STEPS:
1. Designing
When you start a new project, you’ll arrive on the Canvas, where you lay out your design. Grabimages (pre-designed, cut-ready shapes) and fonts from the library, then edit, orient, color, and size these elements until you have a composition you like.
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2. Preparing mats
Cricut Maker cuts and writes on materials that you place onto adhesive mats. During this stage, your designs are automatically organized on mats by color. For example, red shapes would be placed together on the mat holding your red material.
3. Making
Choose your materials, and Design Space will suggest the right tools (like blades and pens) for the job. Load your tools and mats when prompted, and the machine takes it from there. When it’s finished, carefully remove your cuts from the mats, and you’re ready for assembly.
BLADES
Rotary Blade
The Rotary Blade brings infinitely customizable, precision fabric cutting
to the world of home sewing crafts for the very first time. Use it to cut cotton, fleece, poly blends, denim, felt, canvas, and more. With its gliding, rolling action, this unique blade cuts through virtually any fabric quickly and accurately – without the need for a backer material.
Knife Blade
The extra-deep Knife Blade slices through dense materials up to 2.5 mm (3/32”) thick with unprecedented ease and safety. It’s ideal for cuts of moderate detail in thicker materials like balsa wood, matboard, and chipboard. Maximum cut depths vary depending on the material – visit cricut.com/materials for details.
Fine-Point Blades
A series of blades designed to make the most intricate cuts imaginable in a variety of thin to medium-weight materials. The versatile Premium Fine Point Blade cuts everything from paper, cardstock, and posterboard to vinyl and iron-on. The Bonded Fabric Blade is reserved for cutting appliqué out of fabric with an applied backer material.
Scoring Stylus
The Scoring Stylus creates creases and fold lines in paper, cardstock, posterboard, and more. This popular tool is perfect when you’re making cards, envelopes, boxes, and other 3D paper crafts.
