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Hi, I'm JoAnn with Expressionsvinyl.com and today I want to cover a quick way to do a test cut with in Design Space with your Cricut Explore. Vinyl comes in different thicknesses and the machines all cut a little bit different so it's always a good idea to do a test cut.Let’s get started in Design Space. I just want to do some simple shapes to do my test cut with. I’ll insert a square and then do a triangle in the middle of it. Change the size of the triangle to fit in the middle of the square a …

Hi guys, it's Jessica at ExpressionsVinyl.com and today I want to show you all about the test cut feature. Test cutting saves you a lot of material and a lot of heartache. The test cut is just a little tiny sample cut in the upper corner of your vinyl so that you can make sure you have your settings dialed in just right before you cut out your whole image. If you've got the settings just right, you won't waste your vinyl. Let's get started.I've got a little bird here that I want to cut. I'm goin …

Hi everyone, I'm Bonnie from expressionsvinyl.com and if you're like me, kind of a newbie to vinyl and the Silhouette machine, I want to show you one of the very basic first things you’re going to want to know; how to import images onto your Silhouette. You were probably super excited when you opened your box, took out your machine and hooked it up to your computer. But then you thought, "What now? How do I get images to cut?" I'm going to show you how to do just that. Let's begin:When you …

Hi everyone, it’s Bonnie from expressionsvinyl.com. I am extremely new to vinyl and I wanted to try a project that I thought would be somewhat simple. It's a New Baby Name Sign. I thought this would be an easy project because I knew exactly what words I wanted on the sign, but I didn’t realize I would have such a hard time choosing fonts, colors, and actually designing the sign! That part was hard! What made it even harder is that if you ask others for advice everyone has their own opinion about …

Happy Thursday everyone! Carrie with designed to be crafty again showing you how to make your own fun custom graphic printable vinyl signs. I don't know how the weather is where you live, but I'm in a suburb of Chicago and its FINALLY starting to warm up here and act like summer. No seriously, last week was 40 degrees and rainy every.single.day. I kinda have this thing for always having a fun seasonal sign hanging on my front door. Check out my instagram feed @designedtobecrafty so you see my fu …