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What Blades Cut What with Cricut Maker?

When you first get your Cricut Maker, it can be a bit confusing, and even intimidating, to try to figure out what blades can cut what materials. That’s why we’re here to break it down for you!

Whether you’re making projects with vinyl and heat transfer vinyl or you’re cutting materials that aren’t vinyl with your Cricut machine, you’re going to need to know which blades to use when.

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What Blades Cut What with Your Cricut?

In this introduction to your Cricut blades and adaptive tool system, we are going to talk about some of the most popular and our favorite materials to use with each one.

For a more detailed look at each blade, be sure to check out the amazing Cricut Printable Guide that comes as part of a Makers Gonna Learn membership.

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Fine Point Blade

This is the same blade you will find in both the Cricut Explore Air and the Cricut Maker. The fine point blade is the one we use most often.

Cricut Premium Blades And Housing

Materials to cut with the fine point blade include:

Cricut brand paper thin leather

Cricut brand paper thin felt

Cardstock

Copy paper

Thin chipboard

Vinyl

Iron-On (HTV)

Rotary Blade

The rotary blade used to be included with the purchase of a Cricut Maker. With the release of the Cricut Maker 3, it is now available for separate purchase only.

Cricut Rotary Blade

Materials to cut with a rotary blade include:

Any type of fabric – burlap, denim, flannel, and so much more.

Craft store (lower quality) felt

Crepe paper (check out Lia Griffith’s crepe paper!)

Tissue paper

Cork

How to replace your rotary blade

Deep Cut Blade

The deep cut blade is great for cutting thicker materials that your fine point blade can’t handle.

Cricut Premium Blades And Housing

Materials to cut with a deep cut blade include:

Magnetic sheets

Thin plastics

Foam sheets

Thick cardstock

Knife Blade

We love this blade because you can get really quality cuts from thicker materials. Remember that the knife blade will take more time when it comes to cutting than with the other blades and tools.

A Beginner’s Guide to the Cricut Knife Blade

Cricut Knife Blade

Materials to cut with the knife blade include:

Basswood

Balsawood

Heavy chipboard

Thick Craft foam

When to change your Cricut cutting blades

Cricut Quickswap Tools

The Engraving Tip

What we love about the engraving tip and some of the other specialty blades is that it works with the quick swap housing. This makes is so easy to insert and remove from your machine.

When it comes to working with some of these adaptive tools, we prefer to stick with Cricut brand materials. They are affordable and have been tested to work well with these tips.

Materials you can engrave include:

Aluminum sheets

Plastic

Debossing Tool

The debossing tool is really handy when you want to get that look of embossing/debossing on your craft project.

Materials you can deboss include:

Foil sampler craft board

Leather

Craft foam

Duct tape sheets

Vellum

How to emboss/deboss with your Cricut Maker

Scoring Wheel

The scoring wheel makes a deep, single score line while the double scoring wheel makes two deep, parallel score lines.

Materials you can score include:

Crepe paper

Light cardstock

Acetate

Perforation Blade

The perforation blade creates evenly spaced perforation lines for clean, even tearing, even on curves.

Materials you can use the perforation blade with include:

Most types of papers

Wavy Blade

The wavy blade adds a decorative wavy edge to your design.

Materials you can use the wavy blade with include:

Vinyl

Paper

Cardstock

Great Storage Ideas for your Cricut Blades

For fun ideas on craft projects using the specialty blades and tools, have a look at our Cricut Pro 1 and Pro 2 courses. They’re filled with amazing projects and techniques!

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More Cricut resources:

20 Cricut tips and tricks

Great hacks for weeding vinyl

Which Cricut mat to use

A comprehensive guide to the Cricut Easypress

How to clean your Cricut mats 3 ways

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Tanner, Courtney, and the rest of the Makers Gonna Learn Team are all here because we love die-cutting and especially love sharing fun projects and tutorials with fellow makers. We are all great friends and are always having a blast when we are together- you will see this on camera, especially during live streams! We are here to inspire and support you in your crafting journey!

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