Hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world
today I want to talk to you about a
machine that i bought recently it is a
Cricut
this is part of my series of try it
don't buy it because when i bought my
cricket i was i was extremely confused
as to whether or not i should buy it i
had been intrigued by the cricut machine
for about gosh four or five years it's been
out for a while and I kept looking at it
going
all I really want that but oh do I want
to spend the money and ooh I really want
that
oh but it doesn't work and ooh am I
gonna have to do a lot of learning
and I couldn't ever find anybody to just
answer those questions for me
so this is not a tutorial this is not a
demonstration this is just me answering
some of the things that I've learned
since i bought my cricket now this is
actually the Cricut Explorer One Cricut
now has Cricut Explorer Two which is
faster and has more capabilities of
doing things then this one does but
truth be told this one is completely
fine for what I use it for
so what's really cool i like the way it
opens you just push this button and it
opens up just like that this model here
now that there is now the cricut air two
is $179 when i bought it i think it was
229 but now it's 179 the cricut air two
starts at 249 and now of course this is
from cricut and this is in 2017
whenever you view this you'll have to
check the prices yourself but
here's what i want to tell you about the
Cricut the Cricut does amazing things I
work with children and I'm always making
patterns and things that I'm cutting
by hand
what's fabulous with the cricut is that
i can make 30 templates of something or
I can make 30 cutouts of something that
I can give to kids and I can do it
quickly without having the hand ache
that it takes of cutting out
something by hand
here's a an example of something that I
made on my cricket and as you can see
it's got three paper layers it's got the
word surprise
cut out i mean it's pretty fun and
intricate and this would take me a long
time to do by hand but let me tell you
this you have to design on the computer
and if you're a person who
designs regularly on the computer like I
am
it kind of makes sense i mean i use
Illustrator and art programs all the
time but there is a learning curve and
so if you're going to be designing your
own things such as this like this little
thing here you are going to need to make
sure that you give yourself the time to
figure it out now when i first got my
cricut
I was really excited and I and I opened
it up and I went online and I did
everything that I had to do and it shows
you know it gives you a tutorial and
there are lots and lots and lots of
programs that are already pre-made and
you can just buy them from cricut or
download them from cricut and it will
just boom it tells you exactly what
paper to use this that the other but
that's where you start to get into the
other thing about a cricket you will end
up spending more money than just the
Machine money because there's all these
little pieces and things that you need
you need tools and you need paper and
you need these special you know pads
that go through or work surfaces that go
through you need all the different
materials now that being said you need
the Pens you need the the blades you
need all that sort of stuff
it adds up exponentially and the other
thing too is what they don't really
really tell you is that they have the
design explorer cricut has the design
explorer which is very cool and you can
design anything you want
again you can use their programs to
create all of the different products
that they already have out there but
which are very cool by the way but you
have to pay for the subscription so it's
not much it's $9.99 a month if you do it
monthly or $7.99 a
month if you buy a year subscription
but it is it's something to consider
so here's what I would say about the
cricut it's very cool like
here's an example so this is the mat
I was calling it a pad before but this is a
mat and as you can see i designed
something which is these little hang
tags to go on bottles and cakes for my
Alice in Wonderland party and
see they just peel right off here and
they say eat me and they say drink me
and these are really really cool because
they can be cut out and just right away
placed right on the item it would take
me a long time to do this by hand or you
know purchase them even it would take a
long time finding something like this
the cricut writes on the actual product
which is very very cool so it writes and
then it cuts the one thing that I
haven't figured out yet
I just haven't had the time to figure it
out is that you can print something and
then put it in the cricut and have it
cut and I'm gonna get to that stage but
I just haven't had the time to figure it
out
so there's a lot of things that you can
do with the cricut the other thing
that's very cool about it is it will
call it will cut almost anything they're
special blades that you can buy to cut
things like leather and felt and really
stiff hard cardboard you can cut
anything from vinyl to iron on transfers
I mean you really can do a lot with the
machine so that's a plus the minus
is that there's a learning curve so
don't buy a cricut thinking oh I'm
gonna buy this cricut and I'm going to
do this project that i need to get done
for school and I'll have it done the
next day
uh-uh you gotta give yourself at least a
consolidated 10 to 12 hours to really
figure out how to use it unless you're
going to be using just their programs
and then then you're fine but if you're
really gonna be doing something of your
own like if you're a teacher and you
need to design something of your own
it's going to take you awhile to figure
this out so that's number one number two
there are additional costs over the top
of the machine
and you just have to know that that's
going to happen and they're not just you
know little costs they add up
I mean it's like ten dollars for the
pens and then like oh another twelve
dollars for the mats and oh another you
know fifteen dollars for the tools and
oh another seven dollars for the
subscription you know it just starts to
add up so base try it
don't buy it here's what i would say if
you are person if you're a scrapbooker
or if you're a teacher or if you're
somebody who's going to use this tool as
a tool and you are willing to put the
time into it to make it then it's a
great buy if you are somebody who just
wants to bing bang boom and you're going
to use it once or twice
mmm i'm going to say don't buy it so
it's a really really cool machine
don't get me wrong really cool machine
it's just gonna take some time and a
little bit of money and if you've got
both of those i'd say buy it if you
don't I'd say go to Etsy don't try it for
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