Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter with 2 Cartridges
- Portable electronic cutting machine for greeting cards, scrapbooks, and other paper crafts
- Choose from 250+ designs in 12 different sizes--from 1 to 5-1/2 inches tall
- Cut letters, shapes, or phrases; works with vellum, paper, cardstock, and vinyl
- Cartridge-based system; no computer required; George, Simple Shapes, and Locker Talk cartridges included
- Measures 17-4/5 by 9-2/3 by 12-8/9 inches; 1-year limited warranty
Product Description
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" up to 5.5" tall and 11.5" wide from a variety of materials, including vellum, paper, cardstock, and vinyl. The original Cricut machine is a cartridge-based system-it uses small, lightweight cartridges to cut complete font or shape sets. Cartridge content can be customized in up to six different ways, offering thousands of variations on each cartridge. The machine is also easy to use. Simply attach your paper to the cutting mat (it has a slightly tacky surface to hold the material in place), load it into the machine, insert your cartridge, and make your cutting selection, and press cut. Users can even control the size and the style of the cut with the machine's simple controls. The machine will quickly and electronically cut out the desired letter, shape, or phrase in seconds! This portable cutter weighs only 9 pounds and has a handle for convenient transportation. Designer carrying totes designed just for the Cricut machine further help users take the machine with them when they're on the go. The Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter comes bundled with the George and Basic Shapes™ cartridge and the locker talk Cartridge, one 6" x 12" cutting mat, one power adapter, and user manuals
January 19th, 2010 at 7:33 am
I have not gotten a chance to use the machine much since receiving it for Christmas, but the shipment was quick and painless. Not to mention the cost was $100 less than any store around.
Rating: 4 / 5
January 19th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I purchased this because I wanted to use it with the $75 Sure Cuts Alot software. The reason I wanted to use it with this software is because you can download any image, font, etc from the internet to use without any additional cost to you and you can also cut smaller than the 1″ the machine with cartridge will allow. So, this machine along with the Sure Cuts Alot software, I recommend, but not the machine alone, only because of how pricey the cartridges are.
Now for my complaints…The Cricut Create and Expression machines will allow you to cut smaller than 1″ with the cartridges, but for some reason, this machine doesn’t. The other complaint I have about these machines is that the mats lose their stick, pretty quickly. I’ve read about ways to make them sticky again, but have yet to try them.
Also, you really need the spatula with this machine. It would be really hard to get the project off of the mat without it. The Cricut tool kit is also very nice to have, but not as important as the spatula. I think the machine should come with a spatula, but it doesn’t, so you should really invest in that as well. I hope this helps. Happy crafting=)
Rating: 4 / 5
January 19th, 2010 at 10:54 am
I received my Cricut for a Christmas gift 2 yrs ago and have tried using it several times since then for many things and I just don’t care for it. You have to use fairly thin or lightweight cardstock to get it to cut all the way through and lift crisp and cleanly from the sticky paper, even after increasing the depth of the cutter blade, etc. I keep going back to it thinking that the more I play with it and get used to it, the more I’ll like it. It’s just not happening and it just sits in the corner of my craft room, unused. I’m going to try to sell it. It’s a shame, too, because I have 6 cartridges to go with it. I really like my other die cut machines better, especially my Wizard, which not only cuts, but embosses, as well. My mother-in-law has the Cricut, too, and loves it. Seems to be a personal choice. I would recommend you try using a friend’s or one at a scrapbook store before you put out the money to be sure you’re going to like it and use it.
Rating: 2 / 5
January 19th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I found it to be very intellegent when it comes to the cutting part so that it doesnt destroy the images, and larger is better. bye for now.
Rating: 5 / 5
January 19th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
This might work for scrap-booking but I needed letters smaller than 1″ and there is no available cartridges for block elementary letters.
Rating: 2 / 5