My 5 Top Tips To Unblock Your Creativity With The Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter

The Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter should by now be familiar to anyone at all interested in home crafts, and in particular scrapbooking. If you are new to this world, then suffice it to say that the Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter is a revolutionary cutting machine that will effortlessly cut any shape or design you can think of. By the time you've read this article, you should be a lot more clued up on what this machine (or more precisely, this range of machines) has to offer.The aim of this article is to provide a simple five step process you can use in order to use a Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter to produce a visually stunning design. I will flesh out each of the steps with the thought processes you will go through, and the decisions you will need to make. By the end, you will be able to go off and make real something that is currently stuck in your imagination.Have An IdeaThe first step to creating your masterpiece is an idea. No matter how sophisticated the technology you are using, it is worthless if you don't have any inspiration to start with. It may be that you already know exactly what you are trying to achieve - say a scrapbook page for your child's school sports day or a family reunion. You may not be so sure - in which case I recommend a quick search on Google for "scrapbooking blog" or similar. Have a browse through some of the sites that come back, and you will find nearly endless inspiration really quickly.Which Cricut?If you don't already own a Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter - you will need to decide at this stage which one fits your requirements. You decision will be based upon your budget, and whether you need anything more than basic cutting functions. The precise details on what each model can do and how much they cost is beyond the scope of this article, but again this information is freely available on the web.Select A CartridgeThe next step is to choose an appropriate cartridge from the Cricut range. Again, going into detail on the Cricut cartridge system is out of scope for this article - your best bet is to go and browse through the hundreds of available cartridges online at Amazon or similar. You can get cartridges with shapes and designs for almost anything you can think of - all cartridges are compatible with every Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter model.Customize Your CutWith an idea, a machine and a cartridge in place, you are nearly there. The final decision making stage is to decide how you want to customize your design with the extra options onboard to Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter. This decision includes the size of the design, and functions such as fill page, stretch-to-fit and many others.Hit A ButtonLastly, all your work is done - you just need to load in your paper or card, and hit the start button.If you follow these five simple steps, you can go from a spark of inspiration to a professional jaw-dro