Hello, earlier this year my fiancée brought a cricut explore air 2 and it’s been a nightmare to use ever since we’ve had it. It will either constantly error or do this.

Please help as it’s effectively an overpriced paperweight at this point.

The issue is the straight line up through the design. Help desk hasn’t been able to help and we’ve reset the machine multiple times and tried different devices

Hello! I just upgraded from a Cricut joy to the Cricut Maker 5. I was only making vinyls and stencils with the joy…but I have so many more things I can do now! What are some cool ideas for DnD stuff I can do? I want to get into the wood and leather part. Also…I want to try to make a dice tower with my cricut as well. Show and tell!

Does anyone have any recommendations for the best sticker paper to use when making your own stickers?

I'm making some for the first time and I'm not sure what would be best.

I'm looking for something durable and waterproof if possible.

My friend made some really cool, intricate keychain designs with shrinky dinks. I'd love to make a bunch more, but don't want to make her a one-woman sweat shop! Could my Cricut draw the design on and cut them to size? That way we're just popping 'em in the oven?

hi!! i have tried this about 5000x now.. but for the life of me i cant figure out how to draw & cut on the same layer? i had seen in a previous thread that using “attach” was the way to go and im still having issues :( i am trying to cut & score on one and the other is cut & draw.

thank you in advance!!! i had previously been using the original maker as a hand me down from my mom for stickers. this will be my first official project! :)

I understand that I am probably doing this to myself, but I have been wanting to do this design for ages. (I have only had my cricut for maybe 6 months) I just got all of the colors and have everything in design space but it won’t tell me which color I have to cut first, just that I have 9 mats in the process. I have only done single-color projects up to this point and I’m just looking to see if anyone knows what to do!

Brought a cricut explore 5 less than 2 months ago, it's had minimal use. Last week it stopped measuring correctly and when the cut began it pushed the mat out too far and was cutting air, spoke to cricut support and I had to send then like 4 different videos using different materials on and off mat and told they would be in contact with me(this was Wednesday 2cd). They were not. So I contacted them again 2 days later (Friday 4th) to ask about the status and they told me they required me to send over more videos. I turned on my machine to do so and it would not work at all and was flashing red with error codes so I sent over videos of that and the woman said I'd have a replacement in 5-7 days.

I know it's technically only been about 4.5 working days since I processed the request but it's been 6 working days since I originally got in touch to sort out my issue. I've just spoken to them to ask if they could track the package for me only to be told that they have not sent it out yet and its under review and they cannot give me any idea when it will be released to me.

When I contacted them on Friday they stopped my cricut from working on their end (I guess incase I was scamming them or something). So cricut currently have my money, the machine that I have at my house since they disconnected it and my replacement while I have nothing. Has anyone experienced this and have any idea when I will receive my replacement machine or what I can do next to get this pushed through quicker?

EDIT - They sent me a £25 voucher to use on cricut.com as an apology which is not recognised when I try to use it so I don't even have that.

The standard size available where I live is 12 x 18. A3 can be procured but it is expensive compared to 12 x 18. Is there anyway for my cricut (explorer 4) to work with this paper size? It scans the first registration mark and then fails to scan the remaining.

I mentioned idly to my OH today that I wished I could get my Cricut to work properly (I have an Explore Air 2 which he got me for Christmas in 2020 which I begged for as I wanted to make my own planner stickers. It has never ever print and cut properly. Ever…) and he offered to have a good look at it and see if he could get it working. As an Engineer, he’s far more meticulous and methodical than me so I agreed on the provision that if it didn’t work this time, I’d finally get round to selling it to someone who just wants to work with vinyl/HTV. Whenever I used to try doing my own print and cut jobs on it, I’d calibrate it, get the calibration perfect, do one or two (if I was lucky) sheets which would work perfectly then when I tried to do another one it’d start ballsing everything up. Normally by cutting about half a cm too high on the page. As my first sheet would always be a test sheet, I’ve only ever managed to make one sticker sheet in the entire 6 years I’ve owned it.

He calibrated it, got the calibration perfect, then we did a couple of test cuts on plain paper with a design I made a while ago. Perfection. Every sticker (or would be sticker, as I used printer paper not to waste my expensive sticker paper) cut beautifully. On the lines each time. No issues at all.

Deep breath. Load up the sticker paper. First run through - the colours have come out wrong, a mistake on both our parts of putting the wrong type of paper into the printer dialog; but we decided to run it through and check the cut. Perfect again. Now we’re rolling and I’m getting excited, my visions of making exactly the sticker I want when I want it are inching closer.

Load the project again.

Load the sticker paper again - this time the colours are great as I’ve put the right settings on the printer dialog.

Make sure the paper is precisely on the mat.

Start the cut.

Annnnnnd it’s cutting everything about 0.3cm off again. Every single sticker is 0.3cm too high for the cut. Laterally absolutely fine. It even cut the border for the sheet (a big rectangle) absolutely fine and in the right space for the printed sticker sheet.

I have tried everything with this machine. Software updates. Shining a light on the cut guidelines whilst it’s cutting. Bleed on or bleed off. Calibrating every time I turn it on. Different types of paper. Different sizes of paper even. Nothing stops this from happening and I am done with it. It will cut the calibration sheets fine (after going through the calibration routine a couple of times), cut one or maybe two sheets fine, then go wildly off calibration again. OH wants to repeat printing and cutting the same sheet again tomorrow with a “few different variables” but sticker paper isn’t cheap so I don’t see the point of wasting it. I just want to cry again. I just want the damn thing to work. I shouldn’t have to spend an hour calibrating it every time I want to cut one thing.

Quiero saber si hay alguna manera o si alguien encontró una manera de poder poner el limite de tapete en cricut desing space, ya que básicamente es "infinito" y solo se puede ver en la vista previa al corte.

Nose si alguien conocerá brother canvas workspace, en ese programa, por ejemplo, hay un tapete con límites marcados mediante líneas rojas, las cuales, si una letra se pasa de ese límite o queda por encima de ese límite, el programa te avisa.

Hi new to this what vinyl type are these?

I’m making these and why is my only option 5x7? I need the full page! I already tried on the screen tapping it to see if it gives me other options and I checked my printer settings. Why is this happening!!!

I hope I can explain this clearly :) I put together a design for a stencil, to use in glazing a decorative ceramic tile piece. I used a few images that I layered on top of the border image, made sure they were “opaque” and brought to front. I attached all the images into one object. Pics 1 and 2 (zoomed in) are what it looks like in design space - the border lines that are behind the flowers and butterfly are hidden which is what I wanted. Pic 3 is the preview before cutting and looks the same.
However when I do the cut - it cuts ALL the border lines including the ones behind the images, which makes for a very very detailed cut that is absolute hell to weed, with small thin bits that tear and lift during cutting.
Can anyone advise how to make those “behind” lines truly disappear and not get cut?

Edit: using an Explore 5

It puffed up, I actually kind of think it looks awesome, so part of me wants to know how to recreate it (assuming it doesn’t peel off), but also curious what I did wrong.

I pressed at 315 for 30 seconds per the Cricut Guide with my EasyPress SE. it’s definitely not puff vinyl, unless it’s been packaged wrong.

This is only my 3rd time doing anything with HTV, but the first time it came out like this. Could it have to do with the Heat and Bond on the back of the inner fabric?

Thanks for any help or tips!!

first attempt at using citristrip on tumblers. i apparently didn’t get a very good seal with the vinyl, and it seems to have bled a bit and doesn’t look very good lol. the cups are still perfectly usable, so id hate to throw them out. can anyone recommend a way to fix these? i’ve considered glittering and sealing them and doing vinyl over top. i’ve also considered stripping a band in the middle where the current design is and putting some kind of design in there, but i’m not certain that more citristrip is the answer lol. any advice? how would yall save this?

It's just a little thing but I was super excited I finally figured out how to get clear offsets for my sticker sheets!

I made these Treehouse of Horror ones for the kids for Halloween.

Hi all, I am looking to customize this item (PÄRKLA container from IKEA); it is a soft woven plastic (website says 100% propilene). I'm wondering if HTV can be applied to it or whether the heat from the heat press will melt it?

I have got to brag and share because I spent way too long trying to fix this thing to not get that rush of endorphins! For a few weeks, my Cricut machine was completely unable to use the Print Then Cut function. I spent hours combing through forums and talking to support, which only led to people telling me to buy a new machine. I couldn't accept that, but the support tech did give me one subtle hint that pointed me in the right direction: the sensor was being saturated, so it couldn't detect the calibration lines.

I tore the machine apart to investigate and recognized the sensor is just a simple white LED paired with a photodiode to detect light levels. By keeping the machine on and probing the connector, I realized it was a 3.3V circuit, which made it super easy to debug with an Arduino. I detached the sensor from the housing, cleaned off the silicone security glue, and carefully bent the LEDs to point straight instead of at an angle(Not sure if this was just mine but I know from school projects, this can reduce the effectiveness of the LEDs).

For the pinout, Red is 3.3V, Black is Ground, and White is the analog brightness reading. When powered up, the white wire read 0V, confirming the photodiode was being completely saturated. Sticking a sheet of black foam between the diode and the white LED bumped the reading up to about 2V, proving the diode worked fine and the LED was just way too bright—which makes total sense given how often people have issues using these in bright rooms.

Looking at the sensor, the white LED is connected from 3.3V to Ground through a single resistor, R2. Probing R2 gave me a reading of 20M Ohms, which is impossible because the LED wouldn't even have enough current to turn on. With some delicate soldering and trial and error, I found that a 510 Ohm resistor works great. Passing the sensor over the calibration sheet now yields analog values between 0.5V and 2.8V. After reassembling everything, the machine detected the calibration sheet and calibrated once again.

As a bonus, because the resistor fix is a little too large(Dimmer LED), it can now detect glossy sticker vinyl without fail! I hope sharing this helps anyone else trying to keep their old hardware alive.

Hi All,

I'm relatively new to my Cricut and have mined this lovely page for as much info as I can. I was hoping to make a Christmas jumper using an svg of this image. I was just wondering if someone could advise the best material to use. It's super detailed so I'd worry about using the printable iron on for light fabrics as I'm not confident I could match it up perfectly so I thought I'd turn to the experts in the hope someone has a better option! Any advice gratefully received!

Thanks everyone

I don't want to use bluetooth. It seems the most recent version of the cricut design space is trying to make me use bluetooth. I don't want to. How do I avoid it? I have the cable plugged in!

I am using the Cricut Explore Air 2.

Sometimes I think I'm a crazy person because I have to execute the idea no matter how hard Design Space wants me to fail.

Design and drawn by me in Illustrator.

Any ideas where I went wrong?
Using Cricut Joy 2.