Cricut and Cricut Expression household cutting machines have become a must-have for any craftsman and scrap booker. With machines capable of cutting letters, shapes and numbers through buttons, Cricut is an easy way to create scrapbook pages, dashboards and even cool wall art! Now, the Cricut brand makes the machine more exciting and creative through the Cricut Design Studio software. The software gives Cricut machines incredible creativity. The software allows you to connect Cricut to your home computer and create countless new designs and shapes for your machine.
The software includes a searchable database of every letter, shape and number in the entire Cricut Cartridge library, making thousands of designs at your fingertips. Moreover, Cricut offers online updates to continuously add to library collections. In addition, with the included tools, you have complete control over your Cricut, allowing you to fuse [called weld] letters into a single word and format and shape the project on a virtual cutting mat before your machine starts working.
Some things to keep in mind about the Cricut Design Studio software:
1. Although the software allows you to view and design any ink cartridges, you can only use machines with actual ink cartridges. The good news is that designing different projects on your computer gives you a better idea of which cartridges to buy next. And, you can save your design for later use.
2. Have a creative rest day? Need some new inspiration? Check out the Cricut message board or search the internet to view and download cool creative files created by other Cricut Design Studio users. This is a clever way to add different styles to your own design, while also gaining new inspiration.
3. You can create designs with multiple ink cartridges; when you are ready to cut, you only need to supply all the ink cartridges.
4. You can still create different layers for your design, such as shadows and other elements. The key is to create each element on another layer of the design studio software so that your Cricut machine knows to cut the layers separately on the paper of your choice.
The Cricut Design Studio software retails for about $60 and is essential for any Cricut fan. The software will abandon all your ideas and extend Cricut's capabilities to a whole new level.
Chris Stitz
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