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When you trim a piece of paper has anyone else noticed that the side of the paper that is up when you trim gets a nice clean cut, but the reverse side kinda has an edge to it? The edge kinda sticks up and IMO just doesn't look "clean". It's so hard to explain. It really bugs me when the paper is "up-side down" on a card. KWIM?
I went to a party and the demo had her sample there and ALL the layers were "up-side down", I thought it looked horrible. Is this just something I'm being weird about? Or does anyone else notice things like this?
Yes, I've noticed that I get that when I cut paper. When it gets really bad I know that I need to change my blade. I try to use the "correct" side but sometimes that doesn't happen.
I'm as particular as everyone else. Those funny edges were just horrible. However, Ijust changed my cutter and bought an upgrade. I got the Fiskars Rotary Cutter. It's gray in color with the orange markings. You have to press kind of hard on the blade, but you get SUCH a SMOOTH and CLEAN edge you can use either side of your paper. I just got it and I truly love it. Got it at a JoAnn's Fabric store and used my 40% off coupon, so it wasn't that bad. If you go online, sometimes they have 50% off and free shipping to boot! It is worth it sometimes to change the cutter..... I believe that now!
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I'm as particular as everyone else. Those funny edges were just horrible. However, Ijust changed my cutter and bought an upgrade. I got the Fiskars Rotary Cutter. It's gray in color with the orange markings. You have to press kind of hard on the blade, but you get SUCH a SMOOTH and CLEAN edge you can use either side of your paper. I just got it and I truly love it. Got it at a JoAnn's Fabric store and used my 40% off coupon, so it wasn't that bad. If you go online, sometimes they have 50% off and free shipping to boot! It is worth it sometimes to change the cutter..... I believe that now!
Just got the same thing w/ a 40% coupon from Michael's. I got it yesterday & cut a bunch of old photo edges that were getting raggedy on my regular Fiskars trimmer. Love it! VERY smooth edges. I did notice there is now a Fiskars rotary cutter that is about the size of the "Euro cutter"/SU cutter (same thing different colors). It has a special small rotary blade in it. I liked the big one b/c I already have some of the Fiskars special rotary blades (victorian, etc.) for my handheld rotary wheel. Bottom line, the rotary trimmer gives smooth edges.
Yes, this bugs me, too! I try to make all my cuts on the same side of the cardstock, but if I get stuck having to use one of the bad edges, I've figured out that I can smooth it down with my bone folder and that fixes it.
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You can minimize the edge of the paper that occurs because the blade pushes the paper down into the groove by placing a sheet of plain copy weight paper underneath your cardstock. The fuzzy edges (even with an older blade) dissapear and the ridge is minimized. Simple low cost fix. The rotary blades do make cleaner cuts generally speaking.
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Yes, yes, yes! It drives me bananas! I just figured it was because I have such a cheap, pathetic Fiskar's trimmer! I'm gonna ditch that baby one of these days!
You can minimize the edge of the paper that occurs because the blade pushes the paper down into the groove by placing a sheet of plain copy weight paper underneath your cardstock. The fuzzy edges (even with an older blade) dissapear and the ridge is minimized. Simple low cost fix. The rotary blades do make cleaner cuts generally speaking.
You can minimize the edge of the paper that occurs because the blade pushes the paper down into the groove by placing a sheet of plain copy weight paper underneath your cardstock. The fuzzy edges (even with an older blade) dissapear and the ridge is minimized. Simple low cost fix. The rotary blades do make cleaner cuts generally speaking.
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