Cricut Expression Rises to Every Occasion

Scrapbookers rejoiced when Provo Craft rolled out its Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter. If they didn't have the right die-cut shape, style or size on hand, no worries-the machine could cut what they needed in seconds at the touch of a button, no computer required.

Since then, the company has introduced a larger machine with more muscle, the Cricut Expression. Consider how these powerhouse features could make your scrapbooking life easier:

• Cut custom letters, shapes, and phrases from most paper types, vinyl, and thin plastic.
• Create larger cuts-up to 23 1/2"-in portrait or landscape mode.
• Feast on the flexibility of six cutting modes, including Fit to Length.
• Preview via an LCD screen the exact pattern or shape being created.
• Choose from hundreds of cutting dies in each Cricut cartridge.
• Use any Cricut cartridge, blade, or blade housing.
• Select a mat size of either 12" x 12" or 12" x 24".
• Save time with an all-new center point function.
• Mix or match creative features in the same cut.
• Cut mirror images.

House Card by Sue Neal, as seen in Creating Keepsakes' May/June 2010 issue.

To create a negative silhouette, follow these easy steps:

1. Die cut shape from cardstock.

2. Trim 3/4" around negative image. Sew inside image, taping threads down in back.

3. Attach foam squares to back, and adhere to patterned paper. Mat.

Learn how to use the Cricut Expression to create large letters from CK's Brittany Beattie.

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Appeared in:

May/June 2010