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Maximizing your potential with the Quickutz Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter

The Quickutz Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter is versatile, offering users the ability to use either Quickutz or user-generated die cut designs.

I've enjoyed papercrafts since I don't know when but the end-products have always looked very amateurish. That is, until I got the Quickutz Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter. I was pretty excited about getting it, especially since it was an unexpected surprise. I played around with it briefly and at first, was dismayed at the thought of being roped in to a lifelong committment of buying proprietary die cuts (that was the very reason why I had dropped the idea of getting the Provo Craft Cricut and Cuttlebug in the first place). Me being the oh-so-budget-conscious crafter, I had actually contemplated returning the cutter because I couldn't justify the costs. But, it was a gift and I didn't really want to part ways with my cutter. What to do?

Over the next several days, I did some intensive searches on the internet and found by the end of my digging that the Quickutz cutter was capable of a whole lot more than previously thought. There was indeed the option of buying proprietary Quickutz die cuts, but there was also the option of creating your own die cut designs, using several excellent free as well as flat-fee software programs. Not believing that I could possibly escape the costs of buying Quickutz die cuts for the rest of my life, I quickly taught myself how to make my very first die cut design and plopped it into the ROBO Master software (also came with my cutter). The racket that the cutter made had me convinced that I had broken it beyond repair but on inspection of the output, I realized that was just my cutter making itself known to everyone and everything in my household. I have not looked back since. Letters, numbers, shapes, whatever my little heart desires... there are no limits to what you can create with the software programs, and to date, my cutter has faithfully generated whatever I've plopped into it.

It's been well over a year now and umpteen papercraft projects later, I am still loving the versatility that the Quickutz offers. This is one product that was definitely designed to support the owner's creativity, rather than monopolizing it.

Now, I should emphasize that it can be very time-consuming especially when you're first learning how to create your own designs but there are ample tutorials and how-to guide's available in the public domain to make your life a whole lot easier. So long as you're willing to invest a couple minutes, you'll be rewarded with your own unique designs and not to mention savings in your pocket for all of your other crafting needs. As I've also discussed above, the cutter can be a bit noisy but I've found slowing the rate at which the cutter cuts can dramatically reduce the noise it produces.

Overall, I am in love with my cutter and can't imagine doing without it! I hope you will too!