What’s a Bone Folder used for? This little gem is something that you can’t do without in your craft room! This tool might seem a little unassuming but it’s kinda like a super hero in the craft room!
- The Bone Folder in the picture is sold by Stampin’ Up! (Item# 102300)
- 6″ long
- Sanded smooth and polished
- Point on one end
What a Bone Folder is used for
The Bone folder was traditionally used as a book binder tool and you can still use it as such. Now it’s used to make your life easy in the craft room and create a crisp look that enhances your paper crafting.
Use a Bone Folder to:
- Create a crisp fold when creating cards and/or 3 dimensional projects
- Perfect to use for folding and creasing coated and thick paper so it’s not clunky.
- Use it to score your paper by itself (using a ruler) or with a scoring plate
- TIP when scoring your paper and folding it, fold it in opposite direction of the fold.
- Use to crease folds
- Allows you to score and fold cleanly
- Great to use for scoring thick paper
- Good for text weight paper (which is much lighter) and makes folds easily but use to get crisp folds. (TIP: Use less pressure when using with lighter weight paper)
- Can be used to crease and fold Vellum
- Use to distress your paper
- Perfect for:
- accordion books
- working with projects that have a lot of folds
- good to use to get even clean folds on various types of papers
- great for Origami
- Handy tool just not for folding and scoring such as:
- Spreading out ink after re inking your ink pad (TIP: Be sure to clean right away to avoid staining, although a stained bone folder doesn’t reduce its use)
- Use to burnish small details
- Use it for pressing out, glued paper, use to get out details, and bubbles on any paper you adhere with glue and/or adhesive paper
- Rip Paper – helps create an edge that will rip clean
- to do this score it, fold in opposite direction and then gently rip and it will give you a clean tear
- Perfect to use for image transfers
So when is the last time you used your Bone Folder? Have you used your Bone Folder in a way we didn’t list? We would love to hear your comments, so please leave a comment or share this article with your friends!
