Create A Critter

"Lions, and tigers, and bears" are all on the new Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge. Whether you have a young child who is crazy about animals, or you just like these cute little critters, this is an adorable set. With over fifty different loveable creatures and many more little images to accent, this cartridge will be a favorite for many different age groups.

This cartridge has six different creative features. There are three different layers to many of the creatures. This gives a creative as well as professional look to each project. Each critter also has its own phrase and its own accessory. As a finishing point, the shadow selection finishes off the design.

The project ideas are endless for this Cricut Create a Critter Cartridge. A simple story book could be made by taking one or two of these creatures and gluing them into a small photo album. By adding the accessories and phrases, all that would be needed to finish this book would be either an imagination of a child, or some words typed into a word processing program and printed out. What a wonderful gift for a child or grandchild.

Is there a bathroom or bedroom in your house that can use some whimsical creativity? By framing the monkey or the elephant in the color of your choice, you have just made one of a kind wall art for your jungle themed bedroom. There are jungle animals, sea creatures, house pets, woodland animals, adorable rodents, and cute insects to choose from.

There is also a turkey and a reindeer for seasonal decorations. When made larger, these can be glued to cardboard and cut out for added decorations around the house. They can be made smaller to be used for table place cards.

Simple cards can be made in a matter of minutes. Yet no one will know that they were simple and only took a few minutes. The details on each animal add so much depth and creativity. From the flower on the snail's shell to the pirate's hat on the octopus, each design shows many creative elements.

Not sure how to decorate for your child's birthday party? There are so many choices on this cartridge that the possibilities are endless. Not only are there so many creatures to choose from, but also the idea of being able to put them in any color desired. Why does the cow have to be black and white? Why not try it in purple and pink?

Even if you don't have a child in your home, you can probably already see the possibilities here. The designs here are sure to add a smile on anyone's face when showcased on a card or in a scrapbook. The Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge is sure to be a favorite. Find it in stock and on sale here!

The Birthday Cakes Cricut Cartridge can help you liven up that special someone's birthday with a fun, colorful, and intricate cake. Professional bakers and cake stores sell these cakes at around $10 to $15 a slice. For even a small gathering, that can amount to several hundred dollars for a single cake. With this cartridge, you can make your own fun and fantastical cake to celebrate that special day. Imagine how shocked and impressed your friends and family will be when you show them a one of a kind cake that you made yourself.

This cartridge comes with dozens of layered designs and borders including animals, dinosaurs, robots, flowers, trees, and more. The creative feature keys on this cartridge are font, base shadow blackout, font shadow, plain base, plain phrase, and plain shadow blackout. You can celebrate any theme with the Birthday Cakes Cricut Cartridge, such as:

• prince and princess
• cowgirl and cowboy
• circus
• futuristic
• fantasy
• beach, and many more!

Have fun experimenting with the designs on this cartridge. You can use these designs for cakes and decorations. Hang signs and send invitations that match your cake for the perfect themed event. Cookies, brownies, and other desserts can be decorated with these designs to add that special flair. These designs can decorate a cake for any person of any age.

With only a handful of materials and ingredients, you too can create an impressive and intricate birthday cake. One featured project to get you started is the Royal Celebration Cake. First, cover your cake in a layer of fondant. Next, wrap the bottom of the cake with a piece of ribbon. Next, use the Cricut to cut out some gum paste crowns as well as the lettering for 'Royal Celebration,' or whatever other words you pick. Next, lay the crowns on a cylindrical shape such as a large, round jar and allow them to dry. Once dry, attach the crowns and lettering to the cake using royal icing. Finally, finish off the cake with whatever embellishments you desire such as edible silver balls, flowers, sprinkles, and so much more.

The possibilities are endless with this cartridge. A simple cake can be created with a single item and a border. You can also layer many images and borders to create a fun and frenzied design. You can let your creativity unfold with these projects. Try cutting out the designs with the various creative feature keys. You can let the designs dry flat or on cylindrical shapes to change the look. You can even experiment with textures - after cutting out the shape, try pressing or rolling an object lightly into the gum paste to create a stone, feather, or fabric look.

The Cricut Birthday Cakes Cartridge is a great way for any crafter or artist to get into baking and cake decorating. Fondant and gum paste are a very fun medium to work with. Cakes are a great way to express your creativity that you can share with your friends and family. This cartridge makes it easy for you to decorate your cake and eat it too. Buy it cheap here on ebay!

Sometimes the very best things in life are small, unexpected pleasures, the kind you can create with the “Just Because” Cards Cricut Cartridge. It is the perfect tool to help you create those moments for people you care about. The cartridge has a terrific variety of phrases and images for everyday use, including animals, insects, food, flowers, toys, cars and more. The product consists of 40 cards with layers, 10 envelope designs, and cuts for phrases, stencils, and stickers.

Whether you are scrapbooking, helping with Scout projects, or creating a card for a friend, a relative, or a teacher, the “Just Because” cartridge will provide the designs you need. The cartridge provides the following creative features:

• Layer 1
• Layer 2
• Layer 3/Shadow
• Word
• Sticker
• Stencil

The cheerful images on the cartridge can evoke happy memories of both everyday life and special occasions. You can use the “Just Because” Cards Cricut Cartridge to create a variety of fun projects.

Everyday Project Ideas

For invitations to a neighborhood coffee klatch, use the coffeepot image and include the pie or cake image. Imagine the smiles when neighbors open the card and enjoy the creativity! You could also create a set of refrigerator magnets to keep your pre-school child busy and teach basic vocabulary. Print items such as the car, wagon, bicycle, rocket, canoe, and truck on thick card stock, laminate the items, cut out, and place magnetic tape on the back. Now your child has something to play with while you are cooking dinner or working in the kitchen. With these items you have a transportation theme going, but you could just as easily do an insect theme with the butterfly, ladybug, and worm, or an animal theme with the pig, squirrel, duck, dog, whale, rooster, and chicken.

Special Memories Projects

If you are taking the Scout troop to a rodeo, you could use the cowboy boot to make colorful nametags for each child. A neighborhood ice cream social in the summer would benefit from invitations using the ice cream sundae, ice cream bar, frosty summer drink, and bright sun face to bring forth that happy summer mood. When a new neighbor moves in, don’t just bring a plate of cookies, print an invitation using the house image and create a customized sticker or stencil to welcome them to the neighborhood.

Additional images not yet mentioned include a pickle, a fish bowl, several flowers, a milk carton, a lamb, pear, apple, fishing rod, owl, honey pot, watermelon, a tree and swing, a cheerful gingerbread man, a beet, a peach, a carrot, and a lemon.

The applications you can make with this cartridge are limited only by the imagination. With the “Just Because” Cards Cricut Cartridge on hand, you will be prepared to create just the right touch for any of life’s occasions. Find it cheap on ebay here!

For larger cake designs, the Cricut Cake 12 X 24 inch Cutting Mat is a must have for your cake maker toolbox. This mat is made to be used specifically with the Cricut Cake Machine. Its easy to discern measurements are printed on a clear and durable plastic that will last for years to come.

Cricut has made your creative cake work even easier with this cutting mat measuring 12 X 12 inches designed specifically for use with the Cricut Cake. It is specifically designed for you to manipulate and construct the detailed designs that make any cake stand out. Its easy to read layout is printed on clear, sturdy plastic that will last for a long time.

Making the cake for your daughter's wedding? You can use this mat along with the designs from the Cricut Cake Basics Cartridge. Intricate hearts, flourishes and other accents are no problem for you, and your daughter will have a wedding cake to remember.

There is no better way to be creative and for a great price than with the Cricut Expression bundle wrap-up. These sets include the machine, cutting mat, blades and one or two Cricut cartridges that are packed with images and creative features. The best advantage of these packages is that some of the cartridges are exclusive to that set. They also are unique as each set has a specific color or theme for the bundle. For example, the Cricut Pink bundle is honoring Breast Cancer Awareness, and features a special cartridge for that theme.

Other Cricut bundles are:
Blue Cricut Expression Bundle
Red Cricut Expression Bundle
Black Cricut Expression Bundle
Green Cricut Expression Bundle
Blue Accent Cricut Expression Bundle (Machines the Yourstory Machine)
Champagne Cricut Expression Bundle

Buy one to match your personality. These wonderful bundle sets are currently available on eBay for a low, affordable price that you won't be able to pass up. You can browse with ease, pay and have your Cricut Expression Bundle Wrap-Up delivered to you so that you can start making imaginative projects.

Provcraft has given scrapbook lovers great diversity in the selection of Cricut cartridges that it offers. This gives the crafter the ability to pick from a wide variety of images, colors, shapes and fonts in order to meet their individual needs and be creative. These cartridges are also versatile in their ability to be used with the different machines that are offered by the company, such as the Cricut Expression, Cricut Cake and Cricut Gypsy.

The solutions series has within it ones that focus either on a particular font or a group of shapes within a particular theme. They have 50 characters and 2 special features; typically shadow and blackout. They are less expensive then the other cartridges which makes them a nice compromise.

The font cartridges have the complete alphabet, numbers and other symbols along with 6 creative features. Shape cartridges tend to have around 100 shapes and 6 creative features. One neat thing I just realized is that font cartridges come in pink packages and shapes cartridges come in blue packages.

Seasonal cartridges have a theme woven around a holiday or time of the year, such as spring, Easter, summer, Christmas, or Valentine’s Day. These cartridges do not have any creative features, but do have some special additions to them. There will often be a selection of three-dimensional shapes that can be printed and constructed, such as a mailbox or a basket. This makes for easy gift wrapping or gift for the recipient. Phrases and images are presented in bright colors that match well together, giving the scrapbooker plenty of tools to work with. They are only offered for a limited time though, and tend to be in the $20 range which available.

The Cricut Cake cartridges are designed to be used the Cake Machine, and have wonderful phrases, fonts, images and accents that are printed out on gum paste. These can then be transferred right onto the cake. They current release is the Cricut Cake Basics Cartridge that is packaged and sold only with the machine in a bundle. This cartridge has a total of six creative features and up to 600 images.

Some of the Cricut cartridges featured previously licensed character themes such as Batman, Spongebob, Disney characters and many other popular ones. These feature the standard six creative features along with three-dimensional items, cards, and images related to the particular theme. Some of the creative features found are blackout, shadow, font shadow, and layering. Phrases from the characters are also packed in, such as “Happy Birthday.”

Finally, there are the classmates line of cartridge which have an educational theme. These are meant to be used in the classroom or with childcare to teach such concepts and state names and sentence structure. There have not been too many released, especially recently, so let's hope that Cricut didn't unofficially kill this line.

Many of the cartridges overlap in regards to use and creative features. They can also be used with a variety of machines, making each of them a versatile tool. Several cartridges also have the three-dimensional items that can be printed and constructed. With this diversity, Cricut cartridges are worth the investment, and will pay back the scrapbooker double over the lifetime of their use.

The Cricut Create Machine is a personal cutter with the same usability as the Expression, but is more portable. It is the same size as the first Cricut machine. It can cut areas in the range from .25” to 11.5” inches that are placed on a cutting mat measuring 6” X 12.” It has included a blade that cuts in eight different directions, with a user friendly screen that displays choices and functions. The functions included with it are: portrait, flip, auto fill, center point and fit to page. It also has in its bundle the 6” X 12” cutting mat, Don Juan font cartridge and another shape cartridge. Its portability is a huge advantage to those wanting to carry it to scrapbooking parties. Continue reading "The Cricut Create Versus The Cricut Expression"

The Cricut Cake Basics Cartridge features images and designs of all types to make your Cricut Cake creations shine. The images and designs available include some of the following: bird, umbrella, hearts, flourishes, flowers, leaves, basic shapes and all varieties of line. The colors are wonderful pastels,deep browns, pinks, and a plethora of others so that you can easily match them to the specific cake. To accent these images, the cartridge also has the following creative features: plain shadow blackout, plain phrase, font shadow, plain base, base shadow blackout and font. Continue reading "Cricut Cake Basics Cartridge"

Cricut helps you get your fantastic cake designs going with replacement blades that come in a two pack. These sharp, durable blades are wonderful for adding intricate cuts to the design accents. The replacement blades also include blade housing protectors to prevent food from getting into the housing during work.

These wonderful blades will soon be available on eBay, where you can purchase them at a very reasonable price. This site gives the scrapbooker the ability to shop comfortably at home without the hassle of the local store and its crowds. With fast shipping, you will be able to get cutting in no time with the Cricut Cake Machine Replacement Blades.