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Like others have mentioned, don't put the card right against the scanner edge. I put another standard card against the edge as a spacer. You can crop it out later. A toploader or other relatively thick thing could cause the lid not to sit flat on the card your scanning, causing inconsistent shading or a shadow along the edge. A pretty small detail to be sure, but I'm weird like that. :-)

Also, like Billy Kingsley alluded to, it's sometimed good to experiment with lid open versus closed. I keep it closed for rounded cards, as well as die-cut cards, so the space shows as white rather than black or dark gray. Just my personal preference.

I got tired of not having my ruler or a toploader (or small Post-It Note pad) close to the scanner when I wanted to scan die-cut cards (including just rounded corners), so I came up with a new idea. I took a blank cardboard filler insert from a pack of cards and colored the short edge black on one side and the long edge black on the other side using a Sharpie. Then I wrote "Border card for scanning die-cuts" on both sides. I put it in the corner of my scanner to keep the cards straight without having to touch the edge. Best of all, it can stay on my printer table under the paper tray so it is always right there! My paper tray folds up so it's easy to grab the card and with the tray down the card won't get knocked off in the floor or picked up by random hands.