The Cricut and Cricut Expression personal electronic cutters are the future in home crafting. Simply by touching a button Cricut Expression can cut beautiful designs and alphabets for card making, scrapbooking, and paper crafting. No computer is required, just plug it in. Place your favourite cartridge in your machine and choose your designs in different sizes; That's thousands of possibilities! Cutting customized shapes and alphabets has never been easier. Every Cricut cutter includes George and Basic and Cricut Expression includes two cartridges to help get you started. The Cricut is also the ideal machine for easily cutting shapes for matting and layering your card designs. You'll just love it!