I haven't had a chance yet to take pics of all the cards I made over the past few days - that's on this afternoon's to-do list LOL! So HOPEFULLY I'll have a new post later on today with some "eye candy" - while y'all are waiting I thought I'd better get to a few more questions....
Where do you get your inspiration for cards?
From everything - literally. Ideas DO just pop in my head out of the blue sometimes - but the rest of the time yes something inspires me - and it can be any number of things: a magazine ad/article, clothing, online site (check out this card I made inspired by a website's homepage here). See what I mean??
What is your favorite color? What is the color of paper that you constantly find yourself reaching for?
Oooohhhh see I'm rotten at these kinds of questions - I like it ALL!! However I do find that I go through a lot of Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue SU card stock, along with Chocolate Chip - so yes those are definitely more loved *wink*.
What do you do with all your extra samples?
As in everything that gets posted on here? Well, a lot of the 3D items (frames, boxes, etc etc etc) are made specifically for someone or for something. Some are for design team work that gets sent away to the owner. The rest just pile up here LOL!
I obviously use them to send to family/friends/etc and am trying to build up a stash of cards for every occasion as I am SO tired of being contacted (mostly by Tim!!) at the last minute to "whip up a card" for so-and-so. I have no problem making cards in small amounts of time - but for ME it just seems like I get contacted at the worst possible moment to whip up said cards so I need to have a stash on hand! *wink*
I often wonder how you juggle being a SU demonstrator and then using all the other wonderful stuff that you have. It must be hard to demonstrate just SU products at a club or workshop.
Actually I don't have any trouble with that. My demo-ship is a totally separate thing for me - you all can see that this blog was never started to promote my "business" but rather share my love of stamping with y'all!!
I am VERY fortunate to have a (very) small base of some wonderful customers that keep me active. I have one small bi-monthly club going and between that and my other (FABULOUS!) customers (they all read this so I have to say Hi!! *waves*) they keep me going.
I actually don't have any trouble sticking to JUST SU! during clubs/workshops etc - I literally own almost every single accessory in the catty (no joke) and after over 2 years of being a demo I own a LOT of sets too - so I have quite a lot to choose from! Of course all my customers KNOW that I have a ton of "contraband" ROFL ----------- but they also know about my requirements when I'm wearing my demo hat and it's never been an issue.
I guess I should also mention that if I were more busy with demo stuff it might be a little different - but I only do maybe one thing a month and I haven't really tried to drastically expand my business as I am quite happy with how it is now (gives me more time for all my other stuff I have going on!)
What tool do you want next?
Hmmmmmmmm - well I guess it would have to be one of the bigger ones - I've had my eye on the RubiCoil and the Cricut for a looonnnngggg time now. I still can't justify spending that much $$ on either of them right now (not to mention can't afford them either!) as I'm not sure how much I would use them - I just want them LOL!
Are your classes generic or SU specific events? You do such creative things with many mfg products that I imagine it's hard to limit yourself to one vendor!
Well the only "classes" I do are my SU! clubs and the occasional workshop - so yes SU! specific. I've been thinking of possibly doing other classes someday but as I live in a small farming community I would either have to travel to the city (over an hour away) or people would have to travel to me.........so right now all that is still in the "thinking about it" stages - who knows if it will advance further than that. :o)
I might be a ditz but can you explain when using decorative scissors how can you cut straight lines to make the border even?
Nope not a ditz - I actually get asked this a lot. AND I just stumbled across this post by Leslie Miller on her blog that gives a great tip: Using Decorative Edge Scissors.
For me personally I just eyeball it (and more often than not I get it right the first time - not always tho!) as I am too lazy to grab my ruler and a pencil ROFL!!
