Thursday’s Tip: How To Best Use Your Punches

By | 21 April 2017

Punches make cutting out a stamped image so quick and easy.  You get a lovely clean cut each time. Thursday’s Tip for this week, even if it is a day late, shows you some tips on how to best use your punches.

Stampin’ Up! have many stamp sets with coordinating punches. Here are a couple of examples of stamp sets with coordinating punches.  The great thing  is when you purchase the stamp set and punch together, when they first come out in a new catalogue, you can get the bundle with 10% off!
Punches make cutting out a stamped image so quick and easy.  You get a lovely clean cut each time. Thursday’s Tip for this week, even if it is a day late, shows you some tips on how to best use your punches.

Stampin’ Up! have many stamp sets with coordinating punches. Here are a couple of examples of stamp sets with coordinating punches.  The great thing  is when you purchase the stamp set and punch together, when they first come out in a new catalogue, you can get the bundle with 10% off!

Badges & Banners Bundle - punches

Badges & Banners Bundle

 

Foxy Friends Bundle and punches

Foxy Friends Bundle

How to best use your punches:

1) Stamp your image first!

2) Unlock the punch.  Put the cardstock through the top and line up the stamped image. Press down a little to hold the punch in place.  Then press the punch all the way down to cut your stamped image out.

 

Check out this quick video with some tips on how to use your punches.

I hope you found this video useful.  If you find your punches are not cutting so well, check out this post on how to sharpen your punches.

Remember to come back each Thursday and check out my tip of the week!  If there is something you would like to know about, please let me know and if I can, I will share it as a tip of the week.

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