and as quick as it came....

It vanished........after all the pages I did last week. Sigh...which is just typical. here is the current state of my scrapbooking...

I got this new 'adventure' file from the Cameo website the other day and wanted to use it...this is as far as i have got...and to be honest I don't really like this! ha!

anyway I wanted to pop in to show you something, so I took some photos of my cameo mat and how I make it last and stay sticky for a long as possible.
I have been through many before I thought of this really simple idea ( hit head moment that I didnt think of it earlier)

The first mat I had, I didn't keep the cover that it came with on it...DOH! so you can imagine how long that one lasted for huh.

The second one I kept the mat on, but the sticky came off all over because I kept pulling it on and off all the time. Which annoyed me as i have never used a whole 12 by 12 sheet on the mat as most of my images i cut are fairly small...............now I do this...

I cut the mat cover up into sections....I had added dotted lines to where I cut it up...

I know only take off the parts of the cover that I need to use.

this is the one I take off the most... but I have taken another one off in the photo below to give you a better idea....

So when one section is really used up i can turn it round and then the bottom section is all clean and the adhesive is wonderful! it works brilliantly....still kicking myself as to why I didn't do this before.

anyway...I am off to the dentist again.......off to have a root canal...oh the joy and the expense to my purse :(