Now.....how many of you have done this? You are trying to trace that image onto fabric?
I got tired of doing that and moving the paper around to fit in the squares so I could trace...So I invented this!!! (no one is allowed to laugh when you see this next picture)
Now we are going to play a game....Find the Hidden item!!
Circle the ott light.....(I am sure the ott light was thinking....she expects me to do what!!!! Ain't gonna do it
Circle the plexie table......
Circle the project.....oh yesssss....works perfectly except if you move suddenly, everything can come tumbling down.
Five dollars at Tuesday Morning....priceless
I have already used this light box...it is awesome. Originally was for scrapbooking, embossing...but hey...it can cross over...no rules here.
Lol, you are just so funny. Hey but it works.
ReplyDeleteI have a light box like that too...so much easier than taping everything to the window! Just be careful where you set your light box up...I pulled mine out the other day to do a quick trace and set it on the cutting mat. Even though I only had it on for a couple of minutes, it got hot enough to put a bubble in the middle of my mat! :o/
ReplyDeleteNew tools are wonderful...even if you have to make them yourself. I hope that's your new toy in the last picture...I don't want you to be deprived!
ReplyDeleteWow what a bargain. Sounds like you are having fun.
ReplyDeleteThere you go with that Tuesday Morning stuff again. I'm jealous. We don't have them here. So my light box looks a lot like your pile of stuff.
ReplyDeleteOMGosh. You are just too clever! Good on you.
ReplyDeleteI've recycled the dust cover to an old record turntable. Put a stick light under it and it works great!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, that would make it so much easier! Bye! I'm off to my Tuesday Morning....twenty miles from here! LOL
ReplyDelete$5 is an amazing price. The ones I have seen are always much more expensive.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE homemade bread. I make 2-4 loaves a week. Love the way it makes the house smell.
You crazy thing! I have to use a paned window also and it is hard. Great buy!
ReplyDeleteMy husband made me a light box. He just made a wooden box, put an under the counter florresant light in it with a hole cut out for the cord, and screwed some plexi glass on top of it. It works great. Sounds like you got a great deal at Tuesday Morning.
ReplyDeleteOh Barb, you are sooo funny! I love to read your blog because you always give me a good laugh! Love how ingenious you are...but I'm sure the light box is much easier to use, right? :o)
ReplyDeleteXOXO,
Cyndi
Sorry, I laughed. ;) The light box is awesome!
ReplyDeleteDidn't know my Ott light could do that! ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm heading over to Tuesday Morning to see if I can find the $5 special one!
Hugs,
Mary
I use a small plug in light in a plastic tub with a empty picture frame on top. It's not pretty, but it works! :0)
ReplyDeleteOk...I laughed to you crazy woman! Glad you got a a light box for such a steal at TM. Fabulous!
ReplyDeletexx, shell
That was so funny Barb...you are like me and come up with brilliant ideas but the objects like to co-operate! Love your new one tho and I am lucky because my father-in-law made me one out of an old draw with a light in it under some perspex. Its brilliant :) Happy tracing :) Hugs Vicki x
ReplyDeleteI have a huge light box from when I was taking watercolor classes. But it is really too big to drag out for small things.
ReplyDeleteBefore I got a lightbox, I used my large square ruler. That way I had a flat surface to trace on and I could put a light under it.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Now that was thinking outside the box, lol. I have one built into a table that hubby made, it's brilliant.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that they say...."Necessity is the mother of invention"? Glad you got a real light box. I've had mine since back in the days of typesetting and paste up...it's still got wax on it--it's almost an antique :)
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