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I wonder how many people out there think stampers are a strange breed????? I was at walmart yesterday using the picture maker. The machine had a paper jam. After it was unjammed, it spits out 5 blank pictures. I asked them what they were going to do with them. She said they would throw them away. I asked if I could have them. She said OK with a strange look on her face like why would you want that. Then the other printer jams. I got 10 pieces of blank 4x6 photo paper. Don't you love a good day at walmart???
I thought I was odd when I got a card in the mail from my cellular provider. I kept it because it was fancy. They had used a piece of vellum (no printing on it whatsoever) and the paper and envelope were heavy weight nice paper, so I can play with them and make some fun stuff!!!
My boss lets me scrounge through the stuff she finds in the office before throwing it out. She doesn't think it's strange at all......then there's my family who think I'm completely nuts!!
How funny pryor208! My husband was opening the mail and had me come into the kitchen to see an invitation that "you will never guess who it is from" challenge. Curiosity got to me... It was from our celluar service provider as well! I chuckled but stopped him from throwing it out as "I can use that for stamping!" He just shook his head and gave me the envelope.
Glad I was not the only one saving that piece of junk mail.
Now I have had to stop myself from cutting windows from bill envelopes - a girl has to have limits.
It's so funny that you mentioned the cellular card and vellum. I too saved mine. We are all so crafty that nothing slips by us without creative minds working alike! LOL, Nan
Oh yes, I get the looks too! I just get frustrated when fellow stampers give me the looks after telling them how much time I spend on SCS. How can they be true stampers and not LOVE this place as I do????
No problems here!!! My 9 yr. old loves to get the mail and she has learned what is "good" and what to throw away!! Theres nothing wrong with that
How about containers. I just can't seem to throw away all those teeny tiny containers that brads and eyelets come in. I know that someday I will make home made lip gloss for my girls and use them as holders!!!
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Oh YES! The other day I was making pasta and noticed the front of the box had a really nice square window with plastic in it -- instead of putting in recycling, I kept the front of the box -- and DH was like OOOH-KAY! I told hiim it was for making a quick window card!
Yeah, my family thinks I am nuts, but at least I have fun with finding uses for stuff! I used to save those pillows we used to get in the SU boxes for shipping (before the paper that I have saved also, LOL) and one day DH threw them out and I was so sad!!!
No problems here!!! My 9 yr. old loves to get the mail and she has learned what is "good" and what to throw away!! Theres nothing wrong with that
Cool! That's some good parenting right there. Wish I could train my son like that....
My mom thinks I am certifiable...I even keep the paper that SU! uses in our boxes! I haven't done anything with it, but I keep it 'just-in-case'. My upline calls me a 'crap collector'....
Catie
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I always get strange looks but then when I explain what I'm doing....
Great use for those blue plastic American Express cards that have the circles printed all over them - punch the circles out on the bottom with your whole punch and use them for eyelet templates. My customers though that was pretty clever.
That is too funny! I guess if you would ask at walmart they may save you some more of the blanks! I used an old picture and cut into the shape of a cloud - I trace the cloud with blue ink then place it on my paper and use a napkin to brush the ink off onto my page all around the cloud and it makes cool looking cloud effects.....
I am collecting the Crystal Light containers but I have yet to figure out what to do with them! ANY ideas!!! OH and my quick boxes will be fun to decorate sometime....
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Hey, Catie, you can use the paper that comes in the SU boxes for wrapping paper if you iron it out carefully and then stamp all over it. As a demo, I use it to cover my dining table for stamping on. When done, all I have to do is untape it and throw away. The paper might also be useful for some crinkled effects...hm....have to try that.
I keep that paper, too!! I use it for wrapping paper, as well as cover paper for other projects. It is so useful ... why would I throw it away?! :shock:
Wow! This is why I love this site!!! Ya'll are so ingenious! I saved the Osh Gosh tag because I thought it would make a good tag template- I worried a little about myself but now I feel validated. Thanks
I'm going to have to pay a little more attention to the mail now.
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Because I reduce fat when baking and use Gerber's prunes as a shortening substitute, I have those cool plastic lidded containers. They're the perfect size for storing the jumbo cartridges! They stack nicely, and I can label the outside with the color! More money for stamps!
Our 4yo son made a really cool looking robot mask out of an SU box the other day and a cardboard car out of one that came today, complete with dashboard! That's my boy!!!! LOL!
and I got to play with my goodies while he was creating them~
It's so funny that you mentioned the cellular card and vellum. I too saved mine. We are all so crafty that nothing slips by us without creative minds working alike! LOL, Nan
Ahh man...Does that mean I'm not crafty? Cause I threw mine away. :oops:
It's so funny that you mentioned the cellular card and vellum. I too saved mine. We are all so crafty that nothing slips by us without creative minds working alike! LOL, Nan
I tried to save mine, but let me tell you, that it caused quite an uproar the other day - the vellum was on the kitchen table and I guess I didn't see it there and put a cookie sheet down on it. Imagine my surprise when it smelled like I was burning something after only a few minutes in the oven - opened the door and the sheet of vellum was in the oven! Oh well, I guess I can't use that now!
You all make me think of a guy I used to work with. It was down at Illinois State University in the library. I worked in General Reference and one of the librarians saved empty copy paper rolls. The copy machines we had had rolls of paper rather than sheets. When the roll was empty, there was this very heavy duty cardboard tube leftover. He didn't know what you could use them for, but he felt there must be SOME use for them and it was his mission to figure out what it was. So they were stacked all over his office! :lol:
One day, someone handed him an article about some guys who had discovered what you could do with the tubes. They would take a phone book and use some sort of machine to twist it into a really tight cylinder that was then stuffed into the tube. You could then burn it much like a piece of firewood, turning something totally useless into something useful!
Well, that totally defeated my coworker. His purpose in life, to discover a use for leftover copy paper rolls, had been usurped by others. He went back to his office and threw every single cardboard roll away! :lol:
That said, I have this nifty plastic circle that Target sent me a while ago...it is a hologram thing that shows a sequence of bullseyes moving outward and then a "Thank You" as you move it back and forth...must be some use for it in stamping, right? All I know is I can't bring myself to toss it...
What's that guys name on the Carol Duvall show that recycles everything?!?! I thought his toilet paper rolls snowflakes were really cool.
ANYWAY...I must not be a crafter because I am not a recycler. I save obvious things like altoid tins and baby wipe containers...but it never occurred to me to save the SMALL eyelet containers for LIP GLOSS...I am such a bone head. I gave those to my art teacher sister!
I use the paper that comes in SU! orders for wrapping tables when I have a stampin' event! no fuss, no mess and no wasted grid paper!
Ah, but by using the grid paper, I sell lots of it! My stampers love it! I don't even have to talk it up, once they've used it in class they decide it's a necessity!
I use sheets over and over again. Once they are pretty marked up, I put out new, but use the marked up ones myself until they are absolutely disgusting, front and back; then I toss 'em!
I'm always saving stuff too. My Grandma gave me a bunch of large coffee cans. I had my DH drill some holes in them so I can paint them, stamp on them and use them as luminaries. I also save the altiod tins, international house coffee containers, etc. Someone said they have been saving the crystal light containers. I have covered those with background paper, tied a tag around it with ribbon and filled them with candy or little gifts. I was thinking you could also stamp on printer paper and use that to cover them. The lightwieght paper is easier to wrap around the container. This is great. Keep the ideas coming!
Ah, but by using the grid paper, I sell lots of it! My stampers love it! I don't even have to talk it up, once they've used it in class they decide it's a necessity!
Really? I've used the grid paper at WS and camps and have never sold a single one. Also, I just noticed yesterday that my grid paper has separated... I suppose its from toting it around to Workshops. So I have a bunch of loose sheets. I will say that I do love using it myself.
While at Burger King with my ds they were giving out Yugioh toys inside a small box shaped like a pyramid. I saved the box to use as a template and made a box with bliss blue, stamped snowflakes from Ho Ho Holidays and added the snowman from Festive Four on each side. It came out so cute. The next time I go to a fast food restaurant my 6 yr old asks if I want to save the french fry container for stamping. I'm training him well.
On Carol Duval the other day she stamped on the "bad pictures" from a roll with Staz On, (just random stamping) Then cut them into squares and rectangles, applied them to sticker paper with 1/8 inch between like tiles them used gold embossing on the "grout lines" It was really cool, and you can't tell at all what the original pictures were. One of the better projects from her.
On Carol Duval the other day she stamped on the "bad pictures" from a roll with Staz On, (just random stamping) Then cut them into squares and rectangles, applied them to sticker paper with 1/8 inch between like tiles them used gold embossing on the "grout lines" It was really cool, and you can't tell at all what the original pictures were. One of the better projects from her.
Wowzers! You never know what you will learn from this site! I used to keep my International Coffee Tins and store bobby-pins in them. (when I had long hair) I never thought of wrapping paper around them and filling them with "goodies". I have three partially filled tins in my house now! I am going to have to start drinking more hot drinks!
I cleaned out my daughters room a while back and found a shoebox FILLED with tags off of clothes. I was horrified and disgusted that she would keep these. She kept insisting that she knew that she could use them for something. (she's 10 and very crafty) I insisted that they were JUNK and threw them out. Now I find out you can use them as tag templates!!!?? :shock: :shock: :shock: UUUMMMMM.........I think I may be saving tags now..........
Angie
ooohhhhhh.....I always keep the brown paper from the Stampin Up box. I use it for wrapping paper! :lol:
My son had some yogurt packaging that had hologram parts on it. I kept eyeing it sticking out of the recycling bin, just knowing I could use it for something....LOL
So I punched holes all over & used the circles for a shaker card. LOL
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I will join in the crowd! I have everyone here at work saving their pop tabs for me for buckle cards. I have them trained that if something looks even a tiny bit interesting they have to show it to me to see if I can use it. They get a kick out of it. And just remind people we are recycling!
You all are crazy....this post is full of some great ideas. I read it earlier today and had to come back to comment after this happened to me....
I'm sitting here at work, just pulled a piece of orbit gum out of my pack and had to look in the pack to see if there was anything that I would need to reuse....Now, I still have 1 piece of gum left, but I may need to pull that shiny foil out of the pack when I'm done...In addition to stamping I Iris paper fold too, and that would be a great center for a card...LOL!!! I'm looking at me funny....
Do they look at you strange too???
