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WHO WAS IT THAT WAS LOOKING AT A CRICUT AND I PROMIDED BOOKMARK PICTURES AND THEN FORGOT TO POST THEM??? Because I found my bookmarks. Pictures inside WARNING I AM A NERD
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I THINK ME!
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OOOH!! I love them!
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Ex : =D I thought it was you, but then I was like, but watch me tag her and it not be and me look like an idiot! lmao
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But yes! my adventures into bookmarks!
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I love how the foil turned out on the black too.
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LOL! I get it! I really want to get a cricut more and more.
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Also, go me, three of the four bookmarks are upside down, of course.
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For anyone wondering, the first two that are the same in black and white, if you were to flip it so the crescent was on the bottom - it reads "Shh I'm Counting"
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The third one (white) reads "Knitting Queen" and is properly settled
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The last one (black) is upside down but reads "It's funnier in Enochian" because being in Gallifreyan makes it SO MUCH FUNNIER FIGHT ME
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yes, I write in gallifreyan, I'm that much of a fucking nerd too
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So I might've just bought one of the Explore Air's...
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Cricut Explore Air 2, Blue + Essentials Bundle
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I hope it'll be good??
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It was on sale. Lol!
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And I hope I didn't choose bad!
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ohhh that sounds great! there's no difference between colors - lol I just love knowing what color people go with
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I bought the essentials bundle with mine via amazon when it was on sale a while back too. =)
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I did like that one too! :-D Everything else in my apartment is blue/yellow although I love purple. Yay! I just really want to make my stickers and bookmarks and random things like that. SO. Yay!
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I mean you can also deck it out with stickers after you make them too - or vinyl-
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I need to get back into bookmark designs. I have a small batch of the Gallifreyan bookmarks I made - a friend requested some knitting sayings so the only one not pictured is the Knit One, Perl One bookmark from that set
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That's true! BTW I love that you write in Gallifreyan!
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Heh, thanks! I love the language and how... different it looks depending on the artist. Liike you can have six people do the exact same phrase and come out with different stylistic choices so they look different despite all saying the same thing
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For sure! are there any materials that you recommend me getting for this thing?
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Depends on what all you're looking for. I tend to wait for 2 for 1 sales at JoAnn and Michaels when I'm hunting for vinyl if you wanted to do like car decals and things.
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if you're considering coasters or bags - the same would go for their infusible ink - though quality wise I'd stick to the round coasters. The square ones are SUPER flimsy for the same price
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also if you're looking at coasters or bags, I'd wait for one of their Easy Presses to go on sale and grab one for those - my friend got the tiny one and gets frustrated with it for coasters - I got the 12x12 and can do four coasters in one heat press and they've come out beautifully.
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also - for vinyl/infusible ink/foil rolls that are round - if you have somewhere to hang it like off a bookshelf or on a wall - those shoe organizers with the little pouches for pairs or single shoes - works REALLY well for the roll organization
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Okay awesome! Really, the only things I'm looking at creating right now are bookmarks and stickers... and maybe car decals.
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I do want to maybe do foil sometime but that's about it for the time being. Oooh awesome! Thanks for the tips!!
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and for bookmarks, I'd recommend in investing in one of those foil/lamination machines
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OK! awesome!
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because the same machine works well for both the foil application to the printed medium if you go the laser printer route, as well as the lammination because you can get the pouches so you can laminate 4-5 book marks at the same time
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Cricut did come out with a foil tip applicator that you put in instead of the blade or pen
Cricut Transfer KIT FOIL
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if you wanted to go that route instead.
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also - there's the option of having the cricut draw the bookmarks for you as well - so they have pens you can infest in for the machines.
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however the metalic pens are not great for finer lines, I learned that the fun way. lmao
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LOL! That makes a ton of sense. Good to know!
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I say with the cricut stuff, when in doubt, use the stuff to run a test first just to ensure it comes out the way you expect, because on occasion, mine has not. LMAO
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I can create things and print those right without having to use their fonts/elements? It's a dumb question, i'm sure but I wanted to make sure!
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So from what I understand most people who make stickers do the artwork all on their iPad/Photoshop/program that's not cricut and then save it as a png image - so it doesn't have the background around it past where you want the background to go. which means they can use whatever fonts they want.
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and then they upload the PNG into the cricut software and just resize it to what they want the sticker to be size wise.
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cricut software does have free fonts, and will register any fonts you have on your computer for use - however if you're like me and you design on one PC and print/cricut off a separate PC, and the font isn't on the PC you're cricuting from - if you try to edit the font it will change it to a font it recognizes
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Ok! Awesome! I thought that was the case but I was also low key worried that I would need to use their stuff.
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like, I have a few files where I designed something but used the actual text in Cricut to make the font stuff, so I have special fonts from publishing stuff on my design PC. But if I touch any of those text files on my printing PC, Cricut's like, NOPE! ARIEL IT IS
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but if the text is part of the png image you're uploading, you can't touch the text - because it's part of the image
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OK! That makes sense!
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=D also if you ever have questions or need help, don't hesitate to ask. I'm here to share my experience!
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Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
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