"TOOL TIME TUESDAY" ECLIPSE TAPE

Hello!

For this week's tool I decided to go with some tape.
It is not any ordinary tape though.
It is called ECLIPSE and looks like this:


It is an art masking tape with sticky adhesive. It can be used for more than masking though. You know how when you are stamping,inking, spritzing or just playing with saturated color inks they sometimes tend to bleed on the other side of your project?
Eclipse can help that not happen. You can also create your own stencil mask or create your own non-permanent stickers.
This particular roll is 6 inches x 33 feet. That's a lot of tape. I have seen it run for $14.95 on Eclectic Paperie.com. You may find it via other online retailers as well.

Hope you enjoyed this week's "tool".

CRAFTING TIP OF THE WEEK (#56) HELP, MY VINYL IS STICKY & WON'T COME OFF!

Hello Bloggers!

This week's tip is designed to help you remove your Cricut vinyl images when you are ready to either change the location of your image or just done using it.

It's relatively simple. If you have difficulty removing your vinyl letters or images from a particular surface like glass or walls; just use your blow dryer on a low heat setting & aim it in a back & forth motion over your image. That should do the trick.

Have a great week!

HALLOWEEN /FALL BLOG HOP

I am super excited to share some great news! The delightful
Stephanie at: Always Crafting
is hosting a "boo"tiful & bountiful Halloween/Fall blog hop. It will take place on SUNDAY,OCTOBER 3RD beginning @ 8am Eastern Time. She has asked me to participate & I am over the moon honored. I am so happy to be one of your stops on this much anticipated blog hop.

There are a total of 11 fangtastic, crafty bloggers participating in all. You will just have to join us to see who they are. There will be a GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY by Stephanie which is being sponsored by the generous Carol & Barrie of:
SCRAPADABADOO !
They have donated a Tim Holtz, On the Edge Die-autographed by the king of crafts himself and a Kaiser Craft Paper Pack called Jades Garden!
I too will have a giveaway but you have to make a stop on the hop over to my blog to find out what it is & for your chance to win.

I sure hope you can join us~ It is going to be a lot of fun!
We will have a spooktacular time.
I look forward to sharing my project with you all.

Feel free to share the news! Copy & paste the adorable blog hop photo in this post on to your blog.

FABULOUS FRIDAY FIND-CLEAR & SIMPLE STAMPS APP

Hey Bloggers!

This week's find is focusing on an application for those lucky enough to own an iphone.

It is the Clear & Simple Stamps App.
It is available on the Apple APP Store.
You can download the CSS App and give yourself a daily boost of creativity with Clear & Simple Stamps.

There are directions for projects and links to get you where you can buy the products used.
The cost is: $4.99 and you can go to itunes.apple.com to grab yours.

Sounds like fun.

Enjoy!

"TOOL TIME TUESDAY" THE QUICK STICK

Hi there!

This week's tool is brought to you by the people at QuicKutz.

It is not a new tool but I have found that sometimes when tools have been out in the market a while if they don't receive a lot of hype you may just miss them.

This utilitarian tool is called the Quick Stik. It is the "Quicker-Poker-Picker-Upper".



This tool will help you pick up and remove the tiniest of embellishments, die cuts, beads, punched images and photos with a stroke of the stik. It has an adhesive putty on one end and slanted- flat head on the opposite end allowing for pick up both adhesive & non adhesive products.

Some people have tweezers to help with tiny embellishments but I have this tool because it holds my tiny embellishments and allows me to place it exactly where I want it without slipping.

The retail on mine when I got it was $6.99 but I still have the same stick & it still has adhesive putty. I use it often. It was well worth it for me. If you can't find it at your local craft stores, try online retailers or quickutz.com .

Happy Crafting Everyone!

CRAFTING TIP OF THE WEEK (#55) MR. CLEAN IN THE CRAFT ROOM

Happy Monday!

It's a quick tip this week.
Need a way to clean your inked up acrylic blocks?

Just use the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.

It will get the job done quite well.
Just follow the directions on the package.

That's all for today folks.

Thanks for visiting.

FABULOUS FRIDAY FIND-THE CRAFT CLEANER

Hello Bloggers and Happy Friday.

Today's fabulous find is brought to you by the ever present in the craft world folks at EK Success.

This find is called the Craft Cleaner.It is a small thing but packs a big punch in functionality.
Check it out:



This little handy gadget is quite the big helper. Its' function is to easily help you clean your work surface.
Just push down and forward to clean your surface & that is all there is to it.
It has a little brush for larger scraps but works great to help remove finer particles like glitter and embossing powder quickly.


To clean it you just lift the tray on the undercarriage and empty. It has a sticky roller that you can remove and rinse with water.

I really love mine.
I got it at Marshall's for only $1.99 and I have to say it was worth more.
To be honest it wasn't something that I thought I would use often but once I got it home and tried it, I was hooked.
It sure beats whipping out the vacuum!

Have a great weekend.