What do snakes and our Mist-it! have in common? Her name is Tracy!

One of the perks of owning Inspired Crafts is meeting all the talented artists at places like CHA trade shows. One of those talents goes by the name of Tracy Brehm-Alden.  A muti-media artist, Tracy travels all around the world working with venomous snakes.  I think she is an amazing person. Here is what she sent me recently:
“I have been using the Cutter Glide Tool Treatment for all of my art tools and I can not tell you how much I love how it works! I have even been able to clean and protect tools I thought had seen their last days.
As for the application of your products on reptiles, this morning while working with Moose, one of my Pacific Gopher snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus catenifer), I was able to take [...]

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Cutter Glide to the Rescue!

We love to hear feedback from our customers and our retailers. Every week we hear something new about what our products are doing for people. Case and point.. I just got this e-mail from Susan from Stamp Craft located in Golden, Colorado.
Hi Alicia-
So, I’m trying to do some organization and finally get some things filed and into binders. I was using my 3-hole punch (a nice heavy-duty one) on the sofa in the store, instead of putting it on a hard, flat surface like I usually do. Well, of course, because it wasn’t level, the top hole punch got stuck and I couldn’t get it released. I gave it to Darrell and after much prodding with pliers and screwdrivers, he got it loose. When I pressed down on it to [...]

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Cutting Tools – An Engineer’s Perspective

There are many types of cutting tools in use in crafting and the arts. They range from razor knives (X-Acto™), rotary trimmers, guillotine trimmers, craft punches, scissors, straight trimmers, fabric shears, pinking shears, computerized die cutters (Pazzles™) and a myriad of clay cutting tools as well.
Many of these share a similar process for making them sharp. They are usually sharpened by grinding wheels spinning at high speed using lubricants to keep the blade cool during sharpening. Most craft blades are made from carbon steel, but there are now even Titanium coated blades as well.
However, craft punches are quite different. The cutting edges are created by making precision castings with very close fits and sharp edges. These parts are usually zinc die castings attached to plastic [...]

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Static, be gone…

At long last, we have a new website, and a company blog! We are so excited to be offering a much more user-friendly site with ongoing updates. This year has proven to be a very busy one for us, and we are eager to share some of the stories that have come our way.
I’ll begin with the product that started this company; PaperGlide™.
With the help of Judi from Judikins and Vicki and Sarah from Stamp Addicts (UK), PaperGlide has proven to be a terrific anti-static, especially for the plastic trays used for collecting glitter and powders, like the Snappy Tray™. Once the PaperGlide™ dries on the tray, all the excess powder/glitter just slides right off and into the jar, with just a tap or two! [...]

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