I'm about to get my Cricut Joy Xtra soon and if I don't find things good enough to vinyl (or other projects), I'm going to start ruining my furniture and walls and my next post on this community would be how to remove the stickers or vinyls.

Something cool and something that's not the first thing that comes up after searching cricut crafts (I'm looking at you, mugs). And the tools I'd be using would be a regular iron and hair dryer (is that even useful?)

Something cool like henna stencils (that's crazy! Got me squealing when I saw that)

I need to rant about design space before I take a hammer to my Cricut….

I use DS on an iPad, but had always had a backup MacBook for when the iPad version wouldn’t behave, or I wanted to foil.

My MacBook is from 2013, and I haven’t been able to update the iOS in years. A couple of months ago I went to boot it up so I could foil part of a project and got an error message that DS couldn’t update bc my iOS was out of date.

I have spent hours on 3 projects for a friend- a card, bday banner, and cake topper. I went to save the print to cut as a PDF, and all of the images had a thick black border around them. This can’t be fixed on the iPad and must be fixed on a desktop. I ask my sister to export the pdfs for me from her desktop, and half of the projects were completely missing. HOURS wasted, and I now have to spend several more hours re-designing what was lost. The iPad version does not let you manually save anymore as it says it “auto saves”.

I hate you Design Space!!!!!!

These lines (I hope they are visible on the photo) line up with the star wheels, I never touched them, and it only happen with the outer 2 wheels out of the 4, the one on the far right being the most noticable. I've looked around in this subreddit and everyone says to move those wheels out of the way but my question was, I'm not using any thick material, I only make stickers using Print Then Cut, so is this solution OK on the long run? I just want to make sure!

EDIT: Thank you everyone, I have moved them and had no issues cutting, I'll keep them out of the way from now on

I am wanting to do a basic sticker sheet of stars on foiled gold/silver sticker paper, silly me thought that would of course be a simple thing for Cricut to manage! I was wrong. Design space sucks, doesn't it?

Is there anyway I can do Kiss cut stickers without using the print then cut feature? I was hoping to maximise these full sheets of sticker paper with these since they are just basic shapes that don't need printing but I cannot find an option anywhere for kiss cut without going through print then cut. Anyone know how to do this or is it just not an option and I will have to succumb to the annoying print then cut restrctions?

EDIT: I am using an explore 3, on my Windows PC and version 10.5.157 installed.

TIA :)

Hi, I just saw a random small piece of my cricut but I have no idea where it came from. Is this part essential? Where is it from?

I bought my Cricut Maker 5 a couple of weeks ago but because it’s so new I’m struggling to find much information about which pens are compatible with it.

I previously had a Cricut Joy Xtra and had these pens for it, but I ended up selling them with my old machine because I assumed they wouldn’t be compatible. The pens for the Maker 4 weren’t compatible with my Joy Xtra (ordered the wrong ones the first time lol), so I didn’t want to risk it.

Would you recommend just ordering the same pens again, or are there any different ones you’d recommend? Off-brand recommendations are welcome too! 😊

I modified them off of other designs. Unfortunately, Cricut's new autosave screwed up all my new patterns! Most of it is cheap dollar store faux leather. Some are just scraps left over from my library's makerspace. The layers are glued together using Aleene's Tacky, attached to a clasp barrette with a small metal brad, and then hot glued down to stay in place.