! :cool:
I am feeling pretty lucky right about now - I have burned my fingers on hot glue, and pinched a boob once or twice, have lots of little paper cuts, but my goodness, who would have thought stamping and scrapping were so dangerous? Hope you all heal up and have better luck in the future.
Okay, this may be way out there, but...does anyone find it interesting that I can't help but laugh at all of these mishaps? I mean, I know it isn't funny but I could see any and all of these things happening to me! Picturing a pinched boob, falling out of my chair or even dropping a knife, looking down and seeing it sticking out of my foot just makes me laugh...I must be very morbid!
paper cuts are my big thing - as are my paper scissors...I am very accident prone and always carry a box of band aids in my tote as I am forever cutting myself...it makes my husband giggle at me as his hobby is off road motorbiking so you can imagine the kind of injuries that he ends up with :-)
I have had to Injury while sitting at my stamping desk.
First one was back in August 2005 when I fell out of my chair, When I was leaning over to pick something up. I fell on my right arm...Which was re-covering from it being Shattered in Feb 2005. I cried, I screamed!! but no one heard me..Cause I was by myself.
Second time was when I cracked my knee on my Stamping desk. Kinda like hitting you're funny bone, But on the knee...Ouch!!!
I've been sitting here cringing reading this thread!! I've done the same thing as Faerygirl, in fact I've done it twice :oops:! I didn't get cut bad enough to need stitches though. Those stamp cases have sharp edges - OW!
__________________ Alanna
"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eyelet..." Gallery & Blog
When I got my first stamp order I was so excited to get started that I spent a couple of hours cutting rubber around the stamps to mount them on the wood. I didn't know about paper scissors with the cushy handles and instead used my metal handled embroidery scissors. A week later I ended up going to the doctor's and found out that the cutting motion had caused a pinched nerve and I lost the feeling in my thumb and 2 fingers for about 6 weeks. The doctor found it amusing and his big words of wisdom were "take a break every once in a while." I usually go for the strange accidents.
Lorinna
Last week I was showing my sister how to take the rotary cutting blade off -- and wound up slicing my thumb. I bled like the proverbial stuck pig! I take aspirin every day, so my blood is pretty thin. I probably should have gone to the ER and got stitches, but I had a workshop to go to and didn't want to spend six hours in the ER. Oh, aren't we awful!! Guess I'll have a scar, but I had fun at the workshop! LOL!
Well you know the little thing that you punch eyelets with, and how a ton of little circles get stuck in there? Well I was trying to clean them out with my very sharp pointy cutter bee scissors. I had the little head unscrewed and sitting on the table and I was shoving the scissors in the hole to unclog it. Anyway the thing slipped and fell over and I stabbed myself in the thumb with the scissors.
Then another time I was trying to open a pack of cardstock with very dull (but thankfully not very pointy) scissors and I put one side of the scissors in the pack, and I was pulling the them toward me. Anyway I pulled too hard and poked my face like an inch below my eye. That really hurt, but like I said thank god they weren't my pointy ones;).
And of course I've hit myself numerous times with my hammer.
A banged head when a drawer fell on top of me last week.
I'm only 4 feet 11 and a half inches tall (that half inch is SO important LOL!) so some shelves are high for me to reach.
I stretched up and was edging a drawer out of a storage unit but the whole unit shot forward and ejected the drawer rather forcefully - it landed smack on the top of my head and the corner dug into my scalp - it was SO painful!
Hahaha! I am 11'3/4" it does matter, and I had 4...count them, 4...albums fall on my head a few weeks ago. All because I just had to show my friend. Now, it wouldn't be so bad, but they are 12x12, full, and two have sharp corners....the injuries we deal with right?
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