3Ts with Virginia Nebel
Have you heard about the new Threading Water Punch from Fiskars and been wondering how to use it? Today, designer Virginia Nebel joins us to give a tutorial on this great new punch. Trust us; you’ll want to get your hands on one of these!
I am going to show you how to use the threading water punch from Fiskars to make a perfect scalloped square. Let’s get started:
Beginning tip: To punch scallops all around the square, I find it's easy if you first make a template of a 'perfect rounded corner' first.
Making the template.
1. To start making your template, take a 5 x 5 inch square piece of cardstock. Make the first punch along the straight edge by lining it up along the grid line as shown in Fig A. This grid line is the 8th full square from the end.
2. Punch down in a clean swift motion making sure not to move your paper.
3. Rotate the template 90 degrees clockwise and line up to the grid line (also at 8th full square in from the end) and punch.
4. You have just made your template with a punched scalloped corner with 3/8 inch strips on each side. Do not tear these strips off as they will be used as guides to properly trim your paper in later steps.
Rounding a corner.
5. Take a square mat (could be rectangle as well) and start punching along one side. Just when you are about to reach the end, stop punching.
6. To round the corner, place your template over the scallops you have just punched and line up the corner scallop of your template to the last scallop punched. With a pencil, draw a line along the strip/edge of the template.
7. The portion marked with an X is the excess paper you need to trim.
8. After trimming the excess off in the previous step, you can now punch scallops along the new edge. Flip the punch over so that you can line up the last scallop punched with the first scallop on the punch itself- this will be your corner scallop.
Finish punching around the edges.
Finish punching around all the edges using the steps above and you should end up with a perfect corner on your last edge. Figure L is an example of a finished card with a square scalloped mat.
Happy punching!
Thanks for the tutorial Virginia!!!! This is my favourite punch and I really appreciate learning how to do this :)
Posted by: Heather H. | October 14, 2008 at 02:04 AM
This is great!! Thanks!
Posted by: Vivian | October 14, 2008 at 08:19 AM
thanks for this great tutorial...I'm going to give this a try...
Posted by: nancy | October 14, 2008 at 08:31 AM
awesome!!!
Posted by: Regan | October 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM
That is a too cute card. I love it. Thank for sharing the punch tip. Have a grest one!
Posted by: Barbara | October 14, 2008 at 11:45 AM
The punch is so cool!
Posted by: syeda | October 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Thank you Virginia for sharing this technique with us. I have this punch and have struggled with trying to master a corner. :)
Posted by: Tracey McNeely | October 14, 2008 at 04:28 PM
love the card! i can't wait to try that technique! jen t.
Posted by: jen t. | October 14, 2008 at 11:11 PM
I wondered how to make a square
Posted by: scrap_hag (Casey Toney) | October 15, 2008 at 05:39 AM
Awesome and very cool useful tip!
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Kelly C. | October 15, 2008 at 09:44 AM
Yeah Virginia for this great tutorial....I wondered how you did the round corner!!
Thanks~
Posted by: Mary Chong | October 15, 2008 at 04:42 PM
I saw this punch at Michaels and was thinking of buying it but really didn't know how it worked--these instructions are perfect! I'm going out to pick up this punch. Thanks so much!
Posted by: Rosy | October 16, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Thanks for this tip !
Posted by: Laurence | October 19, 2008 at 03:08 AM
Brilliant!
I've wondered a few times how to manage to do what you just showed us, so THANKS a million!! :D
/ Jeanette
Posted by: Tettiz | October 21, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Whoo hoo ! Now I know what to do with my punch ! You rock for showing us this ! Thanks :-)
Posted by: Donna C | October 22, 2008 at 11:21 AM
awesome tutorial...love your darling card!
Posted by: Kim Hughes | October 25, 2008 at 05:25 PM
OMG! I wondered how to do that and could never figure it out. Tried unsuccessfully and gave up. Just punch two edges at the most. Thank you so much for sharing the link....
Hugs,
PattiM
(Pattie's passion)
I Scrap So All Moments Are Remembered!!!
Posted by: Patti Martin | October 27, 2008 at 02:58 AM
This is a tutorial that really works. Mine came out perfectly on the first try. I have used other tutorials and never been successful. Thanks so much. I got this link from Erika on Scrapbook Obsession blog. GLOANN
Posted by: Gloria Martens | October 27, 2008 at 12:52 PM
How awesome! I had tried to figure this out, but was not coming close! Thanks so much for sharing. :-D
ann
Posted by: Ann | November 01, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Oh I'm so happy that you show us that!!
Thank you so much!!
Posted by: Josée Boileau | November 15, 2008 at 03:39 PM
This is awesome! I've long wanted to achieve that perfect corner but I didn't know how. Thnaks for this great tip!!!
Posted by: Liza | April 30, 2009 at 06:35 PM
Thank you !
Posted by: Cindy | May 18, 2009 at 07:52 AM