Pocketfold Cost Breakdown

This weekend, my friends and I made pocketfold invitations. I thought I got it done in under $30, but it turns out that it was closer to $40, mainly because of the stupid paper scorer that I bought (otherwise it would've been just over $30). Not bad, though, considering if I'd purchased them online, it would've been upwards of $80.

Anyway, here's the cost breakdown:

3 packages the "value pack" cardstock. Each pack had 50 sheets of paper, but I only liked three of the colors (about 30 sheets) so we needed 3 packages to get the 75 sheets needed. $9.50 (One was 50% off when I bought it and the other two were 25% off). I do plan on using the remaining sheets (i.e. the colors we didn't use) for the cards that are going inside the pocketfolds, like our RSVP cards and directions, so they're not going to waste!

Corner rounder by Fiskars $7.20 (used a 40% off coupon)

Stamp $5.40 (again, used a 40% off coupon)

Stamp pad $5.40 (used a 40% off coupon)

Paper scorer that didn't really work $8.40 (used a 40% off coupon)

Two boxes of zips $5.00 (used 50% off coupons on them)

Total cost: $40.90

Not bad, yes? The cost should've been $8 less...or at least $5 less if I'd found the bone folder I'd originally been looking for. I also have half a roll of zips left and a corner rounder that I'm planning on using for other projects. (See how I like to justify costs to myself?)

Where Can I Find a Bone Folder?

I went into Michael's today looking for a bone folder or something to score paper with. My paper cutter, a gullotine style cutter, doesn't come equipped with a scoring blade. I look in all the spots I think they might have it: the cardmaking section, near the rubber stamps, in the cardstock and scrapbooking aisles, and the hole-punch/paper trimmer aisle. No luck.



Knowing that I needed a paper scorer for my upcoming craft party, I asked a sales associate. She goes and asks one of her colleagues who has no clue what I'm talking about. She then takes me to another sales associate and I ask, "Do you have something to score paper with? To make it crease better? Sometimes it's called a bone folder?" The sales associate looks at me like I'm crazy, but the customer she'd been talking to is nodding her head. "Come on," the customer tells me, "I'll show you where they are." Turns out this sweet lady is a regular customer. So we go hunting through all the same aisles I'd been through to no avail. She finally suggests buying a cheap paper trimmer since I had a 40% off coupon with me together with a scoring blade. I was a little disappointed that Michael's didn't have just a simple bone folder and I didn't need another paper cutter, but I needed the scorer so I took her advice.

I went home and tested out the scoring blade in my newly purchased paper trimmer. The cutting blade seems to work perfectly fine, slicing through cardstock with ease. I then pull the scoring blade across the cardstock. Nothing happens. I pull the blade back across the other way. Nothing. Awesome. I now have a second paper trimmer which I purchased to use exclusively as a paper scorer and the scoring blade doesn't even work! Turns out, I can drag the blade of scissors through where the scoring blade slides and it scores cardstock fairly well, but I'm still annoyed.

All I really want is a bone folder! Why is it so hard to find?