Crop a Dile, big bite, WeR Memory Makers fancy eyelets???

I have all of the above. Im returning the big bite, the original is just fine. The only thing the big bite does is reach farther IMO.

Ok, so here is my question. I have the pewter press and coppered out eyelets. When using the crop a dile to adhere these to my LO's they crushed the jewel and dented the others.

Any advice?

yep...if you contact We R they will replace them for you, but I have yet to meet anyone who has been able to set the jewels without them cracking.

I haven't had the problem with the others denting...maybe just a light hand. That is what they suggested to me when I called about the broken one.

HHHHUUUUMMMM, I'm wondering if I should purchase it? I like the idea of being able to use it in the middle of my 12x12 LO?

It also sets grommets and snaps.

so how do you set the jeweled ones? Good thing I read this today...working on vday lo's. I was gonna use my cropadile with these. how else should i do it?

the funny thing is even though the jewel shattered it stayed together. I was going to put Diamond Glaze on top so nothing would fall out. DH recommend pulling the jewel out and before adding it to a page. Those suckers are in their tight.

Here is my LO with the cracked jewel

Mallory
By KelliKropper

Here is the LO with the dent


Always Friends together
By KelliKropper

You can totally see this big dent.

• angie girl Said:

Im gonna take Nancy's advice and contact them. Will post with any info I find out.

As of right now im gonna go old school and use my old eyelet setter.

Ok, I just called them. They said you have to use less pressure and make sure everything is lined up perfectly. Sometimes the eyelet can shift a bit and if they are not lined up it could cause this problem. Personally I think there should be a bit room for sliding error. I thought I was being very carefull. She said she used two while on the phone and didn't have any problems. She also mentioned that I may have received a set where the jewel sits higher up and could be a defect.

She said if I wanted to exchange them to go through the store I purchased them from and exchange there.

I mentioned to her that maybe they need a side with a firm but giving foam to set the snaps. It works great with eyelets and I love it for that.

I will attempt again and be XTRA careful. IF it happens again I will have to go back to my old school eyelet setter for these. They are just too pretty not to use.

Thanks for letting us know what they said. I'm gonna try em out later on.

I dont have the big bite but if I want to add an eyelet further into the page I usually add it to something else and adhere it there...like a tag or something on a seperate cardstock

If I want to use an eyelet with a jewel (or if I want to set gripper snaps in clothes) I use a danish coin as protection between the eyelet and the Crop-a-Dile. The danish coins has a hole in the middle, usually I stack one or two on top of each other, lined up so the jewel is protected in the hole. The crop-a-dile will press on the coins, not the jewel. Works like a charm :-)

I have never heard of a danish coin...off to google it.

Hmmm, not much came up. Like 10 post and all taking about actual coins.

Do you have a link of what one looks like or where we can get them?

LOL! I think ScrapTiger IS talking about a literal coin-She's from Sweden!

I thought she might too, but the hole in the middle. Didn't know they had holes.

Yup, the danish actually have holes in the middle of their coins... and tiny hearts on them too, very cute! I live right on the border of Denmark so we usually have some danish coins lying around...
As a kid I used to tie them on a string and use as a necklace
Anyway, if you can find a metal plate with a hole in the middle it should work as well.

Here's a nice pic from the swedish wikipedia!
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansk_krona

• KelliKropper Said:

you know some metal or rubber washers would probably do the same thing??

just thinking the same thing. I will look into getting a gasket or washer.

Thanks for the info.

I had this problem anf wouldn't have ever thought of this!! What a great idea. I am going to get some washers to use to set these because I cracked the one i tried.