We made a cake the other day, today lets make a sandwich!

Whether you own the Purple or Raspberry Wizard, the White or Magnetic Spacer Plates, this tutorial applies to you. Have you seen the videos Stacey made?

When you start with your machine, have the short end of the Wizard facing you, the long end with the Spellbinders logo facing away from you. On the Purple Wizards, you have 1 of 2 handles, a button or switch. For the button handle, when the handle is toward you, the button should be down.

Otherwise you have a purple or raspberry Wizard with the black switch on the handle. That little switch on the handle should be pointing to the long part of the Wizard.

The mats you use will be the 2 white master mats. Excuse the dirt and cut marks, mine get a lot of lovin’. You will use 1 of 2 Spacer Plates. Either the White Spacer Plate or the Magnetic Spacer Plate will be used, with the White Master Mats as the top and bottom of the sandwich. You cannot use both spacer plates at once, your sandwich will be too thick.

Place the die template on top of the spacer plate, with the cutting ridges facing up, add your paper, then the top mat and proceed to your Wizard. The sandwich is the same whether you use a white Spacer Plate or Magnetic one. Do you see the spacer is in the center of the Master Mat? That’s where you want it. Do not put the Spacer Plate at the very edge of the sandwich!

Place the handle so it’s on the short side of the Wizard, facing you. Bring the sandwich to the far side of the rollers and push it in with your left hand. Your right hand can roll the rollers so the sandwich engages in between the rollers.

The mats will go in between the rollers.

Bring the handle up and over the machine to the table, then up 90 degrees and push it back down to the table. You will hear the ratchet noise, it sounds like a ratchet wrench. Relax and let the Wizard exert the 3,000 pounds of pressure.

Continue this up and down movement. Once the mats are halfway through the rollers, bring your left hand to the front of the Wizard and hold the mats to control the exit. As the mats exit the machine you might hear a ‘pop’ sound, which is caused by the pressure of the machine. As you continue to use the machine you will get a feel for the exit. I slow  the up and down handle movement when the mats are almost out, this reduces the speed they exit with and reduces the ‘pop’.

Now you have a die cut. To emboss that die cut, leave the paper in the die, remove the Spacer Plate from your sandwich, lay the Tan Embossing Mat on top of the die with the cutting ridge facing up, replace the top Master Mat, and feed the Wizard exactly the same way as before.

That’s how to cut and emboss with a Spellbinder’s Wizard and Die Templates.

All of us at Spellbinders wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Tags: Beth, Die cutting, Embossing

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