TOOL, TIPS, TECHNIQUES, one last toy! LOL

Don't be afraid.. LOL. It say this because I was!!! It's the Crop-A-Dile and it is soo easy even a caveman can do it. No offense to any cavemen or woman out there..LOL. Anyway, First, you hole punch. On the outsides are the hole punches. Big and small. you line it up like any other hole punch on your whatev and squeeeeeeze. Second, you drop the eyelet in the hole you just made. You can see my elelets in my pink case on the side of the COD. Third, you set your cube dials that are in the center of the COD, then stick your item with the eyelet you dropped in, line it up betwen the cubes and squeeeeeeeze.

That's it.. eyelet is set,, run your ribbon, thread, twine, etc. right on through.. easssssy peeeeaassy!! This is a VERY useful tool. They have all kinds of shaped eyelets, from stars, to pumpkins to cirlces..you name it. Borrow one from a friend if he/she's got one and give it a squeeeeze!! You'll be hooked!

TOOLS, TIPS , TECHNIQUES & STUFF, Day 5

Here are two of my favs when it comes to inking/chalking. I'm not a huge stamper, but I do like to ink the edges of my pages.. I may even have "over-ink-edging-itis" LOL. Anyway. I was having such a problem with the larger sized inkpads, fumbling and stuff & Laurie told me to get on board with these STAMPIN' UP Ink spots, these are the bold brites. Love em, and sooooo easy to handle and they pack quite the color punch.. long lasting.. great great to have in your crop bag..they fit nicely in a craft carrier. You can have so many colors with you and not take up much space. The other is Powder Puff chalking inks by Quick Quotes, Marachino cherry and Tahiti. Me and Laurie went to the CK convention and got these in a class. We both thought that the colors weren't really fantab, but lemme tell ya.. they work for everything. If you want to try these and only have a few bucks in ur budge, get these colors...I PROMISE u'll luv em. We both use them all the time and are amazed time after time how well these colors go with everything. We chalk with passion.. I think we have " Too-much-chalk-itis" LOL. I am definately going to ask Santa for more of the chalking inks and another set of the spots. Anybody else have a fav. ink?

Red is Powder puff,, green is SU

TIPS, TECHNIQUES, TOOLS and Stuff, Day 3

QUICK STIK

I LOVE THIS ..This is my favority fave! It's the QuickStik by Quick Kutz.

I use this for everything from bling, googly eyes, brads, buttons etc. It is has a sticky tip almost like puddy that picks up everything! It beats the tweezers by a long shot!. I'lll tell you.. get one of these babies and keep close by, you'd be amazed how often you use it.. It's great to use to find that "needle in the haystack" like above where all my brads got dumped into one compartment and I wanted just the pink one. I would have gone crazy trying to get my fingers around that particular one, not to mention getting stabbed by the brads along the way.. lol and when your object is bulky, the tweezers often slip.. not here....you just lower this tool into a jar full of small embellies and stick it to what you want and pull it on out! It has saved me ooodles of frustrations. They go for about 4-5$ bucks and with a coupon..even less! Does anybody know of any other uses for this?? has anybody tried this?? Let us know :) Wow can you feel the love?? LOL. Yikes, I used to be pationate about many other things, now this.. I'm officially a scrap nerd.. LOL

TIPS, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUE WEEK - DAY 2

Good morning ladies! I thought we would show the fastenator today. I love this tool. There are so many different staples you can buy for it, different colors and shapes.

On this page I used them in the corner to give the page a finished looked. The fastenator can into a 12x12 page right to the middle of the page, so it is very verstile. If you have something you want to staple in the middle of the page you can do. I also tried to get a close up of the staples I used. I really love this tool and need to pull it out and use it more.
Do you have a fastenator? If so, how do you use it?? Let us know. Thanks for stopping by!!!

TIPS, TOOLS, TECHINIQUES and STUFF!

Ibought these this weekend and decided to use all three on a project. The GLOSSY ACCENTS is COOL. I put it on the orange part of the diamonds. It's hard to tell, but it dries clear and makes it look wet and puffy. It would be perfect for a cake with dripping icing or a beach page to make a wave look wet. I used the FINE POINT GLUE PEN to stick down my sentiment. It worked great because it didn't bleed through the white paper. I used the MINI GLUE DOTS to hold down the bat which is made of felt and regular white glue or mono would have been a disaster. Oh ya, and I got that cute lil witch stamp at ac Moore for 77 cents!