A great Tip for Edgelits

One of my customers was recently going through one of my many basket of cards for ideas here in my classroom.  She stumbled upon this card and I happened to tell her that I made 100 of these last summer.  She said there was no way she would ever cut out that many of those Finishing Touches Edgelits because she didn’t like to pop out the little pieces (notice there are two on this card – so that’s 200!).  I told her I’d show her a little trick I learned along the way and thought I’d share that with you today too!

Anytime I’m using the Doilies or Edgelits, I use a lint brush to help me get out those little pesky pieces.  It does most of the work for me and I then can quickly pop the remaining ones out with my Paper Piercing Tool.  It goes so quickly, I think you’d be absolutely amazed!

Another little tip I have for when you are mass producing them is to run two through your Big Shot at the same time.  While it’s not recommended to do more than that (you can actually break your machine if you force anything through), what’s great about doing two is that on one all the little pieces come completely out!  Then on the second I just whip out my lint brush & Paper Piercer and finish it off. 

If you’d like to see all the details of how I made this card Click Here.

Try it, I think you’ll be amazed!

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