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Is it Cricut or Cry Cut? I I think it's Cricket, right? Oh, it looks like they

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got rid of the little logo. Crricut antlers. So, okay. Now, now we really

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don't know. I'm going to go with Cricket. All right. Cricket it is. Okay.

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Well, here we are with the Cricut Maker 4. I'm so excited. Oh my gosh. What did

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I drop? Already breaking things. Oh, shoot. I think that's your phone. So,

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you yourself have a Cricut Maker 3, right? I do. What do you have? I have

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just the standard Cricut Maker. Okay. Okay. So, we'll see what the differences

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are today and then we'll see if we should upgrade. Yes. All right, let's go

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for it. Ooh, you're impressed by a cardboard box.

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Well, okay. The way that they inlay the the top, the packaging, the setup guide,

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uh, as someone who hates reading instructions, this is quite easy to

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follow in my opinion. That's true. That is true. Okay, for those of you who don't know, the Cricut is a it's like a

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small CNC machine a little bit, but then it can also draw, it can emboss, it can

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foil. Um, and these are some of the tools that you might need for it. So, we

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have a fine point pen which helps with drawing cards or drawing illustrations.

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It makes it easier for people who don't want to write things. Yes. Yes. And it

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looks way more pro. Yes. Okay. What What else have you got? Uh this is the

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scoring stylus. So, when you're making cards or die lines, it just scores.

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Makes for easier folding. And then we've got a weeding tool. So, when you're making stickers or things like that and

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you need to peel out that little bit in the A to get rid of This is the uh

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what's the technical term for it? I wanted to call it the scrapey tool, but

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it's not the scrapey tool. As coined by Riley, this is the Cricut spatula. I

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think this is the spatula. Metal spatula. There can only be one. I

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actually don't know what this is for. I've never used mine before. Have you? Only when there's paper that's like

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super stuck. Then I gouged the uh the

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mat, which is here. This is a light grip

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mat. There are other options, too. And basically what these are for is to stick

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your materials like vinyl onto it. so that it doesn't shift around when it's

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cutting or scoring. One thing that I really liked about my Cricut Maker 3 is

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that I could use smart materials. And the Cricut Maker 4 also allows you to

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use smart materials. So, that's where you don't actually need the mat. You can load the material right into the machine

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and it just cuts. And it allows you to do much longer cuts. I believe it's up

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to 12 feet you can do. So, I've been able to do like banners and signs for

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Smash Champs recently, which has been really cool. My Cricut Maker doesn't

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have that function. Oh, okay. Well, you might be upgrading then. Yeah. Woohoo.

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The machine. I hate the color. Me, too.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one. I saw that there's a Michael special for like

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a sage green. And I loved that one. And then obviously your power cord and the

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adapter to your computer if you decide not to use Bluetooth. We also got the

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upgraded everything bundle. So, let's see what's in here. Yay. More things.

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Ooh, a tote bag. Yay. I actually haven't

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printed anything on a tote bag before or transferred. Okay. Well, we'll have to

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try that today. I love this. I have one of these and it is awesome. It makes you

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cut really straight lines, especially for your smart vinyl and paper and

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things like that. Also comes with Cricut Joy materials. Oh, insert cards. Oh, I

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read that you there's like a a specific mat where you can put four cards on and

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you can print four at a time. What's great about that? Well, you you can put

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four cards and cut four cards at a time. So, it's just efficiency. We love

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efficiency. All right. So, we got mattless heat

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transfer and transfer tape. Printable vinyl. I have not done any stickers on

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Essentials bundle. Don't miss it. We'll have it linked down below. One thing

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that I really liked when I set up my Cricut originally was that it was really

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easy to do. So, you just go to the website, download the app. Um, you can

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do it on your phone or iPad and away you go. One thing to note, too, is the

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Cricut Maker 3 accessories also work with the Cricut Maker 4. Couple things

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to point out primarily with this machine is first off, this little ledge here.

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Uh, I know a lot of craft moms and dads that like to use this for their iPad

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because the software is compatible with multiple devices. Uh, what do you

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usually use? I usually use my desktop or my laptop. Interesting. And I use my

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phone. So, at first glance, I actually don't

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see very many differences compared to the Maker 3. And honestly, even compared

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to the standard Maker, it doesn't seem that different. The buttons are the

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same. This is the same. I think the the

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accessory bin here is the same. Yep. Even though it looks the same, one thing

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we do know is that it's actually much faster. So, instead of 8 in per second,

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it should cut 14 in per second. I brought my Maker 3 here so that we can

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actually do sideby-side tests to see if that's actually true. Oh, do we have the

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same pattern? Same pattern. One thing that did impress me is that this came

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out at the same price as this, but much faster. So, it really would be an

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upgrade then. Well, sort of. I I think

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we have to see how fast it is. Um and depending on people's use cases because

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for me as just an occasional Cricut user, I don't think this I wouldn't

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upgrade from the three to the four, but we haven't tried it. Yes, but we haven't

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tried it. And if I ran my own business and it did indeed cut faster, then I

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could see why somebody would invest that money to upgrade. Okay, Sarah, we forgot

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to open something. Ooh, another pen. Okay, black. That's more standard than

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your magenta. Yes. And some transfer

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paper. Some smart ironon. some smart

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vinyl. Now would be a good time to figure out what projects we want to

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make. Yes. Should we check out the Design Space? Yes. Cricut Design Space.

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There's a free version, but there's also a subscription version. And I've noticed that over the years they've paired down

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the things you're able to do on the free version in order to make people pay for

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it, which I hate, honestly. Hey, maybe you can get me some new um stickers for

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my laptops, Sarah, cuz these are from the last Cricut Maker video. Yes. And I

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didn't do a very good job of applying it, so it's been peeling. With the

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subscription, you get things like uh special fonts, um images, or ready

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tomake projects already? I think I pay around $11.99 USD a month. Oh my gosh. Like, do

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you make enough craft projects to justify that? Uh last time I made

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something with my Cricut machine, and I think this is a running theme in general

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with just like craft supplies in general, uh is that I'll use it for the

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first few months and then I'll just completely forget I have it.

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Okay. Is that a classic craft thing or is that just a you and me thing and we're just add about our crafts? I don't

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know. Let us know in the comments. So, a lot of these are actually made by people

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in the Cricut community. Uh, which I really appreciate, but I hate everything

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being behind a pay wall. Let's just do a cat. Yeah. To give you some idea for

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what's included in the free version versus subscriptions. You can see like

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even in basic shapes, this is what's included for free and you have to pay

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for everything else. So, usually what I do is I find an image I like and then I

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download it and I upload and uh use this

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tool that they have to create it into a

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cut project. Sarah sent me an SVG file, so I didn't actually have to do too much

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to that image to make it workable or cutable, I should say. Um, normally when

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you have just a regular graphic, you have to highlight all the parts that you

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want to cut around. And sometimes that can be really easy and sometimes it can

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be more challenging depending on how many different colors there are. Once our project is ready to cut, we just

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click on make and then it takes us to this page where you get to pick the

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materials. So like I said earlier, you can use a mat um which allows you to use

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smaller pieces of vinyl or card stock or whatever the case may be. Or you can use

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smart vinyl which is without a mat and you have to put in the full width um in

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order to cut properly. So, so for small things like this, normally I would use a

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mat so that I'm not wasting material. We're going to do a speed test with both of them side by side using the smart

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vinyl this time. You can use different materials that aren't Cricut branded. Um, but it might take some playing

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around with just to make sure that it's cutting the right depth. To measure the

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speed difference, we've connected the Cricut Maker 3 to my computer and the Cricut Maker 4 is connected to Sarah's

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computer. So, we'll see which one's actually faster. Okay. Ready? 3 2 1 go.

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Okay. Okay. 3 2 1 go.

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Mine's done. What the heck? That's not

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That is not what's supposed to happen. Mine's still not done yet. Oh, there.

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Now it's done. All right. So, that was on Bluetooth. I wonder if plugged in,

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we're going to have a different result because there won't be that delay, but

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we'll see. You got to do three, two, one, go.

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Three, two, one, go.

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Is it going to be faster this time? Yeah. Oh, it's done. So, by Bluetooth,

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the Maker 3 was faster, but by USB, the

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Maker 4 was faster. This was only one test, though. So, maybe we'll try it out

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on the other projects, and we'll see. Yeah, we have four cats. We do. They

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obviously need stickers, too. Okay. So, Sarah, you're doing the thing that I did

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last time, which was wrong, and that's how I ended up with all of these

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wrinkles in mine. Oh, no. We need transfer paper. I've learned. Basically,

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what it is is tape that's not very sticky. So, then you stick it on top of

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your design to pull it off so I can see exactly where I want to put it. And I

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can make sure that it goes down nice and smooth, unlike what I did last time. And

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then you're supposed to just be able to peel it without the sticker coming

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off. Because I'm doing it in front of the camera, I still managed to screw up

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and put bubbles in it. You can literally use the Cricut to decorate your Cricket,

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which I'm going to do right now. Wow. Nice. I like it. Let's run the next

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speed test and let's do a new project. What's it going to be? Let's do a

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Pokémon tote bag. Yay. Oh, that sounds like so much fun. One thing I hate about

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the app is it always says it's 100% done when it's still obviously going. Yeah.

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So, you can't actually tell how long it's going to be. Mine's done. What the

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heck, Sarah? Just seconds before. It's only seconds. Yeah, but it's supposed to

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be up to two times as fast. It's supposed to be what? 14 in per second

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versus eight. Is that different materials have different? like is that

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an average? I don't know how I don't know. So, after testing our suspicions

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using Bluetooth, it seems that this machine did in fact run slower, but we

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have a lot of tech uh within the office. And so, there may be some interference.

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This is going to be a nightmare to weed. So, the weeding process is getting rid

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of any material that you don't want ironed on. And is there often like a

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bunch of little extra bits? It really

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depends on your design. You can see how intricate this design is. So, yes,

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there's tons of tiny little pieces, but because all of the shapes are solid,

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I've been able to mostly just pull. Think about how long it would take to

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cut something like this by hand. I don't think you could. Yeah, you would not get

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these results, that's for sure. And that's one thing that I really like

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about the Maker, um, is that you're able to make things that look pretty pro,

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honestly, but they're still handmade. You would not consider this a handmade

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gift, Riley, if somebody made you a tote bag with a Pokeball. Well, no. I think

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the gift would be handmade, but those little things.

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I would actually reject it if they wa

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I'm just kidding. It's a joke. Can you name any of these? That's Charizard,

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right? Did I get the easiest one wrong? Oh, it's not even Charizard.

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No, Sarah, I can't.

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Um, okay. I gotta find I was gonna I was actually looking for Pikachu. There

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there's Pikachu. Yay. You got one

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Pokemon right. That's okay. I won't

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judge. You're judging. I know you are. So, while Ivonne is centering our

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design, uh, I also wanted to mention that aside from totes, you can actually

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use this iron-on vinyl for a variety of materials. One of my favorites using our

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LTT Store blanks. If you're ever looking for things to do, uh, new colors coming

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soon. lttore.com. Oh, it's working. Oh, it's working. Wait, was it Oh, it's

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working. Riley, this is so satisfying. Was it supposed to cool first or no? We

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just go for it. I don't know. I didn't get that far down in the instructions. Too late. Oh, Sarah, we forgot to weed

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this part. No, I failed. Just don't tell

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anyone about it. They won't notice. Yay! It looks really good. We did that. We

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did. Did you believe in us? They

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celebrated for us. I know it's not handmade enough for you, but try to give

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it to him as a gift. We will see in in in live if Riley accepts it. I will

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accept it. Yay. Thank you so much. Cricket has dlisted the Cricut Maker 3

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on their website, so we can't actually see the specs for the cutting speed.

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Some websites say it's round eight. Some are saying that it was 11, but we can't

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confirm either way right now. Based on what you've seen so far today though, would you upgrade? M probably not. Yeah,

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I think with the amount that I actually genuinely need to use my Cricket for

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projects, uh, it's not worth spending the money to get a new machine. I agree.

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But if I was, like I said before, if I was running a business and I was doing this dayto-day and I wasn't using it by

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Bluetooth, I might consider it, especially if I can sell it and it would

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only be maybe what $100 upgrade, maybe

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that might be worth it. But for how often I use it, too, it basically does

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the exact same thing at slightly faster speeds. If you don't have a Cricut

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already, but you want to try uh debossing or making cards or writing or

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cutting out your own vinyl stickers, then I would say the Cricut machine is a

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good value for what you get. Uh it's just a matter of whether or not

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upgrading seems reasonable. And in this case, I think we can agree it's probably

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not worth it. If you don't need all the functionality that the Cricut Maker 4

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has, you can pick up the Explore 4 instead. It supports less materials and

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it comes with less tools. Or you can also pick up a refurbished or used uh

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Cricut Maker 3, which is basically the same except for the speed. Or you don't

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have to buy a Cricut at all. There are many alternatives to this, those that I

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haven't tried out myself, but have heard great things about. I'd recommend doing

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some research and finding out what works best for your projects. This was chaos,

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but thank you for watching. Yes. Uh like, comment, and subscribe. Let us

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