Yes I bought them a few years ago after watching a demo, I find myself using my dies more to cut a mat out then using these, I don't know if the paper I use is too thin but for some reason I had trouble trying to get it to catch like they show so you can cut it out, I have a couple of times thought it had catched and then started cutting and realized that it hadn't and my cut was off, but it could just be me. I have used them a few times when I didn't have room for a big mat so I went to them to get a real thin mat around.