Ok! In my Christmas card post I alluded to some upgrades in the craft Cave. Here we go!
Brother Scan and Cut DX - ($199.00 on sale) this is the only thing on the market with a built-in scanner. Every other cutting machine on the market requires you to scan your sheet of stamped images, open them on your computer and finally import them into the software your cutting machine uses. Saying this next bit loud for the people in the back, SCREW THAT! The creative process is a fluid thing. Stopping to mess with scanners, computers and absolute CRAP software like Design Space - yes, Cricut, I'm talking directly to you, is a creativity KILLER. Brother fixes all that by allowing me to stamp my sheet full of whatever I want, scan it into their machine, set an offset if I want one, and cut. Boom. Is it perfect? No, there is a learning curve, but it's not too steep. At least not for the model I bought. Get one of these if you are doing a lot of fussy cutting around your stamped images. Get one of these if you're spending tons of cash on dies that match or outline your stamps. This will pay for itself inside of year if that's what you spend your dollars on.
