I've always loved the Fiskars border punches. I personally think they are completely ingenius. What I'm hoping to do is walk you through some simple instructions on how to punch a perfect corner with the border punch.
For the example I've used the Fiskars treading water border punch, but you could use any Fiskars border punch instead.
STEP 1 (top left photo) Find this ridge on the top of your fiskars border punch. Use this ridge as your lining up guide for doing your corners with the border punch.
STEP 2 (top right photo) Insert your paper right side up into your border punch, line the edge of your paper to the ridge. Hold firmly in place and punch.
STEP 3 (bottom left photo) slide paper out of your punch and flip paper over so the wrong side is now facing up. Turn paper and insert back into border punch, again lining up the edge of your paper to the ridge. Hold firmly in place and punch.
STEP 4 (bottom right photo) Move your paper along the base of your border punch and line up the punched put image to the painted shiloutte on the base of your punch.
HELPFUL HINTS.... * Make sure your paper is pushed all the way in to the back of your border punch.
* Be patient and careful with your lining up, as it directly effects the end result.
* Play around first on some scrap paper, it can abit tricky until at first.
I've tried to make these instructions as clear as I can, If you have any questions just leave a comment and I"ll get back to you.
One last photo, a close up of the corner.
Happy punching
Jacky
Wonderful instructions Jacky.....TFS!
Posted by: Lyn Dwyer | August 10, 2008 at 03:53 PM
Thanks that is awesome - just a question is it just as easy to do all four corners? Like a photo mat - I'm having trouble doing this without a lot of measuring to know where to cut edge
Thanks
Posted by: Bronwyn | August 10, 2008 at 04:20 PM
Thanks Jacky for those instructions!
Great layout too :)
Lusi x
Posted by: Lusi | August 10, 2008 at 05:43 PM
Jacky does it matter what size the paper is? I did mine a little differently the other week and could get 3 corners to work but couldn't get the 4th one. Just wondering if certain sizes are better to work with.
Posted by: Kim G | August 10, 2008 at 08:13 PM
Great tutorial! I love scallops & being able to create my own scallop corners is a huge $$ saver. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: doverdi | August 10, 2008 at 09:14 PM
Fantastic tutorial there! I didn't think you could "turn" corners with it so now I am stoked!
Posted by: kelly | August 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Good questions...I find that as long as you line the edge of your paper up with the ridge as you do your corners, you should have no problem doing squares or rectangles. I start with a bigger piece of paper and as I come into the corner I mark off the ridge with pencil on my paper and then trim it down with my trimmer, then re-insert it to check that its lined up perfectly before I do the flip and turn. So no measuring required.
The corners really are the tricky bit, so I would also suggest that you double check that you have corner lined up after you have flipped and turned the paper, by turning the punch and paper over while holding the paper in place and check that it is lined up correctly. you could even punch the corner while holding the punch upside down.
hope this helps
Posted by: jacky Mcleod | August 11, 2008 at 11:50 AM
BOY WE NEEDED THAT INFO. What great advise. Always trying to do this and not always being successful. Thanks.
Posted by: LeanneLeanne Warner | August 13, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Its amazing what people will post in these forums, some of it is quite brilliant!
Posted by: Joizekimi | November 29, 2008 at 05:43 PM