This coming weekend, I’ll be at Maker Faire! I’ll be at the Provo Craft booth, helping to demo some of their products, and doing lots of podcast recording. Yes, super excited, thank you!
Provo was kind enough to send me some machines to play with in advance. Here I’m using a Cricut Expression, which precision-cuts letters and shapes. It’s designed, of course, for paper crafting, but I quickly started feeding all kinds of other stuff into it, just to see what would happen. I’ll show you some results throughout the week.
(Oh – and also some results with a Cuttlebug, which embosses stuff.)
Let’s start this series off with a simple project. A quick trip to the office supply store yielded some pretty plastic-coated file folders, from which I cut a bunch of shapes in three sizes…
…Then I glued them together back to back, punched them with a 1/8″ hole punch, and painted a little Diamond Glaze around the edges to seal them. Then I joined them with jump rings.
With a little bit of chain, these turned into a cute, graphic necklace, which, as it turns out…
…Is reversible!
I also found some cool plastic folders that were different colors on each side. This stuff cuts beautifully with the Cricut, and makes impressive-looking pieces with almost zero effort.
Voila! Tomorrow, I’ll show you a Crucit-hacked sewing project.
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