Spellbinders Die Cut Question

[JanetLainey]

I"m having difficulty with a very detailed die. Even using waxed paper in the sandwich, there are still small pieces of the intricate die that don't come out clean.

I try to poke these pieces out with a pin but some are not cut all the way through and I end up tearing the paper.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to run through an intricately-patterned die and have the die cut paper come out cleanly?

Thanks for any help you can give.

[arlenevita]

If it's not cutting all the way through, maybe add a piece of cardstock as a shim will help?

[Kate Stamps]

Pat down the die with your embossing buddy and then use wax paper. That always works for me. HTH

[JanetLainey]

Hello HTH: I'm new to card-making and I don't have an embossing buddy. Can you please explain? thanks, :-)

[JanetLainey]

Thank you, Arlene. I'll definitely try this.

[Kate Stamps]

Hi Janet.... My name is Kate.... HTH means Hope That Helps. An embossing buddy or powder pal is a small cloth sack full of something like powder that makes things anti static. It's hard to explain. You normally would use it on paper before stamping with pigment ink and then applying embossing powder. It make the paper so no embossing powder clings except just exactly where the ink is.

[JanetLainey]

Thank you Kate. I've not seen an embossing buddy. Where can you buy one?

[Kate Stamps]

Stampin' Up has them.

[pretty_penny]

With intricate dies, it sometimes helps to rotate the sandwich (plates and dies), or just the die at 90 or 180 degrees before wunning it through your machine a second time.

[ILscraps]

In addition to Penny's suggestion of rotating the die at 180 degrees, you may want to put it through your machine twice or three times. With the more intricate dies, you will have to do these steps to achieve those wonderful cuts Good luck!

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Originally Posted by pretty_penny

With intricate dies, it sometimes helps to rotate the sandwich (plates and dies), or just the die at 90 or 180 degrees before wunning it through your machine a second time.

[tbagnola]

Somewhere (probably here) I read that the powdery stuff in the Stampin Buddy is Fullers Earth. My Sr. group wanted to make their own "buddies", so far we have not found a source for a small amt. of the stuff. Seems to me we will need only about a pound for several of them. I do have an embossing buddy, so thanks for this tip.

[catxnmks]

Try using baby powder or corn starch. Just apply with a brush--try a water color brush or make-up brush.

[JBgreendawn]

so, if you put this powder into the die, the cardstock will come out of the die after cutting easier???

but, does this leave a residue all over the die? or the diecut?

( I don't use the embossing buddies for embossing because, I always had a just been powdered look all over the cardstock which tends to irritate me more than a stray piece of embossing powder.)

[cbet]

A tip that I read on someone's blog is to wipe the die with a fabric softener sheet - one that hasn't gone thru the dryer yet. Haven't tried it myself, since I've had good luck with just the wax paper.

Another suggestion is to use a couple of layers of scotch tape on the back of the die in the area that's not cutting. You're creating a shim for just the area that's not cutting instead of for the whole die.

[Stolynn]

You can get an Embossing buddy at Michaels, too. It's probably not called that.