- Hi.
(cat meows)
(laughs) Hi.
This is Daphne by the way.
Hey everyone, Kristina here.
Welcome to another video at my YouTube channel and blog.
Today I wanted to go over,
I've got my little list here,
seven budget-friendly card making tools and supplies.
These are things that I use every day, and ...
Hi Daph.
She wants to come and say, "Hello."
Come here.
Hello.
This is Daphne.
If you guys haven't met her yet, "Hello."
She looks a little perturbed right now,
because she wants to get up on the counter
and look at the birds out the window.
Anyway, I'm going to share with you seven tools
that I use all the time, that are inexpensive,
and easy to add to your stash.
The first one is a set of watercolor brushes
from Royal & Langnickel that I found awhile back,
and they're fantastic.
You can get them at JetPens.com
or at SimonSaysStamp.com.
I'll have links to everything down below
if you want to check that out.
You can find these at a lot of places actually,
even local art supply stores.
These are really inexpensive brushes,
but they're great quality.
I really like them.
They have a lot of spring to them,
and they're great brushes in general.
Another thing that a lot of people don't think of
that are actually really useful are Post-it notes.
I use them all the time.
If I want to do just a little bit of masking,
and I don't want to deal with masking paper
which can be expensive, I'll just use Post-it notes.
I think those go extremely well
when you just want to have a little bit of masking,
or if you just want to hold something
in place for a little bit and then peel it up later.
They are fantastic for that.
The third one is ...
It should be no surprise,
because I've had multiple videos using these in the past.
In fact, my last video I used them.
Really inexpensive Crayola watercolor paints.
These are the washable watercolor paints.
Hi, cat.
These are the washable watercolor paints
that you can find most anywhere,
even in grocery stores, or Wal-Mart, drug stores,
things like that.
It's actually a really good watercolor paint set,
especially if you're only going to be painting
a small area like a card.
Small watercolor paint sets like that are great.
I've also used one in the past from Prang.
I think that was the brand.
You could try out those as well.
Another really inexpensive tool and supply that I use a lot
is a T-square ruler,
specifically the C-Thru brand T-square ruler.
I've used this one for ages.
I remember I had one, and I think it was the same brand,
probably back in the late 90s,
when I first got into calligraphy.
I took a calligraphy class,
and we used T-square rules
to pencil in guidelines on our projects.
I've used one ever since then,
but I use it in card making all the time.
You've seen me use it over the years, the same ruler.
It's fantastic, and I'd highly recommend it.
Once again you can get that at SimonSaysStamp.com,
or Amazon, or places like that.
Hey, can you stop nibbling that, please?
Another supply that I really use a lot, and I love,
You guys have seen me use them in videos in the past,
is paper from Canson.
This is specifically the Watercolor XL paper, and ...
Hi, are you going to settle in?
Okay.
(laughs)
This is a watercolor paper that I was resistant to at first,
because I'm a little bit of a watercolor paper snob,
I guess you could say.
I like really nice watercolor paper.
I like things with a little bit of texture.
I like more thickness and weight.
I feel like it can handle more paint and watercolor,
so I really tend to go toward those.
However, Canson XL Watercolor paper really surprised me.
I like that it's not super thick,
so you can fold it in half to make card bases,
and it holds up really well under quite a bit of water.
I would really recommend it.
You can get a big, huge pad of it for fairly inexpensively,
and if you think about it, if you cut it down
into two card fronts, or even further than that,
into four card fronts instead of just two card bases,
if you cut it down,
the price really isn't that much more expensive
than regular cardstock,
but you will get much better results
with using watercolor paper.
Another really inexpensive tool,
and you might not even think about it,
but I use mine quite a bit,
is an adhesive eraser or adhesive remover.
This is for those times
when you have a little bit of adhesive
sticking out from your layer,
and you want to just remove it.
It looks like a little gummed ...
It looks like a gummed eraser basically,
and it will take adhesive off most anything.
This is a little behind the scenes secret,
but when I photograph my cards,
they don't tend to want to stay closed all the time,
so I will use a little bit of some adhesive.
Even the Tombow Xtreme Adhesive, which is totally sticky,
and once you have it down it usually is permanent.
Like nothing's moving.
I will use that on the inside of the cards,
and then after I'm done photographing it,
I'll use my Xyron adhesive eraser
and take of all that adhesive, and it's like new.
You would never know
that I adhered the inside of the card closed.
It's a great way to get those cards ready to send out.
Okay, then my last tip,
and it's not really so much a supply,
or a tool, or whatever,
but it is really inexpensive,
and it makes my life a lot easier as a card maker,
and that is to have my card stock pre-cut.
I make a lot of the same sized cards,
which is 4.25 x 5.5,
or in the card making world that's the A2 size.
By the way, that A2 size reference
comes from the size envelope that it goes into.
If you were thinking A2 is incorrect,
because it's not an A2 sized piece of paper,
it doesn't come from that.
It comes from the envelope size that the card will fit into.
Anyway, I make a lot of the same card size.
To have things pre-cut into some dimensions that I use often
has really been a time saver.
I got this tip from Jennifer McGuire awhile back,
and it's been great.
The one ...
Well, I have two measurements that I use a lot.
One is some Neenah Solar White cardstock
that's cut to 4.25 x 5.5,
and I just keep a stack of that right next to my workspace.
I pull from it all the time.
The other one is Neenah Solar White in the 110 lb. Version,
and I have that cut to 4.25 x 11,
so I can fold that in half for a card base.
A lot of my card bases are white these days.
It's just kind of what I've fallen into.
I think it's mostly because I like to do techniques
and color the base myself if I need to,
but having that pre-cut card base size has been great.
Anyway, those are seven tools, supplies, or tips
that are fairly inexpensive, budget-friendly,
and great for your wallet.
I hope you guys enjoyed those.
I'll see you in another video very soon,
and thanks for watching.
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