Comments on: Cricut Explore: Cutting Materials

By: How to cut FELT with Your Silhouette - Cutesy Crafts

Mon, 02 Jun 2014 22:10:52 +0000

[…] show how different kinds of felt cut. And go take a look at this post from my friend Kristy at Please Excuse My Craftermath where she tests out what the new Cricut Explore can cut. I’m very interested in this […]

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By: Kristy gd

Tue, 20 May 2014 14:57:03 +0000

Oh, you’re right! I did misinterpret that. Thanks for the tip!

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By: Nathan Bloedel

Tue, 13 May 2014 00:11:30 +0000

No I don’t mind but I was not entirely clear those settings were with the deep cut blade that I had the best results with those custom settings.

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By: Kristy gd

Mon, 12 May 2014 22:23:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip Nathan! I also found that the deep cut blade didn’t work too well. Do you mind if I share your settings above in the blog post?

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By: Nathan Bloedel

Mon, 12 May 2014 22:13:53 +0000

This list is great but I just thought I would throw in about how I got the best results with the craft foam. I bought sticky back craft foam and every time i used deep cut with any of the presets it cut way to deep and just tore up the foam, but after a lot of experimenting I got really good results making a custom setting I did a:

Foam

Multi-cut of 4

Cut pressure 110

it cut very well and left the sticky paper intact.

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By: Nikki

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:56:24 +0000

Thank you so much! Im using the Pelion now. I haven’t tried it on the leather or the wool felt yet. Excited to test it!

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By: Kristy gd

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:53:20 +0000

I didn’t need to use any interfacing on the leather, though it did muck up the mat quite a bit. I wonder if using interfacing would help with that. *ponders* I’ll give it a go sometime this week and let you know. For the felt, I used some Pellon Featherweight interfacing that I had on hand. I know that Wonder Under is another favorite among my Silhouette using friends, though I haven’t tried it yet.

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By: Kristy gd

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:48:38 +0000

The main concern I would have for follow through is the cloud software. Having seen where gaming has gone and where they have backed off, as well as how other suites such as Office have gone, I don’t agree that everything will be fully cloud. I do think that it is likely that there will be aspects of the cloud in a lot of software, but the drawbacks for when there is not a strong enough internet connection are just too great until we can get a more ubiquitous connection. Anyway, I could go on for way to long on that point.

The real point here is that unlike software you keep on your computer (which never really stops working, it just becomes unsupported and you may need an older operating system), once the company stops supporting the website, the machine is no longer usable.

I am hoping that they will follow through with print and cut, as it’s one of my most used features on the Silhouette.

I have some fibrous paper on hand I can try out this week when I get a moment, but I don’t have any origami paper. I’ve got a convention this weekend, so I’m not sure when I’ll be able to give it a go, but I’ll definitely try it for you! I have cut fibrous paper on the Silhouette as well as some thicker paper meant for alcohol markers, so hopefully the Cricut will behave similarly.

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By: Nikki

Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:54:32 +0000

Hey there! What a helpful tutorial. I work with a lot of leather and it was the deciding factor for going with the cricut. May I ask what stabilizers or interfacing you used for the felt and leather? I would love to avoid the trial and error, if possible, and I’m new to the die cut world ;).

Thanks so much!

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By: Janine

Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:40:00 +0000

Thanks for doing this. It really helps with deciding which machine to buy. I was set to get the cameo until I heard about this. My main concern is, will cricut follow through with print then cut? I guess I can always print then cut by hand. Also what happens when they come out with new machines and change the software? Will that render the cricut junk?
They say cloud based programs will become the norm for all software soon.
I plan to use the machine to cut my own designs to use in my mixed media paintings (digital and canvas). So it’s good to know I can cut thick artist grade paper. Just wondering about more fiberous paper or thin paper such as origami paper. Could you try that and post the results?

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