I agree with your statements here. I have a few machines, the explore air 2 for at home and Most projects, the joy for travelling and crafting elsewhere, and the original personal cutter for cartridges I've purchased second hand that are already linked. I started with espression, which I sold after purchasing the explore air, but I deeply regret that. The expression was so easy to use and had great functions. The transition from cartridges to design space has not been that intuitive for me, which makes using my machines feel like work more than fun sometimes. However once I get in the middle of a project, sometimes that enjoyment and enthusiasm comes back. I will not however, upgrade to a maker any time soon lol...baby steps! Thanks for another great video!
I enjoyed the Expression too, but I also really liked the Gypsy which I see as a precursor to Design Space. I liked that I could gang up a bunch of images on a mat with different materials and cut once. In Design Space, it's one mat at a time for each color. I think the new Venture allows you to do batch cutting. I haven't really looked into the Venture because it's probably more machine than I need and at $999 is beyond what I'm willing to pay for a Cricut. Thanks for watching my videos and happy scrapping!
This helped me rule out the Joy pretty quickly but it'd be awesome to hear more about how you've used the Maker for quilting. That's where I'm leaning right now since I am delving into both scrapbooking and sewing and my husband is into cosplay art so the larger range of materials and tools are our thoughts. Thank you!
Hi Jasmine! I use Cricut Design Space to create my quilt shapes (squares, circles, stars, whatever is in the quilt’s design). Then I use the Maker to cut the fabric pieces. As a quilter, you know how many pieces it takes so when you cut on a Maker, the machines does all the work! You still have to cut the fabric to 12x23 to fit on a mat but it still helps everything go faster. For batting, I cut the largest rectangles I can cut which is 12x23 and then sew the pieces together. I use the Maker rotary blade and pink fabric mat. It has been a great help. Ironically when the Maker was first released, they touted how you could use it for sewing. That’s why I got it because I hate rotary cutting! Now they don’t talk about it for that. It’s all tshirt and vinyl stuff. Hope that helps and thanks for watching! P.S. for clothes or other projects with patterns…scan the pattern piece and make a jpg of it. Upload to Design Space to cut it. If the piece is larger than 12x23 you won’t be able to cut it.
From the draw demo performed, it looks like Cricut's draw feature has improved. Is this so? I have a Cricut Explore Air 2 and had found the pen would, I suppose, lift and draw leaving placement dots so to speak. Has the improvement been made with a software update or a later machine?
Hi. Can I ask you some questions…? I live in Denmark and the only cricut thats available here is called "cricut marker 3 explore" do you know if it can: make embossing projects? and can you download the free svg files for it?
Hi! You can only emboss with a tip specifically made for the Maker machines. However, I found this video where someone explains an embossing hack for Explore 3 machines - michellespartyplanit.com/2023/06/how-to-deboss-cards-with-cricut-explore-machines/. Yes, you can download the free SVGs to use with the Explore 3. Thanks for your interest. Hope I have been helpful!
Thanks for your question! I suppose you could divide the paper. I have not tried that myself. Many people aren't comfortable doing workarounds or are overwhelmed by Design Space, so my suggestions/opinions are based on what I think may be easiest for users.
I agree with your statements here. I have a few machines, the explore air 2 for at home and Most projects, the joy for travelling and crafting elsewhere, and the original personal cutter for cartridges I've purchased second hand that are already linked. I started with espression, which I sold after purchasing the explore air, but I deeply regret that. The expression was so easy to use and had great functions. The transition from cartridges to design space has not been that intuitive for me, which makes using my machines feel like work more than fun sometimes. However once I get in the middle of a project, sometimes that enjoyment and enthusiasm comes back. I will not however, upgrade to a maker any time soon lol...baby steps! Thanks for another great video!
I enjoyed the Expression too, but I also really liked the Gypsy which I see as a precursor to Design Space. I liked that I could gang up a bunch of images on a mat with different materials and cut once. In Design Space, it's one mat at a time for each color. I think the new Venture allows you to do batch cutting. I haven't really looked into the Venture because it's probably more machine than I need and at $999 is beyond what I'm willing to pay for a Cricut. Thanks for watching my videos and happy scrapping!
Since I have ugly hand writing I use the joy to write sentiments and the explore 3 for everything else.
I agree the Joy is great for writing!
so helpful!!!!!!!
I'm so glad!
This helped me rule out the Joy pretty quickly but it'd be awesome to hear more about how you've used the Maker for quilting. That's where I'm leaning right now since I am delving into both scrapbooking and sewing and my husband is into cosplay art so the larger range of materials and tools are our thoughts. Thank you!
Hi Jasmine! I use Cricut Design Space to create my quilt shapes (squares, circles, stars, whatever is in the quilt’s design). Then I use the Maker to cut the fabric pieces. As a quilter, you know how many pieces it takes so when you cut on a Maker, the machines does all the work! You still have to cut the fabric to 12x23 to fit on a mat but it still helps everything go faster. For batting, I cut the largest rectangles I can cut which is 12x23 and then sew the pieces together. I use the Maker rotary blade and pink fabric mat. It has been a great help. Ironically when the Maker was first released, they touted how you could use it for sewing. That’s why I got it because I hate rotary cutting! Now they don’t talk about it for that. It’s all tshirt and vinyl stuff. Hope that helps and thanks for watching!
P.S. for clothes or other projects with patterns…scan the pattern piece and make a jpg of it. Upload to Design Space to cut it. If the piece is larger than 12x23 you won’t be able to cut it.
From the draw demo performed, it looks like Cricut's draw feature has improved. Is this so? I have a Cricut Explore Air 2 and had found the pen would, I suppose, lift and draw leaving placement dots so to speak. Has the improvement been made with a software update or a later machine?
No, I don't think there's been that much improvement. I still get those dots. I also think it depends on the font.
Hi.
Can I ask you some questions…?
I live in Denmark and the only cricut thats available here is called "cricut marker 3 explore"
do you know if it can:
make embossing projects?
and can you download the free svg files for it?
Hi! You can only emboss with a tip specifically made for the Maker machines. However, I found this video where someone explains an embossing hack for Explore 3 machines - michellespartyplanit.com/2023/06/how-to-deboss-cards-with-cricut-explore-machines/.
Yes, you can download the free SVGs to use with the Explore 3. Thanks for your interest. Hope I have been helpful!
why cant you divide the paper into quarters and scale of from there and piece together
Thanks for your question! I suppose you could divide the paper. I have not tried that myself. Many people aren't comfortable doing workarounds or are overwhelmed by Design Space, so my suggestions/opinions are based on what I think may be easiest for users.