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The Cricut Venture cuts a variety of designs with precision.

We were so excited and honored that Cricut chose us to send a Cricut Venture to preview.

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Cutting with Cricut Venture = 1 mat loaded

Today were pleased to share another project with you: cutting a big batch of beautiful paper succulents!

Now that we have the Cricut Venture, that end goal seems closer than ever.

Cricut Venture has made it possible for us to batch production like true professionals.

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Being able to cut large quantities at once saves us a tremendous amount of time!

Plus the time saved on loading and unloading all those mats will be considerable over the long run.

The Cricut Venture cuts at 25.4 inches per second, which is an obvious time saving solution.

woman holding a pile of spiral cut papers in front of cricut venture

Cutting at commerical speeds with amazing percision is an obvious plus for any craft.

A note about copyright and using Cricut Design Space designs for your small business.

Cricut has a fairly generousAngel Policywhich outlines the permitted uses of their design for commercial purposes.

woman holding a pile of spiral cut papers in front of cricut venture

For example, you might sell up to 10,000completed productseach year made with Design Space elements.

However, those items can not be mass produced, or created by more than one person.

tap on the + sign to start a new project, opening up a blank canvas.

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With the machine set to Cricut Venture, select Make It in Design Space.

Set material key in to cardstock, choosing the appropriate weight based on your paper.

In our case, we used the Light Cardstock setting.

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Place the first paper color onto the Cricut Venture grip mat.

SInce youre using a mat (rather than Smart Materials) youll need to extend the mat support arms.

Press the Mat Support Button on the left side of the machine.

completed craft of a driftwood and paper succulent wall hanging

The arms will automatically extend from the machine.

Then, attach the three extra pieces.

Once ready, follow the Design Space prompts and load the cardstock paper into the Cricut Venture.

completed craft of a driftwood and paper succulent wall hanging

Press the load button for it to measure the size of your material.

When prompted press Start and then watch the cutting magic happen!

When the cut is complete, unload the mat from the machine.

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Cutting with Cricut Venture = 1 mat loaded

Simply raise the lever and the cutting mat will fall into the convenient catch basket onthe Docking Station.

Its also static dissipative and can hold all of your cutting mats!

Peel away the cut pieces from the cutting mat.

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Repeat for the remaining succulent shapes and colors.

Preheat a hot glue gun.

Avoid over tightening when wrapping the spiral around itself.

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Cutting with Cricut Maker = 6 mats loaded

Well share the remaining step by step instructions for completing the paper succulent wall hanging.

Stay tuned for that!

Were excited about the opportunity to scale up our business.

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The Cricut Venture opens up so many possibilities and makes the process faster and easier.

Were excited to use it to make additional presonal touches to help us stand out.

Dont these personalized labels we we made withCricut Venture sticker cardstocklook so fun?

cricut venture with white colored cardstock on cutting mat loaded into machine

To learn more about Cricut Venture, check out ourComplete Guide and Review!

We even have a fununboxing video to watchon our YouTube channel.

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cricut venture with white colored cardstock on cutting mat loaded into machine

close up photo showing spiral shapes being cut into teal colored paper cardstock

close up photo showing spiral shapes being cut into teal colored paper cardstock

screengrab of images available for cutting in design space

screengrab of images available for cutting in design space

screengrab of design space showing various spiral shapes in 3 different colors

screengrab of design space showing various spiral shapes in 3 different colors

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screengrab of design space showing multiple succulent pattern shapes

screengrab of design space showing multiple succulent pattern shapes

screengrab showing material options for cutting with cricut venture

screengrab showing material options for cutting with cricut venture

woman installing the cricut ventre arms for holding cutting mats

woman installing the cricut ventre arms for holding cutting mats

woman loading a cutting mat into cricut venture

woman loading a cutting mat into cricut venture

a cutting mat loaded into cricut venture and cutting in progress

a cutting mat loaded into cricut venture and cutting in progress

teal colored spiral shapes on a Cricut cutting mat

teal colored spiral shapes on a Cricut cutting mat

large size cutting mat with cardstock loaded into Cricut Venture

large size cutting mat with cardstock loaded into Cricut Venture

woman peeling cut cardstock of a Cricut cutting mat

woman peeling cut cardstock of a Cricut cutting mat

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wrapping spiral cut pattern into a 3D paper succulent

wrapping spiral cut pattern into a 3D paper succulent

using a quilling tool to make paper succulents

using a quilling tool to make paper succulents

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Collage of images showing the Cricut Venture, close up of precision cut paper pieces and a table with stacks of pieces cut in different colors to make paper succulents.

Collage of images showing the Cricut Venture, close up of precision cut paper pieces and a table with stacks of pieces cut in different colors to make paper succulents.