The ink Pad aims to help you in all areas of your creative life. Handy Hints brings you great ideas from our customers and friends to help make your life easier.
The right tool for the job makes it so much easier to be creative. But sometimes you have to get creative to make the perfect tool. Congratulations to Jeanette who sent us our favorite hint and wins a $10 Ink Pad gift certificate.
Next
month we'll be featuring handy hints for messy situations.
How do you coral your beads? Or stop your glitter
making your home into a sparkling palace? How do you clean up
after you paint? Or get ink off your hands?
Send your handy hints to
[email protected] and you might win a $10 Ink Pad
gift certificate too.
I've got a great way to pick up those tiny rhinestones and Dew Drops: Use a crayon. The small item will stick just enough so that when you place it on your project, it will adhere and "release" from the crayon. It works like a charm! Have fun stamping and scrapping!
Jeanette, New York
I always use Q-tips to rub on
chalks. They are much cheaper than the foam tipped dispensers which are
sold at craft stores.
Cornelia
A
really useful wonderful non-craft item is a ten-pound bag of rice!!
This is invaluable when you want to weight something down after
adhering it to paper. It's especially wonderful because if your item is
bulky, the rice will adjust itself over your bulky items beautifully.
Oftentimes I want to let an item such as an ATC or a card or even an
entire scrapbook page sit under a weight for a time, even overnight. A
bag of rice is the perfect solution for this! Try it! I have two bags
of rice in my craft room and could not live without them!
Laurie, Florida
I was a quilter before I worked with
paper and so I was used to cutting with a ruler, mat and a rotary
cutter. It is a breeze to use these tools to cut
paper! My 60mm blade even slices through bookboard like
"butter". Give it a try...
Linda, Arizona
Thanks to Estrella, my new favorite
tool is one of those round yellow sponges. I've always used
them with paint and clay, but now I use them to sponge ink onto my
projects as well. It gives a wonderful texture and I can just
pop them in a lingerie bag and wash them! How cool is that?
Rachel, New York
I'm actually combining the favorite
tool hint with last month's repurposing storage hint. Many
brads seem to come on thick foam sheets. I took two after
using up all the brads, and glued them together. It is now
the perfect place for me to store one of my favorite crafting tools, my
piercing tool. It's also thick enough to lay my paper on when
doing the actual piercing. Look how well worn mine is!
[Editor's note: this is also great if you cut a piece and use
it to cover the blade on your craft knife.]
Eileen, New York