this is a better size than the extended platform
I made a mistake in buying the Big Shot Pro with the extended platform. If you are not a quilter, you really won't have much use for the extended platform. I hope others learn from my review; I had to buy all of the standard platform, cutting pads, and crease pad separately, as well as the thin die adaptor (which you would have to get separately anyway), and it would have been less expensive to buy the adapter pad, cutting pads and crease pad with the standard size deal that came with the Big Shot Pro. The standard size is a much more manageable size, especially if you don't have an enormous space for the machine, it's pretty big!