How to use my Cricut without it looking so...Cricut

I'm not sure what it is that "looks so Cricut"? How is it different from, say, an image cut with dies?

I like JustTricia 's ideas to ink or glitter a cutout. You can also shape them with a stylus or simply by rolling, then popping up the middle. Also, shapes or letters cut from pp rather than cs blend into a page more easily.  Or custom colour your cs before you cut with inks or spays; then give your letters or image some lift & shine with liquid glue over the top.   Another look is to dry emboss &/or sand your diecut, or heat emboss it with one or more colours of EP. 

I don't use my Cricut that much, but when I do it is because I am looking for a particular image or title, and I don't really care if what I cut looks like a diecut, any more than I care if my sticker titles look like stickers.

I guess it doesn't really bother me I like cutting titles so I don't have to buy alpha stickers (although I am starting to finally use my stickers). Now you can cut any font you want so that has opened up so many possibilities. I guess I like using dies and the Cricut so it doesn't bother me. Now years ago when there were only a few fonts available or when dies were the only way to go that was horrible - I got sick of my font dies after a few uses.

Maybe we need to have a challenge on using your dies/die cut machine to make cute embelishments - I know there is a challenge but don't remember the rules. I know there are a ton of FB groups for the Explore but honestly most I have found focus on vinyl and I wish there were some that focused on paper crafting.

I know exactly that look that you're talking about. The crisp, clean lines of a welded title done on an electronic cutter was what first enticed me into buying a Cricut years ago.

To mix it up and get away from that look I find it very helpful to cut the same shape out of multiple papers and then cut up the pieces of it and layer them together. Ink the edges, add stickles or glossy accents, add the die cuts into an embellishment cluster. In short, turn a die cut into something that looks more like a premade embellishment from a package. And most of all, don't rely entirely on cut files to make all the aspects of the page. They work a lot better IMO when they are added into the mix of lots of things on a page. So if I have a certain cut file I want to use as a main embellishment I'll make my title out of Thickers or vice versa.

ETA: If you haven't, definitely try the print and cut files! I shied away from them for a long time convinced that it would be hard to do but it's actually super simple and really helped me be more creative without ordering something and waiting for it to come in.