Diamond Press Parent company

Agree 100%.

Diamond Press is owned by Crafters Companion, which acquired the brand in 2018

NOT TRUE! Not sure why some of these types of falsehoods grow over time and presist but they do not own each other. They are and remain independent. Listen to the spoke person Beth Kingston who speaks and shows DP products on her own and also through HSN. She also sells her own company craft products sometimes connected or bundled with Diamond Press products but again they too are not merged or owned by the other. They are also independent. Beth continues to tell people that Crafters Companion has never been involved with DP or the other way around. Perhaps the confusion is via HSN and craft shows where both appear and sometimes one after the other or side by side. Sadly would it matter if they did merge to someone who is a fan of one or the other. Only if one took over the other and destroyed their qaulity or favored lines of course. Instead many are working together. Those fans of DP are fans because of the quality and extra care in directions etc. I struggled with my Spellbinder P machines cutting DP dies but then I figured it out. I’ve purchased to date 6 DP die cutting machines gifting 3 and the latest of course is their Grand M. I also discovered through experiment that I could save on the expensive die cutting folders using same depth of stainless steel cutting boards that my husband cut down to fit through the 4.5″ DP’ M’s and also I often just bought 4″ square ones. If you went too thin they just would bend and be of little service. But you also had to go with a bit thinner for the thicker dies from other works. In the end I did gift the steel plates for friends I gifted the machines too but from what I can gather NOT ONE OF THE THREE LADIES has ever mastered the use of the metal plates and also have little patience or understanding how to stretch the original folders beyond one or two uses! I know that makes it too expensive. I will pick up one to two boxes of folders on sale during the year for them each but there is a limit to how long I can supply my friends in these expensive supplies even on sale. That’s 30 dollars each time sometimes shipping too for 10 folders. Anyway bottom line I now have the Gina K/Bira intricut machine that allows me to select lighter or deeper depths to handle various thicknesses of dies and brands there of. I love that companies are opening up to no longer keeping everything priority inhouse only and can now work with one another. I’m a super fan of DP dies and sets. I do wish they would make or keep some of their new dies in stock longer than they seem to. Very frustrating. I’ve bought more than 500$ on their kits this past year. And closer to 1K actually if you include the Grand M too. But love they offer on occasion great sales. I do wish I lived close enough to visit their GARAGE or Winter YARD sale they held last winter…unfortunately at my age and my poor vision and cost of gas then..now it’s ridiculous…I had to stay home…snow and all. But it would have been a good 12-14 hour drive from NW MT too. I buy and own DP, Crafters Companion and Kingston products among many others too.

Beth Kingston here, the person who sells Diamond Press on HSN. 🙂 CC does not own DP. Never has. DP made some custom machines/items for CC when they were first getting into the diecutting market in the US, but it’s always been owned by the same family in Utah.

This is completely untrue. I asked DP themselves. They are a small family owned company in Utah and have always been a separate company. When they started out in 2016 their first die cutting machine was cobranded with CC along with some dies. Since then they have produced all of their own products.