We are Completing the Puzzle, the largest puzzle rental subscription service! We are puzzle people who started this business to provide a fun, sustainable way to puzzle!
We want to share our own puzzling pursuits, jigsaw puzzle reviews, and behind the scenes at Completing the Puzzle!
I am wondering why there is nobody making blank puzzle stock. That, along with the right gloss paper attached to the top, printed on a printer, would be a great product to make. Also, if you have access to a lazer engraver, you can do the cutting on that. One suggestion to better color match. First print test samples of the color needed. You can also color match with that computer software sometimes. Mine (corel photo paint) will let you mark the scanned image and where you select the location, it will match the color you just picked off the image. Then apply it to your test sheet to print and adjust as necessary. Nice video. Thanks.
I just completed 'Color Bliss' (1000 pc, also from Complete The Puzzle!). I'm now looking to see what others thought. My thoughts (before I see yours). 1) The pieces are MUCH denser than usual. Really nice luxurious feel! 2) This is the loosest-fit (paperboard) jigsaw that I've come across! (I would recommend just framing the poster :) ) 3) The pieces' texture is like velvet, but the pieces tend to 'stick' to each other when you're trying to slide them around during sorting 4) The random-cut is GREAT! I've only seen such cuts in wooden jigsaws.
I got an aurora borealis 1000 piece puzzle, I had a very hard time putting it together because of its gradient. My cousins came over one day and unmade it, in the process a piece went missing. I am still freaking mad at them. I had a frame made for this puzzle and all. Now I don't have Photoshop knowledge but hope this will help
@@CompletingthePuzzle Yeah one of my cousins helped me with puzzle. I bought the puzzle as a stress reliever but I guess I chose the wrong puzzle for a beginner 😭
I did a brand new puzzle with 1 piece missing! I've searched the area, the vacuum bag😮(2x), laundry, washing machine. I wanted to seal the puzzle & hang it, so im thinking of making that missing piece. Im so not crafty, thanks for this video
I have tried to use cardboard and scissors but am just terrible at cutting with little scissors apparently. So since I couldn't even get one layer to fit well gave that method up. Plus photocopying and getting picture sized properly and color matched at a store was also hit and miss. Mostly miss. So I use wood. First I trace missing piece on regular white paper then rubber cement that to a thin piece of wood close to puzzle thickness. After completely dry, I cut it out on my scroll saw. Then fit it using my dremel tool to fine shape if needed. Next I sand the piece on another board where I have glued a piece of sandpaper sanding it to the correct thickness that matches the puzzle. This will also remove the paper so all I have left is wood. I wet my piece with water enough to raise the grain, let it fully dry. Then re sand it smooth. Next I paint the piece according to what is needed to match the puzzle using acrylic paint. If I don't like it I can wipe it off or re sand and do it again. When I like final colors I mod podge it using with whatever finish I need to match the puzzle either matte , satin or glossy. I can usually do all these steps in less than one hour.
Same. Instead of sealing my finished puzzle, I spent the night swimming on the floor looking under the couch the TV and searching the vacuum<cough>. Decided it doesn't have to be perfect but looking for a quicker hack - so I can move on to the next puzzle! So frustrating!
very helpful video!! i dont have a scanner, so i took a picture and im waiting until tomorrow to get it printed!! so excited because i could not find a way to have the exact measurements!! keep going!!
For whatever reason the RU-vid algorithm brought you into my life. Can eye's get cavities? Congratulations on your 2nd place Pairs and Teams! -Your state neighbor to the south.
I'm so glad to have found your channel via Karen's videos! I'm a fellow Minnesota puzzler, (Minneapolis side, don't hate me) and have been having so much fun learning about the world of puzzle competitions - I had no idea such a thing existed!
Really appreciate how excited you are, not just for yourself, but everyone who competed at Worlds. Even if you didnt win, the excitement shone through. Good for you.
I was in the live chat with your mom. She was such a sweetheart and we all rooted for you with her. Loved this part of watching the competition. But the whole stream was wholesome. So wholesome, because we all had fun and cheered for everyone online. Watching you race Alejandro was so great. You were ahead for a good portion of this puzzle. You and Kathi from Germany gave him a hard time in this competition. :)
I have been watching Karen for a while and have seen you in the background of her vids before, you have such a lovely happy personality it makes me feel like everyone in the puzzling community is so nice and wholesome. One of the times RU-vid reccs did me good showing me such a cool hobby, congrats on your accomplishments at worlds
Great recap, Sarah! Your pleasant personality shows through here, as it did during the competitions. You are a bright light :) It was exciting to watch the competitions, rooting for you and your team, as well as some of the other competitors. This is a level of puzzling I'd never be able to do but it was a thrill to follow you along!!
Lovely to see your take on the competition. I'm sure you all thoroughly enjoyed yourselves and did very well indeed. 👏 I wonder how well you would have got on doing the Lupins puzzle? I would imagine that it would be quite difficult with the dark areas and the flowers. Karen's prediction of circular puzzles certainly proved correct. I wonder how many expected to see panoramic jigsaws? No doubt future Worlds will have circular and panoramic jigsaws appearing. I'll look forward to your next video whenever that is.
Me encantan los Puzzles sobre todo de monumentos he acabado uno de" La Sagrada Familia" de Barcelona y el Palacio Real de Madrid y estoy haciendo otro de la Alhambra de Granada.
I'm curious if you'd accept the Einstein challenge to be the first on RU-vid to do the "Spectre Tile puzzle" by Nervous System in which EVERY PIECE is the exact same aperiodic monotile shape? It's only 111 pieces but they claim it is hard.
