What are Cricut Cartridges?
In this post I will be talking about what exactly a Cricut Cartridge is. I will also give some examples of the different types of Cricut Cartridges currently available.
Cricut Cartridges are small electronic cartridges that fit into the cartridge slot of you Cricut Machine. They are universal in the sense that they work with either the original Cricut or the Cricut Expression Machine. Each cartridge comes with a keyboard overlay which it placed onto the Cricut machine. This allows you to easily see what each cartridge is capable of. They also come with a handbook and a binder to store your cartridge in.
Cricut Cartridges contain all the electronic information needed to guide the Cricut Machine to cut it's shapes. Each cartridge has it's own style such as the printing press, which makes cut-outs that look like printing blocks, or Pooh Font Set, which is based on Disney's classic characters.
Cricut cartridges each feature multiple Creative Features. These are different on each cartridge, with only shadow being available on every cartridge. Shadow creates a proportionally larger cut-out of each shape. This is useful for layering the shapes and letters to create a 3 dimension look to your project. Other examples of creative features are the blackout, which creates a solid cut-out of the base shape, and border, which strings together 3 of the same shape together. Not all creative features are in every cartridge.
There are currently over 50 Cricut cartridges to collect. Each one adds a unique touch on your projects. Just a few of them are:
- George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge (Comes with the original Cricut Machine)
- Plantin Schoolbook Font Cricut Cartridge (Comes with the Cricut Expression Machine)
- Accent Essentials Shape Cricut Cartridge (Comes with the Cricut Expression Machine)
- Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More Cricut Cartidge
- Celebrations Cricut Cartridge
- Christmas Cheer Cartridge
- Wedding Solutions Cricut Cartridge
- Indie Art Solutions Cricut Cartridge
- Word Builder: A Garden of Words Cricut Cartridge
- Alphalicious Cricut Cartridges
- And much, much more!
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Tagged With Cheap Cricut Cartridges, Classmate, Cricut Cartidges, Fonts, Shapes, Special Features
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How do I get my New cartridges uploaded to my Design Studio?
Unfortunately I’ve little experience with Design Studio. If you go to http://myfaqcricutds.blogspot.com/ there is some great resources there. Narelle, who runs it is very nice and should be able to answer your question. Thanks for leaving a comment!
What I can do, however, is research some information on Design Studio and post an article on it.
-Sammy