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Re: Edging Cards
Board: LTC: Tips, Questions, and Stuff
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.
Re: Edging Cards
Board: LTC: Tips, Questions, and Stuff
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.
Re: Edging Cards
Board: LTC: Tips, Questions, and Stuff
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.
Re: Edging Cards
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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.
Re: Edging Cards
Board: LTC: Tips, Questions, and Stuff
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 ...
Re: Edging Cards
Board: LTC: Tips, Questions, and Stuff
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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Board: LTC: Tips, Questions, and Stuff
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.