Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Creative Hot-Knife

Hi everyone!! Here is something so cool that I have to share..... Recently I bought a few stamp sets from Oxford Impression and the stamps are all unmounted. Putting them on the cling foams and cutting with the Kai Scissors is tedious, tiring and messy.........!!
Remembering that once I saw a tutorial on Youtube using Hot Knife to cut unmounted stamps, I will put up the link at the end of this post, so I started searching for the hot knife and found it!!, went ahead made an order and it arrived today. Yay!! Its called "The Creative Hot-knife"!! On the packaging, it says 'tools created for women' Hahahaha!!
It cuts the sticky foam like butter, no more mess, no more tired/painful fingers...... how cool is that!!! :D But be very very careful though, its really really HOT!!!
The website that I ordered my hot knife from is http://www.michellesscrap.com/ You might want to take a look.

Here is how the hot-knife looks like......... It comes with 2 blades and has a ON/OFF button that is attached on the cable.... and a stand.



First, you will have to cut out the images as close to the edge as possible..........


Next, cut out a piece of the sticky foam bigger than the stamp image..... stick them together....
and place the hot-knife resting and moving along the edge of the stamp...... Viola!!!..........


You have a clean cut stamp..................!!!! Here is the finished result!!!!!



The link to the Youtube Hot-knife Tutorial.....: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG7lnZTcY7g
This tutorial is done by 2worldswings.
Hope this post helps!!!! Have a great day, everybody!! and thanks for stopping by!!!

3 comments:

Velma said...

Hi Sweetie.........how are you? I keep staring at your journals~ they are forever beautiful!!! Hugs, Velma

The Traveller said...

Dearest Velma!! I am fine... What about you? The weather has been so hot here that my brain is toast!! :D Thank you so much for loving my journals.... I am making some even better 1 for my very special friend..... hehehehe!!
love, Connie

Diane45 said...

Wow! I love your blog, journals and stamps! You are very inspiring! I wish I was as talented as you are!