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What have you bought that U use all the time?
A spin off from the thread about buying items and not using them. What tool or accessory have you bought that you just can't live with out now?
I bought a Big Kick a year age (for Mothers' Day) and I use that beauty just about every day in some way. I either throw a Cuttlebug folder in it and emboss or use it to cut out dies. Love it! Really have gotten my money's worth on that machine.
Cuttlebug (and embossing folders)
SU tag corner punch
SU ticket corner punch
southwest corner punch
Versafine Onyx black ink pad
Versafine Vintage Sepia ink pad
sponge daubers
SU (Kai) scissors for cutting rubber
Too many to count but the one tool that I do use regularly and won't go without is my Perfect Layers tool. I'm not a good eyeballer and I love how *perfect* my mats are when I use this tool.
__________________ Kathy
Proud Mama to Mason 4/3/99, Miles 5/25/02, and Maya 8/26/04
some sort of paper trimmer (youor preference)
many types of adhesive, glue, dimensionals, tape runner (I use them all)
something to score with (again your preference)
I use those on every card, they are basic tools though. I really like these EK success corner adorners though. I have the wrought iron one, and use it alot. I dont own a ticket punch, but I have found that I can use my slit punch and line up the paper and get the same effect. I dont have a die cut machine, but I do have fiskars texture plates and use them alot. I guess the thing I use most though of these is my purple enveloper. I can make about anysize envelope to go with my cards and I do it with cheap printer paper so I think it saves me money.
Here's a few that I thought were "extravagances" at the time I bought them but now couldn't live without:
- 3 kinds of black ink (palette noir, versafine, stazon) -- each just works so well for it's own kind of project
- about 100 different types of adhesive
- white gel pen (perfect to add touches to almost any card)
- prismacolor pencils (I love shading just a teensie little bit on some stamped images
- scorepal (I made 60 tri-fold cards - 'nuf said)
- CB - I was afraid it wouldn't get used but it's out alot!
Nice thread -- I like reading what other people grab for all the time!
__________________ Anjou My Gallery * My Blog - Dreaming in Color "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
ATG gun, I love this thing!!! and I am a lefty
stickles, good-bye silly looking flower centers (beads, small punched circles)
SU markers, sometimes better than stamping
cuttlebug embossing folders--what better way to make a card look even better
Well I have a lengthy list of HAVE TO HAVES...
Mono Multi liquid glue
Crop-a-dile
Prismacolor Markers and Pencilsw/OMS
Ultra Clean
Scor-pal
STICKLES!!! (love me some stickles)
Palette Noir ink pad
ribbon (lots and lots of ribbon)
my Cricut and Cuttlebug and all of their accessory glory.
Big Shot with Nestabilities
ATG
Cutterbee scissors
Black brilliance ink (the ONLY one that I have found to work perfectly with Copics, despite what others claim)
Copics
Scor-It
SCOR-PAL! Hands down, my best investment in the past 2 years! Who would have thought?
I also love my cutterbees, my stamp scrubber, and paper piercer.
Princess will get a kick out of this but, my most used paper that I never thought I would like, much less use is Soft Sky. I LOVE this color, it is my new neutral!. Not to hijack...
Did I mention the Scor-Pal??
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Sounds like the ATG is a hot item...that's my next "extravagant" purchase. I'm going to have to add some of the inks to my stockpile too as I feel a bit limited with just Stazon and SU classic inks. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
cuttlebug, scor-pal, tonic paper cutter, dimensionals, crop a dile, all of my SU punches, SU mat pack (for perfectly aligned brads and eyelets!)...Yes, there's a lot that I use and love!!
Sounds like the ATG is a hot item...that's my next "extravagant" purchase. I'm going to have to add some of the inks to my stockpile too as I feel a bit limited with just Stazon and SU classic inks. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
I think the ATG will be my next purchase too. I just have to wait til after June which is my SU hostess club month. Just hearing all the raves for it makes me want one NOW!!!! Waiting is the hardest part!
__________________ Anjou My Gallery * My Blog - Dreaming in Color "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
My big honkin' red ATG adhesive gun. I love that thing. The best and cheapest adhesive IMO. And the pillow package the refills come in is always a conversation starter at work when it shows up. I also could not live without my computer hooked up the internet. I am a Fan Club Member and don't regret investing in the most fabulous tool available. If I didn't have access to SCS I would probably resort to huddling in the corner, sucking my thumb, and crying.
everyone is talking about the ATG, what is it? Sorry, probably a silly question.
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"Some people are like slinkys...they're really good for nothing, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs!"
For me, the big paper cutter - works on all the fabulous textured papers that don't do well in a sliding paper cutter. I use my light box and brass stencils all the time, although I am doing more of those on my Spellbinder Wizard now. And Versamark - always out on the desktop!
What have you bought that U use all the time?
