Friday, September 27, 2019

Cricut maker quick swap tips

The quick swap tips for the Cricut Maker are slowly emerging with some being available in NZ on trademe or other sites and I'm sure Spotlight will have them soon. I have had so much fun playing with them and have found a new favourite crafting pastime and that is engraving on Acrylic. I purchased several 2mm Acrylic squares as I knew the maker could cut up to 2mm thick. There are 4 new tools out the engraving blade, the wavy blade, the deboss blade and the perforation blade. 
Here is a short video on what the debossing blade does
this blade has a number of uses with debossing and I can see some lovely patterns coming on 3d things I make. Now the next one I tried was the perforation blade and I had fun with that one making my niece a card. The video below is of her opening the card

Now I liked the wavy blade but have not done a lot with it, however I think it will come in very handy for those cotton tops to go on my christmas jars

Then comes the engraving blade and this one is my all time favourite. the video below is engraving an acrylic clip board. I did this by putting the board at the bottom of the mat and then putting a piece of card under it so the clip part could run freely over the drop down front of the machine.
below is a mandala cross which is an image I uploaded. One I left plane and the other I put an adhesive foil on the back to see how well it showed up. 

Now as people who know me will be aware I love bunnies and have 6 currently all mini lops. They adorable little creatures who give me loads of laughs and so when I saw this picture not only did I put it on a T-shirt but also put it on a piece of acrylic. As you will see by the edges it is not a smooth piece but I am working on that to see if I can cut the acrylic myself into shapes. Here I have put it into a light base so it can be easily seen.
The last one in this series is a metal bracelet below with my grandies name. She has a birthday coming up so I hope she will like it.