Necessity is the mother of invention! How true and how often does it happen in crafting? Can't find just what you need, well if you need it bad enough you'll find a way to make it. So it happened the other day while I was putting together a quick sample for some product I was putting out--everybody loves to see samples. The product was a Scallop Pocket die cut and I wanted a tag to go inside and nothing I had really fit or had the shape I was looking for as I wanted something with scallops. As I was looking at all the punches I have I thought the Marvy Giga Circle would work but it's scallops are a little smaller than what I wanted and the square is ok too but the Giga Oval was just perfect, except for the fact that it's a oval.
Now while I marvel at my creativity I can't help but think that others out there must have had the same idea, it's just that I had never seen it done so I had to figure it out on my own & therefore thought it was worth sharing.
As you can see by the pictures I used the narrow end of the oval because what I was working on was 1 7/8" wide. If the tag was to be wider I would use wider section of the oval. Depending on the project you are doing the square or circle may be perfect. Place your piece in the punch and pull the end you don't want punched out and now your only punching one part and it creates the perfect scallop topped tag.
Now while I marvel at my creativity I can't help but think that others out there must have had the same idea, it's just that I had never seen it done so I had to figure it out on my own & therefore thought it was worth sharing.
As you can see by the pictures I used the narrow end of the oval because what I was working on was 1 7/8" wide. If the tag was to be wider I would use wider section of the oval. Depending on the project you are doing the square or circle may be perfect. Place your piece in the punch and pull the end you don't want punched out and now your only punching one part and it creates the perfect scallop topped tag.
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