You know, as stupid as this sounds, I put the BC mat away and have been using the Grasshopper mats! Completely forgot about the Black Cat mat! Of Course! I put it away because it's like...well like a tux! You only bring it out for special occasions! I've been cutting envelopes over and over and over so I line up my Grasshopper mats cut, unload, load... assembly fashion...etc...I now know what Sherri felt like cutting all those chip pieces! Why am I putting exclamation marks after every sentence!?
Yes Ma'am! I gotta have one of those support tables! Sherri put me down for one! That's just plain old awesome! Good job Dawn!
Ok, off subject...I had a melt down with those blasted Grasshopper mats last night! They are he** on Wheels when they are new! How many times can you rub an old T-shirt over them to make them to remove some of the stickiness?! I cannot believe that a company, who has a division, that probably has a department, that strictly develops these stinkin' mats, could in clear consciousness put out a product, which when new, would tear the stupid paper to shreds. (How’s that for a fragmented sentence! Hope there isn’t any teachers looking!) I mean totally delaminate a piece of paper. I had to use my full force with the scrapper to get the delamed bits off! Of course, this was my last project for the night using the last of the EXPENSIVE paper I had and I thought I would be nice to myself and grab a new mat to finish off the project....Sadly, after I came back to from the blackout I had from being so mad
I grabbed a nice glass of red wine, relaxed and took my favorite scissors and cut that mat into a million little pieces and threw every sticky piece of it in the trash! I even took the trash bag I cut it into to the outside trashcan. I may have even spit on it as I threw it in there. I don’t know I was feeling pretty happy by then!
Thanks for the info and ideas!
Jim
The Gentleman Crafter