Still Learning

[Quilting]

Has anyone had problems with their CR cutting mirror card, mine seems to be snagging, although the design was complicated (one of the downloaded butterfly templates). Do I have a problem with my blade?

Any suggestion????

[dozyrosy]

I think it's more likely to be a problem with the card being a bit thick for the CR to cut. Sometimes intricate and thick/heavy aren't an ideal combination! But try doing the cuts at a much slower speed, and possibly try doing a double cut. If you copy & paste you'll get a second template over the first, and when you send to cut it will go round twice.

Rosemary

[NikiB]

One of the problems too with mirror card is that it tends to be a two layer card, plain card on the base and then the mirror on top. I have heard of some people cutting this with the mirror surface face down

[dozyrosy]

Yes, I've sometimes cut mirror and metallic card upside down and it's worked fine. (I'd forgotten about that!!) But I've found that I'm getting better results cutting it with the Pro than I did when I had my "baby" Robo, as it can cut deeper and has more "oomph" behind it.

I think the size of the template, too, has a bearing; I tend to cut small things as I'm a card maker not a scrapper, and I have definitely found that some templates are much happier being cut in a larger size on thicker media - there's more room for the blade to swivel/manouvre on the fiddly bits!

Rosemary