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Craft Offerings at Dollar Store and Dollar General

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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.

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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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Time Management In Difficult Times

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The last few months have been exceptionally difficult. Finding motivation to work in the craft room, work on WordPress, even just basic household chores after love ones go on to the great beyond has become just a motion. Before all of the loved ones passing, my play time consisted of using the smart phone calendar to schedule all of the chores that needed to be done. (If you wish to know in great detail of which app’s I’m using just drop the question at the end of this story.)

Great practice for learning to schedule business stuff that also has to be accomplished. Now I know that my loved ones wouldn’t want me to dwell on their passing forever so using this App has helped me move forward to do what needs to be done. For the most part I’ve gotten all chores done. This has left me with extra time to wok behind the scenes to learn everything about blogging on WordPress. I want to mention that I have several drafts in place and not a one of them has made the junior league. I can plop a thought down and forget about it or I can add to it and the awesome part nobody ever has to know.. (unless I publish it.) I love WordPress and I continuously come back to word press. I have one other blog spot but it doesn’t put me at ease like WordPress does. If your thinking of blogging I recommend WordPress. They say WordPress works better if one adds pictures. I like pictures however I think that if it’s kept to one or two per post it might save on frustrating you, the reader! What do you think? What are your thoughts?

As for the rest all I can say is learn as you go. There is a lot to learn and it’s impossible to learn it all in one day. Take notes and I recommend getting a lot of notebooks. (Lol)

You could probably say that this post is about time management. Did you guess right? Between chores and what I really want to do has become a war in its own right. The chores are starting to over run how much time I have to work on business, crafts and much needed shopping. Who doesn’t love shopping? Ya, that could easily take a huge chunk in its self. Business plans can also have a tendency to take over too. So.. I’m working on a plan to where I a lot only so much time per day per project. What doesn’t get done is saved for the next day. Here, one has to be careful because one could easily lose ones place on what was worked on last. By placing a note on your calendar’s list that the project is still being worked on is helpful. It’s not perfected. It’s still a work in progress. In the mean time, now, has also become a opportunity to reorganize the craft room. It too, is a work in progress. It’s by far not perfect and it’s still not quite the way I want it. It’s not much to look at but it works for me. It’s just quiet enough that I can think reasonably.. let’s face it a constant running of a tv on the news is distracting. I’m sure all crafters can relate. Am I right?

You, the reader have been incredibly awesome to have read this far into my story of the day. I have lost track of how many times I have edited this story. I can not wait to bring you a more structured story and I wanted to give you a heads up of what has been going on for the last few weeks here at Colorful Dimensions 2 Art blogging world. Many thanks and if you would like to keep up with the current happenings you can drop your email here:

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Finding motivation to paint

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Not to trifle with my internet

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Unexpected Rough Times

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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.

Before

What are your thoughts. See below the finish version and hanging as we speak.

Finished
A touch of glitter (stickles)

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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Don’t feel Defeated by Machines

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I want to say that I really didn’t want to miss you all but the last few days have been a bit of a whirl wind. I have been anxiously awaiting for a new printer. It finally arrived while I had to go to town for a appointment. While this is not about my appointment or about the date I had with my spouse. I want to just say it was a nice day and it felt good to be out of the house after several months of being cooped in. It felt good to have the sun warm my soul. Needless to say, we were in town all day. (to ourselves with masks on when needed.) By the time we got home we were to wore out. The only thing that I had enough energy for was to open the packages that came in the mail. A nice pretty purple, simple printer. Lightweight and moveable. Unlike the big one we have that is heavy, a pain to run, died a few years ago and its currently not liking me at all. When I reflected back on yesterday, it has occurred to me that I really missed watching people, the smell of the mills, the sounds of the cars, the flowers, the business of the people going into stores, the trees (flowering type) and just so much more.

Today, I thought I would be brave and plug that cute, new, printer in. Um, No instructions, No software, and this could not be a good sign. Well, I got this.. right… Plug cords in and turn on.. Oh got to put the ink in. Shut off and put the ink in. Turn back on. Run up the stairs to grab the paper. Lets see if this little baby is going to work. So much excitement just got deflated when I see these flashing lights….. no paper going thru. Whyyyyy?? Whyyyy me??? This voice says stop and check everything. Cords are plugged in, the ink cartridges are in, button is on. I know change the paper. Maybe it don’t like the paper. Run back upstairs and find different paper. Tried that and nope that didn’t work either. Hmm well, there is another cord and lets hook up the computer and lets try some trouble shooting. Well I found out that HP is doing away with paper instructions. Nice to know! Ha! Yes, found software. Downloaded and went thru all the appropriate steps. Well, that still didn’t solve the problem. HP had me download an update on the software that I just downloaded. Can you believe that? But low and behold it told me that something was jammed in the printer. Really!!! Yep, that smart little cookie printer was right. I pulled out this piece that made me want to panic as I thought oh boy, this thing must have got broken on its trip here. Luckily, I did send an item from my computer to the printer. I wish you all could see how I excited I am over this sweet little printer. I’ve been printing everything that is important that’s been on my computer for sometime. Mostly one pagers, or two. But I have some biggies that are going to take a lot of ink. I’m a bit stingy with my ink for the moment until I can order more ink. Anyway, I just want to say here this has been a long but eventful day. (my computer has been complaining that it has a full memory) I’ve been dumping files where ever I can. You tube videos take a lot of memory. I do hope that I can get back to my favorite pass time soon. The next couple of weeks is going to be extremely busy. There is still a lot to learn, do, and not do. My point for this post is this. If, you get a new machine. Don’t let it defeat you. Don’t be afraid of it. There is always a solution somewhere. When you beat it, give your self a pat on the back. You deserve and earned it.

Cute little purple printer. Blue tape was replaced after use so our four legged friends wouldn’t break the plastic parts.

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This article was first published April 30, 2021 and September 19, 2021 the article was revised to add color to the text and to provide structure to a sentence.

Happy Mail

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    Happy is not the word I’d use today for how I feel about my happy mail. After a two year wait, I finally have one. Call me happily pink for this month.

Update: 5/20/2021

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14th of February

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14 February is around the corner and this card is a gem out of all the cards I have made. I’m anxious to make the next Valentine card number 6. Just as soon as I finish rearranging and cleaning my Craft/studio/ photo room. Happy crafting!

Kindness save’s a friend

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I have gone thru a whole week retrospectively happy reading e-mails, checking (FB), play on Instagram, checking Redbubble saving YouTube for last. Scrolling thru the videos to see which one I want to watch first. I stopped short reading a tittle “I’m ready to Quit!”. I was stunned. Here somebody I adore and I wanted to scream at her “Oh No u don’t!”. I didn’t get all the way thru the video. I was compelled to contact her. I let her know how I felt and that she is loved.

The next day she posted another video completely different head line. She had explained how other people’s words meant to her besides mine. (The outpouring was a blessing) Sometimes we just need to connect to that one person to make a world of difference.

My point is this, please be kind to yourself and to others. ( to help protect her privacy and her family I conveniently left out her name) ( this is in response to answer assignment 11. Prompts) https://www.dailypost.Wordpress.com

Using what you have or improvise

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I recently read a word press post on a New Years Card. Beautiful Card! Reading the description she explained she had stamps for this particular season and she had misplaced them. Instead of spending time looking for them she improvised by finding what she needed right from her computer. My point is this: not everything has be made with stamps or dies. Just as cleaver embellishments are made from what is available at hand. I think that it makes the card all that more special. I also want to point out that this is part of a assignment for word press (day 9). I also want to add that I’m slightly impatient as these classes or assignments need to move a tad bit faster for me.. sooooo I’m doing my best to add buttons.

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The Journey Begins

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Thankyou for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

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I started on my blogging journey sometime ago. This is an updated version of the journey I’m currently on. I never dreamed that I would be blogging. I’m more of the person who listens to other peoples stories. I’m the quiet one. I don’t entertain. I’d rather be entertained. However, things change. I have changed and decided that I need to do something that I thought about years ago but never had the chance to or like I said above, I never thought Id be blogging. Hope you enjoy and if you have any tips and tricks let me know. Thanks in advance.

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16 September 2021 is a day of reflection and to take notice of how far I have traveled in this journey. I would have not gotten this far without all of you who are here with me to encouraging me along and my higher creator. My hopes is to continue to bring you forward along with me on this journey and see where it takes me in the future. The more I learn will always be applied to the stories so stay tuned to the ever changing journey. You may find amusement in reading the article titled Assignment 2. This is when I felt that I needed to learn a few things. As of today I can say that I still have not learned everything about blogging. I can tell you that blogging is very complex yet so simple. If you plan on following along in my foot steps or someone else you admire… don’t quit your job… you need the $$ to get started and its an on going $$ take away due to the legal side of things. I’m not going to go into great detail about blogging here as it would take to long and there is so many blogging materials out there already. I recommend that you just start reading and take a lot of notes.. think of this as a marriage… its for life especially when you invest what you have into blogging. There have been a few times where I really questioned myself if I was doing the right thing. My response to the that last sentence is “Yes, I am.” Something keeps me moving forward. With that said, I do wish you luck and I will always offer my support to any person brave enough to embark on this journey.

2021 Upcoming Holidays

I’m so excited that Halloween is soon up on us. I’m more for the cute side of Halloween stuff. I’m a zero fan of the scary side of Halloween. This Halloween I’m hoping to add to my Halloween art collection by adding a Halloween banner to the stash. There is so much I want to accomplish for Halloween that I’m uncertain that I will get it all done. For each Project completed I will give you an update from the beginning to the end.

Even more exciting is that Thanksgiving is also close by. That means planning now to ensure that the home is on its way to be in ship shape for anticipated company. Planning a head also insures that Thanksgiving dinner supplies will be on the ta do list. Now is the time to try that new recipe before the big day. We don’t want to forget to think of all the things that we are thankful for and the awesome Parade. I don’t know about you but I have to see the parade. Don’t forget to add the fall candles to your shopping list. Don’t you just love the smells of cinnamon and pumpkin? What are your thoughts on Fall and Thanksgiving Day crafts? I’m anxious to get started on Fall and Thanksgiving crafts.

Planning now also ensures that Christmas list shopping. Feeling overwhelmed yet?? Ha, ha.. Start planning now helps keep the anxiety at bay. Starting a Christmas shopping list for gifts for each person will help you get a head start on the shopping. Don’t forget to start the shopping list for the Christmas Eve and Christmas meals. Find those recipes that you wanted to do last year and do them now, before the holiday arrives. After all we don’t want to serve something that ends up less than appealing on the very day. Now is also the time to think of you Holiday color scheme or theme. What about those Christmas Crafts that you want to work on? Now is also the time to start working on those as well. If you are like me… I’m already feeling overwhelmed just the thought of it all. I know that having lists will help keep me on the calmer side of things.

Have you given much thought to what you want to do for New Years eve or New Years Day? What about Your New Years resolution? I will admit I haven’t made it this far either. I Look forward to the Year 2022. Perhaps, you have decluttering the craft room in mind. If so you may want to take a look at 5 Craft Room Declutter Ideas or maybe you will want to further your education or brush up on skills. To give you some inspiration you maybe interested in these posts to read Assignment 2, Kindness save’s a friend, and Those annoying things you avoid!.

I want to point out that you don’t want to forget the Birthday’s throughout these upcoming months. For all who have a birthday in these coming months— I want to wish you now a “Happy Birthday!” Do you have any Birthday crafts in mind to make during the upcoming holiday season? I do! I will share at a later time in the meantime maybe you would be interested in Using what you have or improvise.

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