Truth must be told: scrapbookers do love to collect gizmos! If you have both a Cricut and a Xyron, you don’t have to choose one over another. You can use them together!
If you’re wondering whether or not the Cricut can be used on paper that has been run through the Xyron, the short answer is yes. I use my Xyron with my Cricut all the time. No problems to speak of.
But keep this in mind before you do anything: it says in the manual that it will void the warranty, so make sure the bug works great before you try it!
I have put my bazzill thru the Xryon and then on the mat and cut the tiny letters. It works great, but make sure that you use the repositionable adhesive. Even it becomes quite permanent in time, speaking from experience. Once I left a sheet of paper on it for a week or so and it was very hard to get back off. So once the letters are in your scrapbook for awhile, they will be permanently stuck to the paper.
Using both machines together is also especially helpful when you are cutting thin letters like Stamp Tall or Mini Monos curly letters. It definitely helps not getting glue everywhere when trying to apply it after the cuts have been made. When you try to Xyron the delicate letters or shapes after you cut them, they are near impossible to get off the mat without distorting them or possibly ripping them.
If you decide to try to use your Xyron, here are a few tips that work for me:
- The waxy back coating of the Xyron paper does not stick well to the cutting mat. Use a bit of scotch tape along the edges to tape it down so it doesn’t move when you’re cutting.
- Play with the settings. The best way to cut paper that has been thru a Xyron is to cut it just deep enough that it cuts the paper but NOT the waxy backing. This way it is more like a sticker and you don’t have to fight with getting your cuts off the backing and thus possibly wasting your paper, cut, time, etc.
If you’re nervous about the warranty then I recommend Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive. The small bottle has a tiny tip so you can control the glue a bit more than some of the other glues I’ve tried.
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