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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Cricut Machine and scrapbook pages!

I am so extremely excited about my  new Cricut Expressions machine!!! I just bought it the other day and it's so awesome! For those of you who aren't familiar with this (I just found out about it a few months ago), it's a digital machine that will cut your letters and shapes for you. The coolest thing about it, is you can increase or decrease the sizing of what you want cut. For example, let's say I wanted the word LOVE. First of all, I can choose from different fonts. Secondly, let's say I wanted the letters to be 4" tall. I could do that, or I could make one letter 3" or another 6". Then I press cut and it's done! There's a lot of options. There are also a bajillion different shapes to choose from. I don't own all of them, but it came with a lot. You have to buy different cartridges that contain different shapes and fonts. Mine came with two different cartridges. I was looking online today at other cartridges and I'm already addicted and want to buy so many. They're pretty expensive, so I'll be saving up my money to get the ones I want. Luckily, I did find a website that sells them for a discounted price. We're talking $90 originally for most, $30-60 discounted. 
Here are some shapes that I do have. I'm totally going to make a page like this. I think it's so cute. I'll cut out circular pictures and put them in some of the suns. Cute, huh. 

Here are some pages that I've done. I did these prior to getting my Cricut. Needless to say, I'm not the most creative person out there. I really do want to be, but unfortunately, I wasn't blessed with that talent. So I'm constantly looking online at other people's pages to get ideas. I'm hoping now that I have the Cricut, it will help me in my quest for creativity. I just started scrapbooking when Anna was 3 months old. I'm still pretty new to it. I'm anxious to get better and learn more. With some of these pages, I may still add some additional touches. 




2 comments:

Sarah Stout said...

Oh my goodness... that is so cool! I'm not into scrapbooking, but that machine seems to useful for making household decorations too. Thanks for sharing!

pennie said...

rachel, those pages are very creative!! I love them.