News for all Cricut Design Studio Users

Today is our Lucky Day!

The Update for the Cricut Design Studio has been released and is available for download from the Cricut.com site now!

The newest cricut cartridges that they added are:

Hannah Montana
Jubilee
Life is a Beach
Lyrical Letters
Simply Sweet
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Stamping (Solutions Cartridge)
Stand and Salute

Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

How To Use The Wild Card Cricut Cartridge To Make A Custom Graduation Card

Using the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

I needed to make a Graduation Card. I looked through all my cartridges and decided to use the Wild Card since it had the best graduation cap. The only thing that I added was making some fringe cuts on the tassel to look like a “real tassel”.

Then after I cut the envelope, I just added the graduates name to the front

The card was cut at 6 inches, and the envelope at 6 ½ inches only because I did not want the tassel to get messed up.

How cool is this card and envelope?

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Using the Cricut Expression Machine with the Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge

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 across the animal kingdom cricut cartridge and thought that would work just fine for me. Let me share with you what I ended up doing.

What you’ll need:

cardstepssupplies2Cardstock: Hobby Lobby patterned paper and solid brown and beige paper from World Win Papers, Die cut machine: Cricut Expression, Cricut cartridge: Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge for Owls and the word Whooo,: Plantin Schoolbook for the numbers 6, 0 and the letter’s, Little Greetings from hero Arts 3×6 card with envelope, All Night Media mini Pop Dots, Zig 2 way glue, K&Company permanent tape runner, Zig Memory System chocolate colored marker, and Rhinestones that I had in a jar.

How to make it:

I started with a neutral card base. Cut a strip of the patterned paper and adhered to the card with tape runner.

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Placed the paper on the Cricut cutting mat as shown in the picture and loaded paper into my Cricut Expression. I selected the size that I wanted to cut out the images. 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.

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When the cutting has stopped, press the unload paper key. Using my spatula tool I removed the images from the cricut cutting mat.

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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.

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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.

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Cricut Rewards See what the chirp is all about….

It doesn’t take much to get me excited but I’m really excited.  You can now redeem your Cricut points for some really cool items.  I just ordered some Cricut t-shirts.

When you purchase Eligible Cricut cartridges, you will find a certificate that looks like this in the Cricut cartridge package:rewardscertifAll you need to do is go the website and redeem your points. Keep adding points to your account and see the great items that are available for us Cricut lovers.

CLICK HERE and check out the website to see the great Cricut products.

So start earning you points today.  Purchase Cricut Cartridges HERE

Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!

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