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Hay Parrothead!! I went bonkers when I first started cutting around my stamps stuck onto EZ Mount. Someone here suggested using baby powder on the sticky stuff in between the stamps for easier cutting. (NOT under the stamp.) Well.. it WORKS... big time!! It's waay easier to cut and best of all, my scissors don't collect near the gunky goo. I do still have to clean the scissors, but no way near the mess!! I'm sorry, I don't remember who suggested this or I'd give her credit!
You could try other things if you don't have baby powder.. even flour.. anything that'll curb the sticky. I wouldn't use anything granular tho. Be sure you wash your stamps good when finished. I'd think the baby powder would do a drying out thang to your rubba and we must protect our babies!
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I tried the baby powder with horrible results. My cling doesn't cling because of the powder. I clean my scissors with nail polish remover. One or two wipes with a cotton ball and voila! Works great!
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I coat my scissors with embossing ink prior to cutting and I don't get any gunk on my scissors. When I'm done cutting, I just wipe the blades off on a paper towel. (I don't use my embossing ink pad anyhow, so it might as well be used for something.)
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Baby powder is awesome!! Don't remove the backing paper until after you are done cutting. If by chance you get a little powder on the cling, just wipe off with a damp cloth and it is perfect again.
I've never used EZ Mount, but if it is anything like cutting the rubber on SU stamps, then spraying a little bit of WD40 on your scissors and wiping them with a papertowel when you are done takes the sticky stuff right off!
I don't know where I read it, but I use plain old cooking oil (like canola oil) to clean my scissors. I bought some special stuff & it didn't work, but the oil works fine & costs nothing.
The baby powder trick sounds interesting....so does the embossing pad. I was wondering about putting something on the scissors before I started cutting but didn't want anything greasy to get on my stamp...don't want no greasy rubbah!! I used the alcohol,but really had to scrub for it to come off...thats some sticky stuff! Polish remover was gonna be my next try. Thanks everyone!
I coat my scissors with embossing ink prior to cutting and I don't get any gunk on my scissors. When I'm done cutting, I just wipe the blades off on a paper towel. (I don't use my embossing ink pad anyhow, so it might as well be used for something.)
When I use the powder trick, I apply it with a "not used anymore" cosmetic brush!! Then I don't get powder all over my stamps I'm cutting out, and I always spritz them with a little water and clean off the powder after cutting. When the "gunk" adds up on my scissors, I use Goo Gone. Nothing new... just HOW I do it!!!
UNDO does a wonderful job cleaning the adhesive off. A bottle goes a long long way! I purchased a bottle at Walmart maybe 2 years ago and it is still going strong.
i use the "embossing ink" AKA versamark pad to both clean off my scissors and to coat them before i cut sticky things. my demo told me this at a workshop.
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I bought a box of alcohol swab/wipes... (the individual packets) works awesome... and I can just toss and go... no worry of spilling, their portable and cheap for anytime and anywhere.
I bought a little can of "Goof Off" at Home Depot. It removes paint from glass (necessary when we were painting our house a couple of years ago). It works WAY better than anything else I've tried (including rubbing alcohol, Goo Gone, UnDu, etc.) and it seems to last forever.
cleaning EZ MOUNT off of scissors
