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Cricut Sentimentals Shape and Card Cartridge: Stacy Armstrong
 For this months Design Team project, I created a fun butterfly card using the new Sentimental Shape and Card Cartridge.  The cartridge is full “noteworthy” sentiments, phrases, flourishes and so much more.  It is a true asset to the card makers Cricut library.
Time: 30 min
Supply List: 
Sentimentals Cartridge
Card [...]

Joy Fold Menorah Card- by Megan Peacock
Supplies
Card stock-white ; light ,medium, and dark blue, grey
Cricut Expression Machine
Winter Holiday 2010 Cartridge
Cuttle bug and Diamonds in the Rough embossing folder
White ribbon
Yellow Stickles
Directions-
Cut 2 rectangles of white card stock- one 3 ¾ x 2 ¾ inches and one at 4 ¼ x 8 ½ inches. [...]

I saw this technique on Tim Holtz’s blog and instantly fell in love with it.  He created his flowers by using a steel die, but I knew I wanted to make them by using my Cricut.  I used the Accent Essentials Accnt32s set at 3”, but you can use any 6-sided flower die cut to [...]

When I received the Tie the Knot cartridge, I knew I wanted to do something “out of the box” (no pun intended).  I saw the cake box cut in the manual and decided to make an entire cake with it.  I cut the cake boxes at 6”.  Then I cut the flourish (Flrsh1-s) at 1.25”.  [...]

Some of the companies are getting pretty fancy with their product packaging these days!  Have you noticed?  Many times certain elements from the packaging can be used and re-purposed to make way cute page accents with just a little snip here and a little clip there! 
Here’s the packaging that was hugging my Tattered Angels Glimmer [...]

I was so eager to create with this new Heritage cartridge from Cricut because I have had a stack of old cherished family photos that I’ve been wanting to put into the perfect mini sized album.  This cartridge paired with a variety of beautiful product from Tattered Angels helped me accomplish just that! 

Tattered Angels products [...]

As stated in the  previous tutorial in which I summarized the steps used in creating my Destination layout, the possibilities are endless when using the Destinations Shape Cartridge.  The Creative Feature keys include Layers, Sites, Locations, Words, Country 1, and Country 2, and the image below shows both popular national and international landmark and [...]

Destination Layout featuring the Destinations Cricut Cartridge

For this month’s assignment, I was given the assignment of working with the  Destinations Cartridge. This cartridge is filled with numerous images and words having to do with landmarks from all over the world, and the possibilities are numerous – from scrapbooking projects to helping your child with a [...]

Tips and Tricks:  Use googly eyes for Elmo.  The smaller details can always be the most difficult part of any paper crafting project.  By using googly eyes you can save your self a 
little frustration and add a lot of animation to your project.
of animation

Crayon Box:
Supply list:  Tin Bandage box, or small box.
Cricut Vinyl in lime green, red, black, burnt umber and white
transfer tape
Cricut Pens-Basic Color Collection Inks
White cardstock
Black Sharpie pen
red, orange, blue and green crayons.
ribbon
 
The Elmo cartridge is full of fun ideas for parties, cards and so many creative projects.  If you have a little one that
loves [...]