Cricut arrives in Israel: DIY with Cricut crafting machines

• Published date: 29 March 2024
• Author: LEE SIVILIA
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The American brand Cricut offers a wide range of crafting machines, two of which have been launched in Israel: Joy and Maker. These machines enable creators and businesses to produce art and craft projects for home and office decor, fashion design, lifestyle, and graphics

Millions of artists, craft enthusiasts, DIYers, children, teenagers, adults, and businesses worldwide are already enjoying Cricut's crafting machines, and now, the Israeli public can also enjoy creating a variety of designs tailored to their needs, including art pieces, home decor, sophisticated birthday greetings, water bottle branding, school lunch boxes, and more. Advanced users or small businesses can design and create customized projects.

'Do It Yourself' with Cricut Machines

Cricut, an American brand that manufactures cutting machines, materials, and related accessories for crafting in the "Do It Yourself" style, offers professional, high-quality, safe, and advanced machines with a modern design suitable for any room. Each machine comes with a starter kit for creating initial designs, including pens, blades, and a work surface.

Cricut machines are designed to resemble a home printer where blades are inserted for cutting materials and pens for marking and highlighting. Both machines offer an innovation based on robotics, CNC machines, and other automated systems.

In addition to cutting various materials, both Cricut machines can draw, mark, and sketch on materials using a variety of pens and markers.

The design of the machines offers a clean line (Joy without buttons, Maker with a few buttons), while Bluetooth connectivity connects the machine to the creator's device/computer. Moreover, the Maker machine can be connected via a USB cable.

The Design Space® design application is available for download on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. With the app, users have access to over 130,000 images and pre-made projects ready for creation in Design Space.

Have you ever cut 300 stars for room decor?

Cricut Joy - Imagine cutting 300 stars to decorate your child's room or creating a personalized greeting card, a process that could take hours. With Cricut Joy, you can do it in minutes. With Smart Materials™, you can cut individual designs up to four meters long and repeated cuts up to 20 meters. Due to its small size and extremely lightweight (only 1.7 kilograms), Cricut Joy can be easily carried from place to place.

For example, the Joy machine can draw and write on a variety of popular materials...