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Not good for Cricut Explore Air
This is super high quality chipboard. It's much thicker than it's brown cardboard-colored brother chipboard from Grafix. I know this because I purchased it to use in my Cricut Explore Air. The cardboard-colored chipboard was able to be cut in the Cricut with the highest pressure setting and a deep cut blade. With this chipboard, it didn't work out. It just didn't cut all the way through. I also used the heavy stick mat and it started to peel a layer of cardboard off the back of this chipboard. I tried doing multiple pass cuts as well and still no luck. I don't blame the product for this, I just want to let everyone know not to buy it for this purpose. What I do think I will try with it, is cutting it in "fold lines" for a box and bending on those cuts to make pretty, custom boxes with the Cricut. I also wanted to mention that embossing ink soaks right into this chipboard, so don't expect to emboss on it either - it just doesn't work out. I added some pictures to show you how my cuts ended up. The ones with the stars actually cut out were done to finality with an Exacto knife, but they're still not clean cuts. There are also small "perforation" dots on the white side of the chipboard. I didn't notice them until I just uploaded these pictures. They don't bother me, but I thought others might want to know they're there! They're very shallow.
October 2015 · Arts Crafts and Sewing · verified purchase
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