So one of the main questions I get on a daily basis is what cutting machine to go with. This is a very personal question for me as I have owned both machines, and to be honest I felt as I had "been there/done that" with Cricut. I started with Cricut and then when I go frustrated with the company, I too made the leap over to the Silhouette Cameo. I was happy with this machine. To this day I still feel that the silhouette is a great machine and it has held up to everything that Silhouette America has promised. Well as many of know on my channel I love to test new machines, so when Cricut released the news that they had a new machine coming out I just had to test it. The Cricut Explore was released and the first thing I knew I wanted to do was to compare the two machines.