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The card making group of which I am priviliged to be a member went on a field trip today to a couple of stamping/scrapbookign stores and lunch. In one of the stores there were $5 grab bags. So I picked up mine and paid for it and the rest of my items. When I opened my bag there were a rubber stamp (not my style but any stamp for a stampaholic is great) and a small packet of scrap CS, paper, and ribbon pieces (wierd as it looked like some of my ziploc bags I have my scraps thrown in but hey it was in a grab bag) and I think the most valuable item was a Paper Bliss accent kit with beads, gems, eyelets, ribon, paper flowers. This sold in the store for 9.75 so paying $5 for it in the grab bag was a bargain.
The wierdest thing in the grab bag was a large ziploc bag of 10 wine corks. Five of the corks were used corks with wine stains on them and there were five wine stoppers with resin fruit sculpture on top. I found that a rather strange item to find in a stamping store grab bag. I thought maybe the owner might have had a little too much of the wine when she put it in the bag. I did approach her and asked her about it as I thought maybe I was not getting it and she said "no"... she loves corks and uses them all the time and that I could use them to stamp circles as a background or I cut pull the fruit sculptures off the stoppers and glue them on a card (that would be really wierd as the are kinda big and heavy).
Am I missing something? What do you think I could do with the corks? I did think about using one of the stoppers as a safety cap for my Exacto knife. Anyone have any other ideas?
I sometimes cut them in half length wise to use as backing for a stamped trivet or coaster set. I also pick off little pieces to place on the end of loose wires if I make a hat/card pin. But mostly I use them as a safety tool for my little kids when they get sparklers... probably not the advice you were looking for and in all honesty safety potatoes work better for sparklers anyway Looking forward to hearing other peoples thoughts!
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Love your idea Happy Heart. Thanks for sharing. Now I'll just have to open up and finish a bottle of wine....lol. Seriously though I can't wait to try it out.
I stabbed my corn holders into either end of a cork. It keeps a pair together, and it keeps me from getting stuck when I'm searching through the drawer.
I actually just saved a few corks so I could make something like this for my desk: Cork Vase
OH, oh, oh, jumping up and down in unadulterated happiness! This is just tooooo cute. And I've got that stamp set, a drawer full of corks, and scads of ribbon on hand. What a great idea. Thank you!!
OK, this might kind of sound wierd, but I get together with some friends monthly and we all do something -- one time, my friend had glued buttons to the end of corks and we used them as stamps. The buttons. I know it sounds really strange, and some of them didn't work but most did. When I get my camera I'll have to send you a picture of one of the cards that I saved. It was cute. We used a real button as an embellishment.
This isn't stamping related, but I glue them into a shallow frame and voila! Small ones are a trivet. Big ones are a cork board for posting messages, etc.
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I have never tried but can you use them in ink and stamp with them? Might be a bit mesy. Might start a new look? Either roll or the ends. I guess I will have to try that.
I stabbed my corn holders into either end of a cork. It keeps a pair together, and it keeps me from getting stuck when I'm searching through the drawer.
This is not for cards as a decoration, but can hold a few cards...Here's what I did with my corks:p Gallery at Splitcoaststampers
Holey, Moley.....that's a lot of corks....cute too!
I'm interested in what you are using to cut them into slices. Just your Exacto knife? I have saved a number of corks for this specific purpose but haven't tried to slice them yet. Darttella has a card she posted just the other day with cork circles on it. Here is the link: Too Cool! WT124 by Darttella at Splitcoaststampers
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I have a ton of corks also and I spent some time on line one day and I found this one site that has some ideas. Look at this house it is beautiful inside.
I have a ton of corks also and I spent some time on line one day and I found this one site that has some ideas. Look at this house it is beautiful inside.
It is a little plastic holder thingy that holds a single edged razor blade. You can get them in paint stores, sometime Wal-Mart has them in the paint and hardware dept.
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If you go to my website (all 3 cards), you'll see my OSW I did with a cork. It's not a profession job like some of the cards but you can see where the corksrew went in and where I used the plain side of the cork. Thanks for all the wonderful ideas ladies! You're the best.
Love your idea Happy Heart. Thanks for sharing. Now I'll just have to open up and finish a bottle of wine....lol. Seriously though I can't wait to try it out.
I once saw a funky picture frame that was made with a winecork. A piece of wire was inserted into the cork (the excess was like a flower stem). The head of the flower was CS cut into a flower shape. The center of the flower was where you would paste a picture. Then the bottom of the cork was glued into a votive candle holder. It was very cute!
I saw this idea several years ago in a stamping magazine.
Use a glue gun to attach an interesting coin to the bottom of the cork and use that as a stamp. They then took it a whole step further by decoupaging the cork using stamped & coloured images and finished it with a clear finish. Looked stunning. You wind up with both a decorative & a functional item all in one.
You kbow those SU stamp sets that come in a box that seems a size too big and the stamps slide around in the box... I have a couple of alpha sets that do that...anyway, I put a couple of corks in the box and it keeps them in place and upright so I don't have to search for the letter I need.
Corks?
and in all honesty safety potatoes work better for sparklers anyway
Another option
