Modern needlewomen are not limited to knitting socks and napkins for a long time. You can now diversify your leisure in a variety of ways, one of which is scrapbooking. One of the tools for him is a figurative puncher, which apart from this mission can serve both for the preparation of educational material for children, and simply for creating kids over three years of amazing paper masterpieces.
What is a figured puncher?
Many people know a punch hole for punching holes under the folder. Figured puncher for scrapbooking and other tasks is done on the same principle, but it is usually less powerful and can pierce no more than 4 sheets of paper at a time, while his clerical colleague can work with a large number of layers.
The puncher body is made of plastic, and in the middle it has a metal filling with sharp knives. Most often, these punchers are collapsible and with the help of a small screwdriver they can be opened to fix, lubricate or sharpen knives.
The more expensive models have a transparent plastic lid that keeps felling inside and the workplace remains clean. Differences in size - they are small, medium and large.
The figured punch works very simply - just insert a paper in the groove and press sharply on the handle - you get a stasis two blanks - a figure that can be pasted onto a postcard and a paper with a shaped hole, which can also be used.
In addition to paper, a punch hole can also be used for thin dense felt. When buying, you should carefully look at the product description on the package. To work with felt and cardboard, you need to choose a powerful device.
A set of curly punchers
You can buy perforators per piece, and you can buy them in a set of different forms. As a rule, they are grouped according to the forms of felling. For example, one group includes a figured puncher snowflake, an angel, a heart, a flower, an asterisk and other plant-animal subjects.
This can be both simple and openwork figures, in the second version of the figure-felling for gluing will not work, because with the openwork cut out, the waste is a small piece of paper. In order not to confuse which figure on the handle of each punch is a pattern of the same shape as the finished felling.
Another set includes punches for cutting down geometric shapes - a circle, an oval, a triangle, a square, and others. Such figures are very convenient to receive with the help of a punch, for example, for working with kids in kindergarten, rather than cutting them manually. Stand punch sets are not so cheap, but still get them profitable, and then everything will be at hand.
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Corner punch hole
For a beautiful design corner is used corner punch. When buying it, you should look at the availability of special graduation, which will be convenient to accurately expose the hole punch. On the handle, the angular punch holes are labeled, as usual, with a pattern that is issued, as well as a "corner" icon.
The edge (border) puncher
In order to make the openwork edge you need to use a special punch. With its help, you can create an original page in the album, as well as from the felling to make an original flower or decorate a napkin. Using a crocheted puncher, you can create an original drawing.
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Circular puncher
To process the edge of the circle, for example, when you want to make a round frame or napkin, you need a circular punch. Like the border, it can have many variations of drawings.
In order to save and not spend a decent enough amount for a large number of punch holes, it will be profitable to purchase a magnetic punch having from 5 to 8 different patterns. It is not much more expensive, but buying a few of these will save a lot of money.