Back to School Cricut Basics: What is Design Space?

If you've been following along in this weeks series, you have more than likely heard me reference Design Space. But what is it?  

It's Cricut's FREE design software! And it looks like this:

I know it can be a little intimidating using any sort of new program at first but Cricut's Design Space is pretty user friendly, especially since they rolled out the latest version, Design Space 3 (or DS3). It's so user friendly in fact, that even though I have Photoshop, I use Design Space for most of my designing needs. Here is a quick tour:

If I were to attempt to tell you all the great things you can do in the software, we'd be there all day so I recommend playing around with it! Use new tools! The one's most people are afraid of are slice, weld, attach, flatten and contour but each is an amazing tool for customizing your project.
Instead of going into each one, let me know if you have questions and I'll be sure to answer them on Friday!