One of my favorite types of paints to work with is Apple Barrel. I love the fact that I can wash it with just soap and water. Easy to use and they are the first paints I grab to create a piece of art.
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Continue reading One Set Of Favorite PaintsDo you have favorite craft supplies or tool(s) or thing(s) in your craft room? Do you have a favorite space in your craft room or what do you like the most about your craft room? What do you have craft supplies or tool(s) that you dislike and why? Do you have a section of your craft room that you dislike the most? If there was anything about your craft room or space that you disliked how would you change it?
Let’s dive in and try to answer some of these questions. I’m sure many of you have often wondered about these questions from some of your favorite crafters and those you read online. I will admit I’ve wondered some of these questions myself. So lets take a look at the questions individually.
My most favorite tools are my pencils, pens, and colored pencils. I can achieve a lot with them. My most favorite craft supplies are my white card stock. I can place nearly any thing I want to achieve on white card stock.
My most favorite space in my craft room is my desk. My desk is an old vintage desk and my husband brought it home. He had intended to use it for himself but the wife adopted it from day one. (Wife Rules! lol) What I like the most about my craft room is the window. I can see everything I need to from that window. It gives me a wonderful view of tree’s and everyone who passes by.
I can honestly say yes. Craft Supplies that are so old that they no longer work. I have tools that are hard to use and some are so old that they have broken. They will soon beheading to the garbage been. I mean they are so far gone that they can’t be repaired or reused in some other form.
My current craft room has been a wonderful area to work in when I first started out my journey. As I grew so did my supplies and tools. I have visualized that soon I will need to find more space for more tools and supplies. With that in mind my craft room now has become too small. So I guess I could say I dislike the fact that my craft room has become too small for my needs.
Yes. Let me explain why! My craft room is not a normal Square. Its more like crossing two sticks together. That’s my craft room. Its not very wide and its not very long. My hopes that in a few years that I will have a much bigger room to have as a craft room.
I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on the same questions as above. If you have any questions you can drop me an email at anytime and I will answer the question to the best of my ability or find some one who can or where you can find the information.
If your a beginner card maker and you don’t have a big budget. Many items can be found at Dollar General and the Dollar store. You might be asking how do I know this? I’m a frequent shopper of Dollar General and the Dollar Store. I occasionally use their products making cards.
There are many products to choose from at Dollar General for example: Card bases with envelopes (pkg. 20), jewels (big and small, various colors), variety of stickers, glue, water color paints, pens, color pencils, puff paint, water base Acrylic paint and so much more.
At Dollar Tree there is mounting tape, glitter paper, foil paper, stickers, glue, hot glue sticks, paint, watercolor paints, color pencils, pens and if your lucky stamps. There’s more and way too many to list them all.
Not all Dollar Stores and Dollar Generals are created equal. You may need to travel to many shops to get that one thing you want. However, the cost factor out weighs the cost of a the major craft stores. It is also a major save when it comes to ordering products on line.
I have used most of all the products offered by both of these store’s/companies. I still use some of their products to this day.
When you become a bit more confident in your card building skills, you can add to your stash with more popular products. I will admit that card making is not a cheap adventure, if your wanting all the latest tools and popular products. Building your stash takes time. Keep in mind that there will always be some new product or some new stamp. I recommend picking only that makes you happy and something that you think you will use over and over again. I don’t recommend picking the items that are trends. I can tell you I have been building my stash for year’s and I’m still not where I want to be. However, I am closer to my goal and so will you. But that’s another story for another day. This is suppose to be about craft supplies and where to get them as a new card crafter.
I can tell you that there are just a few things you may need that are not available at either of these stores. That is a bone folder, a score board, a paper trimmer and a guillotine. The bone folder isn’t exactly needed but it’s a nice addition to secure mounting tape or reinforce the fold of a card base.
I can also tell you from experience you want to watch for those extraordinary items that just pop up out of the blue at either of these stores mentioned. For example: Washi tape. (I was super excited to find it and I walked around like a kid in the candy store.)
Technically this was suppose to be about my favorite Dollar store crafts. I can tell you that story was too short for this platform and to tell you the truth I wanted to get away from making this all about me. I wanted this to be about you too.
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If you really want to know the answer to the question……my most favorite craft item in the whole store(s). It’s…… It’s…. ITS STICKERS! I love stickers and I will happily admit I’m a sticker hoarder. I love my stickers so much that some don’t even stick anymore. Sad isn’t it. I grieve over the loss of just one sticker. So if you can imagine.
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So there you have it dear readers… my dirty secret and where to get cheap card making supplies. Till the next time, Colorful Dimensions 2 Arts salutes all card makers.
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Hello and Welcome to this weeks post(s). If you have been wondering where I have been these last few days an unexpected rough patch came for me here at Colorful Dimensions 1014. I can not discuss the matter too much. I’m okay, four legged friends are okay, spouse is okay, and business is okay. I do want to mention that when these rough times do come along, it’s really hard to pick one self up and run a business. It’s hard to be on top of everything when your world just crashes. I gave my self permission to grieve for a few days but decided it wasn’t going to bring me down so far that I lose interest in my followers and my business.
I took part of my time to paint another canvas (Dollar General). It’s just a simple canvas and my craft room needed one more add to make it more me. I really liked the saying when I first bought the canvas. However this week the phrase made the meaning, different. I’m not so sure I want it on my wall. I wasn’t even certain I wanted to paint it. It took some convincing for myself to even paint it.
I decided that I will go ahead and paint it. Follow thru with the original plan and see where it leads. It took me roughly two days to paint it. It’s all done now. All water base acrylic used this time and one micro (black) pen. I also went a little wild by adding some stickles glitter. I’m tempted to add some (gold) deco foil. What do you think? See below before and after pictures without the gold deco foil. In some ways it turned out nice and in another makes me ask myself what I was thinking with the background.
What are your thoughts. See below the finish version and hanging as we speak.
On to another subject: This became a good time to clean this part of the craft room. It needed it bad. All paper and fabric flowers into one drawer. Buttons into one glass bin. Super long tablets found a drawer that is long enough to handle it. All unnecessary items found a temporary home outside of the craft room. Some items are going to go live with someone else and some will be donated. My point is this, don’t let a bad week take you down so far that you no longer want to function but rather turn the bad into a positive. Clean something, organize something, paint, draw, or do what ever it takes to get your mind off the problem. Grieve yes! Wallow in in it no.
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Happy Memorial Day weekend for those of you who celebrate the holiday. Happy weekend for those that don’t. I had to take a short break from typing, lifting stuff, writing, stretching and pretty much any thing that involved moving muscles after being injected. Few days after I’m almost back to my normal self. Nearly caught up on everyday living stuff and sitting down to do some research. I have found the answer I was looking for. Here it is: Posting everyday on Word Press. In my reality I’m not so certain I can come up with something to say every single day. So that means I’m going to have to come up with a plan to have things lined up to talk about. I am curious as to how many bloggers actually plan out ahead of time what they are going to talk about? How many bloggers use prompts? Maybe when I get going further down the road I’ll throw in a few craft projects.
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