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Silhouette Cameo from Silhouette America

Retail Price: $299

Amazon Price: $264

The Silhouette CAMEO® is an electronic cutting tool for personal use. Like a home printer, it plugs into your PC or Mac® with a simple USB cable. However, instead of printing it uses a small blade to cut paper, cardstock, vinyl, fabric and more up to 12" wide and 10 feet long. The machine also has the ability to register and cut printed materials.

eClips from Sizzix

Retail Price: $499

Amazon Price: $334

The craft-friendly e-cutter just got friendlier. With the release of the Sizzix eclips Electronic Shape-Cutting Machine Version 3 comes an exciting new feature called Stamp2Cut which allows for the quickest and easiest cuts around Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamped images. Forget complicated cutting with scissors. Now you can cut multiples of a stamped shape with electronic precision. For the most accurate registration, each design includes a standard cutting template with original, solid, shadow and pieces (on selected designs). You can access this feature with Tim Holtz® Alterations™ Stamp2Cut™ cartridges for the eclips.

KNK Zing

Retail Price: $399

Amazon Price: $399

Extremely Compact: At 4.75" tall, 6.25" deep and less than two feet wide, the Zing offers a cutting width of 14" in the least amount of space.
High Force With 750 grams of force, the Zing can cut a larger range of materials - vinyl, card stock, fabric, thin chipboard, rhinestone rubber, craft plastic and much more!
Print and Cut With built-in Laser alignment, the Zing performs quick and precise print-and-cuts.
Bundled with Make The Cut software, featuring a powerful yet easy-to-use interface.
With over 30 years of experience, Accugraphics used their knowledge to develop a new product that incorporates the newest electronics with quieter motors, faster speeds, higher force and the widest cutting area of any cutter in its class.

Pazzles Inspiration

Retail Price: $599

Amazon Price: $490

The Inspiration Creative Cutter® connects to your computer, similar to a printer, but instead of printing the Inspiration uses a small blade to cut your designs you have created, downloaded, or purchased. Imagine cutting any shape, font, or design in an amazing variety of sizes with the click of a button. The Inspiration® is capable of cutting more than just paper and cardstock though; from stencil plastic to chipboard, fabric to rubber stamp material, the Inspiration offers amazing flexibility and power. You can even draw, engrave, emboss, distress, and pierce with your Inspiration® using our added tools.

The Inspiration is a powerful system designed to help make your creative time fast, easy, and fun. The Inspiration® can grow and flex with you, so it never becomes outdated. The freedom to use your own fonts and design your own images means that every project you do can reflect your style.

Silver Bullet Professional Series

Retail Price: $849-$1199

Amazon Price: None

For the best electronic die cutting maching on the market, be sure to check out the Silver Bullet. This high end professional cutter is known for its strength, speed, accuracy, and quiet operation. And to top it off, many of the accessories, tools, and mats are made here, in the USA. Backed with an 18 month warranty and dedicated service, this is not something you will want to miss!

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Which Software to choose…

ScrappyDew.com is an affiliate of both Make the Cut Software and Sure Cuts A Lot. Both are great programs and we have tutorials on them both. It comes down to user preference and what operating system you want to have it on. We started out using SCAL and now use MTC. Both the Make the Cut and Sure Cuts A Lot page we show you the features that each have.

MTC just launched their version 4.0 and Sure Cuts A Lot has launched their eClipse software. Both have their strengths, we always suggest that you download the trials of each (they are free to try) and do some test cuts. Keep in mind that neither software works with Cricut Machines. However there's good news Cricut Machines aren't the only cutters on the block. You have machines such as BlackCat Cutters, KNK, US Cutters..etc.

There isn't any way for us to alter the price of these programs and neither can any other affiliate. So we try to sweeten the deal. If you decide to purchase either software from ScrappyDew.com email us via our request form and we can send you access to our top 10 Pattern Products as a thank you for purchasing through our links.

Make the Cut software is Windows Only program. If you own a Mac and would like MTC you would have to use bootcamp or some sort of virtual machine like VMWare fusion or Parallels.

Sure Cuts A Lot has a Windows and works with Mac OS Software. You purchase for the specific system. The registration code will not work in both platforms.