All about Scoring!
Scoring Tips and Tricks
Scoring, it such an amazing technique which allows you to quickly make fold lines in any Cricut Project. The fold lines help you to fold exactly where you want, with ease. Imagine the fold in the middle of a card, if you start with a piece of card you have to line it up and hope it comes out straight. Scoring puts the precision into folds!
Watch back my Cricut UK “Scoring 101 Live” which shows me demonstrating how to use all of the scoring tools and me using them to make a few projects.
Let me tell you a bit more about all the scoring tools, what they do, which machines they are compactable with plus the pros/cons.
Scoring Stylus is compatible with an Explore or Maker Range Machines. It looks similar to a pen with blunt tip. You can quickly place into “Clamp B” which is normally where you would place pens. This means you can use it really quickly without having to swap out the blade in “Clamp A” The pros of the stylus are, its super inexpensive, easy to store with your other tools and you can use it super quickly. The only con (which is not really a con) is that it does not score as deeply as the scoring wheels BUT this has never been an issue for me. It is my go to scoring tool. If you ever need to cut a really thick material like craft board, you can always attach two score lines on top of one another and it will create a deeper cut.
Scoring Wheel is only compatible with the Maker ranges. You can buy the tip alone and add to housing you already have, as the tools are inter-changeable. The pros are it cuts faster and deeper than the scoring stylus. It does say it scores 10x deeper than the stylus and for sure the cuts are deeper and crisper. However you need to decide if the pros outweigh the cons. The cons are its more expensive and you have to switch out the blade in Clamp A to use it. I must say I was impressed when I first used it but if you are not scoring often and on heavy materials, the stylus works well.
Double Scoring Wheel is only compatible with the Maker ranges. It also attaches to the housing. It is the 2.0 version of the scoring wheel. It creates two scores lines side by side with a slight gap which creates the crispest of lines . Pros you can use on thicker materials (even coated) and folds like butter. Cons are its on the pricer side. Personally if you are going to go for a maker tool, I would say go for the double scoring wheel over the normal scoring wheel.
If you have a Joy or Joy Xtra, do not despair! A little hack if that you can using the Foiling Toil which has a sumilat bluntless to the scoring stylus. Although you need to use a foiling line, its effectively the same as a scoring line and creates the same fold line.
What Project can I make ? You can make so many, including cards, place names, palm leaves, Boxes, 3D Shapes, 3D Letters and Numbers even 3D Cakes. The list goes on and on!
I hope this has inspired you to get scoring!
