I wanted to try a cutting a couple new things with my Cricut Maker , so I geared up for some experimenting.  These little houses are cut from basswood .  With the knife blade , you can easily make these intricate cuts.  This post is an ad for Cricut. The blade passes through each cut several times until it cuts all the way through. Then you just pop the pieces out and glue them together. So cute, and all ready for a Christmas display or centerpiece. Of course you can cut paper too.  I needed to replenish my gift tags so I whipped up these basic tags. Add a piece of twine and you're ready to go! Another thing I wanted to try is the "Print Then Cut" feature.  I gathered a few sewing images in Design Space, saved them as a PDF, and printed them off on sticker paper at my local print shop.  Back at home I cut them on my Cricut.  The cut is called a kiss cut, which means it only cuts through the top layer so the sticker layer can be peeled off. I'm dying over these sticke