ThinkTink
12-06-2007, 02:29 PM
Hi! I have been lurking around the past three days trying to figure out what machine to buy. Actually, it started with the fact that I just bought a Big Shot from Sizzix...still hasn't arrived and I am wishing I had put the money towards one of the machines that cuts it out for you. Anyway, I have a bunch of questions that I haven't been able to figure out from pouring over the forums.
1. Does anyone who owns a machine still find use for a manual cutter like a Big Shot? If not, maybe I can finance my purchase by Ebay'ing all my diecuts (and whoa I have a lot). If I were to scan my diecuts in to my computer, can I still use the ones I have from Sizzix? Or is there no need, really.
2. I am heavily leaning towards the KNK Element, the main thing left that worries me about it is that it lacks the optical eye. I know I will want to do print & cuts, how difficult is it to manually set it up each time? I really want to be able to have die cuts of images I have stamped. Is print & cut the method I would use? Or, do you somehow scan the image into the computer & go from there...then stamp the image after it has been cut out?
3. Is there a way to use a digital picture...say of my kids & have it cut out the childs form?
4. I need to find ways to use the machine to make projects or things we can use as a fundraiser for my kids theater group. We sell things during the run of the show to help pay for the building, costume costs, etc. One thing that does well in the past is that we take digital pictures of all the kids and laminate them, then glue magnets to the back. I wonder if there is something even more creative that could be done with this machine. Annie is the February play, so I am thinking at least we could cut out the title and use it for the kids scrapbook pages we make & sell. I looked at the gallery, but wasn't able to see much in the way of projects. And the KNK files...I can't read.
PHEW....if you made it through all that.....THANKS in advance!!!
Darcy :o)
1. Does anyone who owns a machine still find use for a manual cutter like a Big Shot? If not, maybe I can finance my purchase by Ebay'ing all my diecuts (and whoa I have a lot). If I were to scan my diecuts in to my computer, can I still use the ones I have from Sizzix? Or is there no need, really.
2. I am heavily leaning towards the KNK Element, the main thing left that worries me about it is that it lacks the optical eye. I know I will want to do print & cuts, how difficult is it to manually set it up each time? I really want to be able to have die cuts of images I have stamped. Is print & cut the method I would use? Or, do you somehow scan the image into the computer & go from there...then stamp the image after it has been cut out?
3. Is there a way to use a digital picture...say of my kids & have it cut out the childs form?
4. I need to find ways to use the machine to make projects or things we can use as a fundraiser for my kids theater group. We sell things during the run of the show to help pay for the building, costume costs, etc. One thing that does well in the past is that we take digital pictures of all the kids and laminate them, then glue magnets to the back. I wonder if there is something even more creative that could be done with this machine. Annie is the February play, so I am thinking at least we could cut out the title and use it for the kids scrapbook pages we make & sell. I looked at the gallery, but wasn't able to see much in the way of projects. And the KNK files...I can't read.
PHEW....if you made it through all that.....THANKS in advance!!!
Darcy :o)