Scrapbooking has been around for many years in the basic form of collecting photographs and other memorabilia from holidays like brochures and laying them out in a file for looking at, at a later and remembering the good times had. Then a few years ago, scrapbooking took on a more commercial form and companies started to make specific products just for scrapbooking like albums, papers and stickers.
Many scrapbookers have become addicted to this wonderful and therapeutic form of art and they love to create elaborate pages with many embellishments. There are also others who like to just create pages as quick as possible, with little expense output.
One of the newest technological developments in scrapbooking was the introduction of the scrapbooking die cutting machine which meets the needs of so many scrapbookers from the artist to the budget scrapbooker.
A die cutting machine can be manual, like the infamous Sizzix, or electronic like the Cricut range of machines. Each machine enables a user to cut predefined shapes over and over again. Scrapbookers are now able to create wonderful pages with all sorts of textured titles and embellishments. What ever you can dream and design can be achieved on a die cutting machine.
The advantages of a manual machine is that they can cut very thick types of material like cardstock, vinyl, material, thin sheet metal and much more so your pages can take on a 3 dimensional and artistic form, however the dies are a fixed size. The advantage though of an electronic machine is that the dies can be produced at any size you like, so they can be custom fit to your particular project. You can use a combination of letters to make your own words and display a wide range of combined graphics, that isn’t possible with a manual machine. However an electronic machine is limited to cutting only thinner types of material.
There are a number of leading brands of die cut machines with similar features. You will find however that most serious scrapbookers like to have the advantages of both flexibility with size and material used, so will own both types of machines.
Scrapbooking has been around for many years in the basic form of collecting photographs and other memorabilia from holidays like brochures and laying them out in a file for looking at, at a later and remembering the good times had. Then a few years ago, scrapbooking took on a more commercial form and companies started to make specific products just for scrapbooking like albums, papers and stickers.
Many scrapbookers have become addicted to this wonderful and therapeutic form of art and they love to create elaborate pages with many embellishments. There are also others who like to just create pages as quick as possible, with little expense output.
One of the newest technological developments in scrapbooking was the introduction of scrapbooking die cutting machines, which meets the needs of so many scrapbookers from the artist to the budget scrapbooker.
A die cutting machine can be manual, like the infamous Sizzix, or electronic like the Cricut electronic die cutting range of machines. Each machine enables a user to cut predefined shapes over and over again. Scrapbookers are now able to create wonderful pages with all sorts of textured titles and embellishments. What ever you can dream and design can be achieved on a die cutting machine.
The advantages of a manual machine is that they can cut very thick types of material like cardstock, vinyl, material, thin sheet metal and much more so your pages can take on a 3 dimensional and artistic form, however the dies are a fixed size. The advantage though of an electronic machine is that the dies can be produced at any size you like, so they can be custom fit to your particular project. You can use a combination of letters to make your own words and display a wide range of combined graphics, that isn’t possible with a manual machine. However an electronic machine is limited to cutting only thinner types of material.
There are a number of leading brands of die cut machines with similar features. You will find however that most serious scrapbookers like to have the advantages of both flexibility with size and material used, so will own both types of machines.
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