How to Use the Nesties in a Die Cut Machine

Nestabilities, sometimes called Nesties for short, are a pack of dies that are all the same shape in a variety of sizes. Nesties make die cut shapes you can nest easily on a scrapbook page or homemade card. Spellbinders makes Nestabilities for use in the Wizard machine. You can use these dies with other die cutting machines.

Things You'll Need

• Cuttlebug
• Cuttlebug A-plate
• 2 Pieces of thin chipboard cut to size of plates
• Card stock
• Nestabilities die
• 2 Cuttlebug B-plates
• Spellbinders embossing mat
• Sizzix Big Shot
• 2 Clear Sizzix plates
• White Sizzix plate
• Spellbinders Wizard
• 2 Spellbinders white plates
• Magnetic mat

Instructions

Nestabilities With the Cuttlebug

1. Open the front and back flaps of the machine to suction the machine to your work surface and to open it up for use.

2. Lay your A-plate on the front flap at the opening of the machine.

3. Lay your two pieces of thin chipboard on top of the A-plate at the opening of the machine.

4. Lay one of your B-plates on top of the chipboard at the front of the machine. Lay your Nestabilities die on top of the B-plate, followed by your card stock, directly on top of the die. Place the second B-plate on top of the stack. All of these layers create a sandwich that you feed through the machine.

5. Crank the stack through the Cuttlebug machine until it comes out the back of the machine.

6. Remove the die and the die cut from the sandwich. Don't remove the die cut from inside the die; if it pops out of place, simply put it back into the die.

7. Stack your A-plate, one piece of thin chipboard and a B-plate at the opening of the Cuttlebug.

8. Fit together the die and the die cut shape and place it on top of the B-plate. Place a Spellbinders embossing mat on top of the stack.

9. Crank the stack through the machine until it comes out the back.

10. Remove your embossed die cut shape from the stack.

Nestabilities With the Sizzix Big Shot

1. Place your Sizzix Big Shot machine on a flat surface.

2. Lay one of the clear Sizzix plates at the opening of the machine.

3. Place the Spellbinders embossing mat on top of the clear plate, followed by the white Sizzix plate.

4. Place your Sizzix Nestabilities die on top of the white plate and place a piece of card stock on top of the die.

5. Place your second clear Sizzix plate on top of the stack and crank the stack through the Sizzix machine. Remove your embossed die cut from the middle of the stack.

Nestabilities With Spellbinders Wizard

1. Place your Wizard machine on a hard, flat surface.

2. Lay one of the white plates on your work surface.

3. Lay your magnetic mat on top of the white plate. Place your Nestabilities die on the magnetic mat with a piece of card stock over the top of the die. Place your second white plate on top of the stack.

4. Crank the stack through the Wizard.

5. Take apart the sandwich once it comes out of the machine. Lay one white plate down at the opening of the machine. Line up the die and die cut shape on top of the white plate. Place a Spellbinders embossing mat on top of this stack. Finally, place the second white plate on top of the whole stack.

Tips & Warnings

• Sizzix makes a variety of machines, the instructions above will work with the larger crank through Sizzix machines.

References

• YouTube: Michelle Smith: How to use your Big Shot with your Spellbinders Dies
• Good Video: Nancy Kirk: Cuttlebug and Nestabilities