Wednesday, February 3, 2016

WOYWW #348 & Tool Description

Time to visit creative folks from across the globe. You can pick up your road map at Julia's Stamping Ground and snoop a long. We'd love to see yours!


Little bit of change from last week. I have the supplies compiled for a gift basket for a writer's celebration dinner on Friday night. Celebration theme with Wine & Chocolate.

Also some John Deere tractor paper and a cut out of a John Deere tractor for the Tea Pot Tuesday card I did not get made for yesterday.

Some of you requested a peek at some of the earlier Tim Holtz tags I am doing. The post is HERE.


Now... last week a couple of people mentioned the 'egg sponges'. Took me a few minutes to figure out what y'all were seeing. Then it dawned on me. My home made blending tool. The more I looked at Tim's blending tool, the more uncomfortable the item just looked to work with. So I looked for something that might fit the palm better. 

This is what I came up with: 


This is a knob of some type that I found at the craft store in the wood section.

I attached a circle of Industrial Strength velcro to the bottom. The bottom measures 1"


I cut circles from white felt. These I cut by hand. Sometime in the future I am going to order the Originals Sizzix Circles die that has 4 circles - one is the 1"

This is comfortable in the hand, and easy to swirl inks onto my projects. 

12 comments:

  1. Hi Kelly, very ingenious making your own blending tool, great idea, especially if they save money.
    Happy WOYWW
    Jan. No 40

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  2. What an ingenious tool you've created, and it looks so ergonomically perfect!

    Happy WOYWW to you,
    :)trisha too
    #49 this week

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  3. That looks like a great tool! I checked out your tags - lovely. Still have to get around to making one lol.

    Sharon k #45

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  4. Who's a clever girl making your own blending tool. Happy woyww jill #16

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  5. Ohhhh, eggs for the hands! No really, what a fab idea. Lots of inking really makes my fingers ache! The tags are wonderful. I love the idea of the writers Dinner, have fun!

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  6. What a great idea - on you desk photo last week it looked just like the egg shaped sponges that can be used for blending. Just popped over and seen your tag - it's great - I hope you have a great week,
    Diana #23

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  7. Oh wow, what a great idea to make your own blending tool and thanks for telling us how you made it... I don't use a tool like that much but I might go and make one myself now without spending much money to see if/how I can use it in my art. Thanks for stopping by my blog today... you asked about my 'big journal'... I bind most of my journals myself – the ‘big book’ is also handbound. (The cover and spine (binding) can be seen in my blogpost of January 6) It's a new week already, so Wednesday (woyww) is already near... see you in a few days then! Love from Holland, Marit #29

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  8. That's a great blending tool, Kelly! Sorry I'm a bit late visiting for this WOYWW - had a very busy week. Thank you for your visit and your nice comment - glad you liked my baking! I deliberately didn't publish the recipe in case I got into copyright trouble, but I'm sure it's OK to share with friends by email on a one-to-one basis like we all share recipes, so if you're interested, email me and I'll send it to you.

    Happy belated WOYWW,
    Shoshi #28

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  9. That is a very clever blending tool for sure Kelly :) Thanks for stopping by my page earlier <3 Shel C

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  10. Brilliant idea for a blending tool, must keep this in mind. Happy crafty week. Angela x

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  11. Hi, Kelly, that's a clever idea for a blending tool. I like the supplies on your desk -- a/k/a chocolate. Happy WOYWW, from last week! ~ Laura

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  12. I might try this, I have some similar wood here. I've made a few John Deere tags/cards, as my hubby is a JD kinda of farmer. Thanks for the visit. I'm am really late but had some time. Ready for tomorrow's post too.

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