Making silver metallic card today; I use duct tape; the actual stuff they use on airconditioning ducts. It comes in enormous rolls and if I made a sheet of card every day forever I would still have some left.
I'm not so good with putting tape down in a straight line so there are overlaps but if it is run through an embossing folder you really don't notice.
Now that leads me onto something else... are we really crafting anymore?
Everything is made for us now; die cutting... any shape we want. You can even get dies that create a complete card for you that looks like a filigree masterpiece. One pass through a machine and presto! a card. Where's the fun, where's the enjoyment or creativity?
We haven't really made it. We just cranked a handle or pushed a button.
There's more of an effort made now by just going out and buying one! Everyone knows you used a die. A die that will never pay for itself, despite what those crafty, and I mean that in the sly sense, TV salespeople tell us.
Embossing folders; again, one pass through, you may need to trim a few edges and bung it on a card blank. An A6 rubber stamp. There's no skill to it. No pleasure. Especially after the first one.
I've fallen for them, but have they stolen the fun?
Half the creations on TV by the "design teams", well if you made them they wouldn't stand up! Thing is, they are already finished and I haven't done anything so I'm operating a machine on a production line.
My point is that there's no creativity any more.
Craft, hand-made has become commercial, isn't that an oxymoron?
- a nice little earner for the companies that make them and yeah you can "create" nice backgrounds with your super duper pens but that gets a bit samey samey sometimes. I suppose we could make it different - we could stick a butterfly on it......
Maybe I'm a bit down today. I shall watch a video by Marta. She has such a beautiful soul and she always lifts me.
Love,
Ruby-Sian XXX
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