I've been wanting a machine to make my own vinyl for awhile now and I couldn't be happier with this one. I was a little intimidated at first but the instructions were very easy to follow and I had everything set up in 5-10 minutes. I made a dinosaur first just to test it out and it was so easy to do. The second one I made my daughters name to put on her water bottle. It turned out perfect, was easy to detach thank to the handy tools included and my daughter was thrilled! The hardest part that I dislike is having to attach the vinyl to the sticky mat just right, it was even worse having to detach as the cutout stuck to it. I've only used it twice so far but I feel fully confident in how to do it now and am so excited to use it for all of my different projects.