Cricut
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Cricut is a personal electric cutting system. The device allows you to cut thousands of images and designs. Sample applications include scrap books, cards, announcements, and vinyl lettering. Check below for Cricut reviews.
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$249.75 (prices may vary)
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Amazing Product!
5/13/2008 - Stacy of Wisconsin, USA writes:
I bought a Cricut about a month ago and I absolutley love it! While the product is too expensive, I found one used for a very reasonable price. If you have seen the infomercial, it is as easy as the TV makes it look. You pop in the cartridge and push the buttons that you want and press cut. I am very bad with technology and I figured this out by reading the introductory pages of the user manual. The pros for this machine are: 1. You can repeatedly make shapes or letters the exact same with the push of a button, much easier then frequently tracing from stencils and cutting paper by hand or buying boring stickers that all look the same. 2. The Cricut helps me make beatiful scrapbook pages in no time at all! 3. The Cricut is very easy to use once you get the hang of it (and it only took me like 3 tries to get the hang of it so it doesn't take very long to understand) 4. It actually works like the infomercial said (I did my research about this before I purchased it b/c this website only had 1 rating and I found reviews that named similar products and how this was better then them so I was confident I would be purchasing the right one) The cons for this machine are: 1. The machine and cartridges are expensive, but I found my machine used and the cartridges at various websites online for much less than retail price. (If you are a hardcore scrap-booker or you do lots of crafts with children or you are a teacher or something, then the price is worth it because the machine is worth it. I'm a poor college student so I found the price a big turn off) 2. The infomercial says that you don't waste paper because the machine knows where the paper is, so that gave me the impression that you put any size piece of paper on and it finds it with a sensor or something and cuts it...wrong. If you don't use a 6x12'' piece of paper, you need to navigate to the top right corner of the paper you are using with the arrows that are around the "cut" button and then push the button that says "Set paper size". Then if you keep using the same piece of paper it knows where it can cut and if you unload the paper and pull off your designs and you want to use that same piece you need to push "Load last". The instruction manual was not clear with this and I cut the design into my sticky mat (it wasn't a big deal though because I am still using the same mat, and they are inexpensive at every craft store) 3. People complain that the sticky mats don't stay sticky long, but mine seems like normal sticky, but when I have little letters that I am scooping off with my spatula, I tend to ruin them and have to redo them because the spatula doesn't slide underneath them because they are stuck on the mat so well. A way I found around this is I just bend the mat into an arch shape with my hand and then a corner of the letter comes off and it slides off easily. 4. The instruction manual does a poor job of telling you what level to put your blade on and what pressure to set the pressure dial at for various textures of paper. For regular cardstock, I have my blade set at 3, and the pressure dial (lower left dial) set at 3 also. This way it does the perfect cut. Even with these cons, I'm still rating the Cricut a 5 because those cons were things that I had to learn by doing, and hopefully they help people so they don't end up being turn-offs for them. I am also giving this a 5 because it has GREATLY improved my scrapbook pages because everything is nice and uniform instead of me writing or drawing my titles which can sometimes end up messy. I am very pleased that I decided to purchase the cricut and there is no way I would ever get rid of it.
Terrific for the Designer in You
4/30/2008 - Phyllis of Texas, USA writes:
The Cricut is awesome. As a scrapbooker and card maker I can cut any shape I need to with the help of this little beauty and the special cartridges. The specific cartridiges are a bit pricey, but right now [] has them on sale for $45. There are other stores that carry them that put them pon sale now and then. There is also a computer program that you can purchase to use with this machine. The program allows you to design the cutouts right on your computer screen, weld them together for a scripted look if that is what you want, slant them, turn them, etc. The computer program is very user friendly and does not take much time to get up and running. The ONLY bad quality this machine has is the cutting mats. These mats have a slight sticky residue on them so that the paper will not move while in the process of being cut. These mats are generally $8 at [] for 2 mats and last about 15 to 20 pages each. That sounds like a lot of cutting until you do scrapbooking all day. You can easily spend $50 or more a week just on the cutting mats. If they were to improve on this one item, I could give it a rating of 5 stars.
Love it!
4/24/2008 - Beth of Oregon, USA writes:
I got a Cricut machine for Christmas and just love it. For all you scrapbookers out there, this machine will do away with quite a bit of the cutting with scissors. I really like the ability to "write" almost anything and have it print out and cut to size. I still haven't used all of the options, but will get there. One complaint - boy those cartridges are expensive!!
Other cutters work just as well
4/16/2008 - F. Little of NM, USA writes:
The cricut works but the infomercial is a bit misleading in that: 1. the 4500+ images mentioned by the infomercial actaully include each image and each size that same image can be made. The actual count for different images included is much, much less. 2. The actual cost is around $250 + $20 S&H not the $49.95 mentioned in the infomerial. The $49.95 "trial price" is the first of 5 total payments. The infomercial never mentions the extra payments of $49.95 nor does it have any fine print mentioning these 4 additional payments. Also, you have to get the machine settings correct for different types of papers or the machine will tear the paper instead of simply cutting it. This is a bit of hit and miss sometimes when working with unique types of paper. Otherwise it worked fine, but there are other machines out there that work just as well and don't try to scam you about their costs.
I Love My Cricut
4/13/2008 - Laura of California, USA writes:
I bought the Cricut about 2 months ago, and I use it weekly. I bought the Cricut Expression and it comes with two cartridges. I wanted to do more scrapbooking but found that I always ran out of certain letters, such as "Y" so now I have the ability to make any letters I need, along with fun shapes. The cartridges run about $50.00 each, but can be purchased more cheaply at online auctions. It is an expensive initial purchase , but if you don't like it you can probably sell it for most of what you paid, or donate to your local school or church, for a full taxable deduction. Only bad thing is that I recommend that you buy a couple of extra blades when you make your purchase, as, depending on the material you wish to cut, the blades wear quicker than I thought it would. I used card stock and it cut about 40 letters and shapes before I had to adjust to a stronger pressure, which must mean it is beginning to dull.
Love it!
3/4/2008 - Sonya of Ohio, USA writes:
I have a Cricut and love it! It cuts shapes and letters perfectly and is easy to use. Initially I had a little trouble getting the blades in but once I figured it out it was fine. It is a big hit at the crops I go to and people often ask to borrow it. The cartridges are a little expensive to buy, but there is a store locally that rents them. For all of the use I get out if it, it is definitely worth the money and is fun to use.
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