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Post by scrapnnana on Mar 28, 2018 6:00:28 GMT
I don't know how many of the stampers here paid attention to the Avery Elle die thread. The OP thought the die was defective. However, in that thread, the technique on how to die cut first, then stamp second was brought up. I had not tried it before, but it is so much easier for me to get perfectly lined up stamped images with the die cuts using that technique. However, a post in the same thread also had a link to a technique on how to perfectly line up dies after stamping. The key to cutting first and stamping second is a stamp platform. A lot of us have some kind of stamp platform now, so if you aren't familiar with the technique, you might want to read that thread: Avery Elle thread has two techniques for getting perfectly stamped and die cut shapes
Maybe I've just been in la-la land, but this was definitely a game changer for me. |
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Post by artisticscrapper on Mar 31, 2018 4:22:02 GMT
I missed that. Thanks for posting. I’ll be trying that technique in the near future.
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Post by freeatlast on Mar 31, 2018 9:25:33 GMT
It's a great solution, especially for solid dies. I actually used it yesterday to stamp some small flowers. Two different colors (stem/leaves and flowers) and each was perfect.
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Post by anniefb on Mar 31, 2018 17:48:36 GMT
Great solution TFS!
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Post by lovestocreate on Mar 31, 2018 18:54:35 GMT
Thanks for pointing that out. I went back and had a look. Now I can't wait to get my platform fixed so I can try it!
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Post by scrapnnana on Apr 1, 2018 5:21:45 GMT
I'm glad that others like it, too! I'm getting far better results than when I was trying to match up dies with the stamped images.
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Post by gale w on Apr 1, 2018 17:29:19 GMT
There's also a method for stamping first but making sure your cut is accurate. It doesn't require a stamp positioner.
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Post by scrapnnana on Apr 2, 2018 5:52:56 GMT
There's also a method for stamping first but making sure your cut is accurate. It doesn't require a stamp positioner. Yes, I mentioned that in the OP, and that the Avery Elle thread has links to both techniques. Perhaps I did not word it clearly enough in my OP, but my link title said "two techniques for getting perfectly stamped and die cut images" so I thought it was clear. I could have just included the links in my post to the two techniques, but that would have been like I'd was taking credit for what someone else shared, so I just linked to the Avery Elle thread, where they could see who had actually shared the techniques here. If you are only making one or two of the stamped, die-cut image, then neither technique is better than the other, but if you are doing a lot of the same stamped image that you want die-cut, I think the cut first technique using the stamp platform is probably a bit faster. |
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Post by gale w on Apr 2, 2018 6:44:45 GMT
There's also a method for stamping first but making sure your cut is accurate. It doesn't require a stamp positioner. Yes, I mentioned that in the OP, and that the Avery Elle thread has links to both techniques. Perhaps I did not word it clearly enough in my OP, but my link title said "two techniques for getting perfectly stamped and die cut images" so I thought it was clear. I could have just included the links in my post to the two techniques, but that would have been like I'd was taking credit for what someone else shared, so I just linked to the Avery Elle thread, where they could see who had actually shared the techniques here. If you are only making one or two of the stamped, die-cut image, then neither technique is better than the other, but if you are doing a lot of the same stamped image that you want die-cut, I think the cut first technique using the stamp platform is probably a bit faster. Sorry? The thread title says cutting first, stamping second... |
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Post by scrapnnana on Apr 2, 2018 13:11:36 GMT
Thread titles here can't be particularly long, but I hoped that the name or title, or whatever it is that I gave the link in my OP, made it a little more clear, along with the content of my post. While cutting first and stamping second is the technique that I prefer and made a bigger focus, if you read my original post in this thread, it mentions more than just cutting first, stamping second. I did mention both in my post. I'm sorry if I did not make it more clear.
The main point that I was trying to make, though, was to get stampers to read the Avery Elle thread, since it had links of interest to stampers, but some stampers might have missed it.
Whichever technique a stamper prefers does not matter. We have options.
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