More MAJOR Card Making Mistakes (and how to fix them)!

[@mmhanson1]

I did exactly what you said - I no longer was getting subscriber notifications. What I appreciate is that it helps me with the beginners in my class I am teaching in the Senior Center here is Texas. I volunteer 1 day a week, and they have no extra money to just throw their mistakes away. So please make suggestions that help people regroup when they've made big mistakes!

[@teenabarker2218]

I have been cardmaking and stamping for years and these tips are great and helpful! Thanks, Simon! I once worked SO hard on a card and layered it upside down. I wrote a note to the recipient that said "this card is NOT upside down...you are standing on your head!" 😂😂😂🎉🎨

[@lindy5884]

That's the best idea! Lol!

[@teenabarker2218]

@@lindy5884 LOL I sure thought so at the time! 😂

[@lindy5884]

@@teenabarker2218 I'm using that if I ever do one upside down. Who am I kidding...WHEN. LOL

[@joyceperry3729]

Love it...I'm stealing it!

[@susandzama3000]

Love you humor!!!!

[@cherin6037]

OK Simon you have just reached hero status. WOW! MIGHT now be able to quit throwing out cracking cardstock. Heat glue to get rid of ALL stickers on packages as well on card adhesives. WOW! Ink blending hints oh yah! Bring on more buddy!! Every tip you have on every card making technique is GOLD to us all!! Thank you so much!!

[@112seedsoflight]

I love this response! Every bit true!

[@patriciadelany6699]

Wow! I have been a card maker for 20 years. The only tip that I already knew was to heat the adhesive to remove the card base. I have a thin acrylic block that I never use and now my sentiments will be crisp! Your demonstration of how to ink up the blending tool was so great! I never understood why my backgrounds were too light! Thanks so much. So glad I watched this video, Simon!

[@roselaurapereiramalone9016]

When I need to fix the layer because I put it on upside down I run a piece of fishing line and slide it between the layers

[@mangobaby2]

I love the tip about heating up the tape to take it off to change the position of the images. I’m sure that it happens to almost all of us. I only go to option was to cut the image off the card base and place it on a new card base, just as you showed.

[@lisetteroot6195]

All those tips were incredibly helpful, thank you! I just ordered a scoring pad and I am very happy I now know how to use it and how to flip and fold for a clean bend. The heating of the adhesive for removal was also very helpful, thank you so much for sharing!

[@purnimaverma530]

Would definitely want to watch ink blending tutorial. It's looks super smooth when you do it

[@shirleyfraser5748]

Thanks for giving us all these basic hints! Saves us from making a lot of mistakes!

[@patleon5506]

I find the thin blocks problematic to lifting up off the surface cleanly. Appreciate your tips!

[@gloriaebert4209]

Thank you for pointing out the difference between thinner acrylic blocks vs thick acrylic blocks. I was not aware of the difference besides hand comfort.

[@beckyh3041]

Thank you for these tips. I have been card making for several years and did not know most of these tips. Very helpful!

[@at2515]

Thank you so much for these tips. They are very helpful. Things I didn't know. I would love a whole video on ink blending and also one of NUVO products. Thanks a bunch!!

[@kblack861]

Yes please...would love to see an ink blending video! And I'm not saying how many times I've goofed on adhering things to my cardbase!

[@imeldaoneill7747]

This was great - Thank you!! Please continue to create this type of video!

[@expressivepaper]

I was just thinking that someone should do a reminder on the score/fold. Great info!!!

[@simon.hurley]

Hey dudes and dudettes! Leave a comment on which mistakes you have made before. Or share some new tips with me! :) ✭ FULL supply list with PICTURES: ldli.co/e/7kjo54

[@annparadowski5553]

Yes we need a blending video. Thanks for the tips 💜

[@kellyrobertazzi2158]

I didn’t realize that the acrylic block size matters. Good tip. Thanks

[@stephaniejames8950]

Thanks Simon I have made some of these mistakes in the past. It’s nice and helpful when someone shows you the right way.

[@subigland5600]

I use rock o block and stamp platform. As I find acrylic block to heavy handed for me xx

[@judynafus9360]

Yes on that ink blending video. THANKS!!!!

[@beverlypevarnick9278]

Thank you for all of the tips--I needed them, especially the upside down card trick. I also vote for the ink blending video

[@sarascreations6637]

K blending was awesome as was the scoring..hmmmm using heat to loosen...nicely done once again sir.

[@cindyveteran]

Blending tip was awesome. I would like more videos of that please.

[@JoPuttPutt]

Just found your awesome channel on KZbin!! Subscribed and can't wait to go through all your other videos...Have learned so MUCH in just watching a couple already. Thank You and keep those videos coming.

[@gingerpayne7310]

Thank you for the great tip about the embossing powder!

[@helenparry5676]

Thank you so much Simon! You’re awesome, I’ve now fixed my ruined upside down card! 🤗

[@noraadams5175]

Love your videos! Yes, please do a blending video

[@suelapreci3492]

Creasing the fold was excellent!

[@janegalway6094]

Yes full video for ink blending

[@gmdickman]

Thank you...I love the scoring info. It is so much better than trying to figure out the weft and web of card stock. I also have never used the heat tool on adhesive....BUT my son bought his first car a couple of months ago complete with a big dealer logo sticker on the back window. I popped out my heat tool and an extension cord and off it came...just a quick clean up with some acetone and voila! I know you thought you were done with hacks, but your next empire should be transforming craft to life hacks :P One more tip I learned from you is along the same lines of the acrylic block, but it is the "don't mash the MISTI". I was so used to pressure (starting with woodies to acrylics to polymers) when I got the MISTI I was really applying too much pressure and distorting the image...it was kind of a side note in one of your videos, but now it is part of the household craft nomenclature.

[@deannarodrigues8254]

That was good advise. Please do the blending video too.

[@karenrichmond640]

WOW, I DID NOT KNOW I WAS FOLDING CARD INCORRECTLY. THANKS SIMON.

[@janet257]

Hey Dude! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I’ve learned so much from you!💗

[@112seedsoflight]

YES please Simon! Please make a full video on ink blending. I know you have developed many blending tricks over the the years that might help us who are struggling with blending. I think there are many of us, judging by the comments on your FB page. Thank you so much for your videos!

[@bethjeans3780]

Fun video! When scoring a card, if we forget which side to have on the inside, it’s the side with the little bump across the fold, called a mountain fold. Also, Un-Du is wonderful for undoing cards stuck on backwards, paper elements, etc. When it’s applied it looks like it will leave a stain, but it disappears. And it’s not Goo Gone. Different beast. : )

[@chrisi8422]

Omg I can’t tell you how many times I put my card front on upside down. Great tip with heating up the card. Hopefully, I won’t have to do that for a while!

[@ibelf2465]

Great video Simon. I have made every single one of them! I would definitely love to see an ink blending video. I have been hesitant to go in with my ink like that however it seems that’s where I am actually going wrong! Thank you!!!

[@joyceperry3729]

Great ways to fix errors we make sooner or later. Would really like to see a video on ink blending. I tend to be too light to the touch or too heavy. Also when softening the edges of the card stock with ink I am way too heavy handed. I could use some advice. Thanks

[@melanielandry2855]

Hi Simon! (I speak French, sorry if I made mistake...) I knew the tip to score the card base before to fold, but I didn’t realise really it’s have a side to fold. Thanks for the tips!

[@theresagerlach6217]

Never thought to use heat to loosen the adhesive. Duh!!! Always went with just lopping it off and paid extra postage! Thanks for sharing.

[@kathiecondon9187]

Great video! I have learned some things. Could you do a video on how to keep your blending pads with the correct color of ink? I really enjoy your channel

[@roxanneklinger3828]

Thanks for the info in how to correct my mistakes.

[@DanielRBeach]

You make ink blending look so effortless. I get the circle impression when I put the blender to paper, whether I use the finder daubers or the Ranger blending tool. I am sure you noticed the unevenness on the card I sent in February. Have you ever stamped on the thin craft foam? If you use brown it looks like leather.

[@micheleks7748]

Blending with the ranger tool is my biggest issue. I am working on it but now I will try your technique. If you do a special video on ink blending I will watch it many times! Oh, I have made all other mistakes too.

[@112seedsoflight]

Me too Michelle! I can do quite well with brushes, but can't get the bold color with them. I use small finger daubers, but they really seem to put a lot of color on. I keep practicing with the Ranger Tool but results are sketchy. I would love it if Simon did a full video.

[@carolhodges9899]

Thank you for all these great tips, Simon! One thing I haven’t mastered is scoring. I can’t for the life of me follow the grove in the scoreboard. Everyone makes it look so easy, but I, for some reason, struggle with it. So, I end up using the scoring blade on my paper trimmer! Any tips on scoring would be helpful, or maybe I’m just a lost cause!!

[@pamluden8304]

When I have adhered a card topper to the base upside down, I grab one of the corners and pry it up just enough to be able to slide some "dental floss" under it and work it up the topper until it comes completely free from the base!! I always keep a roll of dental floss on my desk!! It really does work!!

[@veggievg1191]

Thanks for the scoring tip. I had no idea. Thought it was just me

[@viviantrapp1681]

Ink Blending Video Pleeeease!!! That'd be incredible 🙂

[@lking1986]

Thank you Simon! I love your tip for stamping small sentiments with a bold and clear result- is a smaller block! I look forward to trying this. I especially have trouble if I emboss smaller text- it never turns out crisp. Advice for embossing small text?

[@ruthjames715]

Thanks Simon, I would win a prize for the number of times I have put a design on upside down. I never dreamt of using the heat gun.

[@CARancourt]

Simon - Great idea for a video on Ink Blending!

[@sharonyoung8251]

The scoring tip is especially important with coated card stock.

[@franciscaraffo9703]

Thanks for the tips!!! Are very useful!!! 😄😄

[@jeaninerasmusen4031]

Oh yes, done them all and learnt the hard way - thanks

[@lorispitzer8289]

Hi, Simon - Good tips. I think I would have opted for having an extra layer if I had accidentally adhered my card to the card base incorrectly. If necessary, I would have adhered a flat card inside where the sentiment goes (even if I were leaving it blank) to balance the weight added to the cover. I noticed your method of folding post-scoring before and wondered if I was interpreting it incorrectly (I'm not great w/ mirror image stuff.... can't put on earrings using a mirror, for example). Glad you got that figured out now. :) Hope your move is going / has gone well. Still love your closing music. Could you tell us whose song that is?

[@user-mv9tt4st9k]

The end song is "Hold Me" by Olmos. (sorry, Simon, I had to know)

[@lorispitzer8289]

@@user-mv9tt4st9k Thanks! I considered just looking that up, but I figured that (as has happened to me many other times), it would not be the title and I'd end up down a rabbit hole for an hour, searching. I appreciate the info!

[@memessweett4005]

Thank you for this video. Have a wonderful day

[@kandicezaffarano6361]

I never thought about the thin block that way.tfs

[@stephanieduarte4118]

Great information Simon 😀

[@lisascott947]

I hope and pray one day I'll have the awesome opportunities you were presented with💚💚Love your videos dude!

[@nancyludlum2646]

TFS. On the cardstock folding after scoring, I have heard about scoring it the "correct" way as you showed. I guess in my experience, I haven't noticed that it made much difference. If folding it the "wrong" way, the bulk stays out of the folded area so that seems preferable. Doing it the "correct" way puts the bulk right in the fold. Thoughts?

[@kayfurnish8715]

Nancy, I thought the same thing many years ago, but 45+ years of stamping has proven to me that the ridge on the inside of the card makes for a much smoother outside, which is what the recipient sees first. I would rather have the outside of the card look best!

[@anaraposo0857]

Great hacks. Thank you for sharing.

[@chines68]

Yes, Yes to the inkblending vid!!

[@scrapgirl949]

Hi Simon, I just started ink blending and mine looks terrible. Ah! So many streaks. Can you please do a full video on ink blending?

[@simon.hurley]

Hi friend! Yay... ink blending is so much fun. Here is a video I created with tons of tips and tricks to help you get smooth blending: kzbin.info/www/bejne/noeyc6Cljpahr8k

[@jenniferhovermale8488]

Guilty of adhering card front upside down. I love the heat took trick!

[@melissahall9742]

Great ideas! Since I don’t have a wooden tool for each color, I only have 2 for now, is there a trick to pulling off the foam pieces? I may use them twice and the “black piece” detaches from the foam. I never feel like I can get my foam piece “seasoned” up with ink, if that makes sense.

[@112seedsoflight]

I used to have that happen too. I put my finger under a little bit to be sure I grab hold of both the foam and the black felt piece before I pull it off. So far, no tear offs and I don't get inky fingers because Simon's inks dry pretty quickly. Cannot say the same for Distress Oxide Inks - I get ink all over my fingers every time!

[@melissahall9742]

Glenna Johannessen thank you 😊

[@geniekeating3296]

I have turned the card upside down lots of time and did it the first way then one day I heat embossed my card after glewing it to main card and my card lifted. This shod have told me how to correct an upside down card but it didn't. Thanks.

[@loke-art7383]

Great tips and helpful

[@susanjohnson318]

It had always made sense to me that the indent of the score would be the indent of the fold. I found out how to do this the right way just within the last 2 years. It sure makes it easier on the WRMK Envelope Punch Board, as I can see where my folds are going! I would be surprised if anyone here has NOT put the card on upside down at one (or many) time!

[@112seedsoflight]

Truth! I understand the sentiments on how people feel when it happens - I usually just walk away in disgust. Later I know it's easy to fix LOL

[@lisascott947]

Ink blending tips for sure! Need help using ink cubes:(

[@craftymini]

Would you believe I've never stuck my card front on upside down - watched this video yesterday and thought "well this won't happen to me because i always check". Guess who stuck everything on upside down today 🤣🤣🤣 doh!

[@marksidebottommark10]

love your video mate thumbs up to you simon

[@craftinglady]

One thing that happened to me some times as well is I either smuged my card with ink or even acrylic paint (when I am working at several projects at the same time...). I try to cover it up. As for acrylic blocks: I only have 2, different sizes. I definately need more smaller ones.

[@susandzama3000]

Look around your house. I once saw someone using an old pill bottle bottom and it works great. I since found other things and save my money for more fun things like stamps

[@craftinglady]

@@susandzama3000 Great tip, thank you!

[@patriciavail4741]

I use Undo to remove something upside down or in the wrong place.

[@Scrappicat]

I use my Cricut spatula.

[@susandavis6424]

Please do a video on ink blending

[@wendylopez9863]

yes, do a video on ink blending

[@dorismurai1007]

When using heat to loosen the adhesive, I read that sliding a credit card between the layers helps to separate them after heating.

[@lissafry3963]

I’ve had some success with dental floss for separation. Great tips, thanks!

[@HandmadebyCarmenC]

Upside down card and yesterday did a backwards die cut for the peekaboo doors 🤔🤦‍♀️

[@brendabennett4299]

Great ideas how many times I’ve made the same mistakes

[@donnahurder4665]

There is a product called Undu that removes tape runner,labels etc. It's wonderful!!

[@denisewells5922]

Great ideas

[@Dove18000]

If you have adhered the card front using some type of tape (instead of liquid glue) Un-Du is a liquid that you squirt along the tape line and the front panel lifts right off, leaving the tape reusable. So you can just adhere the front panel the correct way. (looks like Goo-Gone; but is totally different._

[@katieevans6614]

I can't craft without a bottle of Un-Du right next to me. That stuff is magic!

[@kayediaz79109]

Where do you buy the Un do???

[@janiesirak8377]

Hi! I have some goo gone and I love it for getting those stickers off everything you buy. I wasn’t thinking of it for my card making. I make the occasional mistake just like everyone else, how is undo different from Goo gone? They sound as if they would be pretty similar….

[@Dove18000]

@@kayediaz79109 Normally I pick it up at scrapbooking or stamping conventions; but I have seen it at Michaels. I tend to buy several bottles at once.

[@mikebruno4643]

Full 1hr blending video with an intermission for snacks!!!

[@sr1625]

Thanks!

[@anitawoods7059]

Me too, I've never been able to blend anything properly and always make it took awful ... Unintentionally tho!

[@carmenbaby02]

Guilty on the upside down card.

[@49lucky]

I don't make mistakes I embellish...lol... I don't blend lol. But I might now. I see. Oh I love that Christmas ornament..

[@lisascott947]

I forget who but they said when scoring and folding, to fold to where the ridge is on the inside❤Helped me so much lol!

[@suzannec4843]

I learned this as “mountains to the middle” and now I never forget which way to fold my scored lines!

[@faberinthesun]

Once upon a time I assembled all of my items on what I thought was a card front. It turned out to be on the matching envelope front.

[@margaritanavarro-rivera4126]

I am also guilty of the upside down card mistake!

[@valgrant3303]

Oh yes I have glued layer upside down or on the back of the card.

[@goodie4kids1]

Another way to remove a glued on card from the base is to use dental floss, You just slip a long piece under the corner and guide it to the opposite corner. The glued on piece comes right off, no paper is ripped and it doesn't make your card thicker,

[@112seedsoflight]

That is amazing advice! Thank you!

[@shirleypryor9397]

Yes, make more ”mistakes” videos

[@joannie0708]

yes yes yes I have done that lol

[@leopardprints]

It honestly bugs me so much when crafters score and fold the wrong way. It makes it very tricky when following tutorials as you have to understand everything backwards. The finish isn't as nice, the paper cracks and it doesn't line up correctly. Not sure why so many crafters do it the wrong way?

[@lucinda2329]

❤️ ~✿~❧~🌿~❧~✿~ ❤️

[@gaurangiagarwal5099]

Hreat hacks. Thanks.