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		<title>Using the Cricut Expression Machine with the Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed to make a birthday card for a friend who is turning 60. I wanted to create a custom handmade card that would be fairly special. I was determined to use my cricut expression to help me do this. As I went through the various cricut cartridges I had in my supplies, I came [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Arial;">I needed to make a birthday card for a friend who is turning 60.<span> </span>I wanted to create a custom handmade card that would be fairly special. I was determined to use my cricut expression to help me do this. As I went through the various cricut cartridges I had in my supplies, I came across the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013L7Q3E?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=joacrawor-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0013L7Q3E" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>animal kingdom cricut cartridge</strong></span></a> and thought that would work just fine for me. Let me share with you what I ended up doing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">What you’ll need:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-464" title="cardstepssupplies2" src="http://joanscraftworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cardstepssupplies2-300x225.jpg" alt="cardstepssupplies2" width="300" height="225" /></span>Cardstock:<span> </span>Hobby Lobby patterned paper and solid brown and beige paper from World Win Papers, Die cut machine:<span> </span>Cricut Expression, Cricut cartridge: Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge for Owls and the word Whooo,:<span> </span>Plantin Schoolbook for the numbers 6, 0 and the letter’s, Little Greetings from hero Arts 3&#215;6 card with envelope, All Night Media mini Pop Dots, Zig 2 way glue, K&amp;Company permanent tape runner, Zig Memory System chocolate colored marker, and Rhinestones that I had in a jar.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">How to make it:</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I started with a neutral card base.<span> </span>Cut a strip of the patterned paper and adhered to the card with tape runner.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-468 aligncenter" title="cardsteps2" src="http://joanscraftworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cardsteps2-300x225.jpg" alt="cardsteps2" width="300" height="225" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Placed the paper on the Cricut cutting mat as shown in the picture and loaded paper into my <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WOV83M?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=joacrawor-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000WOV83M" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Cricut Expression</strong></span></a>.<span> </span>I selected the size that I wanted to cut out the images.<span> </span>For the words and numbers I used size 1 ¼”, Owls were cut to 1 ¾” and 1 ¼”. Pressed the image that I wanted on the keypad and then the Cut button to start cutting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-469 aligncenter" title="cardsteps3" src="http://joanscraftworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cardsteps3-300x225.jpg" alt="cardsteps3" width="300" height="225" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">When the cutting has stopped, press the unload paper key.<span> </span>Using my spatula tool I removed the images from the cricut cutting mat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-470 aligncenter" title="cardsteps4" src="http://joanscraftworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cardsteps4-300x225.jpg" alt="cardsteps4" width="300" height="225" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wanting a stitched look I used my Zig marker and went around the letters and numbers making little dashes, then using my pop dots and glue stick, I put the images to the patterned paper, and then added rhinestones for the eyes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-475" title="cardsteps61" src="http://joanscraftworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cardsteps61.jpg" alt="cardsteps61" width="509" height="382" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was pleased the way it turned out and I know that he will not be getting a duplicate of this card. It is a one-of-a-kind Joan’s Craft World creation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!</span></p>
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