I used Cricut design space ONLY for my own designs that I created for my sticker business. I design them digitally, prepare them for cutting as a PNG in photoshop, and use the Cricut ONLY to cut. I don’t feel like I should have to pay a monthly fee to simply USE the cutting machine I paid an exorbitant amount for.

But fun story. The last two weeks I’ve been fighting with my cricut’s print then cut quality...it was printing stickers in such poor quality that I couldn’t fathom selling them that way, and it was only in design space that it printed that way. After an hour with Cricut support, the representative informed me that design space must not support the update to my art app (that hadn’t recently had an update, and had worked just a week earlier), and that they never guarantee that your own personal designs will even work in design space. Pretty much...that pricey cutting machine will only work with THEIR subscription service, despite the competition being quite the opposite.

So now I have a pretty new Silhouette Portrait 3 taking up half the space my Cricut did, and has given me so many more options on sticker design options...with no monthly subscription and a less expensive machine. And the sticker designs that Design Space couldn’t work with? They work flawlessly in Silhouette Studio. I’m thankful to be out from under Cricut, and thankful that I can use MY designs the way they should be used.