Cricut 29-0001 Personal Electronic Cutting Machine
Cricut 29-0001 Personal Electronic Cutting Machine Portable electronic cutting machine for greeting cards, scrapbooks, and other paper craftsCut le...
<Cricut 29-0001 Personal Electronic Cutting Machine
- Portable electronic cutting machine for greeting cards, scrapbooks, and other paper crafts
- Cut letters, shapes, or phrases; works with vellum, paper, cardstock, and vinyl
- Cuts from 1 inch up to 5-1/2 inches tall
- Cartridge-based system; no computer required; George and Basic Shapes cartridge included
- Measures 17-4/5 by 9-2/3 by 12-8/9 inches; 1-year limited warranty
The Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter is a portable machine that cuts letters, shapes, and phrases at the touch of a button. Without the need for a computer, the Cricut machine can cut characters from 1 inch up to 5-1/2 inches tall and 11-1/2 inches wide from a variety of materials, including vellum, paper, cardstock, and vinyl. The Cricut machine uses small, lightweight cartridges to cut complete font or shape sets. The machine is easy to use, simply place your paper on the cutting mat, load it
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Beats the compitition hands down,
This product is fantastic! If you’re looking for a personal die cut system I wouldn’t bother with anything else on the market right now. It is compact when closed, so it won’t take up unnecessary table space. It is also very light and has a comfortable handle for travelling.
Yes, it is a bit of an investment, but it is honestly a better deal than many of the cheaper systems out there. It can cut each shape in 11 sizes from 1 inch to 5.5 inches. Most cartridges are around $90; compare that to quickutz & sizzix alphabets which retail for $150, can only cut one size, and take up a lot more storage space.
Blades are easy to replace and the cutting mats seem to last longer than cricut suggests. You’ll get more life out of them by rotating the mat each time you cut and also storing it with the plastic sheet to keep dust from accumulating on the sticky surface.
I’ve heard of people having difficulty cutting thicker cardstock with this machine, but we have been able to cut bazzil easily by setting the blade depth to 6 and the speed & pressure to their max settings.
I’ve used both the Cricut and Xyron Personal Cutting System extensively and would recommend the Cricut.
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|Cricut is a little over rated I think,
I bought this product after seeing it on tv and reading alot of reviews, everyone seemed to just love this thing. So I bought one, and I played with it and it does cut nice shapes but most everything on the George cartridge is Fonts. When I watched the tv commercial they go to great detail on how this has up to 4500 different images, fonts etc. However, if you just buy the machine which comes with the George cartridge, you have about fourty shapes, all aimed at scrap books or cards primarily, the rest is different fonts, or shaded image or black out image or out lined image of the same shape or font. I feel for the price of this thing I was key on the 4500 different images. But alas you can have more if you buy more cartridges at 39.00 on sale(if you can find them) to 90.00 regular price. Which in my estimation for another 6 cartridges would tally up to at least two or three hundred dollars. So if you buy this machine it is neat, but be prepared to fork over at least another 200.00 for cartridges. And new mats, the mat looses its sticky pretty fast. It also takes quite alot of tinkering to get the cut depth right, I used regular construction paper it worked pretty easily, although when I went to textured cardstock, it didn’t cut deep enough, took alot of trial an error. Some claim to use thin sheets of compostion board in this machine, from what I used it I’am highly skeptical. I’am an avid hobbist I work with alot of mediums from paper crafting, upholstry, painting and wood work. Overall I’am not nearly as impressed as everyone else.
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