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I read a good idea by someone a while ago. Use the perforated topper to an SU order form (the one strip that connects the copies together). The holes are evenly spaced and you can mark where you want them to be, plus it is straight (and free!)
__________________ I want people to be afraid of how much they love me-M. Scott
Linda, I was given a hint about doing this. You can take the perferated strip like the one that is on the side of our order forms or from something else. It has holes all along it. Just put it done on your cs and you have holes that are evenly spaced. Carol
The Crafter's Tool Kit! There is now a template to evenly space your eyelets, brads, and paper piercing AND a rubber pad to place under it to protect your surface. The whole kit is awesome, but the template for spacing is by far the best part!
__________________ ~Jan #6240
"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much and most of all yourself." A. Neilen
I'm with Jan....I love the new Crafter's Tool Kit. The template is wonderful because it has different size punch holes. I was would get my larger punches too close together with the top of the order forms. With the new template, this doesn't happen!
I would love to have the template but that is all I need from the tool kit. I have everything else and can't bring myself to purchase the whole kit just for the template. Maybe SU will sell the template separately next catalog. A girl can dream!
I made a template from a transparency after using the template in the tool kit. I already have all the other tools and couldn't justify the cost as I'm not a demo. I opened Word, set the font size to 24 and then just pressed the period key on my keyboard until I had 6 inches of dots and then printed it onto a transparency. I lay the transparency over my card, line it up so it's even, then use the paper piecing tool to pierce holes into the cardstock where I want my eyelets, punch out the holes and set my eyelets. Perfectly aligned eyelets and brads every time!
What great ideas! I love the idea about using a transparency!! I bought the tool kit just for the template and have considered returning it in exchange for a new stamp set (who couldn't use more of those!). I just love the great advice I can always find here!
my local Ben Franklin had a tool kit that was identical to the one in the SU book. It had the template and even the needle in it!! I think it was on sale for $15 still thinking of that because what I save on that could buy more stamps
How do you set eyelets and brads evenly?
