I have given this card to a dear co-worker who is leaving my workplace. She absolutely loved it. The colours are beautiful, the size perfect to have it displayed on a work desk, and, as it's fully 3d, it looks like a cute pot plant. It looks as pretty as in the photo. I also love this cute card and I will buy it again.
The only downside is that the card round base needs to be pushed up and clicked to get the plant standing and click and down to be folded, but I have to do this carefully, especially in the latter case not to break the base. For the rest, a wonderful card
This is a nice paper pad at a very good price. After using it and testing it, I can say it's only good for drawing with coloured pencils and graphite, nothing water-soluble or needing of the slightly amount of water.
I bought this pad due to the price and to the fact that use cheap pads to clean my paint brushes from paint, when I have some acrylic paint left after a painting and then I use the pages as collage paper in my artwork. I also try new water-soluble crayons colours on them. In both cases this paper fails. Even thick acrylics create bumps on the paper back and the paper corners buckle; the same can be said of water-soluble crayons, which barely require any water. If there is some sort of wet area on a page and I close the pad, the pages get stuck and the spot area breaks off badly. Needless to say, the paper is useless for water colour painting or anything requiring of added water or soft body acrylics.
For the rest, this paper is warm white paper, as per my photo, not black. Actually, I bought the pad thinking that it was black paper due to the description info so I was quite disappointed when I received a white paper pad.
I won't buy it again.
I've been using this cream for several months already and it has become one of my top-three hand creams. I find that so many creams promise the heavens on the package promo but never deliver. This is not the case here.
I have dry hands. They become drier when I paint as I use acrylics and my fingers, so they become extra-dry. A tiny dollop of this cream makes wonders for me. I've noticed that if I put too much, I get itchy hands, and that's because a small amount is just enough.
The cream has a buttery consistency and the smell is gender neutral I'd say. It absorbs well, but it takes a couple of minutes for the buttery coat to be fully absorbed.
First time I bought it, I noticed results in a couple of days, like my hands were way less drier.
The tube is quite small and a bit pricey, but totally worth it.
This is a beautiful elegant gender-neutral fountain pen. It comes in a very giftable faux-leather box with a pack of complementary cartridges in black & blue ink. The instructions booklet is quite useful and very nicely printed on quality glossy paper. The pen comes with an inverter (rechargeable cartridge), but I always prefer the pre-filled cartridges. These are easy to insert; however, you have to wiggle them a bit before they click in. The fountain pen looks expensive and the metal body is made of good quality metal. Most importantly, it writes beautifully without spitting any ink. My only 'but' is it's a bit heavy for my hands. For the rest, it's is a great pen at a great price.
I'm
most disappointed with this pack of tiles supposedly 300 gsm good for
dry and wet media. I normally use 300 gsm watercolour paper for my
mixed media and this is a bit thinner than that, so I wonder whether the
gsm on the label is a printing mistake.
The cards are smaller than average, about 3x3 inches. See my photo against a 4x4 grey tile.
I've
done comprehensive testing on the paper, and it confirmed my first
impression. You can see the photos I've uploaded for everything I say.
Re
markers, it's good for my Sakura micron, for my fountain ink permanent
ink, for my FC pitt pen, for my Fude brush pen and my Townbows. None of
these bled. I tried one of my AS pigmented inks, one drop, and it worked
well (the yellow stain on the photo) but my Liquitex acrylic ink (not
on the photo) didn't spread well and the light rubbing with my finger
sanded the paper a bit. I also applied my red Stabilo All pencil and
then used a water brush to spread the colour and it didn't work well and
sanded the paper a bit. Alcohol markers and inks DID bleed, as per my
photo.
I did a simple abstract exercise using water-soluble
crayons, which require barely any water, adding some pitt pens and
non-soluble crayons. The paper doesn't have enough hold for the colour
and the process of using these materials to be done without tearing or
sanding. Needless to say, the paper buckled and deteriorated. As this
test was done without gessoing the paper beforehand, I tried again and I
did gesso the paper this time.
Gessoing the paper certainly
helped with mixed media and acrylics and the results were definitely
better. Paper curled a lot, though, and there was tearing and sanding in
certain parts. I was careful with the paper due to the fact that I know
isn't good quality after the first test.
I find the
advertisement notes on the packaging misleading and inaccurate, as per
the testing I've mentioned above, proven by my photos. The paper is not
good for wet media or mixed media or anything that requires a bit of
work on the paper.
Comparisons are unavoidable. I recently
reviewed some paper tiles with, supposedly, less msg and they stood
anything I did to the paper without any damage, so it makes me wonder.
This
paper tiles have been a waste of money and time, as I do mixed media no
zentangle or colouring, I'll have to use these tiles for something
else, and I won't buy them again. The paper is good for pencil, most
markers and, archival ink. It is not fit for wet media, alcohol marker,
alcohol inks or anything that requires a bit of work on the paper,
slight rubbing etc..
This
a good quality pair of scissors. I find them very good for general use
and crafting. I have used them for cutting fabric as well as thick
cardboard and paper, and they work great. I love the 7-inch size as they
are not too big or too small and, personally, I find them to be more
versatile than bigger scissors, especially for people with small hands
like me. The tip is not pointed and they lack precision in that regard.
When craft junk gets stuck on the blades, I clean them with generic
household cleaning wipes and no fuss. I don't use them for tailoring or
major sewing projects, so I cannot comment on that, but I prefer my
small scissors for sewing than these ones. Overall good value for money
and great all-purpose scissors.
This
is a very contemporary cool fountain pen. My photos don't really show
the lovely blue colour of the pen and the cute octopus logo.
This
fountain pen is very enjoyable to use as it doesn't weigh much, so
writing is comfortable and flowing. My wrist moves naturally, so my
handwriting comes out as it's usually is, something that doesn't happen
that easily if the pen weighs a bit. The nib flows on the paper and the
ink comes out naturally and neatly, producing a very lovely handwriting.
The
pen includes a converter, i.e. a rechargeable ink cartridge, but I'm
using it with spare standard ink cartridge that I had at home. I was
able to fit it in without problem.
I didn't expect the pen to
come in a gift box due to its price. It comes wrapped in a plastic
cellophane bag with the octopus logo on it , which is OK if I gift it to
a child, not so much to an adult.
