Post by SusieQ on Jan 9, 2014 15:52:19 GMT -8
I posted some great pics of retro tile patterns, several great die cut patterns, which made me wonder if I could do that. So I bought one 68 cent tile to experiment on and here's what I did:
Heated the tile in the spot where I wanted to punch my pattern. I use a craft size heat gun.
Heated a metal cookie cutter (warning it gets HOT).
Put the tile on top of a phone book, put the heated cookie cutter on it, covered it with a piece of thick junk mail (just what I had handy).
Tapped it with a hammer all the way around (I actually used some big heavy metal mallet, like a little sledge hammer)
After it was stuck in the tile all the way around, I turned it upside down, reheated the bottom, covered it and tapped it again.
Check it out:
TOP SIDE
image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
Bottom
image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
FINISHED PRODUCT
I don't have a contrasting color to make an insert but ideally you'd probably be better off to punch both tiles at the same time.
image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
Heated the tile in the spot where I wanted to punch my pattern. I use a craft size heat gun.
Heated a metal cookie cutter (warning it gets HOT).
Put the tile on top of a phone book, put the heated cookie cutter on it, covered it with a piece of thick junk mail (just what I had handy).
Tapped it with a hammer all the way around (I actually used some big heavy metal mallet, like a little sledge hammer)
After it was stuck in the tile all the way around, I turned it upside down, reheated the bottom, covered it and tapped it again.
Check it out:
TOP SIDE
image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
Bottom
image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
FINISHED PRODUCT
I don't have a contrasting color to make an insert but ideally you'd probably be better off to punch both tiles at the same time.
image by susieqilvu, on Flickr
I think I know how to do that