Recently bought the Coluzzle...
 

Had been thinking about it for months and finally got it. Haven't used the oval and square templates yet just the tags. I really like it.

My question is how do you know when to replace the cutting mat?

didi

I've been using mine for while now (I've had the tag template for about a year and use it the most). I've never replaced the blade or the cutting mat.

I've used same mat for 2 years!! I bought an extra when I spotted it at a RS store, just in case, but haven't had to use it yet. :)

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE my Coluzzle!!!! I wants more templates!!!! All the cool ones that Stampendous has developed for Provo Craft--the manufacturer. But, they are not available retail yet . . . waaaaah. I've been hoping SU! would EXPAND the collection . . .

I think I'm going on 2 yrs. and haven't changed it. ;)

I got the circle and oval template and a pack of replacement blades at a garage sale for $1 :) All I had to do was buy the knife and the mat. That was about a month ago. Yesterday when I was at JoAnns, I saw the knife on clearance for $7.

I been using my for at least 4 years and just changed the mat. I have changed the swivel blade once. That was after a big project that I have cut out dozens og alphabet letters. I have a great many of their templates and love them all!
Happy coluzzling!

I was just wondering the same last night :)


Last night was the first time I've changed the blade in about 3 years. You could tell it needed changed because it kept tearing the paper. I last used the blade on shrink plastic so it didn't surprise me that I needed to change the blade.

That's good to know. I've got a ways to go then. I am hoping to add more templates over time.

I passed up on the circle template because I have the Fiskars circle cutter which I'm successful at using. But I can't say that with the Fiskars oval cutter.

I find it very relaxing when guiding that blade around those channels.

didi

Anywhere on the web we can check these out? What new ones are they planning?

I have never replaced my mat and i am going on 5 or 6 years!!!

I just bought the mini envelope template and am getting the file folders and library pocket ones as soon as my special order arrives at the LSS I work at :)

Here's the file folders
http://www.provocraft.com/products/d...temnum=44-5328

library pockets:
http://www.provocraft.com/products/d...temnum=44-5329

and if you go their home page of products I imagine you can see any and all of the ones they offer.

I posted this on another thread but didn't get a really good reply.


I just did a swap and had to change the blade 3 times. It wasn't that the blade itself was dull. The little plastic nib at the top of the blade would wear off and start scratching the template. I still kept the blades, but am I doing something wrong?

I bought the shoe template a few weeks ago! So MUCH fun!

OK -- not to hijack this thread -- but is is col"uh"zzle, like rhymes with puzzle, or col"oo"zzle, like rhymes with bamboozle?

I'm dying to know!

BTW, I love mine!!! Though it takes concentration for me to cut SU! cardstock without slipping, due to the thickness!

I think it rhymes with bamboozle. :)

I have had my colluzle for a year and a half or so and I have never replaced the mat or the blade. I only have the circle and oval templates. I NEED to get more. :D

Great! Another thing to add to my ever expanding wishlist!

This is only a guess StampinPixie but are you using too much pressure? Maybe someone here with more Coluzzle experience would know.

My local store had a brief history sheet posted and it had the pronunciation as rhyming with Puzzle, but I know no one here says it that way and once I did I was corrected :-)

My question is..... I have the 'starter kit" with oval and heart puzzle shape (that I bet I will NEVER use) - do I need to pick up the companion oval - will that give me smaller mat sizes?

HeatherJ

OMG! I want those so bad! Does anyone know when they will be available?

I want the coming Stampendous slider card one!!!! WAAAAY! :D

But, really, I've searched and searched and nobody retail online carries them yet. . .

I want the library pocket and the file folder ones, too!!!!!! :(

Scrappiemommie, will the LSS you work at be getting the slider one soon?????

Provo seems to release all this product info at their site, but, then it can literally be 6 mos. down the road before the product appears even in THEIR OWN retail online site, creativexpress.com !!!!!!! Drives me NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Little coluzzle tip:

I have the template that has three different tag shapes on it and I made it into a bookplate shape by cutting out one side of the tag, then turning the template around so that both sides had the 'bump' or top of the tag on it.

Check it out!


Vera

Vera
 

That is so cool, Vera, I'm going to have to give it a try!

I made an accordian tag with mine...
http://gallery.splitcoaststampers.co...cat=500&page=2

OOh! Cute! Where did you get or how did you make the copper flower?

Vera

The copper flower is from Colorbok, and I found it at Big Lots.

TFS your neat ideas! I'm going to try those with my tag template.

A friend of mine just told me that the new templates are available at CreativeXpress
http://www.creativexpress.com

and CrazyScraps.
http://store.crazyscraps.com/coluzzle.html

They also have a scoring tool!

One of the highest things on my new catty wishlist is new coluzzle templates

Oh please oh please oh please!!

I've been holding off buying the tag template, in the hopes it will be in the new catty, but I don't know if I can keep holding off if you guys keep posting such cute samples!!