Am I Leaving Ideas on the Table? This Thrift Store Find Has SO Many Uses!

Okay, I feel like I'm leaving ideas on the table, and I desperately need your input. Welcome to the channel, friends. It's Angela, the Traveling Crafter, and today we are going to try, I'm going to show you what I've come up with, but I wanted to experiment with this little pack of what they're calling stick strips. I have no idea how old they are. I don't know where they're from. maybe it says Wrigley California no Irvine California hangers unlimited I bought them for 50 cents at a uh thrift store and here's what they say I'm going to take this off of here for a minute the stick strip adds a non-tear mylar film edge to your binder sheet the stick strip is pre-punched and simply attaches directly to your sheet and you can add it to your binders all right so that's what we've got here so we know what we can use it for however when i got these i was like okay this i was going to do this for a craft table test and i think it's going to be a quick enough one that we probably don't want to do that so you can see here maybe you can't okay let me put this underneath there so it's got one two three four five punched holes so initially i was like all right well that would be great for like an extension or almost like to reinforce a page in a journal whether you're putting it in a binder journal or not I you know it's made out of mylar right so I thought well let's just make a few of them so here's what I've done I've got some washi for supplies I've got some embellishments should we need them and that's about it again this is kind of your carry-on craft project so what happens is I've left this sticky on there so this would go on to the side of the page so I thought well I can add these you know add a bunch of washi it worked really great looks super cute adds a little funsies to it then I did I thought well they could make cute page edges so I did a couple with the washi on them and then added these and that's about as far as I got so I feel like you as I make a couple of these I feel like you guys are going to have some great ideas I don't know if my if I'm just I don't know my brain's not braining I don't know but the ideas are not flowing for this project so bear with me I'm sorry that's I wanted to use some of this blue and I'm just using things that I have oh gosh I'm so sorry if you guys know you know i don't like the sound of crinkling wrap so if you two are one of those people i feel you and i apologize in advance so i put this on put this down so the sticky side is facing down this part that will go to the page and i just whipped some of this on here i thought we would just do three of them maybe in this blue color and then we can well you know what here's something else we can do with it let me get one that it will work with better but now i am not at very good angle but what i did when i did these other ones is i i'm gonna try to lean over this i just tried to make sure everything was covered and i think with a couple of them i did i had to trim but i don't remember if i really yeah i didn't have to trim i don't think um because i didn't use any of the really wide ones but if you did have a wider washi that you wanted to to use you might have to do that so i'm just going to trim off the edges so now we've got our substrate or base there's just that one now let's just do a couple more because i'm thinking you know it's nice that those natural punched holes are in there so i could just go back with my hole punch and do it and put it right in a binder or just line it up to where you know whatever binder i'm using and i think it would work just fine i think they're great and i think it's a fun find but i just feel like i'm not i'm not using them for to their potential so you know what when you you don't know you go to all the experts out there which is every single one of you see what you got to say about it because i know you know i try once i've used washi to just make a little tab so i don't have to fight with it in the future let's do one more i'm kind of knocking some dave's going to be he had to actually work today i was thinking he didn't have to work and usually he doesn't work on fridays and he had to go um out of town to do a surgery uh so he was gone this morning and he's gonna be back shortly but um I was like kind of bummed because I was ready to sorry that's shaking um it's a rainy day and I was like oh we can just veg out with we have a like a well I'm gonna call it a tent but it's not really a tent it's like a oh what are those things called it's like a four-sided you know sunroom uh for camping words are not coming to me today and so it's got screens that you know if you collapse that you can close if you want but i sat out there this morning and just listened to the to this um beating down of the rain and read my book for a little while and so i was kind of hoping that dave would didn't have to work okay so what i'm thinking is i what i haven't done because all i've done really is use like ephemera or uh you know die cuts and such and then these i just left plain so maybe we'll do one with some of this rick rack rick rack paddywhack and again am i using the things that i would normally use in my craft room the ouch the answer is no because i'm using what i have on hand here as i'm traveling so uh what i would suggest is if you've got Fabri-Tac which i do somewhere i just don't know where that somewhere is at the moment um use something some kind of glue that is good on fabric but we're just going to use this tight bond and i think i might have mentioned it in my last what is the dealio this was i bought a bunch of vintage uh rick rack and this one was one that didn't have a didn't have a cover on it so i didn't sell it we're just going to go with that and then i'm thinking maybe i'm gonna have to try to do a straight line this should be interesting but this tight bond once it goes down it's it's it's pretty good whereas this other glue i have which is hold on i gotta wait till this comes out it has a little more wiggle room but my friend tammy tammy she says that she uses this all the time swears by it so we're trusting in her she knows that it will work just fine and i do have a whole gallon of this up at the lake because it was so inexpensive and i'm like well i'll never run out of that and i won't have to bring anything else up here i don't know that it's the this one's called quick and thick and that's the one that tammy uses i think mine's just called the tight bond so it's not maybe quite as quite as fast and drying as this stuff is but it is an inexpensive solution that is for sure so i could just do this as a now you're probably saying well yeah angela but you could just put this on the side of your page edge yes you could but my thought is so i should be a little more clear my thought is that it might be something to maybe like extend your page and i think that you know need a little bit more on the edge of your page because you could put it on the outside edge it would also be really cute to do as um you know i like to do pom pom trim and some things like that so it would be cute just to do as your page edge and do a bunch of them like that we're just going to put a few of these down so i know this is going to be a quick video but i just wanted i want your advice how else can i use these and what am i not thinking i mean clearly we can now put these on top of a um pocket but really right now what I have them kind of slated for are edges edges of pockets edges of tags and edges of pages what else can we do with these there we go that looks pretty cute all right so let's move these away and what we've got here I'm thinking if I wanted to do I'm not sure I want to do another one with just the I mean I could do them so that I could almost like a um clusters that i could then cut up you know and just to have them as ready-made clusters so maybe leave leave a little space between each one of them so like i don't love that bird so maybe if i put him on there what else could i put on move them over so like we could do i had a ticket i'm i do have some like real ephemera my own ephemera but i don't i don't have it out either the whole goal was just to try to use some of this and not have a lot of things for my carry-on crafts because you know usually we don't is my hand in the way when i'm throwing things down there i don't know i mean this one's already made into this is cute this one i feel like yeah see that we could so it still remains a pocket but i could just do that with that doesn't seem like very what else do i have over here i'm starting to get into i think the big pieces these are all too big i'm making a big old mess i'm gonna go for it now let me take a second to of all this this menagerie of stuff this is if i didn't mention it before this is the simple stories kit and it is sweet summertime all right so i think for this i guess i'll just use pack this down right now because i feel like i'd like to maybe go over it to get my sewing machine out and do just a quick quick stitch right down it but essentially i mean i could just cut these each apart now i've got little clusters i know you can't see that glue going on there very well but and the reason i'm doing this like that with just one little line is that i might want to tuck something else on there or in there so that allows me to have a little more wiggle room with it all right now we're just gonna and i'm just going to move this one up kind of high so it's this is off the edge I want to make sure as much of the glue as I can or show that one is not my favorite but I think once I add some stitching to it I'll probably like it better but so now I can cut it what do you think thoughts on that I'm excited for this video to see what you guys all say maybe we'll do another one like this last one we've got I don't know I'm almost tempted to do something like see if I put it on the page I'm thinking I'd have to glue it like so flip and it's not really gonna flip it's probably not something that i'm not loving any more of these i don't know why just not here you got some more what are these i think these were just something i had in my stash here and it doesn't have a brand i don't have any branding in for me this might be kind of cute i do like these um rainbows but probably for something else nails cute fuzzy bee we could do a bee instead of two flowers actually let's do the bee here and again i could if i wanted do those as little clusters too let's see what i have that i could put behind them from that other kit you know they have to be pretty small let's see whoa i just messed that up really it's okay it's fixable i was thinking that looks pretty good there i could do this little cloud with the snail after it rains we get the rainbows i had my tray out here that i work on when i travel but it was taking up too much space so i i'm just trying to find something else to tuck it behind i think the butterfly i'm just gonna leave just leave the butterfly and the bee why not all right for this i'm gonna try to use my glue stick and i know let's see if we can get this right on here sure to the cloud this one I'm gonna see how far in part I need this does dry clear so nothing to worry about there I'm just putting a little glue on the edge where it's gonna be on top of the number we got our that this one was pretty easy peasy wasn't it and I can still add to it or I can cut them apart or I can just leave it how it is now I don't have unless I'm doing a binder journal my pages are not usually that long because this is like an 11 inch page but or 11 inch strip so that you know keep that in mind if you have if you have some of these let me know do you need these no but I had them so I wanted to play with them so we've got this one we've got the ones with just the flowers I love how that looks I think that would be an adorable page edge. This one and then we have the other ones that I did in advance. That one is two that are just plain. What do you think? I look forward to your comments. Thanks for leaving them in advance and we will talk to you next time. I hope you enjoyed today's carry-on craft. It was a quick one. Join me next time and until then remember to take time just for you to be and we'll see you soon. Cheers!