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NEVER leave a real red ink pad open and in your 2-yr.old's reach. Can I say I caught her red-handed? And I got a great hand print impression. However, my white dining-room chairs now have little pink prints all over them.
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If your liquid glue bottle is plugged, DON'T squeeze hard while looking at it! My excuse is it was 3:00am. My friend and I still laugh about that one. Glue was in my hair, on my face, on the fridge, floor, table ect.
ROTFL This is hilarous, but you know we all do, look right at what we are trying to unplug!!
Makes me think of "Blonde Stamper - Episode 1" Just kidding! One of my best blonde friends tells the best blonde jokes ever and I thought of this reading through all of these.
My additions - leave only cheap paper where your kids can reach it - lock the good stuff up and cut cardstock in half for them so you don't have a 8 1/2 x 11 with something small cut right out of the center!!
Great thread!
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DON'T squeeze your bottle of Crystal Effects really hard to get it unclogged. It WILL eventually come loose and you can squirt out a HUGE glob of CE onto a really cute, finished card you just spent an hour making.
Don't know if this one has been covered or not, but make sure, if you're a demonstrator, that you clearly explain:
"While a heat gun is the best tool for embossing, you *can*, in desperation, use your toaster at home. However, do NOT insert the paper into the toaster slots!!!!! Hold it ABOVE the toaster with tongs!!!"
Yes, this has happened. She was lucky she didn't torch the house. And, I nearly had a heart attack when she mentioned "this technique really didn't work well for me . . . " :rolleyes:
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Don't know if this one has been covered or not, but make sure, if you're a demonstrator, that you clearly explain:
"While a heat gun is the best tool for embossing, you *can*, in desperation, use your toaster at home. However, do NOT insert the paper into the toaster slots!!!!! Hold it ABOVE the toaster with tongs!!!"
Yes, this has happened. She was lucky she didn't torch the house. And, I nearly had a heart attack when she mentioned "this technique really didn't work well for me . . . " :rolleyes:
OMG that is hilarious and scary at the same time!!
What a great idea about the toaster... I have heard of people using their BURNERS *GASP* but never thought of a toaster & tongs. Good info to pass... get them hooked on embossing.. and then show them how easy it is to use the heat tool heheheh
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When using bleach for a technique do not leave the bleach open near any of your paper projects overnight or for a long period of time. I made an adorable Stationary set, and the bleach fumes bleached my ink! It all faded :(
LOL sounds like my house. My Dudley (the white cat in my avatar) likes to eat ribbon. His absolute favorite is Tulle, I have my destroyed wedding veil to prove it. And he likes Barbies clothes. Especially Barbies wedding dress, because of course it had some tulle on it. I have to be so careful what I leave out. But at least he's not as bad as Gabby, the tabby cat in my avatar, Gabby likes to chew on electrical cords. We slather all our cords down with bitter apple regularly.
So my tip is, don't leave out your heat tool anywhere that your suicidal, electrical cord chomping cat can get to it.
The only GOOD thing about them chewing tulle is that it's like a little KITTY TOOTHBRUSH!!! I actually braided some tulle, knotted the ends and tossed it in the "toy box"... I do catch her chewing on that once in a while instead of my ribbon! Other things I have learned not to leave where the little sticky-pawed-theif can get to them.... MARKERS (she chews things that are plastic); any variety of string, yarn, flax or ribbon; transparencies/acetate (unless the tooth marks can be worked into the design as "art"); and I cannot leave cardstock with corners exposed... she feels the need to round them for me.... chewed up, drool enhanced cardstock... YUM!!!
Don't leave your embossing heat tool plugged in when you are not using it. I heard one story of a demonstrator whose house burned down when her cat must have turned her embossing gun on by accident. I've seen mine roll off the desk and turn itself on, so it isn't as far fetched as you might think. Unplug the thing!
I have mine plugged into the outlet that is run by the wall switch. No light on in the room? Heat gun can NOT come on! Not completely accident proof, but I'd usually be in the room at any time it COULD be turned on! (Dad made sure it was seared into my brain to turn off the light when leaving a room!)
don't use Dazzling Diamond a minimum of 3 weeks before any important event. my DH kept seeing sparkles on everything!! including luggage, important papers, and faces. We were in an airplane weeks after I had used Daz diamonds and my DH looks over and says I have sparkles on my forehead.
I am only on page four of my reading. I am laughing so hard my kids think Iam mentally disturbed. I have paused to quote and comment at least 10 times but had to take a break to comment on this. LOL I can't believe I am JUST finding this thread now.
You guys are a riot! My husband is a teacher and does not allow glitter in the house because of this exact thing. Little did he know that I had tons of it in my stamping room (unltil last night when I presented him with the birthday card he is giving to his sister this week) ROFL he wouldn't touch it because he didn't want glitter on his forehead 4 weeks from now.
When using a pearl-ended stick pin as the cover for a bottle of glue/crystal effects so it doesn't get clogged, do not use the same glue bottle as something to prop a wet jar upside down on. The pin will rust inside the nozzle and turn your glue into rusty colored glue!!
don't let two grandchildren using two diffrent colored inks alone in a room because your only orange will have black sheep imprinted in them. I freaked and my dd just laughed at me.
Here is my latest...If you see your exacto knife rolling towards you and about to roll off the table into you lap...grab it with your hands. I learned that it will be a natural reaction to try and catch it between your legs. Which I did manage to catch, and there I sat with an exacto knife poked into my leg. OUCH!!! I really should have gotten stitches, but I thought it would heal just fine. Bt the time I realized it wouldn't heal well, I was told it was too late to get stitches :(
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Here is my latest...If you see your exacto knife rolling towards you and about to roll off the table into you lap...grab it with your hands. I learned that it will be a natural reaction to try and catch it between your legs. Which I did manage to catch, and there I sat with an exacto knife poked into my leg. OUCH!!! I really should have gotten stitches, but I thought it would heal just fine. Bt the time I realized it wouldn't heal well, I was told it was too late to get stitches
If you have cats, put your stamps away, or you may not find the small ones as the kitties like to play with the stamps and carry them around like a toy. When I moved out of my first house, I found a few stamps I may not have found where furniture was at. I think I had watercolor minis out and was missing a few stamps for quite some time.
Stamps and toddler boys under 2 don't mix either...open mouth, insert stamp, chew off the rubber...or try to...I've caught him in mid-action and saved the stamps, but a minute longer and the stamp would have been history!
Don't drop a roll of glue dots on your floor. It will actually roll across the floor, liner paper unravelling as it rolls, leaving glue dots behind in its wake. :mad: on your floor.
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Don't drop a roll of glue dots on your floor. It will actually roll across the floor, liner paper unravelling as it rolls, leaving glue dots behind in its wake. :mad: on your floor.
Julie,
Something similar happened at a class I did.
I had 2 stations set up - 8 people in attendance, 4 at a table. One of the cards required glue dots. I only had one glue dot container so I thought I'd just cut off strips for everyone and put them at their place at the table. Sounds like a smart idea, right? NOT! When they sat down, many had not seen a strip of glue dots before. They picked 'em up, put 'em back down on the table UPSIDE DOWN! Arrrghghhhh!!!!!!!!
I had a lot of people unsticking glue dots from the paper covering the tables that day. They ended up using mono instead.
Now I make sure I have enough boxes of glue dots to pass around IN THE BOX!
Michelle
- who wasted a whole container of glue dots:(
Oh, man. I hate when that happens, Michelle. :( I feel your "ARGH!", and at the same time, it made me finally laugh at MY misshap today. What's worse is I couldn't see some of them and STEPPED ON them!!!! ACK!!!
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Don't rub your eye when using Dazzling Diamonds at a workshop. Duh
Don't forget the wax paper when demoing a candle. Double Duh. Luckily on that one the hostess had brought cookies wrapped in... wax paper. We wiped it off and it worked fine (we were at a Fire House for that demo).
Julie, had the same thing happen with glue dots. Only it was here at home on the carpet. They stick really good to carpet in case you ever want to put carpet on a card
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Don't use your heat gun to close to the carpet. I just had to do a "quick" little blast from the gun and laid my card on the carpet instead of doing it the right way. I picked up my card and there was a perfect little square of burnt carpet, I just put something over it because we were getting new carpet anyway. I burn and melt everything in the kitchen and didn't want to give my husband a new story to tell everyone. LOL!!
Cindy
My tip: If you step on a vinyl stamp box and crush the corner, "gently" heating it with a heat gun will not allow you smooth it back out. It will, however, warp the box to the point of you not being able to close the lid.
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Don't keep a bunch of stamp pads open at the same time on your desk, you're just inviting disaster. I open one at a time now, even if it's a pain.
Heat guns will also melt folding chair seats. I think the best thing to hold stuff while embossing is the tweezers from the Tool Kit. They hold themselves shut, you have to squeeze them to get them open.
Don't sneeze when any little pots of powders are open.
Don't hold an inkpad over a finished card to close it. Move elsewhere.
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These are all too funny!!!
Here is my latest...If you see your exacto knife rolling towards you and about to roll off the table into you lap...grab it with your hands. I learned that it will be a natural reaction to try and catch it between your legs. Which I did manage to catch, and there I sat with an exacto knife poked into my leg. OUCH!!! I really should have gotten stitches, but I thought it would heal just fine. Bt the time I realized it wouldn't heal well, I was told it was too late to get stitches :(
Or better yet, don't grab it with your hands, they get cut also.....get the heck up and run away until it hits the floor. Same with kitchen knives! Better the floor than me.
Other than the tips in my signature, here are a few I've learned from my two curious cats:
Purple and green paw prints on the beige carpet can be an elegant part of your home office decorating scheme.
Eyelets are clearly cat toys. They are meant to be scattered. I still have at least three in my PC keyboard to prove this.
Ditto brads.
Paper towels are for unrolling, chewing and shredding.
If the human has her attention on these funny wooden blocks, and you would like some for yourself, be kind enough to flop yourself right beside where she's working (also known as "How my tabby became a pastel calico").
Heat guns eat cats. Never use one with a cat in your lap unless you're wearing steel pants.
When using the sewing machine, try not to sew your cat's nose as she/he investigates the moving needle (haven't done it yet, but probably only a matter of time).
Always check to make sure your cat's tail is clear of the Fiskars Ultimate Cutter blade track before snapping it shut (YOWL!).
My number one tip for all cat owners is to buy a cheap spool of metallic or organza (i.e. shiny) ribbon. When you need to work with your own ribbon, wave the shiny stuff around and toss it across the floor. The cat will go after that, leaving you to work in peace for 8.7 seconds before she realizes that HERS isn't moving but YOURS is. :rolleyes:
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