CRICUT VS. JULIET | A HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON WITH AN EXPERT CRAFTER + GIVEAWAY!!

[Music] happy Tuesday here at the makers learn YouTube channel we have a very we've had a special guest since Sunday evening here in Tennessee we have been loving you welcome welcome welcome Ashley belome I'm here I'm here and you're extra always a little bit extra you've been to a live show before no I have not a live show we are like 0er to 100 quick 1,000% that's exactly day every single day I am so excited to have you on the show today I'm little nervous y'all just a little nervous lives make me nervous every person especially like that watches live are like go be instant BFFs with you because you're so creative were we instant BFFs like online BFS I came to your house on Sunday and just made yourself at home that's right she started cooking dinner with us we went grocery shopping I her to the Starbucks we've pred over for years to I showed her around like y'all it's been so much fun so Ashley welcome to Tennesse she has filmed in such a treat has filmed so many new videos for you guys exhausted y'all he is uh work he he has been working me into the working we've been working her so many fun videos coming on the channel yes a lot of them Ashley there could be some people here that have no idea who you are no let's roll it back who are you what do you do give us all the details okay so my name is Ashley Falco I have been a small business owner on Etsy since 2012 Tanner knows all about me so then in 2020 I opened up my own card stock company through that time I've grown my social media to really I would say like a fairly decent audience well I met your wife first first like 20 2020 around the time I opened up the card stock shop and so me and her just chatted before and I had no idea who Tanner Bell was and that was I had posted on my own Instagram some work I did for them and they were like oh my gosh you're doing work for Tanner I'm like I don't know who that is like you're like I don't know and they're like started linking you and I was like oh my gosh so then me and you have become I would say we were like besties oh yeah and now we're like really we're doing so in real life so many fun I love that most of work we've been or hanging out we've been doing has nothing to do with work which is so fun it's been a lot of fun so good it's really really neat so your card stock now I have to add in here when we so I started 2022 with a mission I believe it was 2022 yes at the beginning of it yeah or 2023 I think 2023 yes January of 2023 I came into the office one day and I said guys I cannot be seen promoting this card stock from Walmart this card stock from Michaels that like just hodg podge of card stock like we need to I literally said to the team we are marrying a brand of card stock this year and I was already online besties with Courtney you were already besties with Courtney I had no idea me you did not know each other at that point I had no idea that she had a card stock company but Courtney like perked up and was like Tanner I have the card stock that like Cuts Like butter inside the Cricut I'm ordering it we're going to like test it cuz that's what we did we we did put Ashley's up head-to-head against quite a few other brands thanks for doing that yes and we fell in love like it cut so Faithfully so over the past you know year or two we have been using it as our card sock exclusively exclusively celebration Warehouse stock I to interrupt you it was so cool because this is the first time I've been to your studio and Alicia took me on a tour and she said and this is your card stock and my name AF card stock is there I was like okay okay yeah yeah so that this is the face behind celebration Warehouse if you all have just been listening and been seeing um it's super super fun I also just like love all of the work Ashley does just as an artist herself which is like the main part of like all of the fun that she does like you'll want to follow her see all her work it's incredible you're like a pro at Instagram I want to say he keeps calling me an expert the last three days I feel like he's like bumping my ego up a little bit I don't know I show up at like 6 am. I generally look like a hot mess yes I generally look like a hot mess sometimes I've had too much cup of coffee and I'm running around like crazy you know it's just a good time I love being a crafter and so I'm always like getting my hands into some random things well recently I said the other day I said I'm making a marquee letter and you were like why why are you doing that I'm like cuz I want to so it is like crazy cool I saw him and I was like how is she doing doing this she like no it's really not that hard I'm like it's really not that hard you you'll Watch Me on YouTube for it I love it now another fun thing that we've just been collaborating on is Ashley's card stock is coming to makeon yes so one thing this year about makeon if you did not attend last year or if you did attend last year you'll be happy happy to know all of the suppli to attend and actually participate are so affordable so we have been able to make it super easy and accessible if you want to come to make on this year you want to get in before March 2nd so we have tickets uh Miss sad just dropped the links for you so if you have not got a makeon ticket grab it if you are lucky enough to be one of the one in600 we sent out 6 said she said 600 boxes bless her bless her bless her I should have sent my husband to you s yeah yeah we needed him we needed him so if you're one of the 600 you have some of that in your box and they're really good colors you guys can pick some colors and I was like wow those are some really good stuff but if you do still want to participate in the full live event on March 2nd and get lifetime access to the recordings you can still participate grab a ticket no box included because we ran out but the ticket is still less than cost of one night in a hotel which is insane you can make all four projects live with us and that's like our completion like I don't know the last time that I completed four projects in one day intentionally just for selfle so that's why like this event is so big and we love love love hosting it is to help you guys like just be a little selfish like crafting yeah block it off and do it so it's going to be super fun I can't wait for you to see all the projects we have the supply list we've really you know wanted to make it super accessible so we have a lot more accessible projects in the last like couple of months like into the new year and they're good they're so good yeah I've been here for three days and i' like I've been listening and that stuff is I I'm like okay I like that and I've been giving tips a little bit like oh you can get them and they're like okay perfect yeah it's so fun so we love it so we love love love it today we are having a conversation on the show that I am so excited to have well I think we might ruffle some feathers it's going to be so good I know that me and you have talked about it a little bit we go back we like we like we go back and forth about this this comes like it's I think it might get a little heated no not at all this you have a very strong op op and actually all the girls here have a very strong opinion with you I am the black sheep of this entire studio and I'm really excited like I am here showing up for this conversation like very neutral like no you're not you're I'm very I'm excited to learn okay I'm excited to soak up all the things that you so you're will you're willing oh in what I have to say so you're going to take all your bias and throw them straight out the window my bias is sat to the side okay for this conversation promise of course promise I promise we are talking about today Cricket versus the Juliet the Caesar Julet Caesar Juliet machine which is their would you say this is the machine that's the closest comparable Apples to Apples to a cricket machine 1,00% perfect they also have the Romeo Caesar Romeo which would be closest to the Venture right the venture a little backstory for anyone that has not heard your story tell us about just your generalized experience of getting a Juliet for the first time and like CU Ashley is if has you probably have seen Ashley on Instagram they've seen my back with like six six to eight crickets working at one time yeah so you I mean you're in bed with Cricket I would say that I'm like well versed in cricket and I did did it for a business I ran eight crickets for my business right and I would say that the one biggest fustration I have with Cricket is their PR and cut feature that is the it messes up all the time it's finicky you know and uploading images to that can get sometimes annoying so I got approached from Caesar to say hey we have a new machine can we send it to and I'm like okay thinking that this was going to be nothing nothing and the print then cut over there is [Music] 1,000% I like over on the Crickets if you do like a dark prin the C and like dark color card stock you have to do like hacks right oh yeah we and we provide the hacks yeah they're like and I have them on my channel you have to hack the crud out of them and over on the Caesars you don't like I have done craft card stocks so like really dark brown card stock beautiful beautiful PR and cuts holographic sticker paper PR and cut perfect and I've never had to calibrate my machines really yeah isn't that wild fascinating yes I love that so if you're a cricketer that really only does PR and cut that machine hands down how about it is where you should be at now there are some drawbacks to it sure because look it's been around for a long time yes and they are the most userfriendly out there so if you don't know how to design anything or Buton it's good and easy but trying to move toly new can be a little bit hard however for me because I've been a user of so many craft machines extraordinaire right expert I kind of know like oh this button's going to do it over here although it has a different name so for me it's easy but for a brand new person yeah like and I think that's what like when you hear our bias like it comes from I think one of the few things I do really well is looking at the average consumer that is more of a hobbyist that wants to have a great experience and I think you hit it so proper Cricket's been around for 14 15 I mean over 20 years like I think it was founded in like 2004 2005 so 20 years of innovation for die cutting and learning about die cutting from the consumer and the time that they have taken and the honestly the dollar spent for the software cuz I feel like if you you can have the best hardware you can have the best machine I would agree I would agree that but until software is super userfriendly you can't even access Hardware right so that's why you have to really see and make a true comparison from software being number one and I'm so excited I think Caesar is like so dedicated to making their machine the best well I know know that they are yeah they're totally like they're showing up and showing out with hardware and now as they expand they're already developing so much for software so I'm so excited to see where it's at today and where it's going it's going to be so amazing um honestly what I love to say especially in the craft industry and this is proven to be true in any industry competition makes it all better for the consumer that is the truth there has never been a an instant that more competition has been bad for an industry because what more competition does is it will like Cricket will be watching this and be like oh my gosh like we need to fix all of this hardware and like Caesar can watch this and be like oh gosh maybe we need to think about it from the lens of being super user friendly to the consumer the average consumer it just propels people to do better in their own brand yes because when there's no competition I think everyone can find truth in this is that Brands get stale like there's no innovation because there's no required reason to innovate so that's why I that's why I'm like make like this is a big deal for us to have this conversation but I love it because people have asked for it I've seen you naturally switch and gravitate more to Julet and I'm excited to see like the things about it so I'm I'm excited to be here as just a spectator and like throw you some questions from the group we have so many friends here people are obsessed with your cards I love that the absolutely love it um love it oh switching to Ashley V after my Supply depletes okay I love hearing you're going to love it it's so faithful um love it got my makeon box love your card stock love your card stock so nice to see you love your card St look at that of course we're going to be BFFs with the person that makes the best card stock yes hello Megan thank you Megan is a longtime friend of the show friend of mine as well so it's so good so so good um and it's I love it love it love it so the Caesar software is free correct like the Bas model there's like a basic and a pro and the basic is free and even if you don't own the Caesar machines you can still download the the program it's called Leonardo and you can download it and play it around now most of the features that are same Cricket right you can so that's the greatest thing is if you don't have either machine you have no idea what you're doing download both and just play around with both o we have a friend who hasn't turned on their maker since they bought a Julia a year ago I do have to say that I absolutely love the Juliet and the Romeo because the machine Cuts so much better and cuts like even my card stock better okay but like I'm always going to the Cricut because there's so many Cricut users you know what I mean and so like I in the game of what we do you know you have a YouTube channel I have one and if I post a Cesar video not everyone's going to watch it right and so like my CRI there's more Cricket users you know there's so did you know this is fun so one thing I like to do in my spare time is read public cricet is a publicly traded company now so you can read their stock reports you can see how much money they're making you see what they're up to they have two million this is why we're friends because I also do the same I know these statistics you're about two million access members which is their subscription so cool they also have I believe over 6 million people that have a registered active machine so over 6 million users so it's just I mean Apples to Apples I'm not sure the stats on on Caesar or anything like that but it's still I mean they're sold inside Michaels I know they're a great vendor um Joann's may have them I've seen i' I've seen them hit and miss I've been to a Joann they have them not Cesar is so one thing you'll know find interesting about Caesar is they do not sell to direct to consum they don't which I think is really which is really an interesting Dynamic for the consumer cricet you can go to cricut.com buy everything you want yeah all their supplies and everything you can get direct from cricket Caesar you have to get what they call a distributor so that could be Michael's Joann's wherever or even like online you know like heat transfer Warehouse has them yes so that's just something to be aware of so today we are going to show you a design software comparison so excited to go over going print cut Juliet exited what it vyl name and then we're do go cut some card stock well just a little bit what I wanted to show you is because in the videos that we've been recording I created a card stock Banner file within for makers going to learn website and my when I was talking to Alicia I was like look if I take this file and put it over into the Caesar you're going to see a huge difference between the two so I have it already loaded up in the cricet design space so I can show you what it looks like there and then I'm going to take that same file put it into Caesar and then we'll be able to see like in real time like what the differences are that'll be super super awesome so also today launching we'll have the link for you very soon we have some brand new files that Ashley's worked with our design team to develop that are coming out to coordinate with some of her videos so we're go feature some of those files today on the show good so we love it so if you're not a member we've dropped a link for you to get started with our membership for a dollar you get 20 download credits for a dollar Ashley the math on that five cents a download I know and I have been on the makers going to learn website and I was like oh favorite favorite favorite favorite so sweet we love it we love it and we have so much to talk about today we're also giving away a $50 Ashley Falco celebration Warehouse gift card I'm so excited so all you need to do whether you're watching the replay you're watching live just comment and at the show on next Wednesday we will announce the winner from this giveaway so anybody can be entered to win we'll just announce it next Wednesday at the show super super fun we can't wait to see who wins that I love it Ginger we have a Juliet here Caesar was so nice to send a juli yet when they first launched and we haven't made a ton of content on it so I'm so excited that we have expert the tried and true I would argue that you've probably used the machine the most out of anyone that's not an employee of Caesar I maybe yeah what if that's true what if that what if that is true what if I don't know I would be very confident it could be I don't know too many users that do have the Caesar I know I have converted a couple Cricket users into a Caesar but like I'm not entirely sure how many right I think you are probably one of the best people to have here and talk about this conversation I'm excited to try and May excited here's what I would love for you guys to do before we jump in as we go through the show and things come up feel free to drop the comments here we have a great group over 200 are live with us right now and if you have questions please speak up because we want to have your input for the conversation absolutely as we do this so Ashley are we ready to dive in let's do it let's do it w heading over to the craft table doie so fun you want to do the want to do which one let's let's dive right into the design software comparison so we can start having this conversation so people can kind of see what it would look like for them to experience the software okay so first and foremost I'm sure there are well-versed Cricut users out there if I were to open up a brand new window in the Caesar Leonardo program this is what it would look like now I say this a lot on my own YouTube channel but you know that when you're on Cricket everything that is on your screen no matter where it's at that will be cut well over on the Caesar Leonardo program it's not like that this box that you see on the screen is M that's your that's going to be your entire cutting area interesting so when I went and talked about the whole Cricut craft thing was this particular Banner that is going to be available um and the maker going to learn website wo so this was the SVG file that I created and like I had said this is this entire thing is on the uh Cricut design space and obviously when we go over into the make screen what it does is it autop populates all the colors individually right so everything that was on the screen gets moved over into the cut screen right MH and we're used to that I mean we are Cricut users and I'm sure you're used to that so yeah it's I think it's really interesting the dynamic of like having the mat there like it reminds me of the silhouette software a little bit Yeah so I would say that the Caesar Leonardo program best emulates the silhouette program um that's you know how how I would describe itally but there's all it's it's you it's I feel like it's more userfriendly than the the silhouette program okay little bit more I think when I think about silhouette like the software for silhouette is very like I feel like I have to be like go get a graphic design deg absolutely to work with it so would you feel like this software is kind of a great meat in the middle between cricket and where silhouette has with their Pro Edition because you can make full svgs and Export them and things like that inside of silhouette well you could do this you can export this SVG file in like this is our this is already an SVG file if I want to save and then uh right wherever it's at is it could it be save as no it's export oh export I'm looking for that export button where would that be it's going to make me out to be a lighter let me see let's just insert a square here sure and I don't know I'm not quite sure where your export button is but there is an export button on my laptop there is like right underneath import there's an export button and a button would pop up that says export your own SVG file and you can export your SVG software right here just the base do we know if it's the paid version or the free that we have loaded on this computer you know what I don't know cuz that that usually is a paid more of a paid feature you know what I think that this is the free version so maybe that's the maybe that's the difference is that you don't have the pro version and I do right so this would be obviously the difference between the pro and the basic and then I'm going pull up just so that everyone's aware the software is called Caesar Leonardo Leonardo I want to pull up the pricing just so that we have a good grip I just want to see if I can pull this up to talk about the differences in the pricing and the things like that um I'm trying to see here yeah there's a lot of really cool features like path Tex arctex which is their curve feature um expanded weld tools um Vector brush the they have eraser brush that's available when you're um paying for the the pro version um but ashy I'm on Caesar's website they don't have the pricing I don't think that they do have the pricing because search it let me go pro generally are you enjoying the seizure machine I'm going to say yes just oh hello okay so it's available for $88.99 per month MH if you're interested in subscribing for their design they Pro and I do have to say as I'm here like generally under the text I have the pro and so I would not only have just a text box but I also have like a curve feature and one that would make a wave so you're definitely missing a lot more features than what I see on my computer right and obviously exporting svgs even if you had a silhouette program you would still have to pay for the silhouette Pro Edition in order to be able to save your own SVG files so the only difference between the two is no matter what membership you get over at the Cricut website you're never going to be able to save your own SVG files right go to the cloud they're all in their ecosystem so that is nice when you are in systems like uh Caesar or silhouette you have more ability to export designs that you make Cricut keeps it very much like apple where it's like all in their ecosystem all in their world one thing that Cricut is notorious for is taking things called like heat transfer vinyl and coming up with their own name like iron on like the only company that calls heat transfer vinyl ironon is Cricut so that's just if you are a natural born Cricut user if you've been raised Cricut only and you're starting to venture out just to can see what's out there you'll notice that some of these flexibilities or possibilities are different than what you could been used to with G which is neat yeah so the one thing and we'll go back to that saving SVG files I have a laser cutter so sometimes I like to incorporate like my HTV or vinyl into my laser projects so if I'm able to design allinone software export my SVG file I can pick and choose what I go over to my laser what I do with my Crick I think that's a really good point when we think about how seamless your experience has been again you're so well-versed in other softwares like you bring a lot of past experience from other design softwares to the table when this is introduced you're making me feel good about myself and making me make me think that I am an expert I'm like okay maybe I I am an expert so what other things do you think for anyone that's considering just knowing the differences what else was like a really big aha moment for you for this let me let me go back to that party Banner do it because remember we have it over on the cricket and it's like come on come on now this is what it looks like all like spaced out in all our mats right right so like the biggest difference if you go over to the Leonardo program this is our in this file is the same exact size as the file in Cricut design space if we were to try and send this over because it's all on our screen if we were try to send this over into the Caesar program there is two things that you can do one of which is only the selected artwork and the other one is the artwork that fits on the page so you remember that square I was talking about if it's not on the Square it's not going to the cut screen so you can see that the a r and those two penants are highlighted if we were to press send the only thing that is over in the cut screen are those two pennants and then I guess we have some extra words here so the workaround to that which is kind of a pain is I would select everything and I'm going to just go and Center all of this and I'm going to put it all on my on my square that we have right we're going to press send design and we're going to do all the artwork that fits on the page and then we'll just press send again yeah so now what we have to do is move all these pieces like this is like two blue pieces we need to move these away so they don't touch each other we need but is it organized by color it is organized by color but it's not like how you would see it in cricket design space no totally where you press make where you press make and it's like I don't have to touch the white the White's already separated you know and let's can you stay there for one second and scroll through like I y'all you have no idea how valuable it is for me to know what color goes on what map if you're doing 14 15 if you're doing 18 Ms there is no way you're going to remember absolutely colors so Ashley what do you what do you do first of all I am new to this so like watching her Center it and like copy it and those buttons like that was just a lot for me like I got I think one of the things I do really well is I get really overwhelmed easy so it's easy for me to teach from an overwhelmed place and like go back to basics a lot so taking it that into consideration what is your cheat sheet hack if you were to do this in on the Julia right now like do you take a picture of it before you know I have to tell you tell me your secret honest My secret is is I just use the cricket okay so oh that's fine that's totally fine I have tried making banners and I do have a couple tutorials of that on my own YouTube channel and I can tell you that by the time I'm done it's definitely possible but like if I was doing this as a business still on my Etsy shop this would not be the way I would do it it is just it's not as fluid as that it is on the Cricut you know what I mean does that make sense no it totally does and I think this example is actually really really great cuz I see lot of users here that are interested in the comments and loving it um and that have been enjoying it I think to commit and I mean we are more we are welcoming you to have two machines yeah we we welcome that like so that's the thing is if you have the space the budget and the excitement to explore a new machine I'm all for it yeah and that's the thing is like so for me I love making party decorations and so I'm going to do my card stock projects on the Cricut I personally think the Caesar machines cut better on my card stock but I'm still going to use the Cricut design space because it's just so easy for card stock projects however simple like vinyl decals or HTV decals or even PR kits I'm going to go to the Caesar for that yeah because there's only going to be like one mat right so I'm going to show you that yes that's going to be so good okay I'm excited are you ready I'm ready okay do it so let's just go into something I've already designed wait these are going to be these SVG files that are going to be on the makers going to learn website if there's anything you need to know about me a crispy Diet Coke from the gas station and I have been here for three days and Tanner's not fed me one Diet Coke I just want to let you know listen I drive an electric car we don't go to gas station I'm just giving him a hard time I have tried to feed this woman three squares a day and she has only ate one meal a day y'all I am on a diet I have been concerned I it's almost bathing suit season and I need to get ready the bikini now Ashley sorry to Kut you off about your bathing Su um I have a question yeah and it's certainly not from me it's from the viewers and now I'm like very intrigued does Caesar have adaptive tools no they don't unfortunately not so I do they have score they if you've used the Caesar or the silhouette yeah in their score line have you seen it it's like a perforated line it goes down the thing not real well I actually so I actually prefer the perforated lines the reason for that is like I make 3D letters and boxes sometimes making the folds of the paper is like really hard which that scored line the perforated line makes the bending of the paper a lot easier I not a lot of people like the scored line well Ash I'm a paper I'm a card maker card makers love a good real score life yeah I know Tanner's trying to out me here no yeah he is you can tell him you can tell him I Ashley owns a card very successful card company I just assumed that you would also be a card maker and I Ashley goes against the grain yeah do you want to tell them what you told me well so yesterday they were we were all sitting around the table and they were talking about some projects and something about a card came up and they said I don't know ask Ashley she makes the cards they said who who told you that um I've been a paper crafter since 2012 I've never made one card ever in the entire stop room stopped and everyone was like you've never made a card I'm like nope y'all never have if you don't know my origin story I started making cards in 2010 like I just I I just thought it was like it's funny to me that you went straight to like 3D projects and like Advanced and like this and I'm over here like paper like cards are not hard but like they're such an easy entry point like that's normally how most people get hooked into paper crafting is making cards first from my experience from I do have to say though that if you're getting a gift from me guarantee I will never buy you a card from the grocery store either I I'm just not a card Giver I love it I'd make you a great cake topper or birthday banner yes I love that you're going to want that more yeah totally want that more sin says Tanner and Blake kept me wellfed while I was visiting sin you know we pull out all stops we we took her to the Melting Pot we I've never had the Melting Pot before it's so good that's fond de ain't it yes we we love to do we've Advanced to fond Don Nots at our house but that's a whole other story um yeah I need my score line too so there's no adaptive tools with this machine yet Pat from Caesar he's like some head honcho over there he says they're coming I've had conversations with him and he says that they're coming I've asked them about like when andol yeah like when or what and he kind of hems and haw okay so I'm not sure that that's something that we should be holding our breath on it'll come when it comes apparently making adaptive tools for your machine is really hard okay that's what I fear yeah okay cool I love it I love it love it love it okay so you have your stickers that are here in the Caesar software y the Caesar software I'm just going to show you how easy it is to upload a SVG file interested okay so if you're in the Caesar software all you need to do is either you can go to a and you can go to file and import or we can do some keyboard shortcuts and we're going to do command I on the Mac and I am just going to open up my crispy Diet Coke SVG PNG file and then press open now Ashley do you know anyone named JY jackon no okay she's a friend of the show she's on here she just commented and I have to share it with you Ashley's accent is really coming out being around T it so Alicia said the same thing oh my God so I spent some years in Kentucky and I'm also from California so I feel like I talk really fast like I'm a Californian and then I've picked up the Kentucky and accent well now I live in South Carolina and it's just a Melting Pot of people I feel like I have that personality trait I guess where I pick up people's accents really well and I Alicia has even stronger southern accent than you do and me and her have been hanging out and next thing you know I know stie was like your voice just keeps changing like it's because y all keep talking to me it's so good it's so good yeah okay action fire questions I know you're about to show us uploading I have two action fire questions for you one I already know the answer to this one we were we were bragging on this machine for this does Juliet use mats so they do if you use card stock no matter what machine you you're using on you need to use a mat the like vinyl HTV the stuff that you don't cut all the way through it does not matter the brand that you're using you can go matless with this machine I know that with the Cricut you have to have the Cricut smart brand material it's very expensive and not many people enjoy working with that right and we again have hacked the system where you could cut just Vine have you have to link that video for me okay I'll cuz I I've not I've not I've not seen your hat oh it's we just you know little this or that yeah I've not seen it secret little secret sauce uh second question is can you use pins with the Caesar Juliet well you can and um long I I would not I would not suggest it I have played around with it enough and they have like Caesar sublimation markers that work for that but I would not it's not something that I would suggest doing if you were going to use a pen I would just do it on the Cricut you it's a little bit easier to do and to use over there perfect thank you okay back to you so sorry j okay so we just imported this uh Diet Coke PNG file and we're going to do a p uh print and cut so then we're just going to press next and then this box is going to pop up um because this file is saved without a background you don't really have to do anything besides keep pressing next and you get it's this is just loading up and is this software cloud-based or like computer based um I'm pretty sure you can save it to the cloud but I always save my files onto my computer for that yeah yeah yeah okay so can you one other question can you use this software with no internet yes that's very nice well this is the nice thing is you can use it without the internet love it okay so one thing to note here is because we don't have a background on here you can see these like small little cutouts that are right here if you wanted to get rid of them for whatever reason you would just click this thing right here and you can see that it all went away that's perfect I'm just going to leave them in because I just want to and I'm going to press next and then I'm going to press finish okay so this is my right here let me move all this away this right here is going to be your finished uploaded PNG file so it seems to it seems to have more buttons to press than the Cricut design space however sometimes I've noticed when you're trying to import like high DPI which is just like real high resolution PNG files Cricut likes to take its sweet time doing that but because we're not cloudbased or like internet based over here it goes a lot quicker now question does the mat just automatically change so I've noticed it's went from a 12 x 12 mat yeah it's now an 8 and 1 half by 11 mat automatically do it cuz it's a print and cut image yes it just did sods for you it does but the beauty of this is like this is an8 and 1 half by 11 machine the Juliet is if you wanted to do a larger print then cut all you would need to do is come over here into the print right here and you would set your paper size to whatever size that you wanted to now this right here is a 12in machine so you could do a 12 in cutout so we could do a 12 by 12 inch paper size and press okay and then press okay again now you have a full 12 in print then cut ability so I know over on the Crickets you can't do 12 in by 12 in right so that is that is the benefit over here okay cool okay so I'm just going to go back to like where we had the uh this right here and I'm going to turn change this back to 8 and 1 half by 11 because we're going to print this out on um I think I think who what is it what kind of is it like waterproof vinyl that we're printing this on yeah some I don't know yeah we're probably using some of our favorites yeah so let's build a contour for this which you can do an offset over on Cricut design face how do you do it here you press this little star button that looks like it has like a little Shadow it's called build Contours okay and you can click on that this box is going to pop up and you just want to bump this up and you can see that blue line that's growing you can make this as large or as small as what you want it to be so this blue line is going to be our new Contour which if you are in criced design space this would be your offset gotcha so you just make the whatever size that you want once you're happy you press apply and then that's your that's your offet now Ashley I am just curious so someone just commented it looks more complicated and I think it's just different So within that how did you learn all of these different things how did you learn well first and foremost um I've just pressed buttons okay and but you explore with curiosity I I most definitely I think that's a part of crafting the joy of crafting is is that we don't know what we're doing right yeah until we do it right and we're like oh my gosh this is cool so anytime and I like I've said before like I have laser machines I didn't know how to work them and I yes I have my own YouTube channel but I did not watch YouTube tutorials on that so I just outed that was one of my questions was how has your experience been troubleshooting and or looking for any training on this machine I would have to say that there is not a lot of Caesar tutorials out there to reference there are a few people I have some Caesar tutorials on my own YouTube channel as I learn I try and like post my learnings um but really honestly it's just trial and error and I kind of know because I've now worked with Cricut and the silhouette now the Caesar and multiple different laser and design programs I kind of know what I'm looking for like different lines and stuff like that but I've also been doing it since 2012 I think just for anyone considering this machine you have to be excited to solve problems and explore rather than you just need to be ready to understand the amount of training and amount of people using the machine to create the high quality tutorials that are available in the cricket very quickly are just not as available yet with Caesar you know it's a new herb machine yeah it would say it's newer there's not a lot of content not a lot of learning content right so you just have to be a open to learning the the program yes totally perfect okay so we're going to go back to an 8 and 1 half by 11 PR and cut and then I'm just going to show you how to do the print and cut this is the this is the sticker sheet that I created yay so everything fits on the page we have an 8 and 1/2 by 11 letter size I'm just going to press send design mhm and then we are just going to make sure that this right here is is checked it's all the artwork that fits on the page wait before we do that let me change this because I noticed that there was an issue there we go I just wanted to readjust the page marks because this little carrot right here got cut off on my last uh print sheet that I did for this oh so press send design then send again okay if you were on the Crickets and you did this which I don't have it loaded up in the Crickets but you would have one mat on the Crickets right you would have this thing that also has your cutting Contours you would have to go into make and then press send a printer load it into your Cricut and then you would have to do anything else right so for this Caesar program what we have to do is we have to first send this to the printer so right here I need to make sure that I am going to be printing on an 8 and 1 half by 11 sheet of paper why does it say 12 in by looks like it's a 12in page I don't know hopefully we're going to let make this work technology but it says that I'm printing on 8 and 1 half by 11 I don't you see the little like little it's 8 and half by 11 but this whole box is at 12 in so we're going to trust the process and we're just going to press send a printer well I think it thinks you're go put it on the map I think so too we shall see so all I'm going to do is print this sheet and press print and I'm going to wait for this thing to print now when it's done printing what you have to do manually is come and click this cutting Contours button love it actually I'm also just go make you aware I did not think about this your driver is arriving at 3:00 and 2:15 oh jeez we got to go we need no we're me and me and Ashley could sit here for hours with you guys probably yeah easy easily easily like effortlessly um so okay let me oh Swift Creek Customs does a lot of tutorials I'm G to get that sheet come on over my friends come back to me let me know what you guys are thinking of the show I mean Ashley you are if you're in love with Ashley like we are here you will get to see her across the channel again she has worked with us to develop some laser videos some Etsy videos some paper crafting videos we have collaborated on some of the best like things that we think she is just an expert in and excels for our YouTube channel so she is such a treat we're so glad to have her here again we love her card stock so she's grabbing the print out if you have any questions for Ashley she is a six figure Etsy seller she is a paper crafting wizard a um amazing Caesar expert um and we absolutely adore and love her her so let us know if you have any questions if you will have any questions please let us know and we'll do action fire so we're just going get them right on up and yeah is it printing it printed like it was a 12 in print okay what do we do here what do we do 8 and 1 12 by 11 we're on the letter press right do that also just be well aware your mic is on you whenever you walk out oh thank you s's taking care of us um I'm also going to drop you guys I would love for you to also subscribe to Ashley's YouTube channel so I'm going to drop you a link to Ashley's Channel I swear I know what I'm doing Ashley knows what she's doing love it love it hey Alicia there's a new sheet of sticker Pap I'm trying to reset this up because I don't know what happened yeah I'm thinking the same thing okay this looks a lot better now crazy crazy yeah awesome thank you okay so I just copied and pasted I know I just did a whole lot and I don't know if you saw any of what I did but I just opened up a brand new window copied and pasted my original thing that we had over here and I put it on to a new canvas now let's hopefully this works maybe maybe this works I'm going to try it I'm just going to print at 8 and 1 half by 11 let's do paper handling we're going to do 8 and 1 half by 11 maybe oh so here's the suggested paper size it was wanting to print on 12 by 12 oh okay perfect that was what the problem is so I think I may be I'm pretty yes so it's printing so we're going to print love it awesome love it love it love it so so good okay so we have quite a few questions so we're go get an action fire ready okay for you um someone said Ash I have a Juliet I find it difficult to learn can you develop tutorials about basic use no one has really done that it would be helpful so so event that was event I absolutely would one of the main things that I always ask people is find one of my Caesar videos on my YouTube channel and give me Project based like what basic things do you want to learn how to make let me know because I love being Project based okay let me just offer you so here at maker is going to learn we teach not Project based isn't that interesting so have but you are I love that you do Project based that's so fun I love being Project based because it gives somebody the average crafter um like like it didn't work again we're going to have to scratch this I don't know that's totally F this has been such a great combo um we're just going to keep continuing on someone asked will you ever have 12x 24 card stock available in the card stock shop yeah uh my husband is a part of my team and when the Venture first came out we had talked about it and I I I'm not entirely sure it's a big investment I'm could only imagine into I mean it's expensive to go larger it's expensive it's the shipping that's the that is the is the hang up here because you know to ship a box of card stock for us no matter where it goes at the very minimum it's $9 and that's no way yeah and that's a 12in card stock box like 12 x 12 in so like to double that size like how how much am I going to sell this paper for well have you seen how much Cricket charges they a lot of money it's really it's really expensive so I mean maybe in the future that's not something that's in the works I'm still try to grow the pl card stock and the specialy card stock lines a little bit more and then maybe we'll get into that I love it okay so I think we have a little bit of every all the questions I'm trying to think if there's anything else that we want to go over I know we had a lot of things to cover but we also literally only have 30 more minutes until your dver is coming so I don't know if you want to come back over and we'll do I to leave I was telling them that you are such a wealth of knowledge and like literally we just love being around you so to ask any questions six figure Etsy seller you're working on an amazing Etsy Workshop that you're going have to everybody's going to have to get signed up on where is the best place that you want people to go to like learn more about you staying up to date like where should we I would say either YouTube or Instagram if or both um I can tell you not today or you know this last couple days but I show up for Instagram Monday through Friday and I'm if you want to see more behind the scenes you want to go over there but if you want the more polished Ashley Falco you're going to stay St on the on the YouTube so so good now Gwyn says I have a joy I've done nothing I'm so intimidated I'm not Tech savy at all gwy I truly believe if you we have a dollar promo for our membership if you join for a dollar you have 7-Day access watch my 30-day challenge of mastering the cricket it is very bite-sized it is very tangible and all it's all pretty much software focused so you'll learn the software of your joy and you're going to be crushing it the joy is so easy to so fun it's so little it's like a little thing I love it I love it we are not going to do any test cutting today but that is available over on Ashley's channel to see the cuts and everything like that we just have to be a little more mindful of her time with us she's yeah I really wish I could do the test Cuts but this whole PR and cut thing just has yeah it's technology so anyway uh her Instagram is under Ashley Falco Ashley y Falco Ashley y Falco so fun and then what what's the speed of the cutting between the two machines Liz is curious about tell me I would say it's extremely fast I actually have like a a reel of it on my Instagram that shows the difference between the two and the times o so I do like a time stamp this is how much this is how long it takes for this or this so it's really fast yeah Lindsay those files are dropping today so they'll be added to the side give us just a little bit and those will be added to the website super super fun oh my gosh I love it I love it love it love it so any last minute questions for us here inside of makers going to learns little chat with Ashley I love it I'm intrigued I've learned a lot have you yeah I wish I I would love to have seen like more of the test wish this live could be a little bit longer I know we could have spent all day with them like really diving in and we totally would have if I didn't remember you literally have a plan to C I would miss my flight I didn't think about that until like 5 minutes ago oh my gosh you have worry written on your face oh I so just so everyone's aware I was always late for school and my mom was a last minute person I am like very punctual I like too definitely like it drives me crazy when people are late me too we are twins we were born somewhere JY says any new colors of card stock coming soon okay so I was just talking to Tanner and Courtney about this but we have four colors four and they are neon o and I have a really good magenta pink color and I like to compare it to the Tik Tock pink because like that is a hard but we're talking like good Neons I got neon orange pink and yellow and then we have that magenta and then I have seven six or seven new plain C card stock colors so uh Courtney actually she messaged me and she was like I'm requesting these colors I'm like I got you boo the new colors are inspired by Courtney way all of them pretty much no way I had one in mind and it's kind of like this light brown color oh this is our color yeah I want one of my next cars to be po I'm going between this or a uh like in my new studio in the let's hustle more profit green I'm either considering that green or like that okay so that green that's in your new office is launching it's like a it's like the best forest green sh it is it's a really good and then this and then this like tan color I'm going be making all the projects and then we have like a mustardy yellow it's really good really good really good colors so we'll be having it here on the channel we will be doing lots of paper crafts if you are coming to National craft months our big boot camp at National craft month you'll be getting to see some of the projects we do with Ashley's paper I'm so excited as well as makeon we' have been doing a lot of paper projects around here just naturally cuz we love it and it's so so user friendly and it's so much fun and it's so affordable have you ever thought about doing pattern card I saw that question pop up and um I and we and I we've talked about this I have a hard time selling things that I don't personally love to make or I can stand upon and pattern card stock um you're not a paper crafter which makes sense you don't I am a paper crafter I'm not a I'm Card Maker so sorry so the thing with pattern stock because I can't get behind it is because you can go to like Tanner's website or a lot of different websites and buy the backgrounds and then you can take my plain white card stock get it get yourself a 12in uh printer and print those patterns onto your 12-in paper and you can have all the patterns that you want I will say pattern card stock you hoard and you waste a lot wait a lot of it but if you're like oh my gosh I want one of this pattern then you can just print one sheet and the white card stock for me is high quality most of the time the pattern card stock is very thin yes and another thing I got really excited when pattern heat vinyl came out but when you start trying to use pattern vinyl and pattern heat transfer vinyl it's just not practical like you cut things and you can't see the Plaid design and things like that so it's just not as practical as we once thought we designed throwback in 2019 we had branded Courtney would design every month new patterned heat transfer V really we had a mystery bot I did not know that it was very successful unfortunately as you can imagine it was very expensive but very successful and it was a lot of work and we it was called maker maker material nobody I don't know it was called maker material we had an amazing launch if if you were a maker if you were a maker material does anyone does anyone remember that um we loved the pattern htb and things like that but anyway did not work out too too well um someone asked difference between subscriptions our membership is one subscription you can enter through the trial for a dollar and in seven days become a member Gwen if you already signed up for a dollar subscription log back in you may just need to commit to being a monthly member at $27 so I know there were some questions there so yay the best time with Ashley she is definitely going to have to come back yes definitely she is a like person she lived on the lake so she'll have to come back during Lake season and hang out and yes we can answer all of your customer service questions for us hi atmakers gundar.io on that but I thought it was just one a week I no I am committed to three a week and I like to do a lot of everything so like my channel is more of just like anything that I'm feeling up to doing that's what I'm going to do so so good we love it well Ashley thank you so much for being here I feel oh my gosh so much fun guys please be sure to reach out follow Ashley subscribe it's so much fun and buckle up cuz you're you filmed 10 videos with us here no I think 11 oh my gosh yeah I'm exhausted he's working me to the Bone so much fun it's so much fun we have laser videos Etsy videos uh videos card stock yes we' talked a lot you're going to love it and we cannot wait to see you back here tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. Eastern right here on the YouTube channel for another amazing show until then we'll see you next time bye guys