Now, if you're cutting corrugated cardboard, which quite a few of you might
do, particularly if you're making some big displays.
So the thing about cardboard is it's a lot tougher; you're gonna have to push a little bit harder
but not too much harder and it's
corrugated so you have lots of variations.
As we look down like that you've got your paper going up and down that's gonna be hard to push through.
So, if you're cutting a straight line if you can get yourself a longer ruler that's great
and then you really just want to go lightly and do multiple cuts.
So it's gonna be quite a few cuts.
Once you've got a line, sometimes you can take the ruler away and just go nice
and slowly but let that original cut line guide you.
Now, if you're doing a curved line on cardboard,
one of the tricks you can use is to cut the corrugation points first.
So you can go along at each one of these 
horizontal lines, which is where there's a
corrugation bump and just push your
blade through because these are the bits
that are hard to get through and it's a little bit like creating a dot-to-dot.
Again, always turn your cardboard, so not
all of them have actually perforated all the
way and I can just gently join them and I'm not pushing too hard and because
they're nice and close together your shape is being formed by those dot-to-dots.
You might also be using other plastics or other found materials like milk bottles and things.
You want to again do all those same rules of making sure that you're pulling rather
than cutting like this, and that you're making sure that you're not holding the
object in a way that you might get cut and it's very easy with a 3d object to not line it
up right and you forget that your hand might be underneath, or you think, oh yeah,
this is fine, I'm holding it fine, there's nothing in the way but actually on this plane there is.
So, if I was to cut here, I could really slice my thumb and it would hurt.
So I might want to cut out this flat bit.
Now wherever there's a bend in a milk bottle, the plastics a bit thicker so it'll be harder to cut.
It also gets harder once you've started cutting because you lose some of the integrity of the shape.
So once I've cut that out I might want some different shapes.
Also don't forget about scoring and you can do this with cardboard or paper.
So I'm just gonna lightly do a line on that, now that hasn't cut all the way through
but it lets me really accurately bend along that line and create quite an interesting 3d shape.
So now I've got quite a nice, nice curve that could be a mountain, it could be all sorts of things.
So you can use your knife to score and you can do that very gently on paper as well.
So if I cut a piece off here, and you've got to be really gentle with paper,
particularly if your knife is sharp as that almost cut through, but again
there you've got an interesting mountain ridge and light and everything can play on it,
so you're getting your textures and shapes.
Okay, excellent well we hope you have a lot of fun making your window displays.
We're really looking forward to seeing them, so make sure that you get them in
before the first of July or on the 1st of July using the hashtag #futuredesignersNZ
