We have tested this on most of the card and paper that we stock and have found that the Cuttlebug dies will cut thin mulberry paper, thick mulberry paper, vellum, all our 100 gsm and 120 gsm paper, mirror and foiled card, glitter paper and card, and all our cardstock including the heavyweights such as the 300 gsm Ice Silver.
We have also tested it on the splatter mesh and illusion film but the cut wasn’t really a clean cut so we don’t recommend using the dies for these 2 products.
When it comes to embossing, it’s pretty much the same story. All the materials that it will cut it will also emboss, with one exception – in our trials we found the mirror and foiled card tended to crack.
Although the handmade mulberry paper does emboss, because it’s an embossed paper to start with lost some of the Cuttlebug embossing folder detail so, although it will emboss handmade mulberry paper we don’t recommend it if you want a clean crisp finish.
Card and paper that is already textured has similar results to mulberry paper. For example, embossing on linen effect, hammer or laid won’t give the oomph factor that embossing on Stardream will gives as hammer, linen and laid already have a degree of texturing on them.
With the glitter paper, we found that it did emboss but that the embossing was lost among the sparkly glitter. However as we turned the glitter paper to the light the embossed pattern did show up and this worked much better with the larger embossing folders than the little 2 inch folders. So yes, glitter paper will emboss but it’s a subtle effect.
It won’t emboss mesh (because mesh has holes in it so there is nothing to emboss) and although it did work on the illusion film the results, again were disappointing. So when it comes to illusion film, let the beauty of illusion film speak for itself without any embellishment from the Cuttlebug.
The embossing on vellum is fantastic, as is Stardream paper and card. And, yes, it embosses the 300 gsm Ice Silver, Ice Golf and White Gold as well.
