Pens I Recommend on Cricut Story

Pens I Recommend on Cricut

I don’t know about you, but I want to know all the pens that work with Cricut! There is so much you can do with it.

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What if I told you there was a stupid simple easy way to make almost ANY pen work with your Cricut?! Are you doing your happy dance?

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Pens that naturally work with your Cricut machine include any Cricut brand pens such as these gel pens, metallic markers, or calligraphy markers.

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How To Use Any Pen With Your Cricut Machine

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That means you can change out the Cricut adapter for new ones that will hold a variety of different brand pens.

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Even if one of the adapters is labeled “BIC markers” to use with BIC pens, that doesn’t mean there may not be other brand pens that work with that adapter!

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Open your Cricut machine, and the pen adapter is found in Clamp A to the left.

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watch the tutorial video here!

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