We recommend the beginner-friendly Cricut Explore 3, with its easy-to-learn design software—similar to Adobe Illustrator—that lets you create, upload, or purchase premade designs.

The Cricut Maker 3 is just as easy for beginners to learn as the Cricut Explore 3. It’s also the quietest machine we tested, and it’s one of the few machines that can cut fabric without ...

The Cricut Joy Xtra ($199) is an electric crafting machine (12.5 x 6 x 5.5 in, about the size of a small shoe box) that prints and cuts a range of shapes, photos and letters on different materials ...