Let me start out this post by saying, I can’t cut a straight line for the life of me! It is awful when I am trying to be crafty. So how do people do it?!
Lets rewind to last year, my friend Maureen was making all of these crafty projects and I was amazed by them all (you could even say totally jealous). She kept talking about this Cricut machine she had but I had never heard of such a thing. One day I went to her house to revel in her level of craftiness and drilled her with 20 questions about the machine.
If you have never seen or heard of one, a Cricut is an at home die cut machine that can cut a wide range of materials.
At this time I learned that all of the designing of the project is done on their website (which you can sign on even if you don’t have a machine to see what you think). On their design space marketplace there are a lot of graphics and fonts you can buy. This can get very expensive after you spend quite a bit of money on the machine itself. Stay tuned for my blog post on how to get FREE Cricut images.
Once I researched and figured out I could get free images I decided the one time price for the machine was much more reasonable.
Now let me tell you this machine can die cut LOTS of different materials and any shape in the world you want it to cut. Here is the list of materials on their website.
The tiny blade is so precise that if you pick a low quality image that looks pixelated (has lots of little squares) it will actually cut out around the individual squares. So as long as you have a quality image you can make very precise STRAIGHT (which I can not do!) cuts.
The vinyl is by far the most versatile project, it can stick to anything to help personalize it. Cups, walls, toys, containers, gifts, etc.
Stay tuned so I can share my Cricut projects with you.
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