Tip of the week:
Kitchen and other stuff for your craft room
This week’s tip is for kitchen tools and other items, that you can bring into your craft room:
1. Aluminum Foil – You can use this to sharpen your punches, or run it through an embossing folder and make embellishments for cards, etc.
2. Wax Paper – Ball up a bit of waxed paper and run it over your card stock before you score it. It makes scoring your paper smoother and easier to fold, etc.
3. Press & Seal – if you use lettering or small die cuts line them up where you want them on your grid paper and then take a piece of Press & Seal and place it over it and give it a gentle rub. This will attach to the Press & Seal and you can lift the whole word up at one time still in order and then apply your glue. Afterwards you can place them on your card or scrapbook page and release them still aligned.
4. Plastic spoon – I have several up in my room and in my craft tote. They help spoon embossing powder over an object, help spoon glitter over glue, or move ink around on your inkpad. I use a spoon when I reink because sometimes gift cards will “cut” the foam pad that SU uses and leave lines in your stamping.
5. Metal Fork – I use mine to make mini bows. There are several videos on fork bows on You tube and I recommend Jennifer Cotton’s channel for instruction.
6. An old scrapbooking tip, I keep dental floss in my craft kit as well. I use it to “Saw” up an embellishment that was placed in the wrong spot. Works on pictures for scrapbooking as well. Especially works well when you realize you have placed something just off from where you intended.
7. Erasers – A regular eraser works great on removing stray pencil marks from your projects or if your stamp is not quite stamping as clean as you would like it to. A sand eraser is good from removing small dots of ink from your card or pages.
8. Swiffer refill – I keep a stash of Swiffer cleaning cloth refills up in my room. I use this to clean up spilled glitter, embossing powder, etc. It is also good for removing the excess talc from your embossing buddy.
9. Microfiber cloth – generally handy to have for spills, cleanups, wipe downs, etc. It’s handy to have one in the room. I have one with a grommet affixed to my cup holder.
10. Paper Towels – yep – can’t do without them. However if you cut the roll in half with a hacksaw, you may be surprised how much further it goes.
11. Post it Notes – not only are they great at masking, but you can use it to help hold dies in place or leave notes on scrapbook pages when you forget an embellishment or some memento that needs to be added.
12. Last but not least – a note pad. My room is upstairs. I am making notes on stuff that need to come down, need to go up. Need to be finished.
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