hi everyone welcome back to my channel i am
am so
am so excited
excited we are going to be unboxing and setting
setting up the
the brand new cricut air explorer 3
3 which i'm sure you've seen the announcement
announcement very early on this morning if
if not this is going to be really exciting
exciting for you as well i have not opened
opened the box at all so we're going to do
do that together we're going to look at exactly
exactly what's included and we're going to
to set up the machine for the very first time
time
time so
so let's get into it if you don't know who
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each and every week all right i'm gonna get
get the box hang
hang on a minute oh here we go oh this
this is so exciting oh my table's shaking
shaking if it's gonna be okay as
as you can see i have not actually opened
opened up the box so
so we're going to do that together so i'm
i'm going to get my true control knife here
here and we'll start opening if
if you're new to my channel type new in the
the comments because i want to get to meet
meet you
meet you if
if you have seen the announcement let me know
know
know in
in the comments what you are most excited
excited for of
of course we'll talk about a lot of the different
different uh features as
exciting this makes me feel reminds me of
of what it felt like when
when i got my very first Cricut many
many many years ago the box looks absolutely
absolutely stunning so now i'm gonna put this
this one down i'm gonna get the other box
box out so just let me do that might be a
a second
a second and
and there she is looking beautiful and minty
minty green it's so nice to have some mint
mint green back into my craft room i
i could not be more excited for this product
product
product now
now we're going to open up we're going to
to see exactly what we get in the box uh
uh if you don't know already some of the features
features of the Cricut explorer 2 of course
course are the matlas cutting so
so now we've got smart materials large enough
enough for the beautiful cricut
cricut explore 3. you may have also noticed
noticed that it's a we've
we've dropped the air or Cricut have dropped
dropped the air reason being that they're
they're now all bluetooth machines so there
there just wasn't a need to have that in
in the name so cricut explore air 3 it cuts
cuts
cuts up
up to two times faster than the cricut air
air 2 in fast mode so it's super fast and
and we're gonna have a lot of fun with that
that in one of our other videos where i'm
i'm actually gonna race the two machines so
so that is gonna be really cool but we've
we've got the matlace cutting we
we can cut images up to 3.65 meters or 12
12 feet in the smart vinyl and in the smart
smart iron on up to 1.2 meters
meters or four feet which is awesome so it's
it's not just also about like really long
long or large images
images or designs but think about you know
know
know if
if you're gonna do those family t-shirts the
the reunion t-shirts the holidays t-shirts
t-shirts
t-shirts anything
anything in bulk bulk decals stickers that
that type of thing you
you are going to be able to cut so many without
without having to change mat
mat after mat after mat isn't that exciting
exciting of course you can still use the mats
mats
mats no
no worries at all and another really cool
cool feature you know i love making stickers
stickers i'll link to one of my videos to
to the stickers above
above but one of the cool features now with
with the
with the explore
explore 3 is that of course we can print then
then cut on coloured
coloured paper so the sensor has been upgraded
upgraded no longer do you just have to use
use white
use white like
like the maker you can now use coloured papers
papers and i'm really really excited to that
that
that for
for that and i can't wait to do some projects
projects around printing cut with
with this machine as well you'll notice a
a really cool feature to this machine as well
well that's fundamentally
fundamentally changed but i'm going to see
see if you can pick that when
when we take the machine out of the box so
so let's get started it's
i'm puffed after lifting it up onto the desk
desk
desk okey
okey dokey so i might just flip over to the
the overhead so
so hopefully you can see that of course we
we can see the machine down here what
what else have we got on the pack i should
should mention as well with the smart materials
materials we also have
have smart adhesive paper so that's something
something that's going to be available to
to us now as well which is really cool so
so let's have a look and see what materials
okay so we are getting a sheet
sheet of the cricut smart vinyl in black now
now your colors may vary on with
with your machine but we've got a really decent
decent sized sheet
sheet here that we can do a practice cut which
which is awesome so you can start making and
and doing projects right
right out of the box so i'll pop that to the
the side
the side we've
we've got transfer tape so again we've got
got everything in the box that we can start
start creating straight
straight away we don't have to pop off to
to the shops or anything like that or
or be prepared ahead of time and we've got
got the black smart
smart iron on as well and we love black iron-on
iron-on it's always
always a staple in my craft room and here
here we've got a white
white sheet of the smart paper so it's got
got a
got a thick
thick backing on the back so they can go through
through the machine without the mat of
of course with all the smart materials any
any scraps left over you
you can use those on the mat to cut with any
any of the cricut machines as
as well all right let's put that to the side
side what else have we got in the box okay
okay of course we probably should have started
started with this we've
we've got our welcome envelope our welcome
okay and again we've got just some really
really uh basic uh smart material to do a
a quick
a quick cut
cut so this is the smart vinyl again in black
black again your colors may vary so
so you get this as a standard and you get
get those extra bonus materials as well we've
we've got the licks get started so how to
to activate and set up your machine i'm going
going to do that in Cricut design space as
as well we've got warranty information safety
safety information and
and if you a bit of a sort of a product nerd
nerd like me you'll
you'll probably read through all of those
those instructions um i
i do it for everything dishwashers washing
washing machines you always get little tips
tips when you read through all these kind
kind of products and
and of course the machine so let's get the
the machine out so i might just put this on
on the floor so that i can lift this out of
of the box as well so give
give me a second and let me do that okay oh
oh she's looking cute and i'm gonna turn it
it around
it around so
so that you can see it best we've got our
our power cord of course um
um so we've got the brick that goes into the
the wall and then the other piece that's going
going to
going to connect
connect it to the machine and then we've got
got the
got the usb
usb adapter as well which is what we'll use
use
use to
to set up the machine itself so again we'll
we'll pop those to the side and
and let's unwrap it so exciting let's
well protected oh beautiful now can you notice
notice anything different about this machine
machine compared to the air
air 2 something around this area maybe if
if you haven't noticed there is now no dial
dial on this machine and i think that is amazing
amazing
amazing because
because my biggest tip for Cricuters that
that are using the ear 2 or the air machines
machines
machines with
with the dial i always say leave it on custom
custom and that way you're never going to
to make a mistake when
when you're selecting your different materials
materials so just like the air 2 over 100
100 different materials none
none of that has changed but no dial and
and go to the overhead we'll notice that the
the buttons are a little bit more i
i guess in line with other technology so we've
we've got the power
power button we've got a little button here
here which indicates to load and unload we've
we've got a play button so again like other
other technology to
to go and then of course we have the pause
pause which is really cool so
so let's keep unwrapping and
and here's my true control knife just to pierce
so the silicone holders on the left hand side
oh it's beautiful the other difference as
as well is it
it is a i don't know if you can tell it's
it's definitely a matte finish
finish and i'll actually just grab my explorer
explorer too and you can actually see the
the difference so
so can you see we've got a really glossy shiny
shiny finish on the ear too but this is
is really matte it's really cool i love it
and there she goes we've got the open button
button so we'll open her up oh
oh so cute look at it it's like a spaceship
spaceship
spaceship just
just opening love it so again all of the blades
blades all the accessories and tools that
that you have for your ear too or your air
air machine any
any of the explore machines is going to fit
fit in the explore 3.
3. how beautiful is that of course we've got
got our protector as
as always we can remove that and we are now
now
now ready
ready to plug her in and get her set up so
so let's go through that process we
we also have the handy dandy little compartments
compartments here so
so i'll just go to the overhead again so a lot
a lot of people don't realize that these even
even exist but
but you can store all your m ms your lollies
lollies whatever you need to get through your
your crafting of
of course your tools as well can go in here
here
here this
this is perfect this is a little magnetic
magnetic uh blade holder so
so if you have different blades for vinyl
vinyl cardstock anything
anything like that you can store those all
all within this housing as
as well all right so let's jump into Cricut
Cricut design space and
and we'll set the machine up so the first
first thing i want to do of course is actually
actually power up the machines i'm going to
to
to connect
connect my power cord and turn
turn on the machine all
all right and let's get into design space
space
space okay
okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going
going to go along to the home button
button at the very top of the hamburger menu
menu i'm going to click on that and i'm going
going to go new
new product setup it gives me the option to
to set up for the cutting
cutting machine or an easy press as well so
so i'm going to choose the
the machine cutting and now i get the options
options
options of
of the different machines that i want to set
set up so i'm going to choose the explore
explore
explore 3
3 all right it does tell me to make sure that
that you've got up to 10 inches or 25 centimeters
centimeters space and
and that's really important when you're using
using the smart materials as well and
and i'll talk a little bit more about that
that when we go through the cutting process
process so we'll just see what else what other
other information it's
it's telling us to plug it into the wall outlet
outlet which we've done make
make sure you've got the australian plug that
that will be included in your pack as well
well
well and
and then it's telling us to turn the machine
machine on which we've done next
next up it's telling us that no explore machine
machine has been found because
because we need to of course turn on
on the i'll connect our little
little cable here so that's what i'm going
going to do now
now here we've got our cable and
and one end goes in next to the power cord
cord
cord so
so making sure we've got that correct and
and then the other machine is going to go
go into my computer which i'm going to do
do
do now
now okay so i've plugged that into my computer
computer
computer and
and we can see now that it's showing that
that it's connecting by the usb it's
it's cycling through making sure that it's
it's checking the connection again
again let me know in the comments what are
are you most excited for with this new machine
machine
machine i
i have not had a lot of time to play with
but i am so excited and then we're going to
to click continue now that we've selected
selected
selected the
the explore 3 by usb and now it's going through
through and it's updating so then it's going
going to be available to me indesign space
space just like you would go up to the top
top right and choose any other machine so
so your explore er2
er2 your maker your joy now you're going to
to have these additional informations as well
well
well so
so it's telling me that it needs to be updated
updated so i'm going to click update saying
saying that it's up to date and i'm going
going to click next now
now you've got my email address if you want
want to send me an email i
i can agree to those terms of service and
and register the machine it says success i
i click next and
and now it's giving me the option to choose
choose these images to
to do a test cut but i'm not going to do the
the test cut in
in this video i just wanted to do the unboxing
unboxing to show you what you get in the pack
pack
pack and
and also how to set up your machine because
because
because in
in my next video for the explore three i'm
i'm actually gonna race this
this against my blue explore here too and
and we're gonna see exactly how
how much faster this machine can cut so hopefully
hopefully you'll join me in the next video
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