HOW TO USE THE CUTTLEBUG

Cut a shape, emboss a shape, or cut then emboss shapes with the inspired designs available exclusively with Cuttlebug cutting and embossing dies. Expressing your creativity has never been easier!

Simple to use

1. Lower platforms. Powerful gripping mechanism holds machine in place.

2. Place cutting material and die (face up) between cutting pads.

3. Turn handle to move die through machine. Remove die cut and start crafting!

Cuttlebug Features

Cuttlebug accepts the dies you already own.
Cuttlebug loves the materials you love, freeing you to cut and emboss from a wide range of crafting materials.
Compact fold-n-store profile allows storage in less space than other leading machines.
With a built-in pop-up handle, Cuttlebug goes wherever you find inspiration

FISKARS EMBOSSING PLATES in your CUTTLEBUG to dry emboss!

1. A Plate (white one)
2. Fiskars Embossing plate with the design you want facing UP
3. Cardstock or other material you want to emboss
4 Rubber mat
5 Shim - you may need this, you may not. It will depend on the thickness of your , material being embossed and the distance between the rollers on your individual Cuttlebug. Try it without it first (so as not to crack your B Plate). If it doesn’t emboss place one layer of thin Shim below the B Plate and try again. You may have to play around a little with numbers and/or thickness of your shim depending on your individual cuttlebug.
6 B Plate will complete the sandwich.

This will complete your Sandwich and you should be able to run it through your Cuttlebug.

I found the C Plate too thick but you may find this works for your particular machine.
Please be careful and take it slowly the first time. If you feel it will not go through do not force it.!!!!

Embossing with Oyster stamp rubber

This is probaly the most asked question.
Firstly you need the
A platform plate
B plate
Rubber mat (tan side facing up)
cardstock
Stencil (Brass, plastic)
B plate
Shim. (optional)
If you want a deeper embossed image, try making a shim.
You will need a piece of copier paper the same size as your rubber mat, (or your B plate, )laminate it on both sides.
This seems to be the perfect thickness.
Remmber everybodys different and you might find you will not need this shim.

Embossing with nestabilities

1) first you need to layer your your plates. On the bottom you will have plate A as well as plate B. Have Oyster stamp tan embossing mat ready. You will put this under the card where the die is positioned on the card.
Have your card or paper ready so that it is the back side of the front of the card

2) You will need to put plate B on top of card that has been layered with the embossing mat under the card, which has the die on top of the card.
(Sometimes you might need a shim of layers of card stock). You will have to do some testing to see what works with your machine,they all seem to be slightly different.You are now ready to roll it thought your cuttlebug.

You are now Ready

Shim

Picture with with paper shim on top.

After it has been embossed it will look like this.

This embossing will show raised on the right side of the card.

6) You are ready to stamp or add a matted design with in the frame you have just created. I hope you try this and come up with some new card creations.

CAN YOU USE SIZZEX XL DIES IN THE CUTTLEBUG?

Yes you can is the Answer

Yes, the scalloped card was made using that Sizzix XL die. I didn't use it with the sizzix XL plates as they are just a bit too wide to fit through the opening of the Cuttlebug, , so CB users have to improvise.
You can use your clear B plates as substitutes, but you'll have to make two passes to cut the full length of the die.

So, here's how you do it. On using these XL dies in the Cuttlebug I'll use the scalloped die as my example. [Let me add here that this is described on the Sizzix site as being 6" wide, but it actually isn't--it's a fraction less and it fits easily into the Cuttlebug.

You'll need 12" long paper or cardstock cut to a width of about 4 1/2" to cover the cutting surface of the die.

Ridge

This card die, as well as the other XL card dies, has a metal ridge that scores the card as it cuts it out. I'm pointing this out for a reason!

B plate

If you place plate B on the die's surface, you'll see that if you align the top edge with the scoring gizmo, the bottom edge comes to the top of that label on the plate. Convenient, eh? Keep this in mind. It'll help you position the plate later.

Stack

Here's the stack that I'll run through the machine. From bottom to top: plate B, XL die with cutting side up, paper or cardstock facedown, plate B.

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I picked up the stack and aimed it through the slot as you can see above. Those two free ends of the plates made it easier to feed the stack through.
Feed through the Cuttlebug.

Second pass

So now it's time to make a second pass and cut out the rest of the card. Slide your clear plates to the other end of the die, keeping the paper in place. You can see where the score line should be now and it'll be easier to line up that edge of the plate where it needs to be. Because you do not have the have the XL plates, I'd probably mark my die at the outside edges so that I could line it up more accurately every time.

Finished

And here's the die cut folded into a scalloped card.
Have a go!!!