Cricut 3 months on

 Ok I'm no master of a cricut by any means, but it is a useful tool for upcycling, and repurposing things which in my eyes can only be a good thing, it can be wasteful if you don't try to reuse as much of the off cuts as possible.

Currently, I have made paper crafts of different types, vinyl as well as HTV. I try to find as much reusable as I can even if the project fails I try to find things that can repurposed from it 

I try to keep the parts cut out of the cards we cut for scrap booking, I cut as much of the unused parts of vinyl off of the vinyl and htv as possible so not to waste the product.

See some bits I have made

We got a cricut

 

OK I will be honest I have mixed feelings about this idea as after seeing what cutting machines do and how wasteful they can be I'm concerned it will be as bad as it is good 

we purchased a maker 3, there are currently 4 machines the company sells and this is one of the newest ones available, and it can do a little more than most of the others available, I was going to purchase a joy as it is small and less versatile than the bigger machine.

There is a lot to learn, and it feels intimidating, but we will get it home and see what we can do and what we how we can reduce the waste from making with it 

Why did I buy a cricut?
I purchased a cricut for quite a few reasons, I found there is a bigger supporting groups on facebook and YouTube tutorials, there is one supplier of them that you can get support, training, and back up in store and online so to me, I think that's a good start and the best place to learn about cutting machines.

I purchased this in the shop because of the advice and no pressure to buy one more than another, on the website the company do sell another product from a company called silhouette but they don't carry these machines in the shop, nor could I find a shop that does sell them locally to see if one would be a better purchase than the other.

Looking at things on the internet moth media and company info, I felt the cricut was a more beginner orientated machine to use 

sites to start looking for help on both machines:

google 
Cricut
silhouetteamerica.com
HOBBYCRAFT