Nov 20 2008
Award Winning Holiday Gift Ideas – Cricut Expression Personal Electronic Cutting System
This Holiday Season, instead of getting your friends and loved ones bland, vanilla store-bought greetings, show them how much you care by crafting your feelings with the award-winning Cricut Expression Personal Electronic Cutting System.
“But I don’t have a creative bone in my body.”
That’s okay, because the Cricut Expression is simple, quick and easy to use.Winner of the Disney Consumer Products Global Stationary - North America Best Product Award (September 2008), Cricut Expressions Personal Electronic Cutting Machine makes professional looking greeting cards, signs, elementary school creatives as well as stencils and etchings with grace and style. An essential tool for beginners and craftsmen, Cricut Expressions will allow you to express yourself with arts and crafts in a way you never thought possible before.As the video on getmycricut.com says, all you have to do is
1) Select Your Image
2) Select Your SizePress “Cut”
3) Press Cut
And your on your way to making detailed, stylish, precise patterns, cuts, cards, designs and more.Cricut Expression 24” Personal Electronic Cutter comes with 2 cutting mats: a 1′x1′ and a 1′x2′. Cuts can be made from ¼” on up to 23 1/2”. If you have the cartridges from the original Cricut machine, then you’re in luck because the Cricut Expressions accepts, as getmycricut.com writes, “the existing line of Cricut cartridges.” Additional features include:
- Quantity (how many cuts at the specified size)
- Auto Fill
- Fit to Page
- Fit to Length
- Mix n Match (each character has a separate creative feature)
- Portrait (ability to rotate selected characters and cut up to 23 ½”)
- Flip
- Line Return
- Center Point
The durable blade on the Cricut Expression Cutting System can last for about 1,000 cuts - pending on materials cut. Materials suggested for cutting include:
- Paper
- Card Stock and Heavy Card Stock
- vinyl
- “Window Cling Materials” (according to getmycricut.com)
- thin magnets
- posterboard
- fabric papers
- metallic papers
and more…
A 30-day Home trial of Cricut Expression is available from getmycricut.com for only $33.00 plus $24.99.
This season, be the relative who created, cut, shaped and designed memories that will be remembered for a lifetime.
