HusbandOfCircutWife

HELP! Looking for a book for my wife

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Hey there,

Please forgive me if my terminology isn't correct.  A while ago my wife bought a circut explore air 2(i'm pretty sure) and she really wants to learn how to use it.  What is a good book for beginners that I could get off amazon for her?  Something that has good visual for a beginner/intermediate user.  I know nothing about it just what she tells me lol.  It uses design space, correct? 

Thanks for any help!

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Possibly go to the Cricut forum and ask. Most people here use full size vinyl cutters, not hobby cutters like a Cricut. Plus it should have a user manual, with it as well as the software user manual. Watch videos on youtube. Search online for tutorials. Most everything is online. 

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I find the best way to learn something like this is to just start playing with it and then google how to do something when I hit a road block. Just can't be afraid to try stuff. There's not much you can do wrong to damage anything.

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The machine itself isn't where she needs to focus attention ---  the design software is.

DesignSpace has tutorials -- https://learn.cricut.com/design-space/overview

Beyond that, she needs to work on developing her own .svg files and potentially having to work within a more robust application like INKSCAPE to really get a feel of vector graphics (IMPORT the resulting .svg into DS)

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YouTube. I had a relative buy one a little while ago, and it's kind of crazy the amount of stuff she can do with it after watching YouTube videos.

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