How sticky is your carrier sheet ??

[teekay]

Santa brought my Robo early and I was really excited to set it up last night (thanks for the fab tutorials Bev). The font cutting is fantastic but I can't get the darned paper off the carrier sheet once I've cut it, and I ended up ripping the beautiful letters trying to de-stick them.

Am I doing something wrong ?

I tried cutting the letters both face up and face down, on thin paper and stiff card, but it made little difference. Any help appreciated as I'm stuck :unsure: :P

[lesleyuk]

No The carrier sheet is very tacky to start with You have to be extra extra careful. It doesn't stay that tacky. I recently had to wash mine because it was not holding the paper at all. Are you cutting very fine lettering?. Try some chunkier ones to start?.

[Tosca]

That's a bummer, Teekay. It will get easier. A few more goes and you'll be able to lift them off quite easily.

[Lily_My_Lovely]

Mine was sticky once... now its covered in dog hair and fluff... still works tho :lol:

[teekay]

Ta for this - I was panicking a wee bit :blink:

You're right, the chunkier letters were a bit better. I'll persevere, this gadget is awsome !!

[teekay]

...I'm guessing that it works like one of those rolling dog hair lifter thingys then !

[angel22]

just popped on to say hi
im over the other side of the erskine bridge from you and another fan of the c.r.
hope you enjoy it as much as i do.......santa has been very good to you this year eh...lol

angela x

[teekay]

Hi Angela, great to hear from you. As a newbie to scrapbooking I don't know anyone yet - hope to change that soon :)

I've been cutting out lots of exotic dingbats to show off the robo to family. ...Now wishing I hadn't gone so crazy on the celtic designs, there are tons of fiddly wee bits to pick off the carrier sheet now.

Gosh - just realised the time !! Who needs sleep when you have a Robo :D

[Lucille]

I use my pricking tool to lift small stuff and letters/words off the carrier sheet and sometimes to lift corners of bigger shapes etc.

[teekay]

..and where am I likely to get one ?

Sorry for being so thick, but this is all new to me :rolleyes:

TK

[missy p]

The guy from Graphtec who was demonstrating the CR at the NEC used a Stanley knife to lift things from the carrier sheet.

I've been cutting text (Merry Christmas, for cards) inside a rounded rectangle, lifting it off using Scotch Magic Tape, then taking off the negative in the same way. The edge still has to be lifted first, of course.

[Lucille]

..and where am I likely to get one ?

Sorry for being so thick, but this is all new to me :rolleyes:

TK

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