Sort of... review? or April 29th, 2013

I used some letter stickers today, that I actually found hard enough to use that I thought I might warn people about my experience.
These:

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Are Pebbles ABC Stickers in the Seen&Noted Series, called "Black ABC Stickers" and are product number 732126. I really liked the look of them; I love that they're semi-heavy but not super heavy. I love the font. I love how many of each letter you get; there's a lot there.


I don't love how the edges of each letter pops up off of my layout all of the time. I feel like I should have glued them down, which would counteract them coming with glue, which would mean I could have just bought card letter cutouts.


So while I like the shape and size, I don't know if maybe I'm doing something wrong, but they just aren't sticking down.
If it helps, I bought them in a kit from Winner's in my town. Maybe that's it? I'm too cheap to buy them from the company so I'm getting reject glue?

April 26th 2013- or "The fork that fixed the window"

Today I decided that the windows needed to be cleaned as I could no longer see the colour of the sky while looking out them-- the sky was always a nice, pale grey dust colour with some dustwebs thrown in for good measure.
After heading outside and seeing an old screen that I had popped off when our old door lock stopped unlocking, requiring me to break into my balcony window (good thing I'm on the second floor, bad thing that it took me a total of 25 seconds to pop the screen off and climb in, meaning that anybody who is in the terrible shape that I am could climb and break into my house within a minute and a half, like I did).
I continued on with my window-cleaning, and then decided to pop the screen back in when I was done. That took a good 25 minutes of sweating, grunting, pinching, pushing, pulling, swearing, laughing at myself and asking for help from the significant other after he continuously played his new video game while attempting to tell me that I was doing  it wrong.
He didn't get it in either.

Until, until I saw the fork that I had sitting on the windowsill by my planter for some reason (don't ask me why, it's literally been there for three months and just never got picked up. Why it was even there in the first place boggles my mind). And I thought, gee, this will work just fine to slide the screen that's a half-inch too big for that hole right on to the little track for it.

No kidding. That's actually how I think about things.

Long story short, it worked. And so my friends I give you, the fork that fixed the screen in the window:

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Sometimes, the tools that you don't think are for that job are easily the best ones for it.

or, more generally:

Sometimes, you have to use whatever is at hand to get something done.
And sometimes, that's a fork. 

Sparkles in clear embossing powder! (April 11, 2013)

Hi!
   I've been jazzing around with my scrapbook supplies lately, in particular the supplies that I tend to neglect like my embossing powders. I just don't feel like I play with them enough.
  Today while crazy-embossing I came up with a concept-- will adding sparkles to my clear embossing powder work?

   After spending some time searching around on google and pinterest, I didn't find any answers. So I tried it with a teensy bit of clear embossing powder, Recollections brand, and some Wow! white glitter that I picked up from Winners when it was 3.99.
 
Lo! It worked!
Here's how I did it:
Step 1: Spend a few minutes searching around for some pill bottle or other semi-not-humongous container within which to store it, otherwise face throwing it out (not my can of beans, lads and lasses).
Pour in small amount of clear embossing powder that you have--mine is Detail embossing powder by Recollections from Michaels.

Step 2: Pour in some glitter. During this test, I was using Tulip Fashion Glitter that I got on sale at Value Village after halloween two years ago for less than a dollar. THAT is the time to shop for supplies, I tell you, when the crafty stuff and makeup goes to 75% off.

Step 2/ optional: or use other glitter from other places.

Step 3: Mix it together in your little storage container; mine's in a pill container from the dollarama that I was previously using to remember to take my vitamin D in the morning.

Step 4: Use a stamp and a watermark or resist or versamark or other inkpad; I haven't tested other inks for this but imagine they would work as long as they are okay with embossing powders usually. This stamp is a Studio G stamp which does not seem to have a name, but is from the 1.50 bin at Michaels (I love it).

 Step 5: Heat emboss that jazz.

And BLAMMO! It works!

 

I will be very clear ( see what I did there? ) and say that I prefer more sparkles than I used for the clear with white sparkles, since the sparkles seem to show better with more of them and the clear was only a tiny, tiny sparkle amount. I put some more in the gold (test 3) and even more in test 4, or the above, purple sparkles picture.

 Furthermore, it did NOT look very good on my scratch or computer paper since the paper was so thin, but I feel that it was as a result of my ink rather than the method itself.

Have a Greater Day!