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Thought this might be fun to start a thread of lessons we should know by now but still manage to forget.
For me:
You think by now I'd know to stamp the inside of the card first. How many times have I worked so hard on the outside, only to screw up the sentiment inside?
__________________ aka Sue. Or Sue-odd.
No blog for me. My gallery chronicles my card-making successes and mishaps.
you think I would know by now that an open black stamp pad is not a good place to rest my hand while contemplating my next card ingredient..lol....
Great thread.
blessings.
I have a couple I do..ugh. Always cover the embossing powder jar when done...I have knocked it over (as well as glitter) quite a few times.... Always clean and put the small acrylic stamps back on their sheet instead of stacking them on my desk as I go, as I have lost a few that have stuck on stuff or just got lost that way.. Always check my craftsheet for stay ink BEFORE I put my card down on it..I have had ink on the back of my cards a few times..
Clean completely up after the job is done...............oh no right now I have several different stamps out..sympathy,fall,christmas and anything else I have forgotten that is there. Embossing powder oh dear lets just skip what I have done with this. LOL
Wow, these are great ... and funny, because I can so relate to most of them!
I think I'm going to compile a list and post it near my craft table.
Barbara, I've never purchased the same thing twice but I'm sure that will come as I accumulate more "stuff". However, I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times I ended up with a card that had the brad backs show on the inside of the card--and I'm a new stamper. And I'm ALWAYS getting ink on my fingers! It doesn't matter that I keep my fingers well away from the ink pad and the image portion of my stamp, the ink ends up on my fingertips anyway.
Great thread. I think I have done everything mentioned above and on the weekend went to a card class and wrecked the inside of a few cards so stamped the saying on spare paper then taped on over top of the bad one.
...not to hold my heat tool while it's on towards my clothing. I've melted two fleece jackets doing this :rolleyes:
...not to continue working on a surface that is just used Tombow multi on. Those SU grid paper pads have 100 sheets...why oh why can't I tear one off when i get a little glue on it.
__________________ Shellie G
Aspire to be a better person than you were yesterday
You would think by now I would know better than to stamp some images after I get dressed up to go out, and waiting for everyone else to get ready. I have had to do a quick change more than once because I have got ink or glitter on myself.
You would think by now that I would move my boob out of the way when I am using sissors....:oops:
The sound that explodes out of me when I read this was somewhere between a chortle and a snort! Too funny!
I'm notorious for the uncovered inkpad mishaps and the open embossing powder spills. On top of that, you would think that I wouldn't apply glue or chalk to an embellishment while its laying on top of my card base or another element, yet.....
__________________ Rachel Schott
As my best friend says, "Stamping....it's cheaper than therapy" to which I add, "Not by much".
My mom was the proud recipient of my first handmade card. Cost $200.
All of the above plus not putting the lid on my plastic box of embossing powder before switching on my heat gun! Much worse than just spilling it. Blew everywhere. Also dropping nearly new Versamark pad minus lid into the same box. Will I never learn. :-(
Wow, these are great ... and funny, because I can so relate to most of them!
I think I'm going to compile a list and post it near my craft table. Barbara, I've never purchased the same thing twice but I'm sure that will come as I accumulate more "stuff".However, I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times I ended up with a card that had the brad backs show on the inside of the card--and I'm a new stamper. And I'm ALWAYS getting ink on my fingers! It doesn't matter that I keep my fingers well away from the ink pad and the image portion of my stamp, the ink ends up on my fingertips anyway.
I have and in the same day!! I bought a Cricut cartridge on Ebay and a few minutes later bought another. I must have forgotten that I bid on two is the only thing I can think of. Anyway, a very sweet person here on SCS bought one from me thank the Lord!
I make a cup of hot chocolate or tea before I start stamping, then by the time I'm done stamping it's definitely cold! I don't dare risk having my cup near my stamp stuff!
__________________ Sending you a SMILE! :p
This is the day the Lord has made, let us REJOICE and be GLAD in it!
I've done almost all of them (except nipping my boobs), but my worst is my butter fingers when I'm inking a stamp, or opening a stamp pad. It's like I wanted to be a basketball player in my former life or something cause more times than I can count my ink pad flies out of my hands and bounces all over my desk, my card and me. Aack!
__________________ Keep what is worth keeping
and with the breath of kindness
blow the rest away.
To remember to check the edges of the rubber stamp for ink before I stamp my image.
To remember that I have a stamp ma jig before I stamp something catty wompus.
To remember to get the dog settled with a stuffed Kong before I sit to stamp so she'll let me be for a while. Pugs are very demanding.
YES THEY ARE! And mine is a paper fiend! She will sneak into my craft room and get ANYTHING that is paper (especially if I am working on it and drop it) and shred it faster than I can chase her down the hall!!
All of the above plus not putting the lid on my plastic box of embossing powder before switching on my heat gun! Much worse than just spilling it. Blew everywhere. Also dropping nearly new Versamark pad minus lid into the same box. Will I never learn. :-(
Ditto on leaving the embossing powder open while using a heat gun. I also have the problem of sneezing over the embossing powder, or forgetting a fan is on when I open the jar. Lovely mess!
Reading Leslie's post about the stamp scrubber reminded me of one of my repeat offences. 97 times out of a hundred I just use baby wipes to clean my stamps. But just occasionally I use either StazOn cleaner or Ultra Clean. The StazOn isn't a problem, but more than once I've sprayed Ultra Clean and got it onto my card. And that stuff is so oily, there's no way out of that except to start again.
Brads showing inside - if it happens, it doesn't stress me. These are handmade cards, after all. It's not my ideal, but when it happens, it happens.
It's been a while, but I nearly had a card that was going to open on the left last week - luckily I spotted it before I'd stuck the image panel down too well.
I'd say my worst fault is leaving an open ink pad on the desk, or a stamp that I'll clean when I finish - inevitably ink gets where it shouldn't.
stamp all the images that need to be on the base paper BEFORE adding dimensional elements that will jack up the stamping blog.
wipe off the edges of the block soas not to get black smudges everywhere on the perfectly white project.
__________________ Aeryn Kelly-Reitmeyer - DT Member @ Make it Crafty
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stamp all the images that need to be on the base paper BEFORE adding dimensional elements that will jack up the stamping blog.
YES!!! I've been trying to think of a trouble I cause myself consistently, but wasn't coming up with one until I saw this! Usually I'm as creative in the ways I mess up as I wish I was in creating something! It's a new surprise every session...
You'd think I'd know by now to check to see if the die is still attached before throwing away scraps of paper. Yes, I had to dig through the garbage to find the die. I'm glad I'm not alone in all these mishaps.
You think by now I'd know....
