Does the Making Memories Slice Scrapbooking Die Cutting Machine Cut It?

Dec. 14, 2009 - PRLog -- In many countries of the world, people young and old have taken up the new form of craft called scrapbooking, which enables crafters to create artistic pages that preserve their memories for generations to come. Photographs and stories are laid out on a page to keep forever a moment in time, or a special story, that can be looked back on in the years to come.

The company Making Memories is synonymous with scrapbooking embellishments. They have a unique collection of metal embellishments that will create a unique and artistic look to any scrapbooking page. Along with embellishments, they now also have a range of tools that are loved by scrapbookers for making life easier, like the silent eyelet setter, a tag maker and dies for stamping.

However the question here is, with the popularity of die cutting machines for scrapbooking and the massive competition in the market from the two big brands of Die Cutting Machines... the electronic Provo Craft Cricut range of machines and the manually operated Sizzix range of machines, can Making Memories make a Die Cutting Machine that is comparable with these two big brand names?

The Making Memories SLICE machine is one of the newest entrants into the world of die cutting machines for scrapbooking. The SLICE retails for much less than the lowest of the Provo Craft Cricut range of machines, but slightly more than the Sizzix Big Shot Machine for example, which is a manual die cutter.

The SLICE die cutter 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! Just imagine the possibilities.

Being an electronic scrapbooking die cut machine, it has all the same basic features one would expect from an electronic die cutting machine. It comes with lots of different designs on plug in cards, similar to the Cricut Cartridges. This allows one to choose a design and have it cut in varying sizes over and over again.

When being compared to the Cricut though, the SLICE attempts to go one better by having the ability to cut thicker pieces of material. While the Cricut range of machines can only cut cardstock and the Sizzix though can pretty much cut through anything (although it is a manually operated machined), the SLICE attempts to merge the gap by allowing material up to 0.5mm thick to be cut. So you get the benefits of a manual machine, on an electronic die cutter.

From all the tests conducted and feedback received from owners of SLICE machines, it does cut materials up to 0.5mm very well. Also, when compared to other types of die cut machines for scrapbooking, it is very compact and needs far less desk space than its competitors.

One of the SLICE's disadvantages though over the Cricut range of machines, is that you have to hold the card while it is cutting, as it does not have a sticky mat or other means of automatically cutting. This makes it a little time consuming, compared to the Cricut which you can set and forget. However at half the price, with the same advantages including the added bonus of no power cord, it is a definite player in the scrapbooking die cut machine market.

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http://die-cutting-machines.com Jenny James is a keen scrapbooker who loves to embellish her pages with die cuts made from die cutting machines for scrapbooking. She reviews a lot of machines like the Making Memories Slice for Scrapbooking Machine to see how they rate.