Simply Scored

This is one of my "Go To" tools. The Simply Scored with it's stylus and the diagonal scoring plate are right at my elbow in the studio. It's another of those tools that you can't believe how useful it is - once you've had one you will be unable to think how you crafted without it. So here is a quick tour and some fab ideas to get you started. The Simply Scored takes paper or card up to 12" x 12", it has inch rulers both horizontally and vertically, it's own dual tip stylus and handy markers to make multiple projects easy. There is also a metric plate if you prefer to work in cm and mm. The diagonal plate allows really easy - well diagonal - scoring with total accuracy. I use my Simply Scored to make crisp accurate folds in card stock and paper to make two cards from a sheet of A4 really easily. Today we are making boxes and the Simply Scored is ideal to score the card for the sides - just score score and flip score score again and we are done. Totally accurate and parallel - don't you just hate it when things go wonky! Try using Simply Scored to make a smart double score on one edge of a card - try it the other way round so you get an outy line. That could be coloured up or distressed or left very minimalist. Love it for male cards. Do you brayer? Well try making a lattice or checked pattern then brayering on top - where the scores are you will be left with uninked areas. It looks so nice with Whisper White or Very Vanilla card stock. How about using a great background stamp as well - experiment using crumb cake on the brayer and sahara sand on the background stamp ( Mmmmm French Foliage, Postage Due, clockworks, Very Vintage stamps all spring to mind). I also find that the dual tip stylus - which is available to buy on it's own too - is fantastic for pressing things like flower centres, for curling paper or card for petals, making impressed lines on leaves, squishing down rhinestones or sorting out tiny bows. It doesn't leave a mark like the piercing tool or you poor old fingernail will. Check out page 181 of the 2012-13 catalogue for the Simply Scored, the diagonal plate and the stylus. Contact me if you would like to try out the Simply Scored before you buy!