You have potentially come across punches before, whether it was a punch on your Subway or Coffee Shop loyalty card or whether you had an entry ticket punched when you entered an event. So you’ll be acquainted with what they can do.

But are you aware that there are several different types of scrapbooking punches? No, I am not talking about ones that do hearts, moons and stars. I’m talking about a complete range of punches that each do a different task.

Shaped Punches

Yes, the basic shaped punch. The one which we are all familiar with. While you can get easy and cheap punches that only do one shape repeatedly the scientists in the shape punching companies have been busy little bees and have come up with a multi-shape punch. This is a punch that’s got a small insert on the bit that does all the punching. You can swap this out with other inserts that may let you do any shape you like. No longer into hearts? That is ok, swap it with a boat… Or a horse or smiling face or anything you feel like!

Corner Punches

These corner punches are occasionally called ‘corner rounders ‘. The thought behind this is that it can take any corner of a page and turn it into a perfect curve. This will actually make your pages stick out from the crowd and as a bonus no more paper cuts!

Don’t settle for uninteresting square corners anymore - go round!

Border Punches

This is one of my favorite types of scrapbooking punches. These look a bit like a hair clip. They are wide and are engineered to go along the edges of your pages. When you clip, it clips a pattern along the edge. I have seen some wonderful pages that have waves and leaves clipped around the edges of them.

You may also use them on multiple bits of paper and lay them over the top of one another for a truly dazzling effect. Turn that line of waves into an ocean or the leaves into an overgrown forest!

While there are way more scrapbooking punches, I don’t really wish to over load you with ideas, so go now and get cracking on the ones that have come up while studying this article.

Good luck and happy scrapping!

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