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Illustrated Scrapbooking Die Cuts Verses Handmade Die Cuts

This past Christmas my husband bought me a red private die cutting apparatus. I was so exited! I am really into scrapbooking and like to use die cuts. But I thought building my own would be fun. Well, this past week I got out all of my scrapbooking supplies and resolute to get to work. I am over a year in the rear and have a lot of cinema to autograph album. My die cutting apparatus was set up and ready for all the creative and cute die cuts I was going to make. I laid out my first autograph album page and resolute that cute snowflake die cuts would work fantastic with my cinema.

I choose the colors of acid free cardstock I wanted to use, and got to work using my die cutting apparatus. It took time deciding which cartridge had the cutest snowflake die cuts. Then I attached my acid free autograph album paper firmly to the cutting matt and cut, then I cut its matching covered piece.

I then had to glue the two die cut pieces together. Hum, the snowflake die cut was super delicate. The die cut had very thin parts. The only thing I have ever used in my scrapbooks was acid free glue brushwood. So I pulled it out and started the deadly work of trying to keep the glue on the back of the die cut. It took me 10 minutes to get my first 2 inch snowflake die cut made!

I am someone who sits down and gets my scrapbooking done; on average 18 or more pages done in a day. But today because I used my die cutting apparatus I only made 6 pages. I was so disappointed. I felt as if I had wasted my day and I wasn't pleased with the way my handmade die cuts twisted out. Glue had squished out from under the super thin parts of my die cuts and it made my pages look dirty. I had even ran to the store and bought a glue pen which could be applied in the thinner areas of the die cut. Even so, on some areas of the die cuts the glue still leaked out.

The pages I do are usually quick, simple and VERY CUTE! Not lacking to give up on my private die cutting apparatus so quick, I gave it a few more probability. I have come to the conclusion that a private die cutting apparatus is not an ideal scrapbooking tool. It is fun to use for only one of its kind things, birthday cards and school projects for my kids. But for quick, productive scrapbooking it is a hassle.

So I have gone back to my "fixed" scrapbooking technique. DIE CUTS!!! Illustrated die cuts are SO much cuter! All you have to do is pop the die cuts out, place a few swipes of glue on the back and you're set to go! I know there are some scrapbookers out there who like taking hours at a time building just one page and I take my hat off to them. But I have two kids and piles and piles of cinema that need to be scrapbooked. I like my scrapbooks, it is so much fun looking back at the fun times my family has had together and how things have altered.

For me it is very valuable to stay caught up. I've resolute that I'm sticking with pre-made illustrated die cuts from http://www.nouglydiecuts.com/. Their Blog Spot at http://www.nouglydiecuts.blogspot.com/ shows some fun and unadorned ways to use their diecuts. They also carry Cut outs which are not hard to use, that is if you know how to use scissors! They also have some die cuts that come with matching frames these are fun. Headers and mini die cuts are also a fantastic way to end off a autograph album page. For me, my new motto is: "Pleased Scrapbookers use Die Cuts!" and I'm a pleased scrapbooker! Go check out their website and become a "Pleased Scrapbooker" too.