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.
