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🎨 Cricut Explore Air 2 Mint: Unleash Your Creativity with this Powerful Crafting Companion Review

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Revainrating 2.5 out of 5  
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🔪 Die-Cutting & Embossing, 📝 Scrapbooking & Stamping

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Description of 🎨 Cricut Explore Air 2 Mint: Unleash Your Creativity with this Powerful Crafting Companion

[CREATE MORE] The Circuit Explore Air 2 is your personal DIY cutting machine. It will flawlessly cut over 100 plus different types of materials including premium vinyl, iron on and htv vinyl, cardstock, faux leather, adhesive foils, specialty paper, poster board and more. [ENDLESS PROJECT POSSIBILITIES] The Circuit Explore Air 2 makes it so easy to create a wide arrange of DIY projects. Make custom stickers, personalized home decor, home-made gifts and party favors, unique greeting cards, custom designed apparel, and more. [INCLUDED WITH MACHINE] Each machine includes a Circuit Premium Fine Point Blade and Housing, a Circuit 12 inch x12 inch Light Grip Adhesive Cutting Mat (perfect for vinyl and htv projects), a Circuit Black Fine Point Pen, access to Circuit's design software Design Space, and a 2 week free trial to Circuit Access. [DESIGN FOR FREE] Upload or create and design your own images for free from your computer, tablet or mobile phone using Circuit's free design software design space. Enhance your design space experience by subscribing to Circuit Access, Circuit's vast library of over 100,000 images, fonts, and make it now projects and designs. [BECOME A PART OF A COMMUNITY] We know it can be intimidating to start creating your first DIY projects, so don’t do it alone. When you buy a Circuit you become part of a close-knit community of crafters, makers and DIYers. There are dozens of groups across all social media platforms that allow our members to share tips, ask for help and share their projects and inspiration with an amazing community

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Revainrating 3 out of 5

Subscription required

Bought for my wife for Valentine's Day. Here, 2 weeks later, she receives a notice that she can no longer use the software without paying $10 per month. She speaks to Cricket and they confirm it. So this machine is useless to us now.

Pros
  • Weight
Cons
  • Difficult to remember but it was

Revainrating 1 out of 5

The machine does not come with software and neither can you.

The machine does not come with any software and you cannot download any software onto your machine. You can only use their online software which is very restrictive. You may not use third party software. Therefore, you must be connected, i.e. within Wi-Fi range, to perform design work. If I'm in a coffee shop without access, traveling, etc., I can't do any prep work. Why don't they mention that in the product description? Nobody does that with their cars anymore. I don't see why Cricut should.

Pros
  • New
Cons
  • Some disadvantages

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Terrible scrapbooking and stamping software

What good are two tool bits if I can't cut and trim on the same mat. Drawing constructions takes forever, you can't set any drawing shortcuts at all. For example, it is not possible to cut a square with a grid attached inside in one pass. It took forever to draw four parallel lines - I had to manually enter the length and coordinates to make it work. It also looks like it's not possible to use other software for this. Any suggestions to improve performance would be helpful. Also, the mat broke…

Pros
  • Looks good
Cons
  • Good but not great

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Lots of fun, but can be frustrating.

Since Christmas I've been trying different materials from the store with my new Cricut Explore Air 2 and really want to find the right technique and materials for different applications. My only complaint is that you have to rely on their design website, Cricut Design Space, for it to work properly when cutting. This is not a given as I have experienced many crashes especially on weekends when I assume the site is getting more traffic. That can be annoying! I wish there was a program I could…

Pros
  • Die Cut & Embossed
Cons
  • High Price

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Hidden features of Cricut

I bought the Cricut Explorer 2 Air. First I called the company to ask questions before buying a car. I did a lot of research online and also watched videos etc. I then felt good about spending $300 on all of this including vinyls, carpet cutting, clippers, etc. when I got the machine in the mail and finally installed it. First you need to create a Cricut online account, enter your serial number and go to designspace.com. The problem I have is that you can't download the program on your desktop…

Pros
  • die cutters
Cons
  • Available in black only

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Excellent, with some serious potential deal-breaker issues that are fundamental to the Cricut brand.

The Cricut Explorer Air 2 is a great value. The Air 2's extra speed over the original Explorer doesn't seem to affect cut quality. The biggest downside to the machine that I've encountered is the software. If you're new to Cricut, or to crafting in general, Cricut seems like a dream come true. As soon as you master the operation of the machine, the software becomes an obstacle for you. Design space is a joke. Because they didn't want to invest in the software and the web management page they…

Pros
  • Scrapbooking and Stamping
Cons
  • Ugly Packaging