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Edging Cards
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Apr 28, 2016 9:00pm
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What are some interesting and I guess not so interesting ways to edge cards?
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Reply to: #925464 by Linden Leaf
Apr 28, 2016 9:51pm
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Drag the edge in on a stamp pad, and emboss it.

Use various ink pads or paints.

I like to use a dauber, because it gives a nice soft effect, and I blend it around the corners.
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Apr 29, 2016 3:06am
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I used my husband's soldering gun to burn the edges of some cards. This method sure beat using a match, which I tried first. I gave up on the match after setting some of the cards on fire.
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Reply to: #925464 by Linden Leaf
Apr 29, 2016 5:06am
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If you have a stack of them to do the same, just stack them up nice and even, clamp with one of those really tight black metal clamps, and just paint all the edges with any kind of paint. Metallic paint works well doing this. Before they dry completely, but are dry to the touch, take off the clamp and separate. Then do the opposite sides.

AB
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Reply to: #925464 by Linden Leaf
Apr 29, 2016 5:49am
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I've done a stippled edge with some gouache and a stencil brush. I guess an old toothbrush would work too. When done in white it gives the card a frosty look.
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Reply to: #925490 by Penfeather
Apr 29, 2016 6:34am
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Thanks guys for your help!
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Reply to: #925499 by Linden Leaf
Apr 29, 2016 6:37am
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Thanks guys for your help!

Even me? Well, maybe I prevented a house fire.
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Reply to: #925500 by Rocklun
Apr 29, 2016 7:01am
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My thoughts are the reason you put the grass fire out behind your house is because you have experience with fires.
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Reply to: #925464 by Linden Leaf
Apr 29, 2016 9:07pm
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I have distressed them at times. You can use a piece of sandpaper, a little distressing tool that also cuts thread or your fingernail. http://www.scrapbookpal.com/tonic-studios-tim-holtz-paper-distresser/?gclid=CLDP2r6-tcwCFYeUfgodvPIOqQ
Then I ink them or paint something like glitterglue on the edges.
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Reply to: #925552 by FunnyMingo
Apr 29, 2016 9:42pm
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I have always wondered about this tool. When I distress the edges of my cards I use a knife. I would suspect that this tool would be a quicker way to achieve a good distressed Edge. Did you use this tool on your Monarch card?
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Reply to: #925464 by Linden Leaf
Apr 30, 2016 5:45pm
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With blood.
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Reply to: #925464 by Linden Leaf
Apr 30, 2016 5:56pm
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stitching, sewing, tearing, rolling, sculpting
duct tape, washi tape, hot glue anything to the edge (rope, string, beads, doilies)
I've been using a lot of cat fur lately. ;)
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Reply to: #925587 by aMAZEing adventure frog
Apr 30, 2016 6:47pm
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If it doesn't have cat fur on it, you know it didn't come from my house.
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Reply to: #925554 by Linden Leaf
Apr 30, 2016 8:15pm
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Yes. It works on vellum too.
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Reply to: #925596 by FunnyMingo
Apr 30, 2016 8:45pm
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I added that little tool to my amazon shopping cart because...I'm allergic to cats and cutting myself with an exacto knife has never been enjoyable.
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Reply to: #925598 by Linden Leaf
May 1, 2016 2:43am
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I have the tool. I rarely use it... but if you're feeling to experiment, try using your scissors, open them up and edge the cards in the "v" part. Works pretty much the same as the edger, and you won't cut yourself.
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Reply to: #925602 by FloridaFour
May 1, 2016 6:15am
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I normally use a knife. I'll have to try the scissors method.

I don't tend to layer my cards so I'm trying to figure out ways to make the edges look more finished. These are great ideas.
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Reply to: #925464 by Linden Leaf
May 1, 2016 9:46am
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I received a card that used a decorative hole punch to edge it. In this case the holes don't go all the way around the card, they bracket the carve on either side. I have a card that also has an edge cut with decorative scissors. I've found scissors that do all kinds of decorative cuts at the dollar store. I know Michaels sells them too, sometimes in a big box of assorted patterns.
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Reply to: #925613 by Penfeather
May 1, 2016 2:31pm
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I use those scissors sometimes. The edge punches are expensive! I'd like a nice corner chopper, though....
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Reply to: #925630 by FloridaFour
May 1, 2016 4:53pm
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Inspired by Team Awsome Pants' nice finishing, I recently got one of those punches to make rounded corners on my cards. That one seems like it'll be pretty useful, to get a softer, more rounded appearance. At a going-out-of-business-sale, I got a couple of Fiskar's punches that cut the corners in a decorative way and emboss a pattern in the card. I haven't tried them outside of testing them yet. They seem a bit fiddly, but could be interesting, if I can find a card to use them on.
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Reply to: #925638 by Penfeather
May 1, 2016 6:12pm
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You are ridiculously kind, my good woman :) I do admit to loving the corner chompers and the Tim Holtz Tonic paper distresser thingie ... and now I have a Speedball press too that is right up there with my floor lamp magnifier light .... which are both right underneath the wonderful Staedtler (yes, I spell it differently every time, lost the original packaging, what am I to do) carving tools. Which I have instructed my children to sell to the highest bidder when the time comes so they can pay off their mortgages ...
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Reply to: #925645 by Team Awesome Pants
May 1, 2016 7:10pm
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I'm really not ridiculously kind. I'm a mean, old grump.

Is the paper distresser what you used on the edges of "The Serpent Beguiled"? Because that card looks great, including the edge finishing, and I've bee puzzling over it ever since I got it.
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Reply to: #925651 by Penfeather
May 2, 2016 11:32am
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You talk a good game :)

Yes'm. After a bit, it kind of kills my hand, so I have to do a few at a time and then go round again. I take it to both sides of the card, if that makes sense, so two passes at each card.