Scoring demo

I had really been wanting to buy a tool to score my cards and projects but I was reluctant to spend $40 on it. I have been doing some research and was talking to my mom about it when she told me about this great technique she saw on a scrapbooking show (she doesn't scrapbook but she watches them so that she can give me awesome ideas like this one!). She told me that I can use two of the tools I already have (a paper cutter and a stylus) to do exactly what I was wanting. So tonight, I tried it - and it works SO well! Here are the pics:

This is my Fiskars trimmer that I have had for YEARS and use every single day, and my stylus which I bought to do embossing with my light box but have found a bazillion other uses for:



So the technique is to simply lay your paper on top of the trimmer and instead of using the trimmer, you run your stylus along the groove! And it really makes a nice score in the paper. Here is a pic of me scoring some basic card stock with the cutting arm down:



So i got tired of putting the arm up and down and wanted to compare how it would work without using the arm:



And it worked just as well. Yay!

Moral of the story: look at what you already have in new ways. Although I am sure that the new tool would work great, this technique will work just perfectly for what I need to do!