Teri Anderson
Ready for some more tool talk?
Today, I’m playing with two tools that work great with chipboard: the Chip Art tool from GCD Studios and the Corner Chomper from We R Memory Keepers.
The Chip Art tool is one of the newest tools in the crafting world. Introduced earlier this year, this tool allows paper crafters to stamp and deboss chipboard with designs of butterflies, flowers, letters and much more.
The tool is a metal stick of sorts. GCD Studios makes a number of interchangeable metal heads with designs on them. The heads fit the end of tool. You then use a mallet to whack the design on the chipboard.
Here’s how you do it:
1. Brush water on a piece of chipboard. You want to just soften the chipboard. You don’t want it to be soaking wet.
2. Place one of the Chip Art tool’s changeable heads on it.
3. Set tool vertically on your chipboard. You want the design on the changeable head to be sitting right on the piece of chipboard. Hold the tool with one hand. Use a mallet with the other hand to tap the tool two to three times.
4. Remove the tool and you’ll see the image debossed onto the chipboard.
The Corner Chomper is a corner punch from We R Memory Keepers. The Corner Chomper cuts chipboard, as well as paper and more. It comes with two edges – a ¼” round edge and a ½” round edge. We R Memory Keepers also recently introduced some decorative Corner Chompers, which also work with chipboard.
The way the corner Corner Chomper works is:
1. Open up the Corner Chomper’s two guides all the way. You want to hear the guides click twice. If you hear only one click, you haven’t gone far enough.
2. Place your chipboard all the way in the Corner Chomper.
If you don’t go all the way, you will not get a nice clean and round corner.
3. Punch.
4. Once you have punched, turn the Corner Chomper toward you. Lift up the black waste bin panel and remove the leftover corner pieces.
I’ve used these tools make three projects to share with you today.
I used the Chip Art tool to decorate the house on my Miss You Card. I randomly debossed words and hearts on the chipboard house’s roof:
To give the house a worn look, I brushed several layers of white and pink paint over the words. I then used a baby wipe to remove some of the paint before it dried.
The Chip Art tool again came in handy for my Friend of Mine Card:
This time, I debossed an ornamental image on the chipboard bird. I brushed white ink over the bird before slapping it on the card.
The kraft panel behind the gray panel is chipboard. I used the Corner Chomper to simply round it.
Finally, I used both tools on my BFF Card:
I used the Chip Art tool to deboss an ornamental design on the chipboard letters. I didn’t brush any water onto the letters before so I had to whack the mallet extra hard. Once I did that, I sanded the letters.
And that yellow panel you see was created with chipboard and a piece of fabric. I glued the fabric to a piece a square cut from chipboard and then used the Corner Chomper to round the corners.
Check out my blog today for another project using these fun tools.
Since it’s Freebie Friday, it’s time for today’s giveaway! Leave a comment telling me about a tool you’d like to learn more about and/or get some new ideas for. One random commenter will win this set of Chip Art tools that appeared in the Tips, Tools & Techniques column of the July/August issue of Paper Crafts.
One lucky winner will take home this entire set of Chip Art tools!
Tooling Around,
Teri Anderson,
Paper Crafts Go-to-Gal
P.S. It’s time to announce the winners of Brandy’s Fabulously Frocked Feet post! (And each of these ladies got four or more answers correct!)
1. Chloe (July 7, 5:47 a.m.)
2. cards4ever (July 6, 8:22 a.m.)
3. Summer Braxton (July 6, 12:32 p.m.)
Congrats, winners! Kelly will be contacting you shortly to discuss your prizes and get your mailing addresses. If you’re still confused on whose feet belong to what team member, hop on over to the Paper Crafts Facebook Fan Page today! We’ll learn the identity of all 80 toes!
P.P.S. Make sure you join us next Monday as Jennifer kicks off our highly-anticipated Card Style Week. All week long we’ll be spotlighting cards from our new special issue Card Style!
I love my corner chomper! I really would like to try using the chip art tool. The results look pretty cool and not too difficult to use with your help! Thanks for the chance to win!
I’m diggin on the corner chomper! I’m intrigued by the Martha Stewart Fringe scissors, but I’d be worried about how sharp the blades stay.
These little tools are amazing. I don’t have any of the two, but I would love to have at least one. The Chip Art Tool is AMAZING. Since I don’t know anything about any of these tools, any help and info will be welcomed if I win this.
Thank you for this chance.
i don’t use lots of tools, but the chip-art tool is one i could easily find a use for. it would be great for mixed media. i bet it would work on paper mache and clay too.
Thanks for the info on the Chip Art tools. This is definitely a tool I would like to learn more about and it would also be great to win. This will make someone very happy.
God bless,
Peggy Allen
Love my corner chomper. And the chip art tool looks like it’d be a lot of fun! As for other tools to learn about, I’d say the Cuttlebug …
Firstly I’d like to say your chipboard projects on this post are all just fabulous. This is the first time I’ve seen these tools and will price them out on We R Memory Keepers. In the meantime I thank you for the chance to win!
I have never played with either of these tools so thanks so much for posting all this great info about them. I have the slice machine that I need to learn more about so any advise would be greatly appreciated!
I love the corner chomper! I have a bind it all but have never used it because I am intimidated by it!
THIS tool! Wow! Also would love to try a letterpress which is similar, right?
How about telling us about Xyron. I know they have been around a while. but I never had one, Thanks.
Cool! That looks (and is used) alot like the leather stamping tools I used with my cub scouts! I’m loving these articles on tools…you write and explain very well, thank you! I’d like to see you do an article on re-inkers and different ways to use them. Thanks for the chance to win!
I’s like to know more about sewing on cards. My specifif question is about using my regular sewing machine to stitch on paper. Will it hurt my good sewing machine? Thanks so much for the chance to win those cool tools! The letter press and the big chomper are BOTH fantastic. What great additions to a craft room they would be!!!!
I love the tiny stamped images. I have never tried that and would love to see how it works!
I just received the corner rounder for my birthday and it is great! The Chip Art took looks fun too. I am considering purchasing a die cut machine, specifically the Big Shot. I would like to learn more about it since I tend to overanalyze my purchases, especially larger ones
I would love to learn to use either the chip art tool or corner chomper. I actually almost bought a corner chomper just a couple of days ago – now I wish I had!
Wow, loved seeing this…I have a lot of old leather tool dies that I have hung onto and sometimes use in clay work but now I see the chipboard possibilities blown wide open! TY…
And I would LOVE to see the Making Memories grommet setter tool in action…I have one, I need ideas on how to use it…I love the idea of the big huge grommets…I just don’t know quite how the darn thing works or what some ideas would be for them????
TY
I would like to learn more on how to cut a clean straight line on a paper trimmer and also how to measure with them.
oh how cool is this!!! Thank you for all the info!!!
It seems I’m hearing alot about the slice machine lately….I would love to learn more about that!!!
Gorgeous cards btw!!!
Cool stuff! I have chipboard but haven’t really used it because I never knew what to do to make it look great. Love these ideas and tools!
I have a tool that I’ve had for several years and haven’t used. It is a spritzer type tool that is used with a marker to make a spray pattern on cards. I’m not sure how to make it work so it doesn’t make a big mess!
I would love to know more about the chip art tool. I am crazy for chipboard, I use it on just about everything I do, so I very excited that a new tool has come out to change things up a little. Yea, new tools!!!!!!!
Maybe a Cricut, because it does so much. But it’s expensive, so who knows…
I like the chip board decorator that you showed. That looks pretty neat. I have bought some chipboard recently, and could use something like that.
Great stuff – and I’d love to see more product review on all of the die cut machines on the market but especially the Silhouette. Thanx for the inspiration and T’RIFFIC blog candy opp!
What a neat tool! I have never seen this before. I really love to debossed look on the chipboard. Your house card is darling.
Any tool really! I don’t have many crafting tools, just a few boarder punches. And product reviews are always great too.
I would like to see more on this tool- and letter pressing stuff…thanks for sharing detailed shots! you rock Teri!
The tool I would like to learn more about is the silhouette die cutting machine. I have enjoyed these three articles very much. Thanks.
I LOVE this!! You’ve inspired me to go out and do some chip board crafts!!
-Kayla Tapley
I would love to know more about the Imaginisce – I-Rock Tool. Thanks for the opportunity to win
Love the debossed effect created with these tools–so unique! Would love to hear reviews about the best die-cutting machine, because there are so many out there to choose from.
I LOVEEE my corner chomper, it’s a tool which is always reached for.
Never seen the chip art tool before, wow it looks fun. Love finding out about new tools.
Would it work on clay?
How do the sillouhette machines work, they look complicated…
I love what you did with the roof of the house! I would like to learn more about sewing on cards/layouts.
Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
I don’t have either tool. Both look like they would be great to have. Thanks for sharing.
I love buying chipboard, I have TONS of it and I seem to not use it much!!!
So when I saw these new tools I got soooo excited.. what a great idea to use all these cool designs with all the plain chipboard I have!!! I would love to win thanks for the chance.. tu amiga Kat..
Another way to add butterflies to a project…can’t get any better than that! Thanks for a chance to win
I adore my corner chomper and the chip board tools are amazing! I’d love to try them out – thanks for the chance to win!!
I would love to see some projects using the letterpress machine…I am really intrigued by it but have yet to see it in action.
Awesome! I would like to see more sewing on projects. Thanks for a chance.
These tools are so cool – it would be just wonderful to win! New tools are so much fun and inspire creativity! I haven’t seen those Martha Stewart scissors anywhere but I am very impressed with them! The debossed effect is quite impressive too and you could put it anywhere on your card! Thanks for the chance to win!
I would also love to see that you could do with the i-rock … bet you can blow us all away with your ideas …
A Cropadile would is very useful. My mom has one, and she LOVES it and uses it all the time.
Ohh…I would sooooo LOVE to win this tool! I got to try it and love it, but wow, so pricey for me. But it sure does amazing things!!! So, thanks for the opportunity! I have a Silhouette that I love to pieces and I am sure there are lots of things I could still learn about it, so that is one I would be interested in seeing reviewed here.
I love the debossed look from this tool. Great use of it, Teri! I love my Corner Chomper and seem to use it all the time.
Thanks for a chance to win!
Would love to have one of this tools, it looks amazing.
I really enjoyed the info abt the scissors and the debossing on chipboard, thanks! I’d like to know more about using my punches and cuttlebug with Shrinky Dinks plastic for fun, little embellishments and how to best color the plastic. Thanks!
I’d like to learn more about the Just Rite stamps and the tool which sets grommets. I’ve enjoyed your tool reviews and I’d like to see this as an ongoing weekly thing. Thanks.
Oh MY gosh!! I would LOVE the chip art tool! You know something we all have… alpha’s. Alpha’s that are left over from other projects- ones we don’t have enough of to form a word. And I’m a little… OCD about all of my letters matching- I don’t want a Foam Thicker next to a Making Memories Puffy Alpha… So, what can I do with the spares?
I have to second the loving your tool reviews opinions. They really help me to make decisions on which tools I want to invest in. I use my BAsic Grey file set on everything I do and I am very impressed with Martha’s border punches. They seem to cut through thicker material than any of my other border punches.
That’s a great new tool! So many ways to embellish with it.