Thank you soooo much.  I shall try it straight away.  This has been bugging
me for a while now and I never got round to asking. That'll teach me.

Elaine
"Marilla" <Marilla@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi Elaine.
> I would not call myself an expert but this one I know.
> Get yourself an "Antistatic" bag, wipe over the paper/card with it and
there
> will be very little, or non, powder where you do not want it.
> The bags are filled with a very fine powder, fullers earth? in the mean
> time, try, if you have it, baby talc, it does almost as good a job.
> The bag can be got at most stamping/crafty shops and costs about £4ish,
> anyway, not a lot.
> Marilla.
>
> " there are still a large number of
>  specks that stick to the paper outside the area that has been stamped.  I
>  remove most with a brush but there are still some left in the "hard to
get
>  to places" TIA
>
>  Elaine"
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