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Have You Heard About the New Cricut Deep Cut Blade?

November 17, 2008 By Dawn 4 Comments

Recently, Provo Craft introduced its new Cricut deep cut blade and housing, specifically designed to cut through thicker materials, such as chipboard, magnetic sheets, and vinyl.

There are several advantages to this new blade:

It provides for greater clearance for thicker materials.
The shorter housing with this blade allows greater clearance for feeding thicker materials (up to 1.5 mm. thick) into your machine.

It can be used with any of the three current machines.
That's right, even the original Personal Electronic Cutter can now be used to cut through thicker materials, thanks to this new tool.  Also, it can be used with the Expression and Create models. [Read more...]

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Cricut’s New Competitor – The Slice by Making Memories

August 30, 2008 By Dawn 8 Comments

Has anyone else heard about the new Slice die cut machine by Making Memories? It is due out in October 2008, but there are some places that are taking pre-sell orders for it.  Here’s a short clip that shows how it works...

Highlights

It creates die cuts in eight different sizes, ranging from 1/2" to 4".

It’s small and very portable - just 5" x 5" and weighing less than two pounds.

It’s cordless - great for taking to crops and other get togethers.

Like the Cricut, it uses cartridges (actually, Making Memories calls them "design cards") - additional design cards can be purchased to expand its die cutting capabilities.

It cuts a variety of materials - paper, cardstock, vinyl, vellum.

The Slice has a tempered glass cutting surface - I am not sure how often it will need replaced.  Also, repositionable glue must be applied to the surface to keep the material being cut from moving.

I did a little more digging to see if I could find out more about the Making Memories Slice.  Here’s what I found... [Read more...]

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