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I used a piece of willow reed that broke off my laundry basket! :lol:
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My driveway is always full of small limbs from all the trees we have in the yard. I'm always using them for embellishments for out door cards, or for the vine on a grape etc. After a windy day, my husband always says, " You need any limbs, the driveway is full again." haha. Keeps him from having to clean them off.
I used a grapefruit bag as a mat for the basketball set. It looked great. I also found that if you take a sponge, (or brayer?) and some ink and run it over the grapefruit bag you get a neat tire track effect. Haven't used it yet though!
Last summer I remodeled a house and put new blinds up all through it. When I cut the blinds to fit the windows I had lots and lots of cording to cut off. Of course I saved it to use whenever I found a reason. I've been using it lately as "pocketbook" handles on some cards I CASED from this site.
I've used a piece of river birch bark on a card and a small hanging I did.
One of my student assistants at school found me some twigs to use on a "picture" I made using botanicals. I stamped the main design on a broken piece of stone tile (terra something or other?). Attached hand made papers to a partica board picture frame mat, glued on the tile (about 9" x 6"). Attached swede cording, beads and feathers to a twig and glued to the face of the tile. It made a different picture for my wall.
I turned wood bamboo skewers into chopsticks with a Chinese Take out box stamp I have. And I use the skewers to wind wire around to get even circles.
Carrie
Yesterday I used my small hole punch on all 52 cards I created for the Mega Swap. When I emptied the whole punch of all the tiny dots of card stock, I immediatly thought I could use them for a shaker card. Hey, nothing like recycling!
I found sea glass on the shores of Lake Superior that I've used as embellishments on my cards. I've also used wooden matchsticks to hold a scroll together that I put on a card. I also enjoy taking apart necklaces and using the beads as embellishments on my cards. One recent card that I made used black mesh that is sometimes used to help hold tar in place when it is being put on something steeply slanted like a chimney or a roof. It made for a very manly card!
A used dryer sheet. Stamp your cardstock, sponge or color as desired, then run through a Xyron machine face down. Then stick your dryer sheet to it and pour on Dazzling Diamonds glitter and shake off the excess. The glitter will stick to the adhesive that shows through the little holes in the dryer sheet. It makes a very pretty soft looking snowflake card!
A friend of mine lost her husband suddenly. (we're both quilters) I stamped the lovely heart from Love Always (retired last year, boo hoo) and embossed with white. Then crumpled it up (and maybe some crumpling before stamping.) Then I tore it in half and rubbed some brown ink over it. Sewed it backtogether sloppylike on my machine, and mounted it over lace vellum. Hand wrote message something like - "you'll recover, but you'll never be the same." My husband thought it was the ugliest weirdest thing I ever made. Also I cried most of the time I was working on it so it had real tear stains. My friend told me it was her favorite card cuz that was exactlyhow she felt. I am teary eyed just thinking about it -talk about from the heart! I'm not the sentimental sort and I seldom cry, so that was the weird part for me. Ugly isn't that unusual - oh well. i usually make two of 4 cards at once - that was a onsie!
We went to Llama-fest at a local university last year where I made DH and DD pick up the llama fur that was laying around. I used that fur on a sb layout I did of our excursion. A few weeks later, one of my customers pulled it out of the page saying, "Oh, you've got some fuzz on here!" We all still talk about that - it was hilarious!
I was using the handpainted petites set the other day and felt that the small single flower needed a small yellow center. I was at work and the only thing I could find to use was the positive side of a AAA battery. I stamped it in yo yo yellow and worked GREAT!
I think if we were on a deserted island with no stamps we would adapt and overcome! :lol:
The big Buff Puff from Bath & Body Works. I hate them in the shower but couldn't justify throwing them out (came in a gift basket from DH). I dab it on the ink pad and then on the paper give a nice subtle background.
Mini Bamboo Drink umbrellas.
I tried the hammer with the eyelets and just mashed up my eyelets.:(
Cyn;)
__________________ XOXO- Cyn
"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."Emily Bronte
I had my teenage nieces over to make gel cards. We wanted to make something that looked like water bubbles but I didn't have a circle stamp. I dug out a bag of baby potatoes and cut them in half. We stamped them on ink pads and after a few tries we managed to get something that looked just like bubbles. The girls thought it was hilarious.
Pencil earser top makes a great small dot, the cork out of a wine bottle makes a medium size dot. I use sand from the beach, it's much nicer than what you buy in craft stores(just keep it in a sealed bag for a couple of weeks before using it ;) ) & I pick up lots of teeny tiny shell to use too.
The strangest thing....
