Cricut die cutting machines offers a massive line of cartridges for all your die cutting desires. The cartridges, or personal electronic cutters, serve as dies and offer extensive amounts of fonts, designs and colors. It is easy to see where the cartridges fit on your Cricut machine and installing is as easy as removing the assembly tag and marker cap and pushing them into place.
Once loaded, place the paper, cardstock, or whatever you are cutting in place on the mat and load it into the die cutter. Select the images you desire and push the "cut" button. It may seem strange, but rather than cutting it straight out, the Cricut machine will draw the image you selected. Once the ink is dry, push "Load Paper", "Repeat Last", and "Cut" one more time. Now the machine will cut out your image complete with a colored outline.
Cricut cartridges come with a highly detailed handbook. Each handbook comes with examples of text and images included in the cartridge. The handbook describes the Creative Feature Keys that are particular to each cartridge. For example, the Nursery Rhyme Cartridge comes with Phase, Font, Monogram, Font Shadow Blackout, Phrase Shadow Blackout, and Base Shadow Blackout. These Creative Features are different options for styling and cutting.
The included handbook also gives suggestions for uses of the cartridge. They give step by step instructions for the idea provided. Again using the Nursery Rhyme Cartridge as an example, the project idea of an "Over the Moon Card" is given. In four steps you are shown which materials, sizes, designs and creative features to use to create a card as adorable as the picture shown in the handbook.
Provo Craft, the company behind Cricut die cutting machines and Cricut cartridges provides a fairly thorough warranty for Cricut cartridges. If you encounter a faulty cartridge or if something goes wrong within the first ninety days after your purchase, Provo Craft and Cricut guarantee that they will replace or refund your cartridge. Customers have the option of calling the toll-free service support number or visiting cricut.com to seek the aid of a service technician. The technician will diagnose and attempt to remedy the problem so that you can avoid the process of sending your cartridge back. If the problem with the cartridge can not be fixed with you and your technician, you will be asked to mail in your cartridge and be sent a new one shortly.
At first, all the potential for new ideas and crafts that you can make with Cricut cartridges may seem overwhelming. Most users, however, find that they enjoy the learning process and it only takes a few weeks to get very familiar with both their machine and the cartridge. With everything from Disney to Sesame Street to more adult cartridges like Paris Vacations and Wedding cartridges, you will be cutting for a long, long time before you run out of projects. Cricut cartridges have given you the ability to turn your house into a HalMark manufacturer!
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