Crossover II and Dies

 My Crossover II die machine from Crafter's Edge came today!

I'm sew very excited to get it and start on a project as part of our Design Team's assignments!

Here is the opened cardboard box for a peek.

The Crossover II is out of its box with the equipment that came with it:

white base plate

metal adaptor plate

clear top plate

user manual

gingerbread house die

After looking at the manual enough to see how to sandwich fabric and plates, I grabbed the LOVE die I had received on Saturday and ran it through the machine with some dk blue batik backed with fusible web.

The dies are very thin with no sharp edges to worry about. The pressure setting of the rollers on the Crossover II determines how it will cut (pressure depends on the kind of material going through and the thickness).

Here's how it turned out. I'll be using this on my April project which is churning in my mind. It won't be a wall hanging, as I originally thought. You'll have to wait and see what I do. Hee, hee.

These are the rest of the dies I received Saturday. I'm really looking forward to using every one of them in the next 3 months. What an exciting adventure!!

Thanks to Carol Swift of Just Let Me Quilt for alerting me to the Design Team application, and thanks to Mikala and Kayla at Crafter's Edge for allowing me to be on this super Design Team!