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Scissors and Cutters for Scrapbooking
By Wendy | July 10, 2008
Once upon a time there was the strait edge scissors that could cut different shapes that were simple as well as the tried and true straight edge. Then there was the craft knife and ruler to cut perfectly straight lines to create borders and mats to go around pictures. But today scrapbooking has come into the twenty-first century with an array of scissors and cutters to create those impossible cuts that a scissor could not accomplish or only the steadiest hand with a blade could create. These new scissors have brought a whole new look to the images you can create with scissors.
Scissors have come a long way from the straight edge days where scrapbooking paper and photos can take on a beautiful beveled edge. Scissors now have patterns in their blades to create a variety of decorative edges. Now cut hearts can have a scalloped edge or a diamond can have a Victorian flair. But that’s not all that can be done today as well. There was the day where the hole-punch was used to punch holes in paper to fit in a three ring binder, now paper punches can put a smiley face or animal shapes to your project. Large paper punches can create miniature mats for your photos or stylish edges.
Remember cutting boards? Where you put a piece of paper in it to cut a straight edge with the rolling edge of a blade? They didn’t really do much for a piece of paper other than to cut them down to a proper size. Those too now have revolutionized themselves as they now have edges that can create a zigzag, wave or scalloped edge. Straight edge cutting has also run circles around itself by creating edges that cut in circles and ovals as well.
But that’s not all, as scrapbooking takes its leaps and bounds into the technological world there are even die cutters that can cut even more intricate details at a push of a button or roll through a tray. There are basically two different kinds of die cutters available. One uses standard die cutters like the Quickutz that are plates with designs on them that are attached to a press and when paper and rolled through them they are cut into the shapes upon the die. The other uses a computer chip like the Cricut to store images in its memory that when accessed a single blade moves across the paper cutting the image upon it.
Finding these new tools for scrapbooking can be found at your local craftstore or by heading to providers like Creative Memories or Sizzix to find all of your scrapbooking cutting needs. Today there are no rules when it comes to cutting paper that will allow your imagination to run wild in displaying your pictures and memories with flares and splashes of paper fun. By adding these new cutting tools to your scrapbooking arsenal you can create intricate and beautiful memories cutting in less time that before.
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