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That's a great way to use your cropadile! Love it.
Just this week I scribbled two copic colors on a piece of card stock to take to the paint shop with me. Worked like a charm, now i got the colors that match the kids room decoration and the bathroom color I wanted too.
You know you are a crafter when you see something at a store and everything in you see is not a thing but an assortment of pcs that you can take apart and use the pcs in different projects.....
... when someone in the office is going to recycle a big wad of that old dot-matrix printer paper, and you say "no - I'll take that home and use it to protect my table from stamping"
When you see a pretty new blouse in the store with beautiful fabric flowers around the neckline (think Webster's Bloomers) and think..."Yeah- I would love that blouse, but I would probably take those off and put them on a card...."
we love using the cropadile for the belt holes.. however earlier tonight my son needed to use it and the thing (as big as it is) wasn't where it usually is on my desk.. I guess it grew legs and walked away.
~ Pam
__________________ "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
LOL!!! This is hilarious because I did the EXACT same thing this morning to my belt! I've lost almost 65 lbs and my belt was way too big and needed a couple new holes punchs. hahah.
I put on a pair of dress sandals the other day and realized the foot pad section had come loose from the sole of the sandal. I was in a hurry, so grabbed my heavy duty double sided tape from my craft room and threw it in my bag. Once I got to the office, I used a few strips of tape to fix my sandals and they're good as new!
I've used the crop-a-dile to add extra holes to a dog collar. Worked great. And all sorts of things have been used to from my craft room to help with school projects. I seem to have more adhesive alternatives than a craft store.
__________________ Martha
"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." Jean Shinoda Bolen
I'm always coming up with solutions -- craft or not -- that I learned from my crafting. I would say most of the creative thinking skills I know I learned from doing arts and crafts. In those things you are always saying "Well, that didn't work so well. What else do I have that I can use?" It also teaches you to accept and enjoy what you get instead of getting locked up into only what you started out to do. Artistic freedom. Gotta love it.
When you save the 'grass' that comes on your plate of sushi for cards and your family periodically hands you Ziploc bags full of their sushi grass too! :grin:
when you're sitting in church service sunday morning and see a shape in the hairbow in the woman's hair in front of you and think "that would look awesome on a card" and proceed to recreate it as soon as you get home.
Your husband will not be seen with you in the paint aisle of any of the big box stores, because you're grabbing paint samples to use in your crafts again.......
All foam meat trays are washed and dried to become glitter trays, drying trays, or otherwise useful items in the craft room.....
All of the brown packing paper you find in boxes gets saved and ironed to use in the craft room......
You raid the hardware stuff in the basement for just that right manly chunk of a washer to adorn your card....
You raid the hardware stuff in the basement for just that right manly chunk of a washer to adorn your card....
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Yup, I've done that too! And other hardware stuff that he never would have dreamt of being used on a card! Duct tape...
Do I have a craft room... or the beginnings of a hardware store???
Plus a husband who did anything to help me out, from building my dream craft area, to coloring images for me, to carving little flower vases out of wood, to making beaded dragonflies, to making a tool to hold my cards until they dry, to... I could go on and on.
__________________ Linda E
Caution: You are entering an artistic zone. This is not clutter - this is creating. These are not pajamas - it's my work uniform.
You raid the hardware stuff in the basement for just that right manly chunk of a washer to adorn your card....
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Yup, I've done that too! And other hardware stuff that he never would have dreamt of being used on a card! Duct tape...
OMG! I have a design that I haven't quite been able to complete, a frame mounted on a half-sheet card, and made out of layers (from bottom to top) of duct tape, blue painter's tape & black electrical tape. It's a ****** getting the corner angles perfect! But it looks utterly fabulous and cool. I'll have to work on that one again, it's a perfect MAN card!
Do I have a craft room... or the beginnings of a hardware store???
Plus a husband who did anything to help me out, from building my dream craft area, to coloring images for me, to carving little flower vases out of wood, to making beaded dragonflies, to making a tool to hold my cards until they dry, to... I could go on and on.
Could we clone him, please? I have the one who whines and agitates non-stop when I get the chance to stop into an Archiver's maybe once a year, since it's a 3 1/2 hour drive. I once was given 15 minutes to shop at Archiver's. And danged if they hadn't just FILLED the clearance racks. I was stressed!
I may or may not have pulled the drawstring out of my pyjama pants this morning and thought "Oooh, red twill tape... I could use this." The string will not be going back in. I completely understand the ribbon salvaging, needless to say!
[QUOTE=cardmaker2;16734850]when you rescue ribbon from a gift at a shower (hey, it was 1/2 inch wide mellow moss...)
when you snitch wedding favor charms left abandoned on an empty table
when you remove the ribbon (again!) from a candle or a bath gift set
when you take the buttons off a sweater that was destined to go to the thrift store
when you see almost amethyst and groovy guava and possibly ballet blue in a sunset
when you repurpose bought hallmark cards you recieved and keep the sparkly snowflake to attach to one of your own cards
I think I have done all of these things! I always cut out the pieces of ribbon from the shoulders of new sweaters or shirts and save them. You never know...
Also, I want to congratulate you ladies that had to use the CAD to take in your belts! Way to go! I watched the Half Ton Mom on TBS last night *shiver* and it scared the living daylights out of me! Those shows are like train wrecks - you just know you shouldn't watch, but you can't take you eyes off of it. Sort of like Hoarders...
I've used the Crop A Dile to punch all sorts of things too! Including my dh's belt.
When your non-crafting friend calls at 8pm and says "DD just told me she has to have a lion costume by tomorrow morning! Can you please come over and make it?!" LOL
I steal... um, reuse... ribbon all the time! My dd's 10 and I still have the Baby Gap ribbon that came on one of her gifts!! Just haven't figured out what I'm going to do with it. Drives DH crazy.
When your family knows exactly which scissors they can use and which they can't.
When your dd yells "Mom, can you move all these paintbrushes?!" - since they're all laying next to her bathroom sink drying (it's right next to the office! lol)
Yup, wall paint colors are cardstock colors.
When your daughter brings home random supplies from school and says "I thought you might be able to use these". Last week it was toilet paper rolls!
...when your DH puts all empty cans in the dishwasher even without asking you; and when you ask him why did we need to wash them, he would say " I thought maybe you could alter it and make something beautiful out of it".
...when your DH looks at all the fancy/beautiful gift boxes in stores and says "I bet you can make those and they would look more beautiful".
When your family knows exactly which scissors they can use and which they can't.
YES! The other night my husband was going to get scissors to cut plastic off of something - he headed to my office and I yelled "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THE BLUE-HANDLED ONES!" He knew, though... he knew! :P
When even my co-workers bring me snippets of ribbon and odds and ends with a note "thought you could make something out of this" - two weeks ago it was the ribbon that was used to tie up two boxes of cupcakes (chocolate chip ribbon w/ pretty in pink polka dots - who wouldn't love that?!)
__________________ The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. Those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You. Psalms 9:9-10
I have an old picture frame (early to mid 1900's) that was my grandmother's and which recently collapsed onto our bureau. The frame is all glass (it has no wood) but thankfully it didn't break. What broke was the easel backing. It was so old it pretty well just crumbled. I carefully took it apart and traced the parts onto some chipboard(?) - a really heavy piece of cardboard that comes on the back of sketch tablets. The Crop-A-Dile came in real handy punching some of the holes in it. I covered the pieces with designer papers - suede and mulberry papers, added a piece of twill tape to the back of the easel stand and put it all together. I saved an heirloom from going in the trash by using my crafting skills
Oh yeah, you know you are a crafter then! I remember the turtle shells I made when my two oldest boys wanted to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Halloween! I paper machaied (sp)? over a large rounded basket and then when they dried, I painted the shells like tortoise shells! They were the hit!
You know you're a crafter when...
