I would highly recommend the cricut joy for anyone wanting starting out in cutting or looking for some portability in their machine.

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Design space is easy to use and very intuitive for creating your own designs (and many ready to make projects are also available). To create more complex projects or to work with unconventional materials, see full-featured Cricut Design Space app. Great intro to cricut I’ve been looking at the cricut machines for a while but don’t have enough time to justify the more expensive and technical machines so I bought this one as an introduction. Thank You Ashish and the amazing team at Cricut who invented, tested and marketed JOY, to the staff at Hobbycraft who didn’t mind me pressing my nose up against the window to see the display whilst waiting for the doors to open on release day and the cashiers for understanding and sharing in my excitement. Just be warned that there are a few expenses (materials such as cutting mats and some designs in Design Space), but if you craft a lot then this will make a worthy investment.This is not only a great starter cutting machine but experts will also appreciate its size and portability giving it a place the the craft rooms of newbies and seasoned cricut users.

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Great little machine Ive been making crafts for quite some time now Making quilts and mainly a lot of seeing projects how ever my partner needed loads of personalised things done for the business so we thought why not do it ourselves.

The only blade that can be used with the Cricut Joy is the Cricut Joy Blade, an all-purpose blade included with the machine. I’m part of an amazing Cricut community and absolutely love seeing everyone’s creations, but envy is always there. Really enjoyed it so far, just slightly difficult to get hold of items to use in it, which I assume is down to the popularity! At the moment I don't have a usable craft space, so if it's just a small job, the Joy is so easy to set up and go.