tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23626924575165814662024-02-19T09:43:23.225-05:00Lindenbell Papercraftsbelldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-39944961004869997922019-02-10T19:24:00.000-05:002019-02-19T19:24:47.633-05:00Goodness Gracious Large Sheets of Paper!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm not sure I've ever been really satisfied with a post title that wasn't a terrible pun or reference.<br />
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More to the point, I've been wanting to print out and perfect-bind some fantastic fanfiction novels that I think are so good they deserve a physical place in my library. The thing is, I don't really do representational art, and there isn't a lot of fanart around for this particular series. So what, I wondered, should I do about covers?<br />
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I got to thinking about colors, but I didn't want a solid color. Eventually I ended up at "aha, there's a local paper store, I think they sell great big marbled sheets -- that would be pretty!"<br />
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So I went and got some paper. I can't emphasize enough how beautiful this is outside of the photo. The feathery one is pearlescent and shiny! (These are big -- nearly 20 x 30 inches!)<br />
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And then a while later I went back and got some more in a different style, because PRETTY PAPER. And also because there are a bunch of books I need to print and bind.<br />
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And then a week later I decided that I needed another green selection, so I spent a whole Saturday hunting through the various art supply stores that were any slightly-mad definition of the word "nearby", and came home with two whole sheets of paper... one of them from the paper store I had bought the others from in the first place.<br />
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I suspect I can't even print on the one with gold swirls, because it's a kind of soft pre-crumpled paper. Maybe if I fix it to some carrier cardstock somehow?</div>
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My fixation on finding The Perfect Green Marbled Paper came to an end only when I went out and bought a marbling kit. I don't <i>want </i>to make the paper myself, but somehow without having the kit I couldn't accept these beautiful-but-not-quite-what-I-imagined papers as good enough. Now that I <i>could </i>make something closer to my imagination, I think they're probably fine.</div>
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belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-91131632350656664732018-03-04T19:52:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:28:11.859-05:00Bookmarks LXXIV: Basics Geometric<br />
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The simplicity of black, white, and silver goes nicely with some delicate geometric patterns. But really the point was to create something nice while testing my Basics queue inkpads and trying out some new stamps. I think it succeeded pretty well -- except for the part where I didn't make a second bookmark to test the bronze, copper, and gold!</div>
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We can't actually see any of the ink I was testing here, though. In order to make everything show up nicely, it's covered in embossing powder. It's possible I was testing that too? I'm pretty sure the reason the black and white designs are on contrasting squares is not 100% for the visual effect. They'd look pretty good on grey/silver too. I think it's mostly that I knew I was going to mess up with the black embossing powder several times and didn't want to remake the whole bookmark each time!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span>belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-34538940931540014582018-02-24T19:49:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:28:03.791-05:00Bookmarks LXXXIII: Sweet Sixteen Dinosaurs<br />
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These bookmarks are all about testing some of the inkpads in my Sweet Sixteen queue to make sure they didn't need refilling. Considering that inspiration, they turned out pretty cute! I think I can credit the stamp set for that rather than the inks.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span>belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-69799415403538803202018-02-18T19:44:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:27:40.099-05:00Bookmarks LXXII: Peacock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gosh but I love a peacock blue. And when I saw this stamp in the store, it said "Buy me, I'm shaped like a bookmark". It's not like it was wrong.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span>belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-20640759540076620862018-02-10T19:54:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:27:14.398-05:00Bookmarks LXXI: Fair Fletching<br />
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These bookmarks make me think of painfully bright winter days where it's so beautiful and snowy that you feel like you just have to go out and do something. I couldn't come up with a way to condense that feeling into a title, though.</div>
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I'm pretty sure the inspiration here was 100% the backing paper. Then I just piled on the arrow shapes and did some color-matching stamps. The penguin is part of a set with the polar bear of <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2017/11/bookmarks-xliv-snowflake-floe.html">Snowflake Floe</a>, and it was still on my table from November. What is this "cleaning up and putting away" of which you speak?</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span>belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-35347402781768398192017-11-12T19:35:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:27:54.616-05:00Bookmarks LXX: Abstract Scraps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More scraps from the<a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2017/11/winter-cards-demo.html"> Winter Cards</a> examples! You can barely tell in this photo that the black has been dry embossed with some texture. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span>belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-53918659617979934462017-11-11T19:31:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:26:55.437-05:00Bookmarks LXIX: Snowflake Floe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jeepers, that thumnail is fuzzy. I've got to get better at focusing when I take pictures with my phone.</div>
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I used the confetti from this edge punch for the barely-visible snowflakes on the sledding card for my <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2017/11/winter-cards-demo.html">Winter Cards</a>. Then I did some wintery stamping on the scrap and slapped it on some blue cardstock. </div>
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The polar bear looks surprisingly content on that tiny ice floe. Sometimes you've just got to float off into the current, I guess.<br />
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A group at work does a crafting activity once a month. I volunteered to supply examples, basic instructions, and, well, supplies for one about card crafting in early November.<br />
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I brought supplies for more options than this (plus, mix and match!), but these are the cards I made as examples:<br />
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This one mostly demonstrates some thing you can do with punches and washi tape:<br />
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This one is pretty much about embossing: dry with an embossing folder,
and heat embossing with gold powder. (I have a lot of failed versions
where I tried to figure out if I could get good images straight on the
dry-embossed background. Not terribly surprising, but: no.)<br />
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This one demonstrates a nice stamp-and-die set, with some ink edging
around the smaller green pieces. (I imagine someone who wasn't making
mostly bookmarks might have added some foam tape to make the tree stand
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span><br />
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Now that all my immediate family is grown up and out on their own, that means they can have Christmas trees. And that means I can give them ornaments for Christmas.</div>
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I got some little wooden tag blanks, put seasonal cardstock on both sides, and caked the edges in gold embossing powder. An embossed decal stamp on each side finished each tag. To increase the Festive Quotient, I tied some small bells to the twine and fastened on some swirly ornament hooks.</div>
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I wrapped them in pairs in some sparkly red and green tissue paper. (The cats were very enthusiastic about pretty much every step in this project; I had to keep all the string and bells and ribbon and crinkly paper safely in a closed box.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span>belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-39021968739568480252013-07-07T19:41:00.000-04:002019-02-19T20:26:29.424-05:00Bookmarks LXVII: Jeweltone Blends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This bookmark is a product only of supplies from the <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2019/02/state-of-stash-21-i-think-i-have.html">slightly-overboard whirlwind tour</a> of all the Michaels stores in town, because I didn't really have anything else on hand. It's pretty much inspired by that wide streaky washi tape, with a side order of "let's smoosh some colors around and add silver". I mean, you can't buy that many kinds of metallic acrylics and use <i>none</i> of them. </div>
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This bookmark definitely has a friend -- I know I made one out of the other 6-inch half of the border strip that forms the base. But either I've lost it or -- shock! -- it's hiding inside a book rather than in the Bookmark Box. Maybe someday.<br />
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I found this draft when I came back to the blog in February 2019 -- just the title and a saved folder of photos. I looked at the title and I thought... oh self, you have so many Black Fridays in front of you.<br />
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Then I went to edit the photos and actually, I think the title is accurate. That's... a lot of stuff. <br />
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From what I remember, I gave myself a tour of all the Michaels stores in a new city, and found one in particular that had a remarkably un-picked-over Clearance section. Jackpot!<br />
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Especially since I don't think the rest of my craft supplies had actually arrived.<br />
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So we've got the basics: paper, trimmer, ink.<br />
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And of course a selection of stamps -- and a nice stamp press to make up for the temporary separation from my stamp blocks:<br />
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Love those airships, hate those scare quotes that don't make any sense. <i>Quotes are not for emphasis.</i><br />
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Looks like I picked up some paper stacks, too:<br />
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Gosh, I wish those first two had come in 4x6 matstack format. At least things still existed in matstack format in 2013 -- I practically never see them these days, and they're perfect for bookmark-making.<br />
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Then again, glancing at my shelves here in 2019, it looks like I have at least 20 matstacks, to say nothing of the 6x6 pads, so... maybe it's good that the industry won't sell me any more.<br />
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It was a good trip for spritzes and sprays, too:<br />
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And no journey is complete without a whole lot of washi tape to hoard away for the next few centuries. I barely ever use it. Why do I keep buying it? Pretty colors, I guess, although I think I could have done without most of these.<br />
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I do still really like that adhesive runner.<br />
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Plus some nice border stickers:<br />
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Then we've got the less papercrafty stuff. There's certainly an argument to be made for acrylics and brushes, though I don't really use them myself in papercrafting:<br />
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And origami is certainly papercrafting, although not the kind I do on this blog.<br />
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But there's really no call for Sculpey.<br />
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Now, if pressed, I imagine I could make up something about creating tassels and tassel charms for the bookmarks. Fortunately I don't really need an excuse for crafty shopping. It was a good deal and looks fun -- it doesn't necessarily have to be papercrafty.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span> belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-9729578279443450582013-06-29T22:19:00.000-04:002013-07-07T23:46:20.822-04:00State of the Stash #20: In Search of an Aux Cable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk5RiSZBQnpdHeozlod98uQwA2lPE-jrNPcVT_nwHrYkn6mu2AsHZPUkmQtIQVMT0UIXDOf9OJOPEOwfYs7BuNWjS8emOuAuF8CHCnBDuznjGpCWzwbQsF588S3lGTemDd2OBaxj25vb_o/s1600/Thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk5RiSZBQnpdHeozlod98uQwA2lPE-jrNPcVT_nwHrYkn6mu2AsHZPUkmQtIQVMT0UIXDOf9OJOPEOwfYs7BuNWjS8emOuAuF8CHCnBDuznjGpCWzwbQsF588S3lGTemDd2OBaxj25vb_o/s200/Thumb.jpg" width="135"/></a></div>
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My intentions were good, I swear. I went to bed on Friday night thinking I needed to go out and buy an aux cable in the morning, so that I could connect my computer to my monitor's built-in speakers.
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I don't remember exactly how I came to be on Craigslist this morning, but once I was there it was fairly inevitable that I would check out the arts & crafts offerings. These are generally safe, actually, as it's pretty slim pickings for papercrafty supplies.
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However, I happened upon a listing for a place called "DaFinds Antique Shop" or something of that nature, which said they had got some craft supplies and were selling them cheaply. It was a bit of a drive, but I was in the mood for a bit of a drive, so I decided to go check it out.
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It was more of a consignment shop than an antique shop, which I guess explains the craft supplies. They were mostly stickers, so I was mostly able to resist, but I did end up with some neat cutouts, wizard hats, border strip stickers, and an alligator in a purple hat:
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He just seemed like such a jolly alligator, you see.
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DaFinds haul (well, the ones I could find to link to):
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I returned to my good intentions and told the car's navigation system to find me an audio/visual sort of store. I was going to find a local shop and support the local economy! With my, um, roughly $10 aux cable purchase.
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Where I ended up looked pretty residential. "Oh well," I thought, "try again." I had the car find another place more-or-less on my way home. Again, I ended up in a residential neighborhood. I don't know where the navigation system is getting its shop data from, but at least in this category it doesn't seem to be very good.
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Feeling rather defeated, I drove roughly homewards... and took a sharp right into the parking lot of a Joann. I confess my intentions were no longer pure. There was very little chance that a Joann was going to sell me an aux cable, and quite a large chance that it would sell me some craft supplies.
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I am in the process of moving, and without my supplies at the moment. But I'd just bought stickers and paper, so I figured I could get a stamp set and some ink and maybe something to cut with and scratch the create-things itch. It was an excellent excuse to pick up these Brilliance inks, which I've been thinking about trying out for a while.
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I wandered a large portion of the store, but this Joann was definitely tilted towards fabric crafts rather than general crafts. I've got no problem with that, as that's really just how it ought to be.
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There were a couple of minutes where my basket was quickly accumulating cheapo acrylic dollar stamps, but I was very stern and put most of them back, keeping only this fun woodcut-y pair of cats:
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All in all, I was doing pretty well -- until I found clearanced stuff near the registers: a great big 12x12 stack of DCWV's "All Chalked Up" paper and a bunch of loose paper from The Paper Company.
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I know I have no use for 12x12 stacks, but I bought the darn thing anyway. Now that I'm actually at home and looking at it, well... yeah, it's definitely too big for me. So instead of putting a picture of it in this post, I've <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/300930306955">put it up for sale on eBay</a>.
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And then I bought several clearanced glue sticks, too, because there are definitely times when I run through glue sticks pretty quickly.
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</small>belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-15641490795258349272013-05-18T10:25:00.000-04:002013-07-05T15:37:57.862-04:00State of the Stash #19: Hurrah for Rainbows!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtLjBTSfhDqc_4EWayboh8A1XGjrylt0KOKorxwT4FSpMCxZOszOd5KxvsGI3dqsyUj75OwjA0jSIzOcBrKW2lBSJIeyJ5x7iOJH4DvtgqGEDNwBC6FCT9RzWrJpStjT_Sto2j5yYieYln/s200/Thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" width="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtLjBTSfhDqc_4EWayboh8A1XGjrylt0KOKorxwT4FSpMCxZOszOd5KxvsGI3dqsyUj75OwjA0jSIzOcBrKW2lBSJIeyJ5x7iOJH4DvtgqGEDNwBC6FCT9RzWrJpStjT_Sto2j5yYieYln/s200/Thumb.jpg" /></a></div>
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I had a very promising interview on Monday. By very promising, I mean it ended with "Tomorrow we're going to make you an offer."
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After I disconnected from Skype, and jumped around in excitement, and hugged my boyfriend really hard, I said: "Let's go buy crafty things!" He acquiesced.
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In ordinary circumstances I would not have bought this trimmer. I don't particularly need it, and I'm well aware that what actually attracts me is the pretty rainbow all the cutting heads make. But! This was not a practical trip. This was a "Yay, I'm getting a job offer!" trip. So I bought it.
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I also finally picked up the Green DCWV mat stack; it's been "maybe next time" for a while now.
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Continuing in the rainbow theme, I got this stack of neat "fiber" papers. I do wish the sixth color had been violet or purple rather than pink, I must admit.
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I'd like to say I got this kraft-y boxboard-y black-patterned stack as an antidote to all the bright colors, or (heaven forbid!) that I had a project in mind for it. But I gotta admit, mostly I got it for that swirly pattern. The other patterns should come in handy too, but I'm a sucker for doodly bits.
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I'm a sucker for craft supplies, really, but allow me to maintain the pretense of some discrimination between them.
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And that was my celebratory craft store trip.
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(My boyfriend bought a Cricut. I don't like the closed cartridge-based ecosystem, so I haven't wanted one; he found one deeply clearanced and bought it to mess about with it. It's pink, but he doesn't mind: to him it's just another CNC ("computer numerical control") system. He's already plugged his computer in and tried to make it do tricks for him.)
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I mentioned <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2013/01/state-of-stash-17-weak-to-paisley.html">last week</a> that I had ordered some Sizzix stuff from Joann while it was on sale. It arrived on Tuesday.
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What I was really shopping for was the "Solo Thin Die Adapter", which you'd think they could have thought up a catchier name for. For which you'd think they could have thought up a catchier name. (Did you know that there's actually no grammatical rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition?)
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I do actually have a use for the thin die adapter, because I <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2012/10/lace-loves.html">own some thin dies</a>. I know, my purchase was made the wrong way 'round. But mostly I bought it because Lawn Fawn is coming out with dies to fit around their stamps. And I will want them, precious. And I don't want to just own them, I want to be able to use them! So I had been looking for a reasonable price on the adapter.
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(You may notice I also pay very little attention to the convention of not starting sentences with "And", "But", "So", etc. While it's not good practice in formal writing, it's not ungrammatical.)
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Then I went looking for other Sizzix stuff I might like -- mostly embossing folders. Of course, I found rather too much that I liked a little bit, so I had to narrow it down. I bought a set of embossing folders with abstract designs that should look good on bookmarks.
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I also found one of the Texturz "starter kit"s for a very good price. Now, I received an "Impressions Pad" -- half of the texture plate embossing sandwich -- for Christmas. But I didn't get the silicone rubber half. So I figured, hey, why not get a whole starter set? It's got the silicone rubber, three 2-sided texture plates, and the impressions pad to boot. (And since I haven't used the impressions pad I have, we can return it!)
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I'm not sure about the whole texture plate system. It gives a more shallow and less crisp impression than the folders do. However, I think that while the embossing folders produce things that look better to my eyes, the plates might be better for paper I'm going to use in bookmarks -- because the shallow impression leaves the paper flatter. So I'll try them out and see.
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I don't see bloggers talking about embossing plates at all, just embossing folders. But Sizzix is still making them, so presumably someone is buying them. If anyone else has tried both, I'd love to hear your opinions.belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-26695199754165750822013-01-30T15:12:00.001-05:002013-01-30T15:13:02.715-05:00(The RNG at) Creative Inspirations Paints liked Cheery Cherry Snowman!<p>
I've been not terribly active in the whole reading-blogs-and-posting business lately, so I've only just now seen that <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2013/01/bookmarks-lix-cheery-cherry-snowman.html">Cheery Cherry Snowman</a> came out of the hat <a href="http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.com/2013/01/randomorg-top-4-inspired-by-case-it.html">as a Top 3 entry</a> in Creative Inspirations Paint's "<a href="http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.com/2013/01/ci-paints-inspired-bycase-it.html">Case It!</a>" challenge.
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Random or not, it's always a thrill to see something I made show up in a winners post!belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-43730960347993168282013-01-27T19:37:00.000-05:002013-07-05T14:59:45.000-04:00State of the Stash #17: Weak to Paisley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wasn't <i>planning</i> to buy anything this week. I'm trying to be a little more conservative money-wise -- it's not as if I don't have plenty of stuff to mess about with already.
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Two things happened that lured me off this wise and narrow course. First, Joann had an online sale of Sizzix stuff at 40% off -- which is pretty good. I kept that order under control, and it should arrive next week.
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Then Michaels sent out an email announcing that all their stores were having clearance events. So I thought I would go check it out. And now I have a lot of new stuff:
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I like the idea of the Stamper's Big Brush pens, but their price seemed a little steep. Today, however, they were $3 apiece, so I grabbed all the colors left in stock.
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Down the aisle from the pens and inks is the stamp section. I'm fairly sure that already having stuff in my basket made it easier to add more, but the $3 price tag on the Recollections stamp sets didn't hurt either.
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And there were paisleys! I'm disturbingly weak to paisleys. I wish I knew why.
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Normally I'm not all that into butterflies, and I've resisted this lawn gnome set for quite some time. That resistance disappeared in the face of the $3 price tag.
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And then I saw a set of Christmas stamps which nicely complements <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2012/12/saturday-state-of-stash-10-christmas.html">one I bought last month</a>. And I noticed that this Paris set was a) photopolymer, b) a good deal at $7, and c) had a couple of thank-you sentiments, which I find useful. So into the basket they went.
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This pretty much exhausted the clearance stamp sets, so I turned into the next aisle to look at the stacks and cardstock. There were lots of good deals on full-size 12"x12" stacks, but those are way too big for me. I did find this foiled cardstock matstack on clearance, though. (Thankfully, the actual foil is much much shinier than the color representations on the cover.)
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It wasn't until I looked in a completely different place that I found these cardstock packs. Why they were not with, y'know, the rest of the Recollections cardstock packs back in the paper aisle, I do not know. My Michaels seems to have a tendency to hide good deals away from their proper places.
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At this point I announced to my boyfriend that I'd "found everything I could possibly buy" and headed for the checkout... then immediately went past it into the Area Of Dollar Stamps And Neglected Merchandise.
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Presumably the Stamping Gear stuff was hidden back there and clearanced because it isn't selling well. But it's certainly not going to sell if no-one ever sees it! I didn't buy any of the gear stuff, but these branchy stamps seemed useful, so I rescued them from obscurity. Or something like that.
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And then I finally did head to the checkout counter. (This is why my boyfriend brings something to read when we go to a craft store. I am not really sure why he comes at all, but it's nice to have him there.) The lady working there was clearly a papercrafter too -- she was excited about the Big Brush pens, and all the cheap stamps, and told me that the Stamping Gear was lots of fun. She let me know that this Michaels has crops on the first Saturday of each month. It was a very friendly checkout.
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I wasn't sure this day would ever come. But yes, there was a week in which my stash of crafty stuff <i>did not increase</i>.
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I even made some stuff -- which I haven't yet posted -- so it actually decreased!
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It wasn't this week, though. Oh no. I've got quite the increase this week. It's just that I didn't post last weekend, so this is a make-up post. Hey, a week when the stash <i>didn't</i> grow is just as worth keeping track of as one when it did!belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-27687606611727967702013-01-22T13:35:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:26:04.911-05:00Bookmarks LXV: Thimble the Thrush<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Found this one in my drafts too -- looks like Buttons the bunny had a friend.<br />
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I wonder what sparked these bookmarks. They're clearly a pair in theme and type-of-materials, but not a pair in their actual materials. Maybe I was working through some scraps?<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>This post was written in February 2019 and backposted.</i></span> belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-45089111859752504762013-01-22T13:33:00.000-05:002019-02-19T20:25:47.284-05:00Bookmarks LXIV: Buttons the Bunny<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Found this one in my drafts from back in 2013 when I dipped back into the blog in February 2019. Might as well post it backdated to around the right time!<br />
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This bookmark is yet another scrap-user (yay!). I was thinking about using the blue piece of paper -- and lo, I turned it over and had already stamped the large heart on it! I believe it was while playing with the <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2012/12/state-of-stash-11-lawn-fawn-stocking.html">avalanche of mini Lawn Fawn sets</a> and the eensy square Versamark pad.
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Well, the heart was pretty cute and already colored in with silver, so I figured I might as well do something with it. A different Lawn Fawn set provided the "love life" sentiment, and then I put the blue scrap onto a kraft-colored scrap.
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At that point it looked great. But I wanted it to be just a teensy bit less simple, so I took another couple of hearts and added them to the bottom right corner. Probably I should have just let all that white (blue) space be, but it turned out well.
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I'm entering this bookmark in the following challenges:
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<li><a href="http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2013/01/himcr-80-super-scraps-saturday.html">Hiding in My Craft Room #80: Super Scraps Saturday</a> (100% scrappy -- no paper was cut to make this bookmark!)
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I'm also linking up to <a href="http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2013/01/dlart-thankful-thursday-linky-party.html">DL.ART's Thankful Thursday Linky Party</a>, where anything goes.
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Supplies:
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In a stunning departure from form, I did not buy any new crafty supplies last week. Please pretend to be proud of me.
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That didn't prevent me from <i>receiving</i> new crafty things, however. Nope, I got the final set of doll-clothes Sizzix dies I ordered on eBay a while ago! (There were actually four in this lot, but as I already had the bathtime set I didn't photograph it.)
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I have no idea what possessed Sizzix to make something as bizarrely specific as a graduation gown and mortarboard -- much less why it's called a "garduation" set -- but aren't they fun looking?
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I apologize for the punny title. It's just... there's turquoise. And purring. "Purrquoise" just seemed to fit.
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Sometimes I reach a beautiful understanding with the craft knife/ruler team, and produce long, skinny, straight strips of paper. Sometimes just as scraps. Well, I couldn't bear to just throw them away, so I hoarded them for a bit and then stuck them on a bigger black strip of paper.
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And while that was elegant, I wanted a little bit more. I shuffled through my newer stamps and picked out this adorable little cat -- made cuter by the purring text inside.
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Because I was stamping on black, I knew I'd need to emboss for anything to show up. I was worried about the text, though -- would it still be readable after embossing? So I did several trial runs. I liked this one so well I decided it was unlikely I'd do better -- so I just cut it out and used it.
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The bookmark still seemed a bit unfinished. So I went fishing in DCWV's "All Dressed Up" matstack, which has some really lovely teal and turquoise papers at the back -- hidden behind all the black and red and pink. They're pretty much what convinced me to buy the stack, actually. And lo and behold, one of them matched my turquoise scrap almost perfectly! I cut it in half and used it to back the bookmark -- thus allowing me to keep the hanging-off bits of scrap strips, stiffen the bookmark, and add a little to its design all at once.
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I'm entering this bookmark in the following challenges:
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<li><a href="http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2013/01/ch1-pets.html">Paper Playtime #1: Pets</a>
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<li><a href="http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/challenge-58-tiere-animalspets.html">Fairy Tale #58: Animals & Pets</a>
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<li><a href="http://creativecornerschallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/01/challenge-2.html">Creative Corners 2: Cute as a Button</a> (c'mon, how can a purring kitty not be cute?)
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<li><a href="http://hotshotcraft.blogspot.com/2012/12/challenge-14-clean-and-simple.html">Hotshot Craft #14: Clean and Simple</a>
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<li><a href="http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-new-year-and-something-new.html">Incy Wincy Designs: Something New</a> (the stamp and the tape are new)
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The skeleton of this bookmark -- the purple strip with navy tape across the top -- has been hanging around for about a month and a half now. "Look at all the pretty green/blue/purple scraps you have," it kept saying. "Wouldn't they look great on me?" I hushed it, because I had to make thank you cards, dang it!
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But I finished the thank-you cards, and then it was time to play with scraps. I taped the blue strip of paper on with some new tape and glued down a punched-out circle. Then I was stuck. The blue strip needed something on it, and none of my stamps really seemed to fit the bill. (I guess I was wrong when I kept stopping myself from buying border stamp sets.)
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So I tried a strip of another new tape. It worked nicely to fill the empty space. A couple of circles with a silver pen, silver embossing powder around the edges, and I was done.
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I'm entering this dotty bookmark in the following challenges:
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<li><a href="http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-new-year-and-something-new.html">Incy Wincy Designs: Something New</a> (new tapes)
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<li><a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-new.html">Papertake Weekly: Happy New...</a> (Happy New Tape!)
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<li><a href="http://www.vostamps.blogspot.com/2013/01/victorine-originals-challenge-50.html">Victorine Originals #50: Sparkle & Shine</a> (shimmery purple paper and lots of shiny silver)
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<li><a href="http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/2013/01/sparkle-and-shineglitter.html">Crafty Sentiments: Sparkle & Shine/Glitter</a> (no glitter, but the purple is shimmer paper and of course there's plenty of shiny silver)
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<li><a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2013/01/challenge-251-beat-blues.html">Cute Card Thursday 251: Beat the Blues</a> (Well, I made a start on beating down the blue scrap pile!)
<li><a href=http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/welcome-to-our-1st-challenge.html">Inky Chicks: Anything Goes</a>
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Supplies: (both tapes are from Recollections/Michaels)
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belldoubleyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945497490896303415noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2362692457516581466.post-22384870555718690012013-01-08T23:28:00.001-05:002013-01-26T15:40:16.825-05:00Bookmarks LX: Scarfy Sledding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I couldn't resist recreating the <a href="http://lindenbell.blogspot.com/2013/01/card-scarfy-sledding.html">sledding bunny thank-you card</a> as a bookmark. And I had the perfect sentiment to do it with: I replaced "thank you" with "wheee!"
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Since this bookmark has the same design as the thank-you card it's based on, it doesn't seem fair to double-enter it in the same challenges. I am, however, entering it in the following, since it fits rather well:
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<li><a href="http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/challenge-58-tiere-animalspets.html">Fairy Tale Challenge #58: Animals & Pets</a>
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Supplies:
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