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.
