Come EXPLORE with the Cricut Electronic Cutting Machines

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Want the ability to easily make a personalized wedding gift or perhaps some unique home décor? Then you might find Cricut electronic cutting machines to be the best DIY crafting tool since the sewing machine.

There are two machines that Cricut currently offers on their site:

1. Cricut Explore One
2. Cricut Explore Air

Cricut Explore One

Cricut Explore One is a simple design-and-cut system. It’s versatile, easy to use, cuts precisely, and incredibly affordable. With its irresistibly low price and limitless cutting potential, the Explore One is perfect for a new or beginning crafter. Here are a few notable features of the Explore One:

Materials – All Cricut machines can cut an unbelievable variety of materials, for example:

• Paper
• Vinyl
• Iron-on
• Craft materials
• Upcycled materials
• Fabric
• Plastic
• Thick materials

Precision – Features Cut Smart technology allows you to cut a wide range of shapes and sizes with exceptional precision, from ¼” tall up to 11½” wide x 23½” tall.

Smart Set Dial – Each machine features a Smart Set dial, which sets your settings (e.g., speed, pressure, etc.) for you, so you don’t have to keep track of them. You select the material you’re using on the Smart Set dial, and the machine’s Cut Smart technology will deliver a clean, professional cut.

Images and Fonts – You can free upload your own images and fonts on all three Cricut cutting machines.

Cartridges – Both machines work with any Cricut cartridge and have the capability to hold all of your cartridges “virtually” in the cloud within your Cricut Design Space online software. So once you’ve loaded a cartridge, you’ll have it everywhere you go.

Cricut’s Design Space and iPad app – All Cricut Explore machines work hand-in-hand with Cricut’s Design Space (for PC, Mac, iPad, and iPhone) that you get access to for free.

Cricut Explore Air

The Explore Air is the whole kit ‘n caboodle. It offers all the impressive features mentioned for the Explore One, but two key things set it apart:

1. It has a dual carriage for cutting and writing or cutting and scoring in one step. If you do a lot of paper crafting, this is the machine for you!
2. It has built-in Bluetooth capability. You just use Cricut’s free iPad app and design anything you want from your iPad, just like you would on your home computer, but with the convenience of being able to take your projects with you anywhere. Then, you can just wirelessly send your project from your iPad to your Explore Air to bring it to life.

If you want the ability to easily make a personalized wedding gift or perhaps some unique home décor, then you might find Cricut electronic cutting machines to be the best DIY crafting tool since the sewing machine. However, visiting sites like Digitizing Made Easy is always important to learn how to sew with embroidery machines.

Now that you know a lot more about how Cricut Explore machines work, I’ll focus next week’s post on how you can design here, there, and everywhere with Cricut Design Space. You’ll be blown away by how easy it is.

Do you own a Cricut… tell us about it and what you like to create!