I DID NOT want to get this machine! I DID NOT want to love it! I DID NOT want to own another product produced by Provo Craft..... EVER! Years ago I fell IN LOVE with paper crafting! Shortly after my quick fall down the rabbit hole, by sister bought me a Cricut Personal Cutting Machine. It was the latest and greatest papercrafting tool on the market and ran on infomercials pretty much non-stop! It came with 2 cartridges and a 12" x 6" mat that allowed you to cut any image on the cartridges up to the size of the mat. IT WAS AWESOME..... however, ALL of the images were geared for teachers with very basic images that were child-like, and to buy new cartridges would set you back about $90..... WHOA! But I loved it and KNEW the technology would advance, and so it did. In fact, by the time the Cricut Expression was introduced followed by the hand-held design studio called Gypsy in 2009, cartridges were down to about $20-$30, the cutting space had increased to 12" x