March 19th, 2010
Q. I recently bought the Woodware full heart Silhouette punch and it’s completely jammed and won’t work.
A. The new silhouette punches have lots of little bits that can get into the mechanism when card making. Ideally you should make sure that any bits left behind are teased out after each time you use it.
To do this use a pokey tool. A pokey tool could be an old fine embossing tool, or angle locking tweezers (Madeleine’s favourite pokey tool) or a paper pricker (Linda’s favourite pokey tool). Keep going until all the bits are cleared out of the punch.
This is also true for the Martha Stewart punches which have lots of holes in them. Most bits will fall out but make sure there aren’t any bits still in there and you’ll have trouble free punching.
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March 19th, 2010
Q. I have a really big stamp and can’t find an ink pad anywhere near big enough to take it.
A. You can use any size stamp pad, including even our little 1 inch versacolour pads, as you take the stamp pad to the stamp and not the other way round. Take your stamp pad and keep pressing it agaist the stamp until you’ve covered the whole stamp. You’ll find that this method gives better coverage and a crisper, even finish to your stamped image.
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March 16th, 2010
Every day we get emails asking card making questions about products and we often find we are answering the same questions over and over again so we thought we would publish them here and let everyone know.
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