Craft Edge

Ok everyone...
I got a slice machine by MM for Christmas... Went to Michaels yesterday for a Cricut cart & discovered to my excitement that they got in the slice, cards & accessories. So I bought two cards, went to try my slice for the first time... And have been horribly, horrifically disappointed. All those great graphics & images... and the thing doesn't cut properly at all. It shreds, changes the shape of the image from what the cards show and warps it, and all scallops & edges are basically deformed, you can only cut 1/2 inch increments up to 4 inches but smaller cuts rip & don't cut properly,(2 1/2 inches or less) even "good cuts" are not clean cuts at all... I've looked online & it sounds like I am not the only person who has experienced these problems--I don't just have a lemon, & Making Memories from what I have read knows about this! Why they released it when it had such big problems is beyond me--all their other products are good quality, what a letdown this is. These things aren't cheap, Michaels was charging $200 plus getting a 12x12 mat, extra cards etc. and yet it doesn't even come close to the cuts you get with a cricut, nestabilities, sizzix, cuttlebug or any of the others... I was willing to shell out the money for the nice die cuts this is supposed to cut, but it doesn't cut them. I'm just wondering... I may have to return these cards, which is really frustrating because I wanted them so much. I'm just wondering if any of you inkscape geniuses would be willing to try & see if you can make the shapes from the slice cards into svg form. I know it's copyrighted material (and would not be able to actually be posted in these forums) & as I said, I'd be willing to pay for it if it worked... But it doesn't. I paid $54.99 for these cards so I just can't justify keeping them if they don't work... I could be getting nestabilities or expanding my cricut collection instead, and have things that actually cut without reapplying glue, re-homing the blade, having to hold the stupid thing so it doesn't move & ruin the cut even more, which only sometimes works...And then going through the aggravation only to not have it cut out well anyway. Thanks in advance...

Here is a pic of one of the cards I own... It's the wedding one, in case anyone wants to look at it. Thanks.

Those look like the fonts Murray Hill and Bunny Ears to me. No need for converting if those are close enough.

Thanks for your response, I will look into those fonts... But it wasn't just the fonts I was concerned about, there are a number of interesting shapes, too, on the MM cards. Since I posted, I've emailed MM about it... We've tried everything in the instruction manual & that's pretty much all I found online as a solution too... But I'm really not terribly hopeful about it. It's really gonna suck if there is no way to resolve this I just wish it had worked out, to start off with. I can return the cards if I have to... (Wedding & Basic Shapes 3) But I don't know about the $200 on the slice & mat. My LSS doesn't do returns usually past 7 days. Thanks again

Sorry to hear your Slice doesn't work well. I don't know what's up with Making Memories lately but their stuff seems to be second rate. Myself and a friend purchased the Making Memories Acrylic Stamp Storage Binder and we had to use a glue gun on the darn thing to put it back together! The whole inside fell apart - on both of them!! I did a search online and lots of other people were complaining about the same thing. Wouldn't be so alarmed if it was a "no name" brand but Making Memories???? Not good.

Anyway, back to SCAL........First Rate! LOL

Hi, i don't know what you ended up doing. But mine wasn't working either and I sent it back. They recieved it and within 2 day I got a new one along with $60.00 worth of mm product for my inconvenience. Since then the machine has worked great. the company really worked with me.