Showing posts with label arts & crafts supplies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arts & crafts supplies. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Cheap Spellbinders S4-359 Shapeabilities Die Templates, office Supplies

Spellbinders S4-359 Shapeabilities Die Templates, office Supplies
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Spellbinder's has a great reputation. I think there is a lot of interesting versatility with this set either in card making or scrapbooking

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Easy to use dies and make any project that much better. Bought an extra one as a gift . Can take dime store tablets and make into great gifts!

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Discount 5 Set Flower Toggle Clasps & Tbars Tibetan Silver Metal Jewelry

5 Set Flower Toggle Clasps & Tbars Tibetan Silver Metal Jewelry Findings
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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I love these toggle clasps. Very vintage and feminine. I will order more. Great service as well! These pieces make my jewelery look better!

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thanks for good quality and nice and very cool . . . . . . . . . . .

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Review of Cover Buttons - 7/8" (SIZE 36) - FLAT BACKS- QTY 25

Cover Buttons - 7/8' - FLAT BACKS- QTY 25
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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I use these for fabric earrings. I call them medium size. They are great. I love that they have flat backs, keeps me from having to use my wire cutters.

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Cheap 20 Spools Embroidery Machine Thread

20 Spools Embroidery Machine Thread Kits - 18 Different Sets To Choose From
Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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It is hard finding the currect colors for skin tone embroidery. These spools give you a basic to skin tone color and a great place to start wheather you get the 10 or 20 spool packs. I know they make a hair tone packs as well, but have not seen this on Amazon website.

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What can I say about thread it works it breaks it does what it was designed to do so when I run out I'll buy more

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Well worth the money! The colors are so vivid! I will definitely buy more. The price is great too. Easy to use and I love the size of the spools.

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Thread is nice, just nit what I would cionsider a lot of Christmas Colors, only one Green and one Red that are chrisstmassy for =me

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This thread works well on my Singer. Very happy, especially with the price! My only complaint is with the color codes these are hard to match with Madiera or any of the more popular brands.

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Buy Lion Brand Yarn Crochet Hooks, Set of 3

Lion Brand Yarn Crochet Hooks, Set of 3
Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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Thanks! Great product at a great Price! Now I can start my holiday scarfs to give as Christmas Presents. The needles were good quality and resistible, I accidentally sat on one and it didn't break.

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These are easy to manuever for the T-Shirt yarn crafts we are doing. They worked great and was a step up from finger crochet. We are not hooked...bought books, more yarn and ready to go. Thanks for a great product.

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But the length is a bit short for my taste. I will try them out anyway. Next time I'll pay more attention to the length

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These are the best of the best in my humble opinion. I hate those skinny neck hooks that always seem to tangle up in the yarn for me. These work very well for me, and are smoothe and lightweight as well.

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These hooks measured at approximately 5" which is a bit short for my preference. Though the plastic allows the yarn to glide off with ease and they are very lightweight as described, they are also a bit awkward to use. I prefer the longer lengths with the smaller hooks like the Susan Bates Silvalume Crochet Hook Set in Pouch Sizes F, G, H, I, J, K, or nice Bamboo hooks. The short lightweight plastic actually works very well for the larger hooks, such as the Lion Brand Yarn 15mm Crochet Hook, Size Q-19 & the Lion Brand Yarn 19mm Crochet Hook-S-35. Though this set was not my preference, I think these smaller plastic hooks might be more appealing to children or an adult with small hands.

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Buy Bundle: Throwing Fundamentals 2nd Edition, Beginner's Guide

Bundle: Throwing Fundamentals 2nd Edition, Beginner's Guide to Throwing Pottery, Specially Designed for use at the Wheel & Kemper Pottery Tool Kit, The Original 8-Piece Pottery Tool Set
Customer Ratings: 5 stars
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I would highly recommend this bundle. The pictures in the book are clear, and the directions are easy to understand. The tools are of high quality and exactly what I needed to begin throwing. The "solutions" guide helped fix all of my initial problems. The pictures and illustrations from the thrower's perspective make the throwing process even easier.

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Review of Loew Cornell Spongit Sticks Medium Circle, 8-Count

Loew Cornell Spongit Sticks Medium Circle, 8-Count
Customer Ratings: 3.5 stars
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Got these to touch-up paint on vintage model railroad equipment that I collect. They did an excellent job and leave no brush marks obviously since they are sponge tips. A good product.I've used these types of brushes before but found them very hard to find in this area. Only real draw-back is that they are difficult to clean but so cheap they could be disposable.

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I needed a long quality cotton tip to apply glue. These sticks worked perfectly. The low score is due to the price. They are priced much too high for just 5 sticks.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Cheap Silvalume 11193 Knitting Needles, Straight, 10-Inch

Silvalume 11193 Knitting Needles, Straight, 10-Inch
Customer Ratings: 4 stars
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These are very pretty, durable and will last for years to come. I like that they are lightweight and easy on the arms.

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I needed knitting needles to hand out at a knitting intro class. It was nice to get these in a set. The colors are nice too.

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the ends keep coming off. I had to glue them in order for them to uses them. Once this was done they work well very smooth while knitting

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Yarn slides just right, yarn doesn't slip off the needle and doesn't drag either. Happy to reach for these needles when I start a project.

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I bought these knitting needles to use as mandrels for winding wire for making chainmaille jewelry. I have a winding tool that fastens onto the end of the needle and a handle that lets me wind easily. The knitting needles are sized by millimeter which makes it handy to make rings of specific sizes. And if I ever decide to go back to knitting, I'm all set.

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Best Hampton Art Metal/Pearl Embossing Collection Deals

Hampton Art Metal/Pearl Embossing Collection
Customer Ratings: 4.5 stars
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This set cost $13.18 and came with 16 .2oz plastic tubes. The plastic tubes are made so cheap that some powder came out inside the package and all over every plastic tube, the description says jars but they are not. None of them are labeled with what color each tube is and nothing on the package either. I will never buy anything this company makes again. So luckily I'm not color blind but I will still have to guess with some of them because there are several that look the same.

Connie

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Hampton Art Inc has a good quality product here. Melts quickly into beautiful bright colors. Plan on purchasing more of these powders in the future.

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These embossing powders are the same as other powders I've used in different brands. I was a little worried about not being familiar with this brand but they work nicely. The only reason I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 was because the package was very messy when I received it I couldn't find a loose lid, maybe another package leaked on top of this, but come on...brush it off before you ship it. Aise from the that, the product is great.

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I'm new to heat embossing, so I wanted to try out some different colors and types of powders without investing too much in "full size" jars of the stuff. I ended up purchasing a couple of samplers containing small amounts of a bunch of different colors, and this was one of the samplers I purchased.

I'm VERY happy with it. It's pretty clear from the color of each small jar what the color is green usually means green, blue means blue, purple purple, etc. To help manage the powder as I worked with it, I took a tip from a friend who has been doing this a long time, and emptied the jar into a small disposable plastic container. I then used small plastic spoons, one for each color, to get the powder onto the stamped image. When I was done, I just used a small piece of scrap card stock rolled and taped into a "funnel" to get the powder back into the jar. No mess, no fuss.

My first project was a stamped peacock feather, and I used 4 different colors from this powder set. It turned out BEAUTIFUL! It doesn't take much to cover the image, and this powder is good quality, so it adheres evenly to the Versamark clear ink. It melts nicely into really gorgeous metallic and pearl raised colors.

Very happy with this.

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I am new to embossing, and the Hampton Art embossing powders are terrific whether I'm using a stamp with not a lot of detail or a stamp with a whole lot of detail. The powder is fine enough to work with even intricate flower stamps and it melts beautifully!

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Discount Bucilla 86261 More Tiny Stockings Counted Cross Stitch Ornament

Bucilla 86261 More Tiny Stockings Counted Cross Stitch Ornament Kit, 3-1/2-Inch by 3-1/2-Inch, Set of 30
Customer Ratings: 3.5 stars
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This is the first cross-stitching kit that I ever bought and I admit that the designs are very pretty and the materials are of good quality. After figuring out how to assemble the stockings, they look great.

However, there were a few problems that I had:

1) My needle broke half way through the project;

2) I got double the light green floss and half of the green floss and, of course, I already ran out of green, which is essential for Christmas themes. Maybe it is just my kit, but it is a great inconvenience;

3) The instructions for assembling the stockings are rather vague. I figured them out after some thought and, at the end, they didn't work well for me. I ended up stitching rather than gluing all the pieces together and, I think, the result is great. It takes extra work though;

4) Polyester fiberfill and cardboard (which you will need) are not included. However, there is extra white floss to make the cording loops (and instructions how to make them).

Overall, these are great designs (some better than others), but getting to the final result is very time consuming and requires some extra effort and skill.

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These are very cute designs, easy to make. I gave 4 stars instead of 5 because some of the designs were hard to follow (hard to make out half-symbols) and it would've been nice to have clearer instructions on how to assemble the stockings.

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some of the symbols were hard to distinguish when partially hidden by the backstich lines, and some of the backstich lines were very similar and it was difficult to identify which was which on the pattern.

I will make them up as tiny stockings as this is where I think their real charm lies rather than in being made up merely as ornaments.

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Liked the designs. Threads were not well identified as to color. Do not believe I received two of the thread colors.

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Great product and great packing, and great shipping etc. I am very pleased and delighted to get this packet of different designs.

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Review of Photo Mount Cards

Photo Mount Cards
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After searching for a good way to offer some of my art and photography as greeting cards for friends and family, I finally ordered a few packs of these Strathmore Photo Mount cards.

While the cards are a decent quality (much better than the flimsy, rough ones that are available at big box craft stores...), the problem is that there is an embossed design of dots, flourishes, and sort of "floral-eqsue" elements that goes around the entire frame for the photo. I assumed the "embossed element" was simply a raised sets of lines to insert the photo into. Instead, it's a design element, and very apparent on each card.

This would probably be fine for most uses, but in case you are like me, and want something completely plain for your work/photos, this is not the right card for that purpose. Just thought you might want to know!

I went ahead and ordered Strathmore Watercolor Blank Greeting Card pack of 50 instead. No border, but no competing design.

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These cards are of a nice sturdy quality with a little embossed design around the edges, which does not distract from the artwork I am placing on the cards. The photo adhesives that come with the cards seem strong and I am not worried about my artwork falling off the cards. I also like that they come with matching envelopes.

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I have tried all sorts of cards for making my own, but it's the Strathmore ones that win out. They're durable if you are going to draw on them or paint on them. They're a good texture to handle, and they hold their own when you attach photos to them.

Also, they run through the printer very well if you want to personalize a message on them. Some cards make the ink streaky or blotchy. Not with these.)

These are my favorite for creating cards with artwork.

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I am a mixed-media artist and I use those cards to sell prints of my original artworks.

The embossing makes them really chic and nice.

I tried different models in the past and this model really is my favorite. They are perfect for special events and/or christmas cards as well.

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I purchased these so I could use them to send some of my pictures along with a note. I find that these cards are simple, attractive and easy to use.

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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Cheap Conte Pastel Pencil Sets tin of 48

Conte Pastel Pencil Sets tin of 48
Customer Ratings: 4 stars
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i had 2 old conte pencils in a box and started to use them and wanted MORE well this set is perfect and it came fast at a good price, i love them! even the tin is rather nice too! thanks!

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I've tried a lot of brands of pastel pencils. This is the only brand that can get over soft pastels and still make a mark. They are strong and have lots of pigment. I recommend them over any other brand I've tried.

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The number 47 was broken & cracked the length of the pencil. I payed for a full set of pastels. Thats not what I got. I thought its pointless to return one broken pastel pencil, but it should be replaced.

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Friday, September 12, 2014

Cheap Tandy Leather 10mm Light Pink Crystal Rivets 10 Pack 1355-04

Tandy Leather 10mm Light Pink Crystal Rivets 10 Pack 1355-04
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I bought this item from the Stecksstore, and they arrived very quickly and were just as described, with one exception. The description didn't indicate that setting that holds the crystal is conical in shape, so if you are looking for a flush-mounted look, you need to use a thick leather. Fortunately, that wasn't an issue for me, but maybe it can help you...

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Darice 1171-58 Set of 4 Round Plastic Knitting Looms Review

Darice 1171-58 Set of 4 Round Plastic Knitting Looms
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As a novice knitter, I wanted to try something different--hence, the round knitting loom! My daughter got a single one by Knifty Knitter, and wouldn't let me use hers. I wanted to get something similar, and found the whole set for less than what my friend paid for the single Knifty Knitter adult hat loom! Yay! So far, so good! No real noticeable difference in the brands, honestly. Both are solid and well-made. I can honestly recommend this product!! Easy to use, good directions, and it's simple enough for an 8 year old!

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FIRST OF ALL, SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH (I`M FROM MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, SOUTH AMERICA). I WANT TO EXPRESS THAT ALL THIS PRODUCTS THAT I BOUGHT TO AMAZON, ARE VERY VERY USEFULL, VERY BEAUTIFULL, AND HAVE A GREAT AND PERFECT DESIGN. I`M VERY HAPPY WITH THEM AND I REALLY ENJOY USING THEM. THE LOOMS USED WITH THE HOOK, ALLOWS TO KNIT A LOT OF VERY PRETTY DESIGNS, ,EASILY AND QUICKLY, IN DIFERENT SIZES. I RECOMMEND YOU TO PROVE TO USE THESE PRODUCTS.

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I have owned this product for almost a year or so. Nothing has broke, and I love making hats and misc things with them. The sizes vary in size, and make great projects for any age.

Update: My friends child age 2 stepped on top of them and the pegs didn't break, sturdy! :)

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I got this product today after ordering it on Sunday. Did I mention I LOVE Amazon Prime? I have always wanted to knit and have tried numerous times to teach myself via book, DVD, etc. and never could grasp it. After playing around with these looms for an hour, I had the concept down and was well on my way to loom knitting a hat. It would have taken me only 15-30 minutes to get it right except I had multiple distractions --kids.

So far, in the past four hours, I have knitted two hats and am looking online for other projects to get started on. Please note that the instructions that came with the looms were of little benefit to me. It wasn't until I searched the web that I found a technique I could understand and run with.

I would recommend this product to anyone who, like me, could never learn knitting the "traditional" way. Also, I would recommend these looms for anyone who has arthritic problems. I have a difficult time performing a lot of tasks with my hands. They either become too stiff, cramp or ache horribly doing simple tasks. Given the size of the looms and the ease of pulling the yarn using the knitting tool that comes with the looms, I had very little problems. I did have to stop occasionally because of the above arthritic issues, however, I didn't have to stop as often as I do when typing and certainly not as often as I have to rest my hands when handwriting. I was both shocked and thrilled at the same time.

As of this writing, I have absolutely nothing negative to say about this product. I'll revisit my review after using them for a month or two.

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ok Ive had these looms for just going on about a month. In that time ive made a scarf, a garterstitch wrist band and 4 count em 4 hats!!! And i tell u what, thats a hell of a lot more than i was able to do with my crochet hook in the same amount of time. the only real problem is the fact that i keep running outta material, lol!!!!

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