What do you do with the cover sheet that comes in your Creative Memories paper packs? Many of you know that it is photo safe. Some of you use the back as a sheet of brilliant white cardstock. Some of you use it for a page backing. How many of you have cut apart the blocks and used in a page design?
The Creative Memories trimmer has some great features to help you cut out the blocks.
On each end, the trimmer has clear plastic site line guides that you can slide along the track to make sure your blade will cut where you want. When you actually trim, you just push them out of the way.
The blue blade housing also has an arrow to help guide your cut.
If you don’t have a steady hand, or a touch of OCD, you may want to use your trimmer for a straight cut,
or to make sure you the same exact measurement for each block. That’s too much work for me, lol. I just used scissors and eyeballed it.
I cut both strips using the scallop blade. The white is about 2″. The navy is about 2 3/8″.
Accented two of the blocks with the shutter punch (a must have!)
You can see where my repositionable tape was before I pulled it back apart.
That way I always know when I use it, my scallop will be curving towards my outer edge.
Flip paper around to do the other side.
If you are not matting your blocks in the design, whichever block is also the actual background paper won’t stand out.
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These are great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Love this idea. Can’t wait to try it.
Tessa, I never knew this. am awesome ideas!
Great ideas and so easy and quick to do