I found out that for the cost of one cartridge, that I could cut ANY font on my computer, including the thousands that are free from 1001 free fonts ........ANY jpg image...... that's right , any font and any image !!
Just take a few minutes to look at the website http://svgcuts.com, I promise you'll be delighted. If you register, they send you 3 different cuts FREE, every week. Save them to a folder on your desktop, you can use or adapt them very easy with the Sure Cuts A Lot 2 software.
The possibilities using this software are endless, and oh so easy to use. Simply download the trial version of Sure Cuts A Lot 2, check that it works with your cricut, it will, honestly, you will need a cable to attach your Cricut to your computer, but NOT an expensive one, mine cost £1 from the poundshop, or if you have an Epson printer, that cable works as well.
With the trial version it will cut a line right through anything you want to produce, obviously you will have to buy the full version, £52.00, thats the cost of ONE Cricut Cartridge !! After that you can cut any font or any image you want. It downloads directly to your desktop, no need to wait on the disc arriving via the post, so you can get to work right away. The disc does arrive incidently ..... a few days later.
If like mine your cricut is an old original, you may need to update the software for it, but that's simple too, download the trial version of Cricut Design Studio from the Provocraft website, update your Cricut, then bin it.
On the SVG website there are hundreds of free downloadable cuts and endless amounts that you can buy at fairly reasonable prices. Another good point here is the videos, showing you how to use the software... if you even need that.
They are thousands of websites out there all offering free cuts, put 'free svg cuts' into your search browser and see.
I found a cartoon I wanted to use, using the 'snipping tool' on my computer .......... look ' all programs' under the 'Start' button
I dragged the snipping tool over the image I wanted to use, saved it to my desktop as a jpg file, opened my Sure Cuts A Lot software, then using the 'Trace Image' tool in here, I traced the cartoon and cut it.
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