Saturday, July 18, 2015

Cricut Explore Air

Well It happened, the long awaited and much anticipated event....I finally got my Cricut Explore Air!! I'm so thrilled that I can hardly contain myself.  I bought it on sale at Michael's Arts and Craft store and brought it home.  I was disappointed that I couldn't carry it to my craft room, hook it up and play with it immediately, but I had class to teach and it had to wait.

By the time I was able to lift that beautiful machine out of the box, set it up, download the software my excitement had built up to a feverish pitch.  One of the main reasons I wanted the machine was to cute small intricate embellishments and I was actually disappointed on the first go around.  The cut tore up the paper and wasn't the nice finished piece that I saw on the youtube videos that I watched.   Then I realized that I didn't have the paper dial set correctly and once I figured that out, it worked much better.

For normal sized stuff I was truly amazed.  I cut out a 4 inch, extremely intricate doily on medium weight cardstock and just couldn't stop looking at the beauty of the cuts, all sharp and perfect as though it was from a cuddlebug and not a cricut... LOVE IT!!!

Now I'm wanting to play around with the writing feature and the ability to import images and so many other things, oh and CHIPBOARD.... I just bought a deepcut housing and some .50mm chipboard that I'm going to play with....I feel so happy.

1 comment:

  1. You simply amazed me with your talents and machinery I am so envious that I do not have any machines I cannot make such beautiful professional looking crafts like this. I want to take one of your classes or more LOL

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