The Provocraft Cricut die cutting machine has the most amazing range of cartridges available.  Each cartridge is able to cut out hundreds of shapes in varying sizes. Each shape is also able to be cut as a solid shape, a negative, or an outline. With Cricut Cartridges, you can let your imagination run wild.

The 5 main categories of Cricut Cartridges include:

• The font collection.  A wonderful collection of fonts from calligraphy to script, to licensed characters like Sesame Street, Hello Kity, Disney and much more
• Shape Cartridges. Shapes for every scrapbooking page you can image. Includes a wide range of licensed shapes like Disney.
• Licensed Cartridges. A whole range of well known brands everyone will recognise including Hello Kity, Disney, Sesame Street and more
• Classroom/Classmate Cartridges. Not just for teachers, but for anyone who wants to add some educational die cuts to your scrapbook pages.
• Solutions Cartridges. Cartridges for any problem! Home decor, street signs, christmas and much more

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Making Memories Slice

Now anyone who is into scrapbooking, especially with embellishments, would be very familiar with the company Making Memories. They also make a wonderfully extensive range of some amazing scrapbooking tools like the tag maker, eyelet setter, stamping die sets and much more.

But the question here is, with the massive competition in the market from the two big brands of Die Cutting Machines... the Cricut and the Sizzix, can Making Memories make a Die Cutting Machine that is comparable with these two big brand names?

Making Memories entrance into the Die Cutting Machine market, has only come recently with its Making Memories SLICE machine.  The SLICE retails for around US$150.00, so it is half the price of the Cricut, but slightly more expensive than the Sizzix.

The SLICE is marketed as the first die cutting machine that doesn't need a power cord. So it is really competing with the Cricut as an electronic die cutter and not competing with the Sizzix range of manual cutters. Imagine being able to take it anywhere and show off what it does, without having to plug it in! It has similar features to the other electronic die cutters like being able to plug in cartridges and cutting shapes and letters at varying sizes.

It does however try to do something the Cricut Personal machine doesn' t and that is to cut slightly thicker types of material. The Cricut can only cut cardstock, the Sizzix cuts pretty much anything, and the SLICE will cut up to 0.5mm thick.

Given that the SLICE is competiting with the Cricut and other electronic cutters, it is very well priced. It also takes up a lot less room than the other electronic cutters.

One of the SLICE's disadvantages though over the Cricut, is that you have to hold the card while it is cutting. This makes it a little time consuming, compared to the Cricut which you can set and forget.

See our great range of discounted Making Memories Slice Machines, Making Memories Slice Design Cards and other Making Memories Slice Tools all available on auction or buy it now on eBay.

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The Cuttlebug Die Cutting Machine

Now isn't this little machine just so adorable.

It is full of features, that you just can't go past. No it isn't electronic, like the Cricut Machines, but it is no where near the price either!

The Provo Craft Cuttlebug is a wonderful portable die cutting machine. It only weighs 7 pounds (about 3.2kg) and the base and handles fold in, so it is easy to take to your friends house to share around.

The best part is, it accepts all the die cutters that you already own, from all major brands.

You can use the Cuttlebug for cardmaking, scrapbooking and many other home crafts. The great little machine even enables you to emboss the images that you have cut out adding a wonderful, original dimension to any scrapbooking project.

Also, it accepts a wide range of materials that many other machines don't. You can feed it foam, vinyl, chipboard, light metals and much more for that added texture to your projects.

It also features an easy crank handle, so no more back breaking pressing down to get a die to cut the shape and the great suction base means no slip ups either.

And would you believe the dies that are made for the Cuttlebug are soooo cheap!

Wow die cutting machines really have come a long way!

You can now buy discounted Cuttlebug Machines, Cuttlebug Dies and Cuttlebug Accessories from eBay.

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I was introduced to the Cricut Personal Cutting Machine abut 2 years ago now at a scrapbooking workshop. Wow, imagine the love I have for the Sizzix, but now I can set the machine to cut out shapes while I keep scrapbooking. It is a dream come true.

Cricut Personal Cutting Machine

I waited a while though before buying a Cricut, as I had to convince myself it was worth it. I went back to a number of workshops and was eventually won over by its versatility. With just one catridge, I can create the same font in different sizes. This was always the disadvantage of the fixed sized Sizzix dies.

However, the Cricut also has a disadvanted in that it can only cut thin cardstock, where as the Sizzix can cut through thicker pieces of fabric like denim, thick cardstock, multiple pieces of paper and lots of other textured material.

So in my house, I am afraid to say, that I have both as both do things the other doesn't.

Provocraft have since introduced two more Cricut cutting machines, the Cricut Create and the Cricut Expression, which I will discuss in another post.

They also have a wide range of cartridges available in many font styles, branded character sets like Sesame Street, shapes and the usual set of themed cartridges for every possible scrapbooking page like baby, christmas, beach, camping. You name it, they have it!

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