Punching a hole in chipboard with household supplies?

rach3975

rach3975

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Okay, I'm venturing into something new to me. I've done a few altered notebooks and chipboard binders, but this time I want to attach a purchased closure to hold the binder shut. I need to punch 2 holes (about 1/8" diameter) in the thick chipboard, but I don't have any special tools for it. Is there anything I can use that I'm likely to have already? Thanks!
 
Do you have a regular hole punch? That would work. Or if you have a drill with the right sized bit you could use that, though it's kind of overkill. :-)
 
Thanks for the suggestions! It's pretty thick; technically I think it's called bookboard rather than chipboard. I ended up using a nail and then enlarging the hole a little with a screw since I couldn't find a big enough nail. If I did more hybrid scrapping I'd get a cropadile, but this worked perfectly for now. Here's what I made.

 
That's awesome! I love the ideas for how to make this without a professional tools so to speak... thanks for the idea...
 
That turned out so cute!! And in all honesty, a crop-a-dile wouldn't have helped you with this project at all - it only punches in about 1 inch and it looks like your holes are in farther than that. You would have needed a Big Bite (table size version of the crop-a-dile), which is HUGE and quite expensive.

I need instructions, btw! I've been looking for the perfect address book!
 
scrapperjade said:
That turned out so cute!! And in all honesty, a crop-a-dile wouldn't have helped you with this project at all - it only punches in about 1 inch and it looks like your holes are in farther than that. You would have needed a Big Bite (table size version of the crop-a-dile), which is HUGE and quite expensive.

I need instructions, btw! I've been looking for the perfect address book!
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Check your walmart clearance- I have found Big Bite's on clearance for about $1 more than the regular crop-a-dile!
 
What??? Oh man, thats so awesome! Except I know that my Walmarts (theres 4 in the city) don't carry them... I've never seen them and I'm in there constantly, lol. Dang.
 
:o I've never taken the big cropadile out of it's packaging... I always found something else to use... LOL!
 
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