Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Cricut: The Creation Companion


The Cricut machine is a revolutionary new tool in the world of crafting and scrapbooking. Brought to the public by Provocraft, the Cricut will completely change how you face your most important crafting projects. With an entire line of accessories and tools beside, the Cricut is the perfect crafting machine for anyone who loves crafts, scrapbooking or personal home decor. The Cricut is an invaluable machine because of its great versatility, providing an unlimited amount of creative freedom for its users. Combined with a great line of guides, accessories and tools to accompany it, the possibilities with the Cricut are endless.

The original Cricut personal cutting machine is used to make cuts from stencil containing cartridges, creating clean lines and providing one with a myriad of choices in size and style of not only fonts, but shapes and forms as well. This machine is simple to use and does not require a computer. Professional results can be achieved in mere minutes if not seconds, as the Cricut is not only accurate but efficient in speed. The Cricut is ideal for scrapbooking. Never again will one have waste time searching for that perfect stencil at the local arts and crafts store, and still only have a limited choice of designs. With the Cricut, creating exactly what your project calls for is only a few button pushes away.

The Cricut is not only perfect for scrapbooking, but can be used to cut stencils for school projects, holiday cards, decorative signs, and even home decor. Safe and easy to use, it is a great tool to share with children in creating fun art projects. It's also a great machine to have around for a small business, or even a centerpiece at a scrapbooking party. The Cricut can create beautiful cards, superior to anything found at a department store, and it is certainly more heartfelt than such as well. For a more personal, yet expertly designed room, the Cricut can quickly produce a multitude of totally customized words or designs to fill and line the walls of a special room. Creating something totally unique, for every and any occasion, has never been easier than with the Cricut.

The Cricut Expression was designed with all of the consumer's largest projects in mind. With the Cricut Expression, a new domain of sizes has been made available to the creator. The Expression is capable of cutting stencils up to 12" wide and 24" long. Home decor can now be done with stencils of an impressive size, fulfilling the user's every need in this area. The Expression is also compatible with all the cartridges that were used with the original Cricut. A great bundle of new features has also been added such as a larger LCD screen, greater language options, metric conversion options, six new time saving modes, heavy duty construction, eight-way navigation for the cutting blade, and many more just waiting to be discovered and used at your disposal. The Cricut Expression is a step up from the original Cricut, but it is an incredible product giving testament to its own name: further pushing the boundaries of your modes of expression.

Another addition to the family of Cricut machines is the Cricut Create. The Cricut Create is a stylish new model, boasting of the same small size of the original Cricut, but also packing a slew of new features like the Expression. For the traveling crafter/scrapbooker that is attached to the Expression's practical new features, the Create provides a great compact solution for storage. The Cricut Create is an absolute must have for the creator on the go.

But, all that these amazing machines can do would be nothing if not for the interchangeable cartridges that are used with them. There are over 80 cartridges available to supply the fonts and stencils needed to create crafting and scrapbooking masterpieces, or whatever else it is that your imagination leads you to create. These cartridges can be separated into five categories, font, shape, licensed, and the special Classmates and Solutions cartridges. These cartridges are compatible with all the Cricut models and are at the very core as to why these great machines provide such an incredible range of creative possibilities. As the number of cartridges only stands to increase, so the potential of creations at your fingertips only becomes more vast.

A wonderful accessory to both the Cricut machines and the cartridges that are used with them, is the Cricut Jukebox. No, it is not a music playing device, but the effect it may have on an avid Cricut user may have something like a musical effect. The Cricut Jukebox makes it possible to use more than one cartridge with your Cricut at the same time. In fact, the Jukebox makes it possible to use up to 18 cartridges at a time. The Jukebox is an incredible device that allows the user to combine all shapes, sizes, designs and fonts to create a truly unique and artistic cut for the project at hand. Never having to switch out cartridges to start new designs and being able to create everything that one could want through a combination of cartridges, the Jukebox makes the Cricuts more efficient and certainly more exciting.

To store or move the Cricut, Provocraft has also provided specially designed totes and bags for the Cricut machines. There are several designs available, varying in size and structure. For the aesthetically inclined consumer, there are a couple of bags available in unique and beautifully styled bags. Bags that are more functional are also available, providing a safety in protective padding and many pockets for projects and other accessories for the Cricut.

There are many more accessories available to accommodate the Cricut machines, ranging from computer programs for the tech savvy, or simply storage devices for the practical and organized. Provocraft has brought to the world of scrapbooking, arts and crafts, and home decorating an incredible and diverse line of products. The Cricut products are easy to use, simple and inexpensive to maintain and absolutely essential to creating the best of home and craft projects. In your office, on your desk or kitchen counter, the Cricut is the perfect creation companion.