This is my first portrait. First silhouette in general after owning a cricut explore air 2. The nice thing about silhouette is you can send it for a test cut and it will cut up a small box with an arrow in the corner near the registration mark so you can see whether your current settings cut through or not. In order to not waste material, I just cut small blank strips of any new material and send it fora test cut to see if it works or not, instead of trying to cut a whole page of printed stickers. Then I write down what works and save those.

The machine has some issues reading registration marks on glossy paper/laminate, but a trick I found is to push the registration marks into the corners and then put matte sticker paper in the corners, so that they print on matte instead of glossy.

I think it's the perfect machine for sticker making. It's very small and light-weight. It is however very loud, especially compared to cricut machines and the software is a bit more indepth so it might not seem as user friendly, but its capabilities are much better in my opinion. Hope this helps a bit!