glad you are having fun with your new "toy". I have had one for over 2 yrs now and just love working with it...the dies make cutting so much more accurate and now I can attempt patterns I would have shied away from before-winding ways, paying peter to pay paul, drunkard's path. I belong to two wonderul groups on Yahoo that are die cutter orientated....now also you can do machine embroidery for die cuts -there is a site for that too.........people there are great, ideas flow, and many questions answered......enjoy