#cricut

[priropro]

sneak peaks for halloween patreon 🦇

goths need crosses, bats, and winklepickers like a vampire needs blood

#val #vampire #goth #vampcore #cricut #patreon #watercolor #digital art #visual novel #tiktok

[pirsquar]

I have a Cricut, a fishtank and a terrible sense of humor.

This was bound to happen.

#cricut #silliness #fish #mst3k fan art #mst3k

[flowerhawk-highinthesky]

Reading this was gold, laughed so hard. This fic is just fun 😄

The Killing Time (unwillingly mine) by @kaaaaaaarf

AO3

Made this in a day (apparently my glue dries quicker than I thought) I never made such a small bind and I think I need more of this, because they look so cute (it fits in the palm of my hand) 😍

Don’t ask me why there are blood cells on the cover, I guess there is blood in the fic so it needs to be on the cover too 🤔

In case someone does not like it: there are blood splatters coming

#fanfic #sirius black #wolfstar #marauders #remus lupin #bookbinding #fanfiction #diy #book binding #cricut #fanbinding

[beespaceprogram]

Sticker Cutter Research

I was looking into getting a sticker cutting machine, and I decided to start by looking into cricut which is a well known brand. I had a look at what models they had than their feature etc, but what I was most concerned about was their software. Printer companies like to lock you into a defacto subscription to support hardware you don't really own, and as I was to discover, cricut are operating in a similar way.

The cricut software is online-only*. To cut your own designs you need to use their software to upload your art to their server. There's no way to cut a new design without a logged-in cricut account and an internet connection. At one point in 2021 they flirted with limiting free accounts to 20 uploads/month but backed down after huge community backlash, as far as I can tell.

The incident spawned several community efforts to write open-source firmware for cricut hardware. Some efforts were successful for specific models/serial numbers, but require cracking open the case and hooking in to the debug contacts to flash the chip; not exactly widely accessible. Another project sought to create a python cricut server you can run locally, and then divert the app's calls to the server to your local one.

I restarted my search, this time beginning with looking for extant open-source software for driving cutters, and found this project, which looks a little awkward to use, but functional. They list a bunch of cutter hardwares and whether they're compatible or not. Of those, I recognised the sihouette brand name from other artists talking about them.

I downloaded the silhouette software to try like I did w the cricut software, and immediately it was notable that it didn't try to connect to the internet at all. It's a bit clunky, in that way printer and scanner software tends to be, but I honestly greatly preferred using it to cricut's sluggish electron app⁺. Their software has a few paid tiers above the free one, adding stuff like sgv import/export/and reading cut settings from a barcode on the input material. They're one-off payments, and seem reasonable to me.

This is not so much a review, as sharing some of the research I've done. I haven't yet used either a cricut or a silhouette, and I haven't researched other brands either. But I wanted to talk about this research because to me, cricut's aggressively online nature is a red flag. Software that must connect to a server to run is software that runs only at the whim of the server owner (and only as long as it's profitable to keep the server up). And if that software is the only thing that will make your several hundred dollars worth of plastic and (cheap, according to a teardown I read) servos run, then you have no guarantee you'll be able to run it in the future.

Do you use a desktop cnc cutter? What has your experience been like with the hardware and software? Do you have any experience from home printers with good print quality and user-refillable ink cartridges?

* Cricut's app tried to connect to more than 14 different addresses, including facebook, youtube, google analytics, datadoghq.com, and launchdarkly.com. Launch Darkly are a service provider that help software companies do a whole bunch of things I'm coming to despise, for example, they offer infrastructure for serving different features to different demographics and comparing results to control groups. You know how at various times you've gotten wildly different numbers of ads than your friends on instagram? They were using techniques like this to work out how many ads they could show without affecting their pickup/engagement rates. Scummy stuff.

⁺ Electron apps are web-pages pretending to be applications. They use heaps of ram, tend to have very poor performance, and encourage frustrating UI design that doesn't follow OS conventions. Discord's app is a notable example of an Electron app

#bee talks #sticker cutting #cricut #silhouette #research #garbage software

[samlecter-2]

I couldn't resist, I had to put The Amazing Devil logo and the second line of Blossoms on my phone case. It was also a good excuse to use my Cricut! We'll see if it stays in place 🥲

I redrew the logo first to have it in high quality. Here it is if you want it!

#the amazing devil #TAD #joey batey #madeleine hyland #cricut

[ashleeofjupiter]

MORE STICKERS I MADE

#personal #our flag means death stuff #our flag means death #stede bonnet #blackbeard #edward teach #ed teach #gentlebeard #ofmd #stickers #diy #fan art #ofmd fanart #fanart #cricut

[kairigokujr]

I have a Cricut and I had a dream. Not perfect, but perfect for me 👉🏾

#yyh #kurama #yusuke #yuyu hakusho #Hiei #kuwabara #cricut

[theebirblover]

I have art block so I don’t have much to share. Only my hand made REVS COFFEE MUG!

Next time I need to make the printer print the stickers glossy so they don’t get the lines on them.

#moral orel #moral orel fandom #reverend putty #rod putty #art block #cricut

[moomoocowmaid]

“It was fine yesterday, but now it’s today, and soon it will be tomorrow”

#literally #evil #kms #robotics #humor #lol #haha #me NOT devouring #funny #original post #shit post #freak #text post #cricut #shitpost

[penguinmerchant]

Success!

Okay! For a lot of you this is probably going to look identical to the other post I made but this one is so much better, I promise. Here's another rebind of one of my works, Return to Sender.

And this time, the text block was straight! Everything went in (mostly) well! And there aren't any pages sticking out from the boards! Success!

The back.

The spine! And more bookbinding info under the cut.

So this is actually the third cover for this that I made, although only the second text block. The second cover I made came out disastrously, I was fighting the HTV every second of the way and in the end the HTV won. I did come up with a couple of tips though, in case any of you are having the same problems that I did in getting the HTV to stick down.

Preheat the boards. I put my boards together and paste the cloth down before putting on the HTV, because I know I wouldn't be able to ever get it straight if I did it straight to cloth (props to the people who can do this, you're basically magicians to me). So--because the boards dissipate heat in a weird way, you need to preheat the material before trying to stick down the HTV.

The cricut site says to heat the HTV for most materials for 30 seconds, sometimes less. I did 45 seconds every time and this worked way better for me.

Let the material cool entirely before peeling. I let each layer of this cool for 10 minutes (1 biome run of Hades lol) before even trying to peel it up, and at the first sign of trouble I put it back down and did it again for 45 more seconds and then let it sit for another 10 minutes.

I barely had enough of these endpapers to reuse, but I did and they're gorgeous. I love them.

Title page.

It sits so well!

This has definitely been a learning process. I had to remake the boards 3 times before I was finally confident enough to put the cloth on. I think the problem there was that I was using fancy teflon to attach the boards to the spine, because that's how I was taught in class, but the teflon is so slippery that I messed it up almost every time. As soon as I switched to cardstock I got exactly the fit I wanted and it stayed where I put it.

The other problem was my guillotine not cutting straight, which is why the first one came out so wonky. My second one came out a bit smaller because I had to work to get it even. I may have solved the problems with my guillotine (well, not solved, but found a way to work around them) but it means that this book is just slightly smaller than the original.

Original on the left, new one on the right.

I guess at the end of the day they're both gorgeous, and I'm happy I got to make both of them. At least I didn't have to typeset it twice. I learned a lot and I'll take a lot of new, better knowledge into my next book. Let me know what you guys think!

#fic binding #bookbinding #fanfic bookbinding #captive prince #cricut #htvvinyl

[mergatroidster]

Ooh a lovely new medieval bed the creator just finished! lookit that bedding, sweet. the creator wants to shrink down to snuggle in there!

SVG files for the bed were purchased from Thicketworks Studio, awesome fun stuff to make!

#miniatures #calico critters #sylvanian families #imagination #custom toys #create #dollhouse #art #SVG #cricut #medieval #gothic #gothic style #fantasy #toy photography #made by hand #the village of twig #twig village

[carstairs112]

Made this sweatshirt today <3

I love a good old cricut machine.

#tlt #the locked tomb #gideon nav #gideon the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt merch #cricut #go loud

[flowerhawk-highinthesky]

My next bind 🥳

It's Dear your Holiness by @mollymarymarie

Read it on AO3

It started with the embroidery and then lovely humans gifted me a cricut an i added velvet things.

Pictures

#bookbinding #fanfic #marauders #remus lupin #sirius black #wolfstar #embroidery #cricut #diy #fanfiction

[crimennui]

started TMA last week and already made it to mag100 :) decided to celebrate by cricuting a sweatshirt based on one of my fave scenes

#tma #the magnus archives #tim stoker #timothy stoker #jon sims #martin blackwood #MAG039 #mag 039 #rusty quill #cricut

[prideful-things-shop]

Ice Nine Kills Sticker Sheet:

These will hopefully be up for sale on my Etsy soon!

#arts and crafts #queer creators #slasher community #slasher fandom #slasher art #horror slashers #slasher killers #slasher horror #80s slashers #ice nine kills #the silver scream #sticker sheet #holographic #holographic stickers #cricut #cricut joy xtra

[polycraftory]

Harley and Ivy tank tops are complete! These are for a cozy and domestic weekend morning Harley and Ivy cosplay I am doing with my wife. What if cosplay but also pjs.

If you are at NY Comic Con this Friday, keep an eye out for us!

#harlivy #poisonquinn #harley x ivy #nycc 2023 #harley quinn cosplay #poison ivy cosplay #harley quinn #poison ivy #okay now i just need to detail the robes #meghan crafts #cricut