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For me it has been the slit punch. I love it and I love the look of it, but mine leaves a little black circle on my cardstock and so it has been frustrating to use, therefore I don't use it very often. I have tried cleaning it but it still leaves a faint circle :(
the wrought iron punch...it just seems so "busy" and complicates a lot of cards that don't need to be complicated!
I don't have the wrought iron punch for this reason. It seemed to me that it only really compliments a few of the SU! stamp sets. Yes, you are right, it can make a card very busy!!
I thought I would use the slit punch more than I do. I think I will get around to it, eventually, seeing as I found the slot punch template!!
I bought the daisy punch and don't think it's punched paper once. Perhaps when spring gets here and I think about making spring flowers with bouquets on them, I'll use it.
I did talk myself out of the paper piercing. Mine is the double circle punch, like a pig-nose. I never use it. The holes are just too small.
I love this one! I use it alot to punch holes where I'm going to tie ribbon knots. I bought the word window punch and I've yet to use it, but I am going to make a spinner card someday, so hopefully then.
I resisted the paper piecing punch. I just didn't get it, and now I'm glad that I didn't!
The corner rounder - I know it is a great punch, but it just seems to be one I used all the time and then just quit using all together. Most used punch? Tag punch and 1/8 inch round.
I have a lot of punches, none of them are SU. I bought them all at Michael's. I seldom use any of them, except my three tag punches. I'm making a point when I scrapbook to try to use these things once in a while. I made a cute page of my kids in their swimming pool a while back, and I used my water splat punch for that page. It really looked good. I really like some of the punch sets in the Paper Wishes catalog, especially their set of snowflakes in 4 different sizes. And I was very tempted when Michael's put their alphabet punch set on sale recently, but I decided I prefer using alphabet stamps instead. I think that's why I don't use my punches that much, they've been replaced with stamps!
__________________ Julie my gallery
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Phillippians 4:13
I did talk myself out of the paper piercing. Mine is the double circle punch, like a pig-nose. I never use it. The holes are just too small.
If you punch the pair, or two pair of holes in any shape, it is a button!
DTP the edges and it's a really cute cheap embellishment.
Use with gingham for a cute country look... fresh !
or use a scrap strip and punch it over and over, using the one hole as a guide to punch the next... thread fibers or ribbon through or take an identical strip and lace across like shoe or bootlaces... or a racy corset!
same process ...and use wireworks wrapped around a pencil to make a coil binding for a coffee filterbook, or paperbag book or any other little album.
and this isn't even my favorite punch!
I prefer the nested circles and squares!
I save cs from every project! light cs is the smaller punch and any colored or dark cs is punched with the larger... makes blanks for M&Takes or rush cards!
oh, and the 1/4 inch square thumbpunch looks the BEST as the hole for fibers in the tags from the Tag Punch Kit.
OP...
The one I use the least? prob the wrought iron, although when I do use it, it is almost always without the corner guide.
Only to make borders on old-timey cards... just haven't made one since spring... Mother's Day and Father's Day last year...
Those are always old-timey...Although I Don't Know Why That Is....
__________________ if your path is boobytrapped you are probably on the right track to treasure BUT if everything is inordinately hard you probably are rushing to the final exam in the wrong place a day early.
Guess it's the paper piecing punch for me also, but I do love wrought iron. I am slowly acquiring all the punches, but that's because I'm a demo.
P.S. Charming, those are some great ideas that you've shared. What are the nested circles and squares? Do you just mean that you stack the two difference sizes?
I don't have the wrought iron punch for this reason. It seemed to me that it only really compliments a few of the SU! stamp sets. Yes, you are right, it can make a card very busy!!
I thought I would use the slit punch more than I do. I think I will get around to it, eventually, seeing as I found the slot punch template!!
Can you please tell me where you found the slot punch template? I've done a search of this site, but didn't find anything.
TIA
Guess it's the paper piecing punch for me also, but I do love wrought iron. I am slowly acquiring all the punches, but that's because I'm a demo.
P.S. Charming, those are some great ideas that you've shared. What are the nested circles and squares? Do you just mean that you stack the two difference sizes?
Thank-you for the compliment!
because you asked:
yup! I just use the 2 different sizes together
( with eyelets and fiber, it's an instant tag and a great use for scraps ).
(and I digress, )
I just say fell in to the habit of saying 'nesting'
the punches aren't called 'nested' in the catty...
...It seems to explain it to my students best... I sometimes cruise past technical info ( mumbo jumbo) in my enthusiasm to show them everything so my demo vocabulary includes lots of made-up and make-do words. Like spankin' smoochin', boner, huff , poof and I don't know what all!
It all seems normal to me and my devotees, until a newbie says " whoa, waitaminute, you do what with the rubber?" and we all dissolve into fits and giggles like sixth graders...
I always joke that I'm into the S&M lifestyle...
... Stampin' and Makin' things, of course!
__________________ if your path is boobytrapped you are probably on the right track to treasure BUT if everything is inordinately hard you probably are rushing to the final exam in the wrong place a day early.
I have loads of punches that I never use, but the one that disappoints me the most, the paper piecing punch, I just had to have it and now never use it!
I have that convex or concave square - can't remember which, cause I never use it. I use my demos paper piecing punch often - should've got that one instead
__________________ Melanie in NC -
Stamp, scrap, read, knit - all on my blog www.mholles.blogspot.com
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My vote is for the slit punch. I thought I would use it on everything. Maybe the template posted on here will help. My son loves it though. I can get lots of stamping done while he plays with that thing!
Another vote for the Paper Piecing punch. It was one of those must-haves when it came out and now it never gets out of the drawer. Maybe if I get really ambitious I'll host a paper piecing punch swap so we can all get new ideas.
And another vote for paper piecing. I'm trying to use stuff that I havn't used in a long time, and this punch has me stumped. It looked really neat in the catty.......lol!
This is my first time posting. I just had to have the mini envelope punch by McGill. I drove from store to store looking for it. I searched the web and found it; but it was too costly. My local craft store finally put more out. I bought it then used it a few time. I guess the novelty wore off.
What punch did you HAVE to have, and now you rarely use?
I just had to have the envelope punch
