Tuesday's Tool. A new weekly challenge of sorts!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 01:09AM Meant to post this earlier today so that it was properly Tuesday and all, but had internet issues (don't get me started, lol). So. This will have to do. :)
I've decided to start a weekly challenge. Feel free to play along, though mostly it's just an extra push for me. I find that I have a great number of scrapbooking tools that I simply "had" to have yet have barely touched. I'd guess that many of you can relate. ;) So. I'm going to pick a tool each Tuesday and push myself to actually use it. Simple as that.
For this week, I picked the Crop-A-Dile by We R Memory Keepers. I have the pretty green one, having waited until they finally came out with a model that wasn't pink, LOL! I've had it for ages; but, until this past weekend, I think I may have used it once. Really, though, it is a pretty cool little tool. Sunday I used it for the boys' Halloween costumes:
(Don't worry...I'll post pics of the boys in their costumes by the end of the week!) So. My two favorite aspects of the Crop-A-Dile as of right now:
- It punches through all sorts of materials!! For the costumes, I punched two layers of shower liner (heavy duty vinyl), and I'm so happy with how it punches chipboard.
- I can set eyelets without a hammer. This was the main thing that convinced me to buy this tool. Of course, after buying it, I stopped using as many eyelets for some reason, LOL! Guess I'll have to remedy that...I already have some Christmas gift tags in mind that will be so much better strung on a ribbon through a nice little eyelet.
Since the time when I bought mine, of course, WRMK has come out with the Big Bite version that allows you to reach further into a page or whatever material you're punching. I'm still debating whether that's worth it to me, but am definitely intrigued. :)
So, have you used your Crop-A-Dile lately? Any tips or cool finds to share?
Reader Comments (4)
I love my Crop-a-dile. I got it for Christmas from my husband last year (and he even used a coupon which made me proud). LOL It's the pink one even though I wanted the green one instead but at least it meant that my husband walked into a craft store around the holidays to get me the CAD. :) He had heard me talking about it when I was making these treat boxes for family last year (20 boxes) and was hammering all my eyelets - sometimes as late as 11 PM. He was annoyed with it so I think that's why I got the CAD so he could have peace and quiet. LOL No cool tips but a neat idea that I saw online and have tried - set a small eyelet inside a larger eyelet to add a bit of pizazz
I bought the crop-i-dile soon after it was introduced. And I don't know how I lived without it. I do a lot of mini albums. So I use it all the time.
I debated about the Big Bite. But I realized, I never put holes in the middle of the page, so it's not something I would use often. So I saved that money and bought more paper.
I used mine to punch a new hole in my dog's collar. I love multi-tasking tools. :)
I love my Crop A Dile! I use it more for the punching feature rather than the eyelet setting ... it goes through ANYTHING like butter! Super easy to make mini-albums. :)