Thank you!!!!!!!!! Yay!! Me too!!! Lol..

Yay! :) thank you! I haven’t done bookbinding before, I’ve made a few mini albums, but thats as close as I’ve gotten. I hope you have a awesome crafty day!! Hugz, Suzie :)

YAY!!! THATS AWESOME!! Im so happy to have helped!! Lol thank you for the proper pronunciation of the word SUBple! Lol 😝 i think i got it now! Lol.. i love herring that i helped! Your message made my day!! Hugz, Suzie :)

HappyWifeCrafts Hi Suzie! So, I have an update on the great adventure of making the old school red Sizzix and Sidekick work with new thinner dies. Yeah! The Quilling base and top are ordered, but won't be here for a week. I also don't have any silicone embossing mats and wanted to see if I could sort a work around. So I made shims for both machines and they cut thin metal and wafer thin dies just fine, but the embossing wasn't quite there. Enter scraps from another project. I had bought thin slightly squishy plastic placemats at the Dollar Tree a while back to make more water resistant covers for this one bookbinding project, guess what??? I don't need to buy silicone mats. :) They are a perfect thin, softish extra layer to get the embossing to really take. On big red I put it over the die, so from bottom taped shim, white cutting plate, paper die cut side down, placemats cut to cutting plate and shim size. On the sidekick, the same, but I put the top clear plate on top of the plastic placemats. I couldn't be more pleased, and saved about $20! I have some magnetic vent covers on order for Big Red, so I'm sure I'll need to adjust, but hey, if you kill a silicone mat, run to the Dollar Tree for some plastic placemats and save some money! What's that saying? Necessity (Or a super tight budget) is the mother of invention! I'm sure I'm not the first to try this hack, but I've not seen it on KZfaq or anywhere, so in my small corner of the world I INVENTED that scrap hack LOL! Thanks again for all of your videos, I have learned so much from you. Have a brilliant week. 😅

Barbara Hallowell lol!! That’s awesome!!! I love it!! That’s such a great tip!! I’ve used mouse pads for embossing Mats too, they work great! A plastic cutting board could possibly work as a cutting mat . Thanks for your comments!! I really appreciate them!! Have fun with all of your toys and inventions!!! :)

Thank you!!!! I getting way too close to 50 though! Lol