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The Best Ever Craft Mat by Ken Oliver totally lives up to its name – I'm so in love with this tool!
I was applying 3-D Gel through a stencil and the paper and stencil just stuck to the mat -- didn't even have to use tape. If brads spill, they roll once and stop as if in molasses.
Ink pads and water for watercoloring do not slide or move once they are on the mat. Tools stay where you set them down without rolling. And you don't need superhuman finger strength to do ink blending because the paper stays still while you move the blending tool around!
LED bulbs, LOL! My eyes aren't what they used to be, and I was getting so frustrated with OTT lights taking up desk and floor space. I put daylight LED's in my ceiling fan, and pulled out halogen light fixtures under my desk. Installed new under desk LED fixtures, but my ceiling LED's wouldn't stop flickering. I finally solved the problem by installing 3 5000 lumens bulbs and one less than 5000 lumens bulb, no flickering now!!! I played around for two days trying to make it work. If your LED's flicker replace one with less lumens. Can't tell you why this works, but it does.
I am a tool queen. Right now, this minute, the Envelope maker or the MISTI. These really really work. Oh, and I love my assorted dies. What is my favorite die? hmmm I will have to think on this one.
I am still in love with my Copic markers. Sure, there are other coloring mediums that I own and a few more still that I'd like to have. But after using the Copics I can't imagine living without them. The only other thing that I love almost as much is my ATG gun. What a money-saving workhorse it has been all these years!
I'm loving dies -- especially words or the intricate ones by Memory Box. Water coloring stamped flowers, Altenew layering stamps, new inks and also organizing my craft stuff!
Painted Flowers by Altenew. Still!
Peony Bouquet by Altenew.
Bear Hugs by Mama Elephant.
Tulip Time by Papertrey Ink.
Tiny Town by Papertrey Ink.
__________________ 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.
Currently I am in love with Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies.
I also love the fact they put numerous card ideas in their gallery for each stamp collection so you can use them in a many different ways . I don't want stamps that are so unique they only have a couple of uses .
Now I just need to win the lottery LOL
Barbara
__________________ "I have not failed . I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" --Thomas A. Edison
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar... (-Wordsworth)
Oh my goodness...ONE die only??????????..hmmmmm....At this very moment the Tattered Lace Summer Meadow is on top of the list.
DISCLAIMER:
Favorite die MAY change by the day, hour or minute.
OK, my answer just changed. I am in love with the Baby Bear multi-step stamp by SU, and it's not even available yet!
__________________ 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.
I'm on a flower kick lately - I've cut out a TON of different flower layer dies, and enjoy sitting inking/coloring/shaping them while watching shows on Netflix.
Also I'm totally in love with this stamp set that I just got! I recently signed up for PaperWish's stamp club, and this was my first shipment! I especially love the BIG full cardfront stamp! Isn't it just gorgeous???
I'd wanted to join a club, and had debated for some time - I finally chose them, since, looking over prior month's selections, it seemed like I'd enjoy the stamps every month - whereas some other clubs, they had wonderful choices one month, and then something I didn't like at all the following month...
My Silhouette Portrait which allows me to upload and trace any picture from the web or from Pinterest - even pictures of dies! just by using the Design Studio which only costs $25 to buy. The cuts are so intricate and I just love all the DIES that I now have for free - over 1200 so far. This is truly a money saver and worth the purchase.
That's a lovely set, ravyn. My only wish is that they were cling foam. Still, the set is very lovely!
Yes, that would be nice if they were cling foam!! I do prefer cling over the clear stamps. Actually, I guess I'm a dinosaur, as I dearly love wood-mounted stamps best of all! Sigh - I don't "fit in" with current trends at all - I love my prismacolors & other pencils & don't care for markers; I have one distress ink pad (that was given to me) & no burning desire to get any more of them - I am perfectly happy with my collection of "older unfashionable" inks - I like pigment inks over dye inks for the most part. Stamp wheels tickle me, although I don't use them as much as I should - but they just make me happy for some weird reason. I still even use eyelets & other "outdated" doodads every once in a great while (oh no, I can hear the gasps of horror! :p) Ah well... I enjoy "playing with what I have" whether it's 'in' or not... I always have been kind of an oddball, so I guess that carried over into my hobbies as well
My Silhouette Portrait which allows me to upload and trace any picture from the web or from Pinterest - even pictures of dies! just by using the Design Studio which only costs $25 to buy. The cuts are so intricate and I just love all the DIES that I now have for free - over 1200 so far. This is truly a money saver and worth the purchase.
I have been itching for a Silhouette for the longest time! At one point, I even started gathering up some freebie SVG files, in hopes of having the machine soon! Sigh - it hasn't happened yet - but it's still on my wish list! It sounds like it would be SO great!!!
Yes, that would be nice if they were cling foam!! I do prefer cling over the clear stamps. Actually, I guess I'm a dinosaur, as I dearly love wood-mounted stamps best of all! Sigh - I don't "fit in" with current trends at all - I love my prismacolors & other pencils & don't care for markers; I have one distress ink pad (that was given to me) & no burning desire to get any more of them - I am perfectly happy with my collection of "older unfashionable" inks - I like pigment inks over dye inks for the most part. Stamp wheels tickle me, although I don't use them as much as I should - but they just make me happy for some weird reason. I still even use eyelets & other "outdated" doodads every once in a great while (oh no, I can hear the gasps of horror! :p) Ah well... I enjoy "playing with what I have" whether it's 'in' or not... I always have been kind of an oddball, so I guess that carried over into my hobbies as well
I've never been part of an 'in' crowd. Fashion is what we make it to be. Rather than calling ourselves 'outdated', perhaps we should refer to ourselves as 'vintage'. I have a few wood mounted stamps but have migrated mostly to cling. There was a time that I had a number of sets of acrylics but they became discolored and also started to tear. Just recently I looked to see if I could locate them online, but alas and alack, none to be had.
__________________ Roberta Use it up, wear it out, make due or do without.
I have been using Scotch double sided tape since I first started making cards...still love it! Love dies and punches too....corner rounder and ticket punch.
I have been using Scotch double sided tape since I first started making cards...still love it! Love dies and punches too....corner rounder and ticket punch.
I agree with Bev in that I too have used DBL. Sided Scotch Tape from the beginning! I am ALWAYS looking for a proper dispenser for it though.... But, I LOVE my Misti & my Envelope Board too, use them MOST EVERY TIME I stamp! I also JUST switched to using my Pampered Chef Tool Turn About on my desk for my tools.... I bought an Amish made one for the kitchen--SO MUCH PRETTIER! Have been wanting to do that for sometime, but didn't have an alternative to the PC one I had. NOW I DO! ;) I am also enjoying using more dies at this time.
I agree with Bev in that I too have used DBL. Sided Scotch Tape from the beginning! I am ALWAYS looking for a proper dispenser for it though.... But, I LOVE my Misti & my Envelope Board too, use them MOST EVERY TIME I stamp! I also JUST switched to using my Pampered Chef Tool Turn About on my desk for my tools.... I bought an Amish made one for the kitchen--SO MUCH PRETTIER! Have been wanting to do that for sometime, but didn't have an alternative to the PC one I had. NOW I DO! ;) I am also enjoying using more dies at this time.
Oh yeah! I have definitely bonded with my newly acquired envelope punch board! Had a running argument with myself for several months as I was using the Martha Stewart score board. Now I can better focus on envelope art. Love it!
__________________ Roberta Use it up, wear it out, make due or do without.
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Nothing! I'm currently in a stamping holding pattern over the crafty skies! That's okay though, it will return. I will then be playing with some yet to be used SU supplies I ordered at SAB!
The die cut window and the stamp set that goes with it-tree, bench, & child with the kite, the lovely set with the deer and mountains, and the beautiful wildflower SAB set! See I don't even know the names of these things. I am slipping! No, it's just a little stamping cat nap!
__________________ All I want is the chance to prove money won't make me happy!
I have been itching for a Silhouette for the longest time! At one point, I even started gathering up some freebie SVG files, in hopes of having the machine soon! Sigh - it hasn't happened yet - but it's still on my wish list! It sounds like it would be SO great!!!
BUY IT. If you keep buying dies you could easily pay for a Portrait or Cameo instead of dies! It is the BEST thing I have ever paid for in my crafting time! I love my Cameo! Get the Designer Edition of the software and go to town!
What are you currently in love with?
