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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Tags, Bags, Boxes & More Cricut Shapes



This cartridge is an excellent addition to your cartridge library. It is very useful because of the variety of containers and tags of various shapes. Two of my favorites are the boxes with the heart closure on the top and the flower closure. Great for gift giving!!
You can also add a window to the boxes to showcase your gift!
Great value for the price!!

Monday, September 27, 2010

Provo Craft Cricut Solutions Home Decor Shape



I bought this cricut cartridge for some wall decorations I wanted to do, but when I received it I had more ideas of its possible uses such as for cardmaking and scrapbooking. I love my cricut machine and this is the "one" cartridge I would buy if I only had one, it has great images.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010

Cricut Love Struck Seasonal Cartridge



Perfect cartridge for Valentine's Day and beyond. So many interesting hearts on this one! We did my granddaughter's valentine's box, numerous cards for family and all my school valentines. Get this one, you won't regret it!

Friday, September 17, 2010

Cricut ZooBalloo Cartridge, Animal Alphabet, Shapes Shapes and Phrases



The ZooBalloo cartridge is the most versatile I've seen. Not only does it have the letters, animals, and words, but it has the ability to layer colors to make the animals look better, it has a cursive form of some of the words, and it has lower case letters. I thought is was really good before looking at the book, now I can't believe how much is on this one cartridge. Awesome!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

All Mixed Up, Alphabet and Words Cartridge



The Cricut was first viewed by the recipients parents and immediately given as a gift. Since then there have been many excitedly thankful telephone calls and several cards sent, because we live 2,000 miles apart. It is hard to go into too many specifics. However, our daughter's husband is also excited about being to utilize the machine in making decals for his model airplanes, some having 6' wing spans. The machine definitely opens up to many possibilities. Our son-in-law is taking orders from his flying club, for designs and decorations now made possible.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Limited Edition Very Merry Tags Seasonal Cartridge



This item is titled "Very Merry Tags Seasonal" but can be used for any season. I personally can not wait for Christmas to fully use all of the items, but have used several of the tags already for birthday and Valentine cards. Certainly not a cartridge to pass up.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Alphabet and Words for Cricut Jasmine Cartridge



Jasmine has beautiful calligraphy type letters very flowing and curvy. I absolutely could not do without this font. Although it's application is very distinct, when you need this look of elegance no other Cricut font (to date) will do. It is true you cannot cut 1/2 inch letters with this font. But it is well worth the investment when only this look will do for your project

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Alphalicious Font Cartridge



The problem I had was getting in the shipment. So be careful when ordering angel scraps outlet. it seems my first shipment got lost in the regular mail.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Disney Dreams Come TRUE Cartridge



For those of us with little girls who love Disney Princesses, this is a wonderful cartridge it helped me get some Disney scrapbook pages done. DD likes to have the Princesses pieced together so she can do 'puppet shows'.
Wonderful cartridge with great images.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Shape Going Places Cartridge for Cricut Cutting Machines



This is an extremely versatile cartridge that will aid in scrapbooking travel, family, and events. The retro styling of the symbols is popular with recipients of cards (the card foundation takes practice, but it is neat once you get the hang of it).

That said, I wish it had a complementary font. It may be a personal preference, but the flowery/funky fonts I currently have don't seem right with the sleek styling of the icons.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Animal Kingdom Cricut Shapes Cartridge



REALLY CUTE!!! I got this to make cut out for my kid - which turned into making cut out for greeting cards (I will make some for my kiddo but probably not till he's a little older to learn animals)

The layers are not as complicated as the other cartridges (ie. SpongeBob, Serenade)

I made a giraffe - 2 layers, a little bit of glue, DONE! and the pieces are sized similar so I don't need to pull tweezers out (Like i do to make trees). I've also cut out a bear - all I had to do was get a black marker to color in his nose, and then glue a couple of googly eyes and done! Made a card "Have a Beary Special Day"

The shapes are adorable. I can't wait to make all of them and teach my kid animals.

On a scale of difficulty, most of the animals are probably amateur approved (I'm new to Cricut - less than a month)

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Paper Pups Cricut Cartridge



This cartridge has a wide range of images and sayings for dog lovers. I found one image that was a perfect image of my bichon frise and used it for Christmas tags. I used a larger image of it and one of the sayings to create a T-shirt for my husband. This cartridge is great for cards and appliques for quilts or fiber arts.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Shape Mickey and Friends Cartridge for Cricut Cutting Machines



I really liked the idea of this one but its definatly not for the beginner. Its alot more difficult then I thought it would be to put the images together. I am still leaving how to use this one.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Cartridge Graphically Speaking



I bought this from BargainPack.com and it is by FAR the best one out there so far. It is wonderful and has so much of anything you will want and need. Hundreds of images. I have a dozen or more cartridges to my collection, and this is the one I reach for the most often. My next favorite is Going Places. It is excellent also. This is one everyone needs!!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Cricut Cartridge Storage Box



I have one of these storage boxes and it is compact & light. It comes with stickers you can apply to the outside of the box with labels of the enclosed cartridges, but if the boxes were, say, clear acrylic instead, then you could see the cartridges inside, which would be very handy. Also, these boxes only hold the cartridges & keyboards. Sometimes, it is nice to have the books handy for figuring out complex cuts, etc. so it would be nice if the box would hold these as well. Finally, I find that the plastic insert that holds the cartridges falls out from time to time. The cartridges stay in the tray, but the tray won't stay in the box. For the size & price though, this is a good product.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge



I absolutely LOVE the Paper Doll Dress Up Cartridge! I'm a first grade teacher and my theme for my classroom is Camelot. I was able to make a card with a 3" knight, dragon, and castle for all my boys and a princess, pony, and castle for all my girls. Then I made the same figures in 12" sizes for my bulletin board. Now I'm making 5" boys and girls as game pieces. Fun, fun, fun!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Cricut Disney Font Cartridge



This is a great Cartridge for Disney basics. I used it for invitations but I know it will be good our visit as well.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Home Accents Cartridge for Cricut Cutting Machines



I gave this as a gift to my granddaughter for her birthday in June. She loves it. She is very talented in many different ways, but this was the perfect gift for her. She uses it almost everyday. I ordered the Christmas Cartridge for her for Christmas. She is doing a scrapbook now for her pictures from Christmas for her two girls, and my Great Granddaughter using the cartridge I gave her.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Jukebox Die-Cut Cricut Cartridge System



This is the most handy machine ever. It really saves me lots of time not having to switch cartridges. I have 9 cartridges now and this holds four. From my understanding you can hook 3 together so run 18 at once. I am thinking of getting a second machine. I really love this one. It works great with the design studio. When you use three cartridges to make one item instead of having to change them over and over it just looks for them on the jukebox for you. The little storage container is great to. You can keep everything together instead of in all those little boxes. I also love the locking side tabs for the lid and storage container. They are kid proof and my 2 year old can't get them open.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Joys Of Season Cricut Cartridge




Overall, found this cartridge especially handy in creating cute, personalized name tages. Some of the smaller cut outs didn't capture all the details as the cutter couldn't get that small. I found this to be a valuable tool in making my cards and scrapping. I would recommend this for your Cricut collection.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

50 Assorted Designs for Cricut Doodlecharm Cartridge



I was so excited when I found this. I hate to say that I don't use it like I thought I would. As cute as the cut-outs are, when you get them on your layout, they kind of look out of place. I would personally stick to buying 3-D embellishments or stickers, rather than buying this cartridge thinking you could do wonders with it. Spend your money on the font cartridges. They are more practical in your scrapbooking.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Celebration Cricut Shapes Cartridge



I love all the different things on here! Lots of options and I just love the Cricut overall. Very pleased with all my purchases so far!

Friday, July 30, 2010

Cricut 29-0227 : Attract Font Cartridge



I am an avid scrapbooker with around 15 Cricut cartridges for my machine, and this is by far my most used cartridge. I love the fancy cursive script, it's great for more formal pages like weddings and valentine's day, but what I didn't realize until I had had this for awhile was that it also has the 'opposite' font which is a more basic block letter type of font. This, therefore, is the cartridge that I generally use on almost all of my lettering since it has options from both extremes, casual and formal.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Cricut 29-0223, Garden Shape Cartridge



I love the garden images and the special little critters like the caterpillar and the trowel set. I use some glue on flocking to simulate dirt in the wheelbarrow, as suggested by my local scrapbooking store, and the results catch everyone's eye.