Scrap booking and Cricut Cartridge

Scrap booking and other paper crafts have become very popular do at home projects. The problem is that too open the crafter’s creativity is limited by what can be found in craft store. Perhaps you have an idea for a cutout and you have searched your craft store high and low and are unable to find the punch that will work perfectly for you. Alternatively, you have found it, and now you need to store it with the hundreds of others that you already have at home not to mention finding the right one among your collection when you need it.

If you fall into this category then check out the Cricut. It is a cutting system that you can personalize to cut out just what you need. Made by a company called Provo Craft, it is a standalone system, meaning it does not need to be hooked to a computer or a printer. You simply insert a Cricut cartridge to print out your desired die cut.

Similar to computer discs or flash drives, the Cricut cartridges stores the die cut information. You simply insert the cartridge into your Cricut system, select the die cut that you want, and print it out. These cartridges come in many different themes. Chose your die cut, add your paper, and, in seconds, you have your figure.

With cartridges designed for all types of occasions, you have wide range of options to choose from. There are holiday themes like for Christmas. You can find birthday themed cartridges, beach themed, and even Disney themed. With Cricut cartridges, you can take your scrap booking up a notch. It just takes a bit of creativity to come up with some interesting items.

A typical use is for people to use the Cricut machine to create letters and words and then they paste them in a book or card. Using paper of different colors allows a look that can be very different just because of the different colors of paper. However, you don't have to stop there. You can use the Cricut fonts and move up a level by the simple use of folding. Fold the letter into itself and past one end in a card. When the card is open, the letter will be in 3-D. What a neat effect to provide on your next gift card. In addition, not only that, but with the font cartridge, you can easily change the size.

Your scrap booking creativity is now only limited by your imagination.

Examples:

The Winter Wonderland Cricut cartridge offers a wide selection of items and shapes from snowflake, pine trees, snowmen, winter hats and more. Many of these can be pieced together, folded and form 3-dimensional works of art.

Just a simple example of the power of having a cricut cartridge system.

Here's another great example this one is called a "Child's Year" and you are not limited to just generic themes, you can also purchase Disney themes as well as others and fonts too.

Just about anything that you'd spend money buying at a scrapbooking store or party you can do this yourself!