Did You Know? Fun Facts & Crafty Tips! March 2019 Edition

Hello crafters, it’s Nina-Marie here with you today, bringing the latest edition of Did You Know?!
If it’s your first time seeing this feature, each month we will be bringing you fun facts, creative tips and even crafty hacks about your favorite supplies and brands; you can then use these awesome tips that you learn in your next crafting projects! Are you ready to learn some fun tricks? Keep on reading!
MISTI CUT-ALIGN

While this may look like a standard ruler, the details included in this MISTI Cut-Align are not to be overlooked! Not only are there accurate measuring guides, such as a centering ruler, a standard inch measurement and a grid, but there is one specific feature of this tool that makes it even more amazing! The Cut-Align has a groove designed specifically to keep a hand-held craft knife in place when cutting; no more imperfect cuts from your knife skipping off a standard ruler!
SENTIMENT STRIPS + SENTIMENT LABEL DIES = PERFECTION!

Our Simon exclusive Sentiment Strips are a 4-sheet assortment of greetings, each sheet with its own collection of themed sentiments. These greetings can be cut with scissors or a trimmer, but did you know that you could also use our Simon exclusive Sentiment Labels die set to cut them out with one easy pass through your die cutting machine?!
FISKARS TRIMMER

You may want to consider looking at your paper trimmer differently! The Fiskars Trimmer has a blade groove that can be doubled as a scoring tool! Simply line up your paper and run your stylus or bone folder overtop… Voila!
TIM HOLTZ HABERDASHERY SCISSORS

If you love to cut textiles, ribbons and more, Tim Holtz has unveiled his latest tool; The Haberdashery Scissors! Did you know that these snips are designed especially for those of you who could use a pair of scissors dedicated to those supplies? No more struggling to cut with scissors that have been worn down by paper!
ALTENEW WATERCOLOR PALETTE


Altenew’s Watercolor Palette is an inexpensive tool that has so many uses! A few of my favorite ways to utilize this palette are:
- as a palette for watercolors and inks, because the surface is clear and shows the true colors
- to use as a board for coloring a project when I am away from my desk
- as a slick surface for ink smooshing techniques; the large palette is especially handy for this!
We hope you have enjoyed this month’s installment of Did You Know?! Tune in again next month for a brand new edition of this fun series!
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Thanks for the tips! I love the Misti Cut-Align! I need one!
Thanks for the awesome tips! :)
Wow…great info! It helps have an ah-hah moment. Thanks so much for helping us crafters to extend our supplies :-)
Awesome tips. Those sentiments and the dies are on my wish list!
Cool tips and features. TFS.
I LOVE this segment on SSS! THANKS NINA! You are keeping us up to date on the latest in tools, AND giving us Quick Tips that help us do the craft we love! ;)
Great products and tips! I love the Misti Cut-Align
Thank you for some great tips! And thank you for last weekend’s show! I had a great time!
Wow! These are some great products! Thanks for the tips!
I have the Misti tool but have to
confess that I’ve not used it yet.
I’m looking forward to doing so,
I have trouble keeping my lines
straight when I’m cutting a
sentiment. thanks for
sharing. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Thanks for the tips!
I really like ALTENEW WATERCOLOR PALETTE maybe I will buy it one
thanks for your nice tips pn this post Nina
big hugs from Germany
Love articles like this!
Awesome tips Nina Marie!
Thank you very much for these monthly tip emails. They not only offer good tips to use in crafting but also brings to the forefront tools and supplies we don’t that would make great additions to our craft rooms.
My husband, Dennis, Purchased a Fiskars Trimmer, to replace a worn – out 17 year old trimmer. I only used it to trim cards. Then, I would pull out my Scoring tool, to score. Now, I can leave that last step out. Score one for Dennis!
Woohoo, so happy to be the blog candy winner! :-) email sent! I can’t wait to get my hands on those Simon Says stamp sentiment sheets – they look very useful!
I look forward to each month’s tips. Sometimes we just don’t think outside the box and it is nice to have someone point it out to us. It also sheds light on tools I already have and neglect to use. Please keep this going! Thanks!
i DID NOT KNOW about the scissors from TH – thanks for the tips!
Again great tips Nina-Marie, thank you so much and have a great weekend.
Great new tools! Thanks for highlighting them.
Great article. Love
the label die and
the MISTI tool.
Carla from Utah
Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for those tips. I think I need to get my hands on Altenew palette :)
Thanks so much for these crafty tips! The Misti Cut-Align ruler just shot to the top of my wish list!
Great tips and tools!
Thanks for the info! Great new series.
Thanks for all of these fun facts and congrats to the winners.
Great tips and products. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Awesome tips!!! Thanks!!
Those Simon Sentiment Strips would come in handy – love it!
Great tips–I have the water color palette, it’s terrific!
Thanks, Nina. I just added to my wish list!
thanks for sharing these tips – love the Altenew water color palette :)
Love this new feature! I have learned several new ideas from reading this one and can’t wait to put them to use. Thanks, Nina-Marie!
Just purchased the large memory misti from your store and can’t wait to try. Love all the ideas especially the new ruler! A real must-have! Thanks for sharing all those tips!
Great new items
Love this feature. It always has so many useful tips!
I tried the Cut Align at Create and it was really great! Thanks for reminding me!
Thank you Nina – Marie always great tips x
Thanks for all the info!
Great tips! I love this series.
Great tips! I could use the Misti Cut-Align ruler! I cut crocked!
Thanks for all the tips . I really like the Misti ruler…
Thanks for sharing…
Great tips, and I love the idea of the Cut-Align!
Loved the tip about Fiskars trimmers!! Who knew hahaha!!
Thanks so much for this blog content…so much I didn’t know but find so helpful.
I really need sentiment label does in my life!!
Great tips! I’m liking the look of the MISTI Cut Align!
Great tips! I knew the scoring one but not the others.