Showing posts with label Budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Friday, 26 April 2013
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Friday, 9 November 2012
Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 4c)
(Cc) Walls - From Floppy To Firm
Walls without 'anti-warp ledges' will flop - it is the nature of cardstock.
So, needing a cheap and easy method, so as to assist those wobblers (and use the printouts up), I went for a burger (clicky for biggy) ...
Courtesy of a leading, fast-food, outlet, I selected a pack of coffee stirrers, went home, clipped them down to ca. 133 mm, in length, and sandwiched a stirrer between a wall's, inside, surfaces. It took these stages ...
(1) Glue stirrer to a wall (inside, top),
(2) Glue wall faces together,
(3) Burnish all surfaces,
(4) Clamp wall faces, onto stirrer, with a 'beam' across the length of the wall,
(5) Snip, at the line, through the tab ...
(6) Superglue the top 'square' down ... all other surfaces were glued with my normal glues (Pritt Stick/equivalent or Matt Mod Podge).
There you have it (this prototype was edged with black). You could sand it down (before or after), if you really wanted to, but that is up to you) ...
No 'bulge' to speak of, at all ...
No more flaccid walls :) - Enjoy !!!
Oh, and a little teaser, of a few of the projects, that I am working on ...
Keep on cutting !!!
Walls without 'anti-warp ledges' will flop - it is the nature of cardstock.
So, needing a cheap and easy method, so as to assist those wobblers (and use the printouts up), I went for a burger (clicky for biggy) ...
Courtesy of a leading, fast-food, outlet, I selected a pack of coffee stirrers, went home, clipped them down to ca. 133 mm, in length, and sandwiched a stirrer between a wall's, inside, surfaces. It took these stages ...
(1) Glue stirrer to a wall (inside, top),
(2) Glue wall faces together,
(3) Burnish all surfaces,
(4) Clamp wall faces, onto stirrer, with a 'beam' across the length of the wall,
(5) Snip, at the line, through the tab ...
(6) Superglue the top 'square' down ... all other surfaces were glued with my normal glues (Pritt Stick/equivalent or Matt Mod Podge).
There you have it (this prototype was edged with black). You could sand it down (before or after), if you really wanted to, but that is up to you) ...
No 'bulge' to speak of, at all ...
No more flaccid walls :) - Enjoy !!!
Oh, and a little teaser, of a few of the projects, that I am working on ...
Keep on cutting !!!
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Colonel's Cardstocking Compendium !!! (Part 4b)
(Cb) Sticking - Budget Alternatives To Pritt
Throughout the years, I have, sometimes, been disappointed with cheap glue sticks, but, I am always up for trying new sources :) So, here we go ...
Pritt Stick: 6 x 22g for £7-8
Unbranded Stick (from 'Poundshop'): 6 x 22g for £1
Card stuck on paper, same application technique, as before, left for 24 hours ...
Equivalent in adhesion ... now to see what the usage rate is like, but, they feel much the same, in use (perhaps even fewer 'glue boogers', for the 'Unbranded').
Throughout the years, I have, sometimes, been disappointed with cheap glue sticks, but, I am always up for trying new sources :) So, here we go ...
Pritt Stick: 6 x 22g for £7-8
Unbranded Stick (from 'Poundshop'): 6 x 22g for £1
Card stuck on paper, same application technique, as before, left for 24 hours ...
Before
After
Equivalent in adhesion ... now to see what the usage rate is like, but, they feel much the same, in use (perhaps even fewer 'glue boogers', for the 'Unbranded').
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Thursday, 16 August 2012
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