Come take a look at this new Snow Friends seasonal cartridge. I just finished my review of the Limited Edition Snow Friends 2009-2010 Cricut Cartridge.
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A New Cricut Cartridge Review for the Winter Woodland Cricut Cartridge
Another Fun Cricut Card Idea Using The Cricut From My Kitchen Cartridge
Some more birthday cards to share. This one is for my sister-in-law. She is a very crafty person, so I want it to be just right.
Before I tell you about the card, I just have to tell you how great it is to have the new Cricut Gypsy. I designed this entire card sitting on my sofa with my cat in my lap watching game 5 of the World Series. How cool is that. The only time I needed to go into my “craft world” is to put the paper on the cricut cutting mat, and cut the images out on my Cricut Expression cutting machine. Sorry I just had to tell you that.
So, I decided to use the Cricut From My Kitchen cartridge, to make this card.
What I did first was decide what image I was going to use. I picked the toaster. I think it looked so cool and retro.
I used two different shades of pink paper from Stampin Up, pink passion and pixie pink for the toaster and for the piece of toast I used chocolate chip and blush blossom. Then I used Basic Black for the wording and the base of the toaster and Whisper White for the accents.
The pink plaid paper is from DCWV – Nana’s Kitchen Premium Stacks. I just love this paper stack. It goes perfect with this Cricut cartridge.
For the inside message I used the phrase Happy Birthday from the Cricut cartridge Beyond Birthdays.
Then what I did was added some dots onto the wording using gerbera pink opaque marker from Martha Stewart for the finishing touch.
I put it all together using permanent adhesive tape runner and a dimensional square on the toast so it looked like it was really popping out of the toaster.
Wishing Fran a Great Birthday ~ Hope she likes her card, because I sure had a lot of fun making it.
Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!
Making a Birthday Card Using your Cricut Expression Cutting Machine with the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge and your Cuttlebug Machine too!
Here is an easy card to make that looks pretty classy too!
I had to make a special birthday card for our brother-in-law who was turning 60. I went looking through all of my cartridges and nothing popped out and said this is the one. So what I ended up doing was combining my Cricut Expression cutting machine, along with the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge and Cuttlebug machine using the happy birthday cuttlebug embossing folder for a fun card.
Here is how I made this card:
I used a white 4 x 5.5” note card.
Cut a piece of checkered paper just a little smaller than then the card.
Cut a piece of solid blue paper smaller then the checkered paper.
Now the fun part.
I ran the blue paper through my cuttlebug machine using the birthday cuttlebug embossing folder.
Then using my Cricut Expression cutting machine, and the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge, I cut out the numbers 60, using the “Roly Poly” feature at one inch.
Next I selected the “blast” shape from the cartridge and cut the white one at 2.5” and the light blue one at 2”
I put them all together with the Glue Glider Pro, and then I added some dimensional adhesive dots to the 60, since I wanted that to pop out of the card. And for the finishing touch I added a stitched look on the 60 using a silver gelly roll pen.
Wishing Bruce a Wonderful 60th!
Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!
Still Wondering What is the Cricut Gypsy?
So people have been asking, what is the Cricut Gypsy? In a nutshell, it is a handheld cricut design studio, but better. Better because the cricut gypsy is portable and does not need a computer to design your layouts.
I was one of the lucky ones to get a Cricut Gypsy, and it arrived on my doorstep last Thursday and I Love it! It is lighter than I thought it would be which is great since it will be in my hands a lot. I posted on the message board yesterday that I am starting to like football. I watched a game with my hubby; well I sat with him while I designed with my Cricut Gypsy. How cool is this I can spend quality time with Hubby and we are both doing something that we enjoy!
I know that the first thing you want to do when you take it out of the box is turn it on. I also bet that a lot of you thought that it didn’t work when you hit the big silver button on the front of the machine. That is because that is not the on/off switch. The on/off switch is on the side of the machine. But you would have known that if you read the manual. I have also been reading the message board good & bad. All I can say is read the manual on line, (yes it is online, it didn’t come with the machine) but lots of companies are doing that now. It does keep the cost down and easier for updates too! If you don’t want to read the entire manual before you start then don’t complain when something supposedly goes wrong.
Still wondering what is the Cricut Gypsy and how it can help you? It gives you more time to be creative because you can use it pretty much everywhere. Also, you don’t need to go to the eye doctor. You can make the images larger on your screen. Read the manual and it will explain how to change the default size of the images.
The one thing I do have to say is you better really love or like your Cricut Gypsy a lot, before you link your cartridges to it. First because once you link a cartridge, it’s for that Cricut Gypsy only. Your cartridges will never work in another Cricut Gypsy machine again. It WILL work on your Cricut cutting machines. And I also heard that if you link, you can not return your Cricut Gypsy. So think before you link. (I’m a poet and I didn’t even know it).
I have also learned that since you can sit and relax anywhere using the Cricut Gypsy, you can really get into looking at all the cartridges out there that you do not own, and even design pages with them, so that when you do have some money saved up, or your birthday rolls around you will know what to ask for.
I hope that answers the question, What is the Cricut Gypsy? Everyone, even me, have a lot of questions on how to do this and that. It’s called learning a new piece of equipment. Remember when you first got your Cricut cutting machine? You had ton of questions then too. It was the same as with your Design Studio. All I can say is practice makes perfect.
So pick up that beautiful Cricut Gypsy and start learning all there is to learn about it/her/him. And I betcha you will love it.
Make it a Great Day and don’t forget to leave time to Craft!
