New pink Cuttlebug TSV on QVC

[LeonieM]

I just bought mine - and it has just sold out! £74.40 and that includes 4 extra embossing folders worth £16 and a paper pack worth about £3. I have all sorts of dies for the Tag-a-Long and Quickutz, but the problem with the Tag-a-Long is that it will take Cuttlebug and QK dies, but it's less than 3" wide and therefore very limited in its usefulness.

I wished, within a couple of days, that I'd bought the Cuttlebug instead, especially as it was only £60 back then and is now pushing £90 - quite an increase in 3 years (but I suppose the stronger Dollar is to blame for that).

And I'm paying £24.80 x 3 as it's on Easy-Pay.

Oh, I've just seen, they've decided to do advance orders on this! Well, I suppose it's only fair.

I can now start sourcing embossing folders and stuff on line - not to mention buying them really cheap in the US!

[LeonieM]

My Cuttlebug arrived on Friday. OH didn't tell me about it until lunchtime today - and certainly hadn't bothered bringing it from the bin cupboard outside, where the postmen usually put parcels too big to put through the letterbox when there's no-one at home!

And it was open! I've had cause to complain to QVC about this before - they're using old fashioned paper parcel tape, and it just doesn't stay stuck. It's a good thing everything was in the box! I'm still going to ring them up and complain, though.

Anyway, got it all out of the box today. It's a lot smaller than the green and white previous model - but do you really need a wide bed die cutter? This one is wide enough to take the A6 embossing folders sideways, so why would you need it any bigger?

It will certainly work with all my Quickutz and Sissix dies, as well as the couple of Cuttlebug ones I already have.

And the best bit is that I have nearly a month to play with it (and cut out/emboss) loads of stuff and still send it back if I want.

[lyn]

Let us know if it's worth buying.

[LeonieM]

I haven't really had a chance to do a lot with it, to be honest, but it certainly does the job. It's smaller than the original green Cuttlebug, but there's no real need to have a bed width as wide as it was because the largest die is an A2 (or C6, ie 4" x 6"). The only thing I'm not sure is whether you can use the Big Cutz Sissix dies with it; these are much thicker than the small dies.