What is it?
A Cricut Maker is a machine allows you to cut your design into a wide variety of materials, opening the door to limitless crafting opportunities.
Thanks to its versatility, Cricuts are well-suited to create a wide variety of crafts including:
- Cardmaking, from a simple invite to intricate pop up cards
- Cutting fabrics for quilting, dolls, and more
- Custom Jewelry
- Stickers and Decals or other adhesive for signs
- Cutting pattern/letters into heat transfer vinyl for t-shirts, etc.
The necessary tools and a limited selection of vinyl material are available in The Workshop. You may bring your own material for use with the Maker at no cost, but advance approval is required.
What do I need?
First, you'll need to make or find your design in a format that the Cricut Design Space reads. You can upload .jpg .gif .png .bmp .svg .dxf and font formats .otf .ttf OR you can create your design right in the software using the design tools.
The Cricut Design Space can be used on a computer or phone/tablet (available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store). You can create your own account or come into the Workshop Lab to use ours. When creating designs from home, just be sure to save them to the cloud storage so that you can access them when signing into your account at the library.
Determine what material you're using and what you will be applying it on. Also consider what colors you'll be using and how you'd like to layer them if the design calls for it.
Specs and Software
- 12x12 and 12x24 mats available
- Cut Depth: 2.4mm
- Accepted Files: JPG, PNG, SVG, BMP. DXF. GIF
Software available in Workshop:
- Cricut Design Space (Free)
- Designs created elsewhere may be uploaded to Design Space