Xyron Creative Station Craft Supplies

I have used this machine for several weeks now. I absolutely love the versatility in the cartridges. I use it for card making and it is super easy to add adhesive before die cutting the paper. I find that the cartridges are reasonably priced and far cheaper than adhesive sheets by the paper crafting companies. My nine year old uses it with ease as well.

Update.
It’s been nine months and I’m still loving it just as much. This makes card making so much easier. I take scraps and run them through the Xyron then use my Gemini to cut the shapes, words, or images. I also use it to create free planner stickers!

If I don’t use the whole sheet, I just stick it in my adhesive scrap drawer and use it on another project. So I’m not wasting adhesive or scraps.

I’ve also used it to laminate important documents in my Happy Planner. For example I have a year long project calendar that I print to scale, laminated it and punched it so its always in my planner. It’s worked great!

The machine has had only one issue. If the top isn’t locked in, it won’t work. I have accidentally not locked it in a few times, totally my fault, and freaked out thinking it was broken. It’s not, I am haha.

In nine months I have used two 5in adhesive cartridges, and one 9in. I have only used about 1/3 of the laminating cartridge. But I use this thing nearly every day! So the cartridges go a long way. I can’t even count how many cards I’ve made.

I would totally buy this again and recommend it often.

Easy to use, very reliable!

 I had this in my cart for a long time after hearing about it from Scott of Cardcutups. I have a Brother ScanNCut, a Canon Pixma printer, a scanner, a spellbinders die cutting machine, and a Brother SE1900 sewing machine and also have many uses for work and home. The first one I bought came with some major internal damage, loose bits of plastic were in the sealed bag, one of the rollers was broken and wedged in at an angle and the frame was broken. Amazon quickly sent a replacement which was perfect and the refund for the first was processed quickly. I was able to order a hard to find adjustable adhesive insert from a seller from Canadaebay. This also worked well, as did the permanent adhesive insert for stickers.

I like how easy this is to use. The first thing I did was laminate a bunch of custom sticky notes for work since they are in the shape of humorous cats and I hated seeing them rip and not stick well when I reused them. I was surprised how easily this device just grabbed them and did the job, they are thin, have a weak sticky end, and have tiny detailed cutout edges and it worked perfectly.

The cutting blade works fine itself but the track it’s on is incredibly bendy/flimsy so you have to stabilize it and move with purpose but not incautiously.

If you are creative you can minimize waste. You can do a lot with this device and it’s easy. It opens, you remove rolls directly by pulling up and put them in by plopping them straight in. Just get the initial edge fed in properly and off you go. I only had minimal issues with bubbles/crinkles with the laminator sheets, but with care and not torquing things you can get consistently good results. Makes quick work of things with no need for electricity, power cords, computer input/apps/etc.

I’ve made stickers for cards and artwork as well as sticker labels for work at my veterinary office, laminated membership cards, about 100 of those cat sticky notes, and a check list we can write on with a dry erase marker.

So happy I found this again. Fits perfectly in my older model creative station.

It’s a refill…what can I say? I used up my original cartridge.

Very strong stick, however if doing over an image then it does leave the image splotchy and you can see the sticky