Ansew, I have a Go too, & those are the same reasons I bought a Scan 'n Cut. I wanted to make my own appliques, and I wanted to try HTV-HeatTransferVinyl. There is a learning curve, and you can put as much time into it as you want to get out of it.
Scan n Cut doesn't come with very good instructions though.
The
Best place to go for help is Jen Blausey.
She has a facebook page with
Tons of tutorials, help, advice, free stuff and inspiration-(it is a closed group that you have to join so they can avoid advertising & spam), she has youtube videos, and a utube channel called Jam Sessions that includes tutorials for SCAL (sure cuts a lot), and HTV.
All free. All pretty great. You can watch her videos and get a sense if you want to spend the time learning the SnC machine or not before you buy one. There is So much you can do with it if you want to learn. But, if you just watch the videos, it may be a bit daunting at first. It helps to follow along with a machine as you watch.
Here are the links:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jen+...nt=firefox-b-1
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ut+jen+blausey
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU_...BYH327dvOU9q5A
I can say, that without this help, I would have been
completely lost trying to figure out how to use most of the functions of this machine. There are other tutorials and videos online, but none are as thorough as Jens.
Just my opinion. I have never tried Silhouette, or Cricut.