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They do still sell the dies...Of the things they sent me, I really liked the tag punch because if has an embossed circle around the circle opening and when I used it, I cut both ends of paper so it made the paper more of an embellishment... The die link is below the video is you're interested....and, if you want to do another collab video, I'll email you the things I just requested from them.

I'm so glad you liked the video. If you have any questions about heat embossing, please email me and I'd be happy to help you...saundralparker@yahoo.com

Hey Marlene, glad you saw both cards. It was fun doing this and using the same tools with such different results.. Glad you enjoyed them. Sandy

Hey Pauline..hope you're doing well. Good to hear from you!

We definitely will do this again.

It was a lot of fun making a card and wondering what techniques Carrie would use compared to me. You make such beautiful cards, and if you have a technique you'd like to try and send me your card, I'd make a video of that technique and show your card ....that would be fun too...I just found my travel journal from the trip where we met you and Vince and at the end when I say our favorite foods and moment, I said my favorite moment was meeting you and Vince and I said I felt like we would continue to stay and touch and it seemed like the beginning of a great friendship and it has been...thought you'd like to know.

@@craftingforalmosteveryone I'll email you soon.

@@terrie1226 I look forward to it.

It turned out a little tacky, but I still was happy with it...hope you enjoyed Carrie's card. She does nice work and I love listening to her, as I find her voice very calming. We were hoping to meet on our trip, but she was on a trip at the same time so we didn't get to do so...

The room was really nice, especially since we spent so much time there...pretty much all of the time we were at sea, 7 days, we barely left the room and never really went out on the balcony as it was too windy and cold....the gummy bears were amazing...Rich is a real trooper...especially the day he had to push me up that ramp that was almost vertical. They asked him if he needed help and he said no, which he normally wouldn't have needed, but we didn't realize he'd have to start and stop and maintain the wheelchair with me almost tipped over backwards...it was scary for both of us. I was more worried that the chair would roll over him and he'd get hurt, than I was worried for myself. It was a great trip. I wish we could've seen you in Belfast.. I do think we'll meet someday.

We've had Tim Hortons in our town for several years and they're good, but those donuts in London were AMAZING...I've never had donuts with so much cream and strawberries, so yummy.. Wish you had a Donutelier near you.

Of course I had to share the foods we loved...and they were mainly sugar based, haha...So glad you came along for the trip.

The bridge should have been my favorite thing from the trip as I was mesmerized by it, night or day. We have always gone on cruises to find cities we'd like to revisit and of the cities we spent time in, only London really spoke to us. I think in part because our driver knew the city so well and on our 2 1/2 hr drive from the seaport, we had a lot of time to tell him things we like and don't like, so he was really focused on taking us to good spots for us. The fish and chips was good, but would have been better if they'd used the "chips" we had in Paris, as Rich can't stop talking about them. The Zac Efron donut was such a disappointment compared to the one with strawberries and cream. We loved the billboard for McDonalds advertising the more melty cheese, as we both can't remember ever eating a cheeseburger there with actual melted cheese and wondered why it's so important in London but not in the US.... Rich's favorite candy is dark chocolate covered orange peels and the difference in Belgium is they used the whole orange so it was sweet and tart..he loved it. Did you know Boscovs sells dark chocolate covered orange peels? Three of the days at sea, my arthritis was thinking of killing me, and wouldn't let me digest food, so vanilla milkshakes were all I could tolerate. Our poor butler was from the Philippines and had never heard of a milkshake and after I explained how to make it, I think she found a bartender who knew how...3 days...all I ate, and I'd still eat more of them, haha. So glad you came along.

Yes, dark chocolate covered orange peels is the only way to go. We've never been to Old Dayton Beach, but if we ever get there, you know we'll be stopping at Angell & Phelps... I've saved their website for fall, and once they can ship chocolate again, I'll see if I can order some for Rich's birthday in December. I'll bet your son would love some for Christmas, and they'd be a great treat for both of you, as you said. I'm a chocolate covered nut kind of girl. Rich's other favorite is dark chocolate covered raspberry cordials. So glad you came along on the trip with us.

I'm so glad that you did. I've got a playlist of mica powder videos and maybe some of the others may give you some good ideas. Hope you enjoy them. I loved your note! Sandy ua-cam.com/video/xf5-Lc2kGt4/v-deo.html

I've never made a journal with so many embellishments...mainly I just wrote in them, but it was so much fun adding photos and it makes it so much easier to remember when you have them to look back on. And we always write our favorite things we ate and on this trip, because it was 17 days, it became a blur of the things we ate. so it was lucky we kept track of favorite things throughout the trip, otherwise I think we'd have forgotten some of them. I'm so glad your son's wedding was such a wonderful day for you. Can't wait to hear all about it..

i started walking again In January and my balance isn't great, but I've come so far from when I made this video, I'm so grateful and consider myself extremely lucky as the break was pretty significant.. Thanks for the nice note. Sandy

Thanks for the glue sponge tip...I've never heard of one and will definitely check into them...I have almost 700 videos and hope you find others you enjoy. Here's a list of cards I've made... www.youtube.com/@craftingforalmosteveryone/search?query=card

OH !! WOW!! THANKS!!!!

So glad to help. If you have any questions about a video, please email me and I'd be happy to help saundralparker@yahoo.com...Sandy

The donut was AMAZING and yes, I would've slathered it all over myself if I'd been alone when I got it, haha....it was so yummy and sadly, we don't seem to have things like that here at Dunkin' Donuts...When you see the actual donut in the video recap of the trip, you'll wish you could slather it on you too, hahahaha

I hope the little snippets of videos I took will be the next video but when Rich saw how many there were, he looked like he might just delay them...there's probably 50 or more snippets...I wouldn't want to put them up either if I was him.

Yes, 3 hrs in Paris wasn't enough time to say we were actually there...we saw so little but Rich did love their french fries and the french fries in Belgium as they fry them in beef fat and triple fry them....And yes, they are really bad for you...hard to believe that their version is worse for you than ours...because every country we visited, we were surprised at the things that are monitored, like sugar in sodas. And here, you go into any convenience store and you can buy a huge soda from a fountain and we didn't see one convenience store with a fountain in it that looks like this. Hopefully the photo can be opened here.ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Sac326389d5894495a1d352a833ee65a4i/Automatic-Beverage-Carbonated-Soda-Fountain-Dispenser-kola-Making-Machine-For-Bar-Post-Mix-Dispenser.jpg

@@craftingforalmosteveryone yes I was able to open it the first time I saw one of those machines was in Orlando and you could fill your container as often as you liked now a lot of our restaurants have them

@@francesinglis6078 We didn't see any of them in any of the countries we visited...and Rich loves a soda called Mountain Dew and we only found it in Ireland in one store in a bottle, and didn't realize until we bought it that it was what we consider "diet" soda here, and that was the end of that...he's strictly a sugar guy, like me, we love our sugar and it's basically our only vise, so we don't feel too badly about it..

@@craftingforalmosteveryone it’s mostly fast food place or places that serve family’s not all restaurant have them, I’ve seen Mountain Dew never tried it.

I don't think Mountain Dew tastes the same there, as it has a lot of sugar in it here and it seemed like when we were in Europe that the sodas were limited as to the amount of sugar in them, whereas here, there's no limits on sugar, so the sodas are super sugary.

I think the bad days were a combination of losing an hour every day we were at sea, how rough the sea was and how damp and cold it was...it was in the low 40's when we were at sea. I'm not sure where a lot of the people on the ship thought we were going, as they brought their swimwear and were unhappy with the cold. We wanted to be sure we brought the right weight of clothes and did, and neither of us had shorts in our bags, let alone swimwear....I guess the people who brought shorts and t-shirts didn't check the weather forecasts...there were a lot of grumpy people on the trip, sadly.

@@craftingforalmosteveryone Hello, wow, the time would have messed me up too. Glad you guys got through it and continued to have fun together on your trip. Some people don't think of checking the weather in other countries. I think they all were too excited about going on vacation..lol. They only think of the weather where they are at the moment. smh Take care...

@@prettyrichgirl2007It was funny, watching people in their bathing suits in 40 degree weather. I was freezing wearing several layers, as the wind was fierce...you can imagine on the open seas, how windy it was..

@@craftingforalmosteveryone Well, I think they will be nice and cool for the rest of the summer...lol

Rich tried to convince me that they were just using the hot tub, but we did see people on the lounge chairs outside, and I can't imagine how long it took them to warm up again..You're right, they probably are just starting to feel their fingers now. haha..

Of course I wrote every crazy thing that happened and had so much more I could have written...Next time we meet, I'll be sure to bring the journal so you can read it yourself. It's definitely good for a laugh or two...

I would have slathered that donut and I think you would've too...it was AMAZING! Glad you got a laugh out of it...

The pastries we had were amazing, but in the little snippets of videos I'll show you a donut failure we tried called a Zac Ephron...not sure what the actor had to do with this donut, but it reminded me of something you'd find in a day old donut shop here, haha....especially when comparing it to all the other amazing pastries we ate. I think I ate more sugar on this trip than ever before and that's saying a lot, as I love sugar.

You'd think we'd be ready to come home, but I wish we could have had more time in London and Paris...such a disappointment only being there for 3 hours, as you really can't say you've been there when it took longer to travel back and forth than we spent there... The Gingerbread Haus was great, and we let the owner decide what we should try and she chose a cream filled pastry for me and it was great, but it was before I felt confident enough to video in her store, so I didn't and wish I had so viewers could see the pastries she had... On our walk back to the ship, we found a chocolate shop that had chocolate covered homemade raspberry flavored marshmallows and Rich loved those. I don't remember the name of that shop but it was also really great. Rich got a sample box of their chocolates. You're not supposed to buy pastries or chocolates unless they are in sealed packaging, and Rich was really worried that they would confiscate them, but they didn't care, but he worried so much about it that he ate almost all of them before we got back on the ship...it was funny to watch, I have to say. Too bad you were out of town, i would've loved meeting you in person..

@@craftingforalmosteveryone I would have loved to meet you guys as well, but I already feel that we are fast friends! If you ever need to know things about Canada I can be your ambassador as I love this country so much! Keep in touch, your friend Judy

We love Canada and only live about 2 1/2 hrs from Buffalo. We live about 45 minutes south of Erie PA, so live a long way from Hslifax. We left NYC and it was 80 degrees then were one day to Nova Scotia and when we landed there, it was in the low 40's, so quite a temperature difference.. That came as no big surprise to us because our weather is like that, but a lot of people on board must have misunderstood the idea of trans-Atlantic, as they wore shorts and brought swimwear and were not dressed for Halifax in the spring. I wish the weather had been good enough to visit the nearby seaport, but it was drizzling and we decided it was more important to try the Gingerbread Haus..snd yes, you can be our tour guide for Halifax anytime....

I made another one of these plates from a Hobby Lobby sewing no cut mat, and I've been using it for 4-5 years and haven't needed to use this one yet as the first one is still going strong. The only thing I've done is added additional shims as the plates get a little thinner with use over time, but, they don't warp, and you can't see the cuts like with the clear plastic plates you get with your unit. Here's the other video in case you'd like to check it out. ua-cam.com/video/6oZ0e4lm_XM/v-deo.html Sandy

I think if I were you, I'd give your idea a whirl on a test piece of tissue paper, and maybe try another scrap with Mod Podge if you have that, as it would be less expensive (if you don't already have the matte medium.) It's funny....I'll get a comment like yours when I'm researching something similar. I bought some images on rice paper that are for decoupaging, and they are currently black and white, but I'd like to color them, but same issue...I'm not sure what to use..If I come up with another idea, I'll be sure to let you know. Sandy

Found this, its using the tissue paper I got: ua-cam.com/video/AMisrNYVfRo/v-deo.htmlsi=uWlo_Qi2j_VdPUlw

DearJayda, I am sad that you feel it is entirely acceptable to discuss my hands like I chose for them to be disfigured. Before you make such ridiculous statements about someone's physical limitations, consider your lack of compassion, your ignorance about medical conditions, or the obvious fact that you just might be a sociopath...definition: a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience. As a normal person would understand the things you said are extremely antisocial and lacking in conscience. Signed, The person behind those hands

I love my Vagabond and thnks it's amazing compared to the other electric units out there as the slot is wide enough for the old thicker dies. And if you haven't seen my video on how to make your own plates, that is a game changer. I've been using the same cutting plate for several years and it didn't warp and continues to cut like a champ. I made this plate 4 years ago and am still only using it and the sandwich in the order I give in the video. ua-cam.com/video/6oZ0e4lm_XM/v-deo.html You'll be amazed how this doesn't warp. I think I paid under $5 for the self healing mat in the sewing dept of Hobby Lobby and I bought the Dollar Tree cutting mats you'd use in the kitchen and use them for shims so the sandwich is tight in your die cutting machine. Over time, the sandwich gets a little bit more loose, so you might need to add another of the "shims" and I just used double sided tape to adhere this to the underside of the cutting plate I created. I swear by these plates and won't buy the ones from Sizzix again. Glad you got such a bargain on your Vagabond I, I got something jammed in my I and had to upgrade to a II and have never had an issue with it. Best of luck to you in your crafting...Sandy

Catherine, I'm so glad you enjoy my channel. I originally started it because I couldn't find anyone on YT that would tell me what tools I could and couldn't use and I hated that others would struggle, like me, with trying to find the one tool I could use (in certain instances.) I always try to make sure I tell people my channel isn't monetized and that I'm not affiliated with any companies so people know if I say I do like a tool, it's the truth and not because I'm paid to say so. And ultimately I am a frugal girl so want to help others find cheaper ways of doing things whenever possible and have made so many videos on brewing up my own diy concoctions haha... I love to laugh and laugh at myself and am so happy you are enjoying my channel. If you ever have a video idea you'd like me to cover, let me know by email saundralparker@yahoo.com and I'll be happy to give it a try. Thanks for the lovely note, it truly made my day. Sandy

Hope you find lots of ideas for your new Wink of Stellas. The Liquitex is my favorite and although it's not cheap to buy, it lasts literally forever. You could make hundreds of Wink of Stella pens, spray bottles etc and never run out of it. At least I still have a ton of mine left...and it's SO glittery. Sandy

There are a lot of videos that show you how to make a cardboard shim for the Scotch ATG gun to keep the tape on the straight and narrow, haha...Here's a link to one and this should help no matter what tape you buy. ua-cam.com/video/QI7UUMMsaQI/v-deo.html I know a lot of people swear by these guns but left handed people can't see where the tape is going as the machine blocks that view. I created my channel specifically for people with physical limitations as so many YTers would tell you a tool will work if you have hand/wrist issues and actually they have no idea if that's the case...clearly you know if I say that, I know if a tool will work or not for people with wrist/hand issues. Glad you love your ATG gun. Sandy

I just came home from a trip that ended in London. You have a beautiful country and I was so happy I got to see it for myself. It seems anymore, about the only places you can find craft tools are in online stores. We have craft stores but their prices are outrageous unless they have a big sale which is rare. I stopped using any guns for tape and instead use mainly tear tape, double sided tape..it's easy to use and since I lay it in place, I know exactly where it ends up. Lindsay the frugal crafter uses the Scotch ATG gun and she buys her refills in bulk. Here are the ones she uses. www.amazon.com/T-R-U-ATG-7502-Tape-Adhesive-Transfer/dp/B01CV08Z5S/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=atg+gun&qid=1588344647&s=arts-crafts&sr=1-7&linkCode=sl1&tag=frugalcrafter-20&linkId=1cad1967b7ba4f04f75edd7f0f2697e2&language=en_US

So happy I could help. Just an fyi, mine redried much quicker after this alcohol application, but it could be because they were also running lower on ink....still, it's a great way to get more life from your markers.

Hot glue can be your best friend or worst nightmare depending on if it lands on your project or your hand, haha....Hope you found some ways to use mica powders that you haven't thought of yourself. Sandy

You have no idea how disappointed I was with this and can't believe they still sell it as this video is several years old. I guess, like me, people read the name and believe it will work..

Sorry for my late reply, and it's perfectly OK to ask about my hands. Yes, I have rheumatoid arthritis in my hands (basically everywhere) and when I started watching YT videos about crafts, it made me crazy that I couldn't find any videos that would actually tell viewers what tools they can and can't use if they have issues with their hands/wrists...so I started this channel, unmonetized, so if I tell you I can use a tool, people would trust I'm telling the truth as there's no money in it for me either way. And I don't think anyone on YT would be upset with you asking about their hands when you approach it with respect like you have. If you have any other questions for me, please ask, as I'm happy to help in any way I can. Sandy

@craftingforalmosteveryone thanks for reply, dear Sandy...I just wanted to help, that is why I asked. It is a digestive issue if you want to stop it from development further. I want you to consider it. Your body can not digest certain foods, and it is an autoimmune reaction of your body... If you would want to hear about possible treatment methods, I would love to share my knowledge with you

@@user-nt9rj8sz4m Thanks so much for your input. Unfortunately, every joint in my body has been destroyed by my arthritis in the last 40 years so there's really no fixing them as that time has sadly passed. I have tried several diets designed for arthritis and none worked for me. My RA is genetic, linked to my sister's type 1 diabetes from age 4 and my father's beck-sarcoidosis that's a lesser known disease. When I was diagnosed with RA in the early 1980's, I tried everything, every diet, every vitamin regimen and nothing helped. It is rare for anyone to get RA that was as fast moving as mine, as I needed my knees replaced within 3 yrs of diagnosis but held off until I was 27 for my first replacement. after that, I had joints replaced every two years until all of my weight bearing joints were replaced as well as my shoulder. I appreciate your concern though...Sandy

They didn't last long, but definitely fun for a concert...Love your screen name by the way. Sandy

Sorry for my late response, your request is so timely. Last summer I tripped on a stick and broke my femur so couldn't walk for 7 months and in that time, got addicted to perfumes from the Middle East. We just went on a trip to celebrate me walking again and in the video I visit a perfume store of Middle Eastern scents and mention that I'd like to do a video on the perfumes I've bought and how they differ from mass marketed perfumes here in the US. A lot of them can still be bought on Amazon and I don't believe in spending hundreds of dollars for perfumes because I have a pretty large collection and will never use them in this lifetime (I'm almost 65) but love the idea of sharing more information about them and maybe sending people samples of them sprayed on a stick if they live within the US so they have a better idea of what they smell like.... Would that be a video you'd be interested in? As for these powders, if you buy a sample set of perfume, the little bottles with a stopper on them, you could make a good amount of scented powder with one of those bottles, just as an fyi, and make it from whatever scent you love most. Let me know what you think about the video idea. Sandy

Sorry for the late response, I was out of town and didn't keep up on comments. Frankly, this was not great and I think you're better off not using any sealer until you're ready to mail and then just use a glue stick or small amount of wet glue...The taste was SO bad....but glad you got a laugh. One thing about my videos, you'll always have something to laugh about as I do a lot of crazy things in them....Sandy

I don't know about you but edge and ribbon punches have always frustrated me as I never can get the ends to be in the right spot, and this solved that problem..Glad you found it helpful. Sandy

So glad your lunch went well and I'm happy we're ready to leave tomorrow and have dog sitters so the dogs won't be fretting as much.

So happy you enjoyed it and hope you give some of these a try. Sandy

I think it's a neat thing to do, but you just need to be prepared for the residue to stick...glad you liked it.

I will definitely show you all of the photos in the journal and will tell you what worked and didn't and will tell you all the good, bad and ugly that happens on the trip, haha...Thanks for your very sweet note. We leave tomorrow afternoon and fly to NYC on Sunday..

Thanks for the nice note and I'm hoping that this is the best trip ever...I'm so tired of worrying about my leg and hope this will take my mind off of it.

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Carrie, I'm so glad that the journal's finished in time for us to leave tomorrow and I'll share photos from it when we get back in a couple of weeks. We're lucky to have friends that are staying at our house with the dogs so we won't have to worry about them..

Hope it works well for you!

I'm sure you and your husband had map fights like we did, back when we had paper maps...Inevitably I'd tell Rich to turn one way and he'd turn the other and the fight was on, haha...I think I miss paper maps as I don't always trust our GPS as once, it drove us into a field with an gas well on it on what they termed a road. I'm like you with journals and never understand all of the pages that are designer paper..do you write on those? I don't know. I know mine will be all writing, photos and the stickers I've shown. I'm really excited with the paper clip embellishments as once we get home and I want to look at a page when we were on the water, I can simply look for the paper clips with the ships on them, with each clip representing a day at sea...so if it was our fourth day at sea, I can go to the 4th paperclip and be able to read all about it. I love that your memories of trips are of getting lost and finding your way home...as mine are of all the things that have gone wrong, from getting stuck in an elevator between floors and having Rich lift me out, to being stuck in the Cleveland airport for 3 days as our charter plane had mechanical issues and they had no back up plane, to being caught in a level 4 hurricane in St Maarten. Someone told me I should write a book about all the things that have gone wrong for us, it's what makes travelling unique to us and although at the time, some of the things were pretty scary, we've lived to tell the tale...and we got home eventually, just like you. As for the journal cover, I plan on adding the city names once I cut them from books I bought about visiting them so it will have a little more interest..

@@craftingforalmosteveryone my word! You really do seem to have jinxed trips. You two are brave souls! I’d probably be too afraid to ever travel again. I think if you’d been born way back when that you would have been pioneers because you two definitely seem fearless.

I think we're more numb than fearless...when things go wrong so often, you're amazed when things go right. We were at an airport waiting for a flight and there was a couple also waiting who said they weren't worried about making their connecting flight as they'd never missed one in 25 years. I told them that I was sorry, they were flying with us now, and they were definitely not going to make that connecting flight, and they didn't. It's no wonder our friends don't want to go on trips with us...haha

Thanks for the sweet note. I can honestly tell you I can only remember one trip where we were blessed. We drove from San Francisco to LA and our plane left LA on the evening of 9/10/2001 and got us home before midnight... When the planes hit the twin towers I got so many calls at work from co-workers thinking I was probably stuck in California and wanted to know how I would ever get home. I consider that divine intervention. I hope nothing goes wrong on this trip and will give you all the details when we get home and plan on showing the journal once all the mini photos and daily journalling are in it. I loved the idea of the paper clips so we can easily find the day we spend in Paris from the Eifel tower clip... Forgot to tell you when we saw you in Maine, on our drive home, we got caught in a 4 hour traffic jam on an interstate then hours later traffic slowed and a man driving a vehicle towing a speed boat couldn't slow down in time and we could see the boat coming across both lanes in our rear view mirror.. I don't know how the driver ever got the boat straight, but we were definitely prepared for major impact.. I've never heard of anyone ever having a boat try to hit them in traffic like that, hahahaha

@@craftingforalmosteveryone Looking forward in hearing about your trip when you get back home...enjoy my friend enjoy.

I'm hoping it goes well.