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Scrapbooking is a wonderful creative, artistic and therapeutic craft that allows you to keep all of your memories for your loved ones to cherish, or for yourself to remember for years to come. Your family can have an insight into your life when browsing your scrapbooking albums which can be filled with memories of your life in the form of photographs, memorabilia from holidays and memorable events and other embellishments, presented along with the story.

Scrapbooking is a wonderful therapeutic hobby, that many have taken to a new level, so that each of their pages, becomes a project and challenge to make into a form of artwork, demonstrating their skill and craftiness. One of the best ways to achieve the best quality and unique pages is by cutting titles using a Scrapbooking die cutting machines. They have been a revolution in the scrapbooking world, enabling their uses to cut titles and die cuts from various materials and in every font and shape imaginable.

Electronic and manual types of die cut machines exist and one of the most popular today is the Cricut range of machines by Provo Craft. Cricut was the innovator of scrapbooking die cut machines that could cut letters and shapes electronically and they stand out as being one of the machines that works on cartridges, so does not need to be attached to a computer.

Of Provocrafts Cricut range, the Cricut Expression is the top of the range of scrapbooking die cutters. With the original Cricut Personal Cutter, you were only able to cut a sheet half of 12x12inches. For scrapbookers with lots to do, this was somewhat of a pain always having to cut or having half sheets of paper around. So to meet the needs of the ever growing market for demanding scrapbookers, Provo Craft introduced the new Expression Die Cutting machine, which can now cut both 12×12 and 12×24 inch sheets.

However, given that the mat size and cutting ability of the Cricut Expression has been double and tripled, the machine size is also a lot larger. This means that it is no longer as portable as its predecessors the Cricut Personal and Cricut Create machines. So it was really designed to be kept in the one room, like a scrapbookers workshop room, or the schools media room.

The Expression has all the same great features of the original Cricut Die Cutting machine. This includes the ability to cut shapes with no computer required. There are lots of fonts and designs available in the massive cartridges selection. Also the same cartridges purchased can be used across the whole Cricut machine range. It also has the ability to cut shapes in varying sizes automatically without having to babysit the machine too much.

Given that the Expression has the same basic design and functionality as the original, it also has its annoying sticky mat. However after having reviewed some of the other die cutting machines, like the Making Memories SLICE, I see that this is a slight advantage, as the Making Memories SLICE has to be babysat while cutting, as it doesn’t have this sticky sheet.

In the hopefully near future, it would be great for Provo Craft or another scrapbooking die cutter manufacturer, to design a machine that doesnt have to be babysat, but also doesnt need the painful sticky mat. With electronic die cutters like the Expression, they really only lack the ability to be able to cut delicate sheets of paper, but this is shame as there are some beautiful sheets on the market that would look great in any scrapbook.

Being the best on the market at the moment, also means that the Cricut Expression comes with a not so nice price tag. However, there are many demanding scrapbookers who will happily pay the price for the machine that does everything. If you run educational classes, or youre a full time scrapbooker, or even if you have just been saving in all other areas so you can have the best machine, then the Expression wont disappoint.

Jenny James is a scrapbooking addict who enjoys making great pages using die cuts from Scrapbooking Die Cutting Machines. At die-cutting-machines.com you can read reviews of the whole range of die cutting machines on the market including the popular Provo Craft Provocraft Cricut Expression Die cut Machine.

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