Paper Cutting Techniques for Scrapbooking & Cards

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Becky O'Mallet. I've been a Creative Memories Consultant for over thirteen years and today I'm going to show you some paper cutting techniques. We have award winning tools with Creative Memories and the first one I'm going to show you is our custom cutting system. It comes with different templates that you can use to cut photos and for paper. It also comes with a matte that you cut the circles on or the ovals. It also comes with cutting blades that you can use on either the outside edge or the inside edge of the pattern, giving you six cuts per pattern which is a really great option. So today I'm going to use this photo to cut a circle because all the important part of the picture is in the center which makes for a perfect circle. And I'm going to use the red blade because that cuts closest to the pattern. Each blade cuts a little bit farther away from the pattern allowing you to have the different cuts. So I just make sure the pegs are in the groove here on the pattern and once they are I can just go around and cut the circle. And here you go just like that easy. Okay. I can cut shapes with either photos or with paper. So I'll just show you a quick oval with the oval cutter. It's just that easy. You put the pegs in the groove and just go around. You can see my hand doesn't move at all which makes it very, very easy to cut. And just like that you're done. And then we also have other cutting tools. This is the personal trimmer. It cuts photos and smaller pieces of paper. It does a great job. It's got a stainless steel blade. It can cut up to 15,000 cuts. It's got a nice grid to help you measure the paper that you're using. That's a great tool for photos. This will cut in multiple shapes. It'll cut your photo in a wave, a tight wave or a loose wave. It's great for borders. It can accommodate a 12 inch paper. It's great just for that. This also cuts larger pieces of paper into a straight cut. It has a swing out arm so that you can cut a larger piece of paper. It also has the grids. And it does have the opportunity to cut at an angle. There are different angles marked on the cutter so that you can cut different angles, too which is very handy. This is our corner rounder. It's very, it's a really great way to do it. When my kids graduated from high school I could pay $18 to have them round the corners on my senior pictures or I could have the Creative Memories corner rounder and do it myself which I chose to do because I've been using this corner rounder for a very long time. We also have makers that you can use that are very fun. This one happens to be the puzzle maker but we have many, many shapes. You can find them all on creativememories.com. The makers are very fun to play with. They're simple to use. There's a multitude of ways you can use them. So that's for today. Thank you."