{"id":1041,"date":"2026-05-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:00:00","slug":"cricuts-99-craft-cutting-machine-helped-me-feel-creative-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Cricut\u2019s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel creative again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Cricut Joy 2.\" data-caption=\"The desk-friendly Cricut Joy 2 comes in multiple colors. | Photo: Sheena Vasani \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Sheena Vasani \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268504_Cricut_Joy_2_SVasani_0003.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe desk-friendly Cricut Joy 2 comes in multiple colors. | Photo: Sheena Vasani \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">I&#8217;ve always been skeptical of products that claim to help you lead a more creative life. But one recently won me over. I&#8217;ve spent three weeks with the Cricut Joy 2, a smart cutting and drawing machine that made it easy for me to get back into making stickers, cards, bookmarks, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The small $99 gadget isn&#8217;t perfect, but its capabilities and app-provided templates were just what I was looking for. Caregiving, self-criticism, and mental health struggles have made it tough to tinker and doodle like I used to, and yet the Joy 2 clicked with me. It doles out quick wins when you&#8217;re in the mood to create.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/268504_Cricut_Joy_2_SVasani_0007.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"&lt;em&gt;I made both personalized stickers and bookmarks and eventually got back into a creative flow. I even painted the canvases underneath.&lt;\/em&gt; | Photo by Sheena Vasani \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Sheena Vasani \/ The Verge\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">I&#8217;ve been testing the <a href=\"https:\/\/cricut.com\/en-us\/cutting-machines\/cricut-joy\/cricut-joy-2\/cricut-joy-2\/8003167.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cricut Joy 2  \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/924281\/cricut-joy-2-smart-cutting-machine-printer-hands-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desk-friendly Cricut Joy 2 comes in multiple colors. | Photo: Sheena Vasani \/ The Verge I&#8217;ve always been skeptical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}