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Post by anniefb on Jan 28, 2019 18:41:11 GMT
You’re all awesome! I do make some things myself but not to the extent of some:
Gift packaging like boxes/bags
Embellishments using stamps etc
Stencils - with my Cameo
Enamel dots
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 29, 2019 3:00:39 GMT
I have lots of cork and punches. It also takes stamps well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 7:32:08 GMT
Embri I saw your cute little animals on the die cut storage thread. Did you color all those? They are so adorable. I was like cuteness overload! I think you would love tear bears. There are some YouTube tutorials. I love it you wrote most of the thing you do involve lots of little layered pieces. That is me too. I am obsessed with paper piecing. One of the reasons why I own so many die cutters, lol. I still cut out by hand too. I am one of those crazy girls buying those really complicated layered dies from Ebay. Jolee's embellishments hardly get bought in my home. I have a few from clearance sales. I go through the stores and look at the Jolee's embellishments then come home and recreate them. If I can't find files then I am drawing them out and turning them into cut files. I love to go through the stores and look at all the embellishments and recreate them.
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Post by dasmith2 on Jan 29, 2019 8:39:48 GMT
I have lots of cork and punches. It also takes stamps well. Yes it does! I bought some cork sheets at Ms last year on clearance, it works great for punches and to stamp on as well |
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Post by Embri on Jan 29, 2019 10:01:11 GMT
Embri I saw your cute little animals on the die cut storage thread. Did you color all those? They are so adorable. I was like cuteness overload! I think you would love tear bears. There are some YouTube tutorials. I love it you wrote most of the thing you do involve lots of little layered pieces. That is me too. I am obsessed with paper piecing. One of the reasons why I own so many die cutters, lol. I still cut out by hand too. I am one of those crazy girls buying those really complicated layered dies from Ebay. Yep! Those and an embarrassingly large number of others. I enjoy making critter - I guess they're embellishments? - paper pieces more than I do using them. Or at least I make a lot more than I end up actually putting to use thus far. I have an extensive collection of layered dies as well, mostly animals. They're fun! There's also the satisfaction of making exactly what you want, in any colour or combination you wish. I forgot a few other bits I DIY: Foam blenders for ink - reused spray bottle caps (think eyeglass cleaner) + makeup sponge Stamp positioner - CD case, foam, sheet metal, double sided tape, magnets Shiny cardstock - retail packaging, particularly chocolate boxes Colouring board - laminated white cardstock Gluing board - cut down plastic kid's arts and crafts station / table protector The colouring board I use with Copics, so I can easily see & clean up stray ink without getting it all over the desk or other paper cutouts. The gluing board is for, surprise-surprise, gluing paper piecework together. I work mostly with liquid glue loaded in a bingo dauber, so the slick plastic surface gives me a safe place to dab it on bigger pieces without ruining anything else in the process! I also tried DIY'ing my own VersaMark but it wasn't holding onto the embossing powder well enough to satisfy me. Ah well, they can't all be wins. |
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Post by Elsabelle on Jan 29, 2019 16:40:55 GMT
I rarely use my Thickers or alpha stickers. I usually cut titles on my Cameo. I cut a lot of embellishments like mini Polaroid frames, tabs, circles, hearts, stars, borders, banners, and flowers. The options are endless with a Cameo, cardstock, patterned paper, and craft foam.
I also make my own word stickers. Well, they aren’t stickers but I print them and adhere them to DIY tabs, scraps, and circles.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 7:02:18 GMT
Embri I am the same I enjoy making embellishments more than I use them, lol. DIY Versamark. This is going back in time. I am only in my forties.  When I started stamping we didn't have the fancy embossing powders or Versamark. I was a pre-teen when I discovered embossing. My Dad handed me a bottle of Corn Husker's Lotion, embossing powder & a heat gun. That was my Versamark. I used that bottle way into my twenties. I did buy Versamark in my thirties. The old 2 Peas Stamping board one of the members one day posted she used Corn Husker's Lotion! One of the older members over at SCS posted she used Corn Husker's Lotion. I remember it so well because I was so excited to find out that it was a thing, lol. I don't know if the formulation is different nowadays of Corn Husker's Lotion. Yes, they do still sell it. That is your DIY Versamark. Glycerin does work but it can be a bit thin and needs to have a thickener like Versamark. I think Corn Husker's has that thickener.
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Post by Embri on Jan 30, 2019 8:47:19 GMT
Embri I am the same I enjoy making embellishments more than I use them, lol. DIY Versamark. This is going back in time. I am only in my forties. When I started stamping we didn't have the fancy embossing powders or Versamark. I was a pre-teen when I discovered embossing. My Dad handed me a bottle of Corn Husker's Lotion, embossing powder & a heat gun. That was my Versamark. I used that bottle way into my twenties. I almost feel guilty that I make so many embellishments, but rarely do more than pop them into my binder. They do look nice all together though, and I enjoy the process of making them... I just don't have any real need for cards these days. I've tried supplying my mother but she thinks almost everything I make is too nice to give away, so they just end up accumulating. :S Look at you and your fancy heat gun; I still use a lightbulb most of the time! *chuckles* In truth we have a heat gun, it's just downstairs with the rest of the power tools and I'm too much of a lazy-efficient aficionado to go all the way down there most of the time unless I've got a whole batch of embossing to do, which doesn't happen often. I've never heard of Corn Husker's, but I'll have a poke about and see if it's available up here. Always forgetting the stamp DIY stuff - anti-static powder, from cornstarch & worn out sock. Don't know if it's as good as the commercial variety, but it's definitely affordable. Half the time I forget to use it, still. |
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Post by joblackford on Jan 31, 2019 3:24:17 GMT
Embri I am the same I enjoy making embellishments more than I use them, lol. DIY Versamark. This is going back in time. I am only in my forties. When I started stamping we didn't have the fancy embossing powders or Versamark. I was a pre-teen when I discovered embossing. My Dad handed me a bottle of Corn Husker's Lotion, embossing powder & a heat gun. That was my Versamark. I used that bottle way into my twenties. I almost feel guilty that I make so many embellishments, but rarely do more than pop them into my binder. They do look nice all together though, and I enjoy the process of making them... I just don't have any real need for cards these days. I've tried supplying my mother but she thinks almost everything I make is too nice to give away, so they just end up accumulating. :S Look at you and your fancy heat gun; I still use a lightbulb most of the time! *chuckles* In truth we have a heat gun, it's just downstairs with the rest of the power tools and I'm too much of a lazy-efficient aficionado to go all the way down there most of the time unless I've got a whole batch of embossing to do, which doesn't happen often. I've never heard of Corn Husker's, but I'll have a poke about and see if it's available up here. Always forgetting the stamp DIY stuff - anti-static powder, from cornstarch & worn out sock. Don't know if it's as good as the commercial variety, but it's definitely affordable. Half the time I forget to use it, still. You could make cards for charities like Cards for Hospitalized Kids or Ronald McDonald House or Send a Smile 4 Kids if you wanted to. Sick kids (and their families) would love getting such lovely handmade critters <3 I could link you to some resources if you're interested. I think your critters are amazing - I'd love to make cards with them. I'd buy the fox and the dragon from you in a heartbeat! btw I'm pretty sure the commercial anti static powder is just cornstarch in a fancier bag. Doesn't matter if it's homemade or not, remembering to use it is the hardest part, for sure! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 7:44:12 GMT
Embri Don't feel guilty. Your critters are so precious. You keep making them. I hardly make cards any more either. I love to make card fronts still. They are mini pieces of art to me. I put them in my journal, or keep them to send a card when I do send one. I use to feel guilty about making embellishments but no more. Oh a lightbulb heat gun! That is the best. My Daddy probably would have made me do it. I guess he thought that was too dangerous for a pre-teen so I got the heat gun, lol. By then I knew how to do welding because he taught me that too. I know some of the girls are thinking "The lightbulb was dangerous but welding was ok?" ROFL! I have an Amish friend that uses a candle to heat emboss.  She is really good. She uses a Cricut too using alternative energy sources. I love it! When I was in high school we had a teacher that taught us how to heat emboss. I had been embossing for years. She was making the girls do the lightbulb technique. I am like "Let me go home and get my heat gun!" She let me run home and get it. I lived by the school. The girls were so amazed how cool the heat gun was, lol. I know you can get Corn Husker's online at Amazon.ca I made my anti-static pouch from a piece of fabric & cornstarch. Tied it with a pretty ribbon. It works really good. I have had it for a billion years and it's still going strong. I keep mine in with my embossing powder so I don't forget to use it. Hope that helps somebody.
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Post by Embri on Jan 31, 2019 8:05:34 GMT
joblackford, ah I'm tickled pink you think anything I've made is worth buying. I'd actually thought a bit about making embellishments for sale but it never really went further than the 'hm maybe that would be nice' phase. As for cards, I don't really make extras anymore, just bits and pieces for the most part. @amayalylac Welding torch is fine, but oh no lightbulb = danger? WTF Dad. I mean props for teaching kid-you a great skill; welding is awesome. I've dabbled in brazing and soldering but never really gotten comfortable with either. I'd be highly concerned about using a candle though; one centimeter too close and WHOOSH. There goes your paper! I do make my own shimmer and glitter paints. One bottle of artist's matte medium - basically acrylic paint with no pigment in it, just the binders - plus whatever micro pigments or glitter you feel like adding equals custom paint. I like that I can mix up only what I'm going to use rather than end up with 100 tubs or bottles of glue that invariably dry out before I get around to using it again. Made some nice iridescent green tonight to add to some little dragons I coloured earlier. One of the few ways I find glitter to be tolerable to work with. In embossing powder is sometimes ok too, as long as it doesn't shed afterwards. Stray twinkles are captured with tape and extreme prejudice! I have my anti-static sock right on top of my embossing powders, and I still forget it! I think I get crafty tunnel vision. T__T
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 8:20:39 GMT
Embri- That was my Dad for you, lol. He was the best. I make my own shimmer paints too and glitter paints. I love to customize colors. I love to make glitter mixes. My new love is mixing glitter and embossing powders together and then turning them into acrylic embellishments. Learned how to do that from nail art tutorials. My acrylic UV Dryer has become my best friend. If you all have those stampmakers that were popular a few years ago- Teresa Collin's had hers you can make resin pieces too. It's the same thing as the UV Nail Polish Dryers.
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Post by jackofallcrafts on Feb 20, 2019 19:07:36 GMT
I use folded paper for dimension. Depending on how many layers you have more depth options than standard pop dots or fun foam or foam tape. I use packaging for shaker card acetate. I reverse engineered the Lawn Fawn mini pop up die instead of paying $30.  I am currently in the process of reverse engineering the Lawn Fawn magic picture changer die on my Cameo. Ain't no way I'm shelling out $38 for that die! I also reverse engineered my own animation grids (for the Motion Crafts by Uchi's Design variety of stamps). Thefrugalcrafter has a great video on making your own animation grids with an X-acto knife and a metal ruler, but that takes too long for impatient me. The bonus with this method is that you can use your existing stamps, which means you don't have to spend any more money. Here's the video link if anybody likes the look/idea of animated stamps: linkUchi's Design stuff is listed as "patent pending", so I am left wondering if she's gonna go all MISTI Nazi on people like Iliana did, lol! I also make my own glue dots. I like ScraPerfect glue, but some people think it's too sticky for their purposes |
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Post by scrappington on Feb 21, 2019 15:10:13 GMT
I reverse engineered the Lawn Fawn mini pop up die instead of paying $30. I am currently in the process of reverse engineering the Lawn Fawn magic picture changer die on my Cameo. Ain't no way I'm shelling out $38 for that die! I agree I love the interactive card dies but they are spendy. Here (Canada) $45-$55 . I have lucked out and got one on clearance for $20 and the other I saw on Simon Steals for $20 missed out but used my ebates and got it on Amazon. They are totally creatable. Especially the reveal wheel. MFT came out with just an edge die and circle die. its true that's all it is. Much easier though to recreate if you have an electronic cutter. |
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Post by Embri on Feb 21, 2019 17:55:13 GMT
A lot of dies are combinations of simpler shapes. That's one of the things I ask myself before committing to buy a new die set - 'can I make this with shapes I already have, or simpler shapes?' the answer is often yes. Sure cutting a piece of cardstock twice takes more time, but the flexibility is worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 9:47:57 GMT
jackofallcrafts Have you looked at Silhouette's store for Lawn Fawn. Many of the designers have the dies as an SVG file either at one of the digital stores or Silhouette's store. I am not trying to deter you away from reverse engineering. I am the queen of it. I always do take a peek to see if I can find the design I want for a $1.00.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Feb 23, 2019 16:04:15 GMT
I make envelopes out of catalog pages, Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, and Sur La Table.
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When I started stamping we didn't have the fancy embossing powders or Versamark. I was a pre-teen when I discovered embossing. My Dad handed me a bottle of Corn Husker's Lotion, embossing powder & a heat gun. That was my Versamark. I used that bottle way into my twenties. 
She is really good. She uses a Cricut too using alternative energy sources. I love it!
