Cutter Blade Sharpening Tricks

In only 9 days, my little baby girl will be 1 year old! Holy Moly! In the midst of Christmas, we are also working on her first birthday party. I have been cutting a lot of cardstock and am watching my blade dull so I did a search online to see how to sharpen the blade.

Here's some ideas:

 Blades can be sharpened with heavy duty aluminum foil. Simply cover 

your mat with the foil. Create a file with several straight lines, a couple of 

circles, and a few squares. Set the speed to slow or medium in case the 

foil comes loose from the mat and you need to quickly abort. Set the 

thickness to 1.  Repeat with all three blade caps. 

When a blade is slightly dull or you have a thick cardstock and 

need to cut twice, try copying/pasting the image on the screen on top of 

itself. The cutter will then automatically cut it twice. 

Also, pieces of lint can occasionally get caught up in the blade. 

Remove the cap and check  the blade under a magnifying glass to see if 

any fibers are present. 

I will definitely be doing the aluminum foil trick! And how smart to double the image to automatically cut twice! Brilliant!