Product Spotlight – Mini Cut and Emboss Machine

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If you haven’t already, it’s time to meet your mini crafting companion: the Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine! If this is your first encounter, allow us to introduce you.

This mini—but mighty—machine is durable, portable, and easy to use. It’s the perfect pick for budding beginners who want to branch out, papercrafting pros who want to craft on the go, or those who are short on storage space! With this trusty tool, any crafter can make precise cuts and embossed designs for their projects with one pass.

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Introducing the Christmas Whimsy Card Kit

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I love to send handmade cards, I love the idea of someone opening the envelope and pull out a card made just for them! Today I am sharing an all-inclusive card making kit that will be perfect for you to create and send your own handmade cards this holiday season.

Christmas Whimsy is an adorably fun Christmas card kit with a modern design! Santa’s elves might be hard at work at the North Pole, but with this all-inclusive kit, the hard work is done for you! All pieces are printed, die cut, and ready for you to craft. The simplicity of this card kit makes it perfect for beginner crafters and kids, too! Grab a kit or two and gather around for a simple holiday season activity that everyone will enjoy.

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Product Spotlight ~ Take Your Pick

In September of 2018 Stampin’ UP! introduced a new product – the Take Your Pick Tool, a Multipurpose Pickup and Precision Tool that has a neat tacky putty tip that picks up small bits like sequins and tiny beads.

It also has a piecing tool, small and large stylus for scoring paper and a little spatula.  When the new 2019 – 2020 Catalog came out a few weeks ago a Die Brush for removing small cut pieces when using dies.

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Cleaning Adhesive from Scissors ~ Video

My scissors and paper piercing tools tend to accumulate ‘sticky stuff’ on the blades, I use them a lot in my design work as well as in my classes.  So it is not surprising that cutting pieces of Tear and Tape and trimming Stampin’ Dimensionals with my paper snips leaves a little of the adhesive behind on the blades.  I rarely use my paper piercing tool to piece paper but I do use it a lot to pick up mini glue dots and Stampin’ dimensionals and to remove the backing paper from the Tear and Tape double sided tape.

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Holiday Catalog Sneak Peak ~ Take Your Pick

Tomorrow – September 5th, the 2018 Holiday Catalog goes live! I have shared a stamp set or two and today I am giving you a sneak peak at another new tool that Stampin’ UP! has introduced….. the ‘Take Your Pick” ~ a multipurpose pick up and precision tool that has a putty tip to pick up sequins and beads, a paper piercer, mini spatula, perfect for picking up and placing pearls and rhinestones and a small and large stylus which can be used for scoring your card or softening or cupping your card to create a 3D effect.

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