Cricut Explore
The Cricut Explore is a crafting machine about the size of a professional inkjet photo printer.
Cricut Explore
It's even more like a printer when opened up, with a cutting head and the loading tray.
Cricut Explore
The loading tray has a small compartment to store crafting tools.
Cricut Explore
The machine's cutting head has two slot for the drawing pen (slot A) and the cutting blade (slot B). It can work with two tools at a time.
Cricut Explore
You can substitute the drawing pen with this scoring pen, whcih is not included in the package.
Cricut Explore
Here's the smart dial that help quickly pick among a few popular material tuypes.
Cricut Explore
Here's the machine with the cutting mat on which you place the material that you want to cut, draw, or score on.
Cricut Explore
It can cut many different types of materials into different paterns and shapes precisely according to the design.
Cleaning the surface of the mat after each cut can be a lot of work.