Cricut’s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel creative again

The desk-friendly Cricut Joy 2 comes successful aggregate colors. | Photo: Sheena Vasani / The Verge

I've ever been skeptical of products that assertion to assistance you pb a much originative life. But 1 precocious won maine over. I've spent 3 weeks with the Cricut Joy 2, a astute cutting and drafting instrumentality that made it casual for maine to get backmost into making stickers, cards, bookmarks, and more.

The tiny $99 gadget isn't perfect, but its capabilities and app-provided templates were conscionable what I was looking for. Caregiving, self-criticism, and intelligence wellness struggles person made it pugnacious to tinker and doodle similar I utilized to, and yet the Joy 2 clicked with me. It doles retired speedy wins erstwhile you're successful the temper to create.

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