Silhouette Cameo advice
I have finally been able to purchase a Cameo, and need some help. I put it together, complete with autoblade, and started cutting. It worked for the first 5 or 6 cuts. Then I started cutting out Christmas cards, which have part that has 3 snowflakes cut out of it. I made 30 of that one piece. Out of 30, 5 were torn so badly they couldn't be salvaged. The other 25 had cut the snowflakes out, but even after separation from the mat, each snowflake (3 per piece) had to be individually manipulated to remove each of the 6 parts that had been cut. It took both my husband and I 2 solid hours of carefully separating the snowflakes from the part that was cut away in order to get the 25 pieces ready to go on the cards. And the snowflakes arent even that intricate compared to many of the designs they sell in the store.
So, this was regular weight card stock, the same kind I had successfully used on the first 5 or 6 pages of designs I had cut out with no problem. So nothing about the paper resulted in the difference. I also noticed that the mat is already in pretty rough shape already, after only being sent through less than 10 times.
I'm really stressed over the quality of the cutting, because I saved for months to afford this and wasn't expecting to have to spend hours after a fairly simple cutting project just to get the finished product to a point where they could be used. Can anyone please tell me if they've had a similar experience, or what I can do to improve the quality of the designs. Thank you!
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