Where to get a corner-rounder?

Le Fanu

Feretian said:
Amazon has a bunch under "scrapbooking" "corner rounder". They are cheap but who knows how well they would work on fine card stock? I think they are made for fairly lightweight paper.
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Maybe if you could link it,somebody here might have the identical one and can tell us whether it cuts well or not?
 

Scarlet27

Great! I think I'm gonna get one from Amazon :)
Thnx a lot guys for your answers, you've been incredibly helpful!
 

morticia monroe

For anyone in the US, I got one at Wal Mart for $4 and trimmed the Enchanted,,,and that's some serious cardstock,,,lol. It worked great!
 

shamoness

Scarlet, I have an extra on I will weigh with the HR when I go to the Post Office. You can have it. I do a lot of scrapbooking and the best one I've ever used was made by Creative Memories. The extra one I have is made by Marvy which does make a lot of very good products.

If you find your punch/corner rounder is not cutting as cleanly, fold some aluminum foil and punch through it a few times. This will resharpen the punch. Also works for paper cutters.
 

WolfSpirit

Le Fanu said:
I also trimmed my Tarot of the Master, but there were so many details right up to the edge of the image that I just gently rounded the corners with scissors, taking off a mere millimetre, just enough for the corner not to "snag". It actually looks better than with a corner rounder as you take less of the card off and it is a more "discreet" finish...
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I do that all the time. When I finally got a corner rounder I found it took too much off the cards. I only round the corners when I have already snipped off the borders - so everything else you cut off is the central image of the card itself, and I want to keep that intact as much as possible :)
 

shamoness

If anyone in the UK is looking for corner rounders I know they are available through www.stampinup.com
I believe theirs are made by EK Success. They work really well.
 

Le Fanu

Feretian said:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=corner+rounder&x=14&y=14


Try this...it's a list of several models. I'm not sure if it will work, though. My technical skills are laughable.
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Glad you did that Feretian, as (like I guessed) I DO have one of the ones illustrated. I bought the 2nd one illustrated, the Aidox. $9 on amazon and I paid 4 pounds in the UK. It works well, but it´s one of the "punch" rather than "slicing blade" type.

There are rounders which do a different "angle" of roundness. The Aidox one illustrated does a very round corner. Well-done, but VERY rounded.

I get the impression though that with time, the blade will blunt. But Ive done 2 decks with it and it works fine. Needs a little bit of sandpapering with a smooth nail file though... I´ll bear in mind the foil tip :)
 

shamoness

Foil works like a charm! And is so easy. I use it for all my punches and paper cutters. I do quite a bit of paper arts. One can use sand paper but many punches are not made to handle that grade of paper. Try the foil first.
 

Le Fanu

shamoness said:
Foil works like a charm! And is so easy. I use it for all my punches and paper cutters. I do quite a bit of paper arts. One can use sand paper but many punches are not made to handle that grade of paper. Try the foil first.
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I meant sandpapering the edges of the cards after trimming, not sandpapering the blade!

:)
 
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