Moonrose's Reviews

It's huge. I had no idea how big it really was until it got here, and I pulled it out of the box and was floored. The strap is just long enough to cross over my body (your body may vary of course) so it's very comfortable to use as a purse-tote for everyday use. I don't scrap, I do generic paper art stuff, so I haven't used this for crop parties, but I CAN vouch for its awesomeness as a knitting bag, especially since one of the three segments is a great size for holding thinner books or magazines and one of the other segments is full of pockets for all my everyday items and knitting notions. The last section being a solid open part so far is holding a large shawl just fine, and I bet I could even carry a sweater in progress in this thing. Top it all off, it's GORGEOUS! mad love for my tote =)

Club Scrap paper is *awesome* for its weight and textures and all, but from what I hear it's near impossible to do bleach-fun on it.

Enter Castaway - stamp the image with the Castaway ink, let sit for a bit to soak in to the paper, then hit with a hot iron. It WORKS! It's not the clearest, but my ink coverage and my stamping weren't exactly perfect, it was just a test, and the paper is pretty heavily textured. But hey, it can be lightened!

Seriously. This is my favorite black ink I own - it works with all my stamps, and even makes some of them look crisp where they were mushy, clean where they were sort of munged. It *does* require special cleaner to take it off which I have only used on my rubber stamps, not my acrylic ones, but it's worth it in my opinion. And I love the smell... I can't put my finger on it, but something about Black Staz-on Scent just makes me hungry, though I certainly wouldn't encourage ink sniffing. ;) I actually like my black better than my Olive Green, but the Green isn't bad either. I also like that it dries incredibly fast on regular papers, meaning I have less of a likelihood of smearing it all over the place. Bad for embossing, good for clumsy!