The Cricut Expression, by Provo Craft, is a crafter’s dream machine. This amazing new product will cut an endless variety of letters, shapes, figures, and phrases in a wide range of sizes.
From the moment you arrive home with your new personal electronic cutting system, you will amaze yourself with the things you can do. The self contained Cricut Expression is ready to use straight out of the box, just unpack and plug in to begin your creative experience.
The Cricut Expression was designed with ease of use in mind. It allows scrap bookers and crafters to find and create their desired image quickly and easily by allowing you to personalize it with sizing and layering; cut it out, and color it exactly your way all within a matter of minutes.
Images and characters are stored on cartridges. Each one features over 700 images and characters. Each cartridge comes with an overlay. Insert the desired cartridge and place the overlay over the built in keyboard. The overlay allows the keyboard to change key functions to match each cartridge; this eliminates the need to scroll through endless menus hunting for the feature you want. The keyboard overlay has all functions and features of that particular cartridge on display at your fingertips, simply press the button on the overlay to select the desired image. Adjust the dial to the desired size, feed the paper and press the cut button. Best of all, the image cartridges are interchangeable among all Cricut products.
If you find an image on the cartridge, let’s say you find a figure of Sponge Bob, leaning to the left. The image would be perfect for your scrap book page if only it were leaning to the right. Simply use the flip image feature and just like that; you have Sponge Bob leaning to the right.
By replacing your cutting blades with colorful Cricut inks, you can produce that beloved image, character or phrase in the desired color to perfectly match the palette of your scrap book page.
The Cricut Expression is the next generation of Cricut products. This new system offers an exciting and large new range of ideas and abilities. Cut your images in the exact size you desire from a tiny ¼” to 11 ½” by 23 ½”
It will cut more than just paper and card stock, this dream machine will cut vinyl, plastic, chipboard, fabric, thin magnets, fun foam, shrinky dinks, and much more. Create posters, wall lettering, decals, embellishments, signs, labels, stunning scrapbook pages and much more.
By using the etching blades you can score card stock for folding amazing 3 dimensional projects like boxes, cards, photo frames and more.
Create lovely personalized etched glass gifts. Place your vinyl on a cutting mat. Feed mat into the Cricut Expression, select your image and wording. Allow the Cricut to cut a stencil of your image. Peel the backing off the vinyl, and apply the sticky side to your project piece. Next, apply the glass etching chemical and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Rinse with cold water and peel remaining vinyl off the glass. In just 15 minutes from start to finish, you have a beautiful etched glass keepsake.
Use the auto fill mode to select the desired quantity the selected image. The Cricut Expression will tell you how many pages you will need to load into it to create that number of images in that size.
Use the colored ink to create all your images in the perfect colors or, trim them with silver or gold.
One of the best new features is a paper saving mode that will automatically adjust the arrangement of the selected images and characters to best utilize the material being cut.
This incredible cutter is environmentally and economically friendly. Save precious resources by using your scraps. Simply tell your Cricut what size paper you are using to cut each image, this will allow you to use scraps as small as 2” by 2”.
At your local craft and hobby store you can purchase popular phrases and vacation location names; which is grand; as long as those popular words fit your theme. With this personal electronic cutting system, you can create a cut out of the hilarious Freudian slip your mother-in-law made, or the name of the little cabin in the mountains you stayed in. Furthermore, instead of having to glue one letter at a time in your scrap book, you can cut the entire word out as one piece and quickly glue it in place. You will be able to make more impressive scrap book pages in half the time.
No more having to create two of every image to make your scrapbook pages flow from the left side to the right side of the page for a full two page spread. Simply cut one image that covers both pages at one time. Imagine how quickly you could do a two page layout with the same boarder by cutting it all at once. Cut the correct number of photo frames and embellishments you need all at once.
Cricut is working on some wonderful new features that you will be able to use through the built in USB port in the near future. Currently available, is the Cricut Design Studio. This program will allow you to play with your favorite images and make many creative changes to the images. Using the USB port, to connect your computer with the Cricut Expression; you will download the Design Studio into your favorite computer, make your adjustments via your computer and cut them out using the Cricut Expression.
This machine is a scrapbooker’s dream come true. Once you own this delightful machine, you will never have to buy another craft store embellishment, boarder or frame. You will spend less money and store fewer scraps that just did not work like you thought they would. Every dedicated scrapbooker and crafter will definitely want to the Provo Cricut Expression to their crafting library.
