do I 'need' a Cropadile Big Bite? convince me!

If you have to have one, Joanns has a 50% off coupon which you could use at Michaels (where the tool is cheaper) Michaels is an aqua/ blue color and Joanns carries the orange one. (can you tell I comparision shopped this tool?) plus your scrappin space will look ever so much more fashionable with a Big Bite

I have a pink one with the pink legs in a different place. I know the legs are in my bedroom. The Big Bite could be anywhere.

I have a pink Cropodile somewhere in space new in box.

I want the aqua one. The pink one is fine but I am a teal person.

Ok I lied I am a pink person.

I like both colours equally.

I've had my Big Bite for years and it not only punches holes in anything, it's heavy enough that if somebody bothers you while you're scrapping you can use it as a weapon. I do believe it was originally for punching holes for eyelets and then setting them with brads. Oh, the brads...

If you plan to keep making mini albums, a Cropodile is useful. To be honest, I have never used my Big Bite. The regular Cropodile handles everything that I do.

What mini album are you making? I assume it is from one of their kits? I made three of their mini albums and really had fun making them, but I just bought the kits from their booth instead of taking a class.

I have both, and TBH I don't think I've used the Big Bite once in all the years I've had it (which was since it came out). My regular Crop-A-Dile does pretty much everything I need it to do. I suppose the Big Bite would come in handy if you needed to punch a hole in the middle of a big piece of chipboard or something, but I can't honestly think of a single reason why I would ever need to do that.

My regular one gets used pretty frequently though. A cool thing you can do with it (that you never knew you needed to try, LOL) is punch a hole through the middle of one of those giant 1" brads and decorate it by putting another decorative brad in the hole. For example, I took a flower sequin and attached it to the big brad with a smaller round glitter brad for the flower center. It was very cute! I don't know why you would ever need to do it, but it was cute. I've also punched through those thin tin buckets, masonite / fiberboard clipboards, super thick chipboard, laminated cardstock, thin plastic, thin acrylic sheeting, I can't even think of everything I've punched with mine. It is a pretty versatile tool to have if you do that kind of stuff. I almost never use it to set eyelets though because it always scratches the paint on the front of the eyelet and doesn't squash them exactly perfect and that bugs me.

Oh, you will love the flourish album! That was one of the kits I bought, and it turned out gorgeous! There is no way you will finish it in class, but from the class description, it sounds like they mainly teach you what you need to do to complete it at home. I did the entire thing at home, just following the directions given with the kit, although I think it would have been a little easier if there had been some class instruction first.

Enjoy!

Does the Big Bite set larger grommets than the Cropadile? Just asking because a friend made some gorgeous albums for a retreat and she said she needed a Big Bite to finish them. So I wasn't sure if it was because of the reach, the grommets, or both.