How Do You Use Punches In Crafting?
Along with stickers, die cuts were the original scrapbooking accents, often used to embellish photos and dress up layouts. Paper punches produce die cuts on a smaller scale, making shapes up to 3 inches tall. Use the hand-held devices to create a variety of designs and effects with paper, paint and ink. Gather punches to create basic shapes or images that suit the theme of your greeting card, bookmark or scrapbook layout. In addition to basic shapes, punches are also available to create letters, numbers and most any image you can imagine from tiny frogs to super jumbo Christmas trees. Create simple shapes to adhere to greeting cards, scrapbook layouts, bookmarks and picture frames by inserting a piece of cardstock or patterned paper into the punch and pushing down on the round button or handle-style lever. Affix the resulting shape to your project with a dab of glue or an adhesive dot. Embellish the punch pieces by brushing the edges with stamping ink or coating the surface with microb
