Crafting with Cricut

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If you’re reading this post, chances are, you’re a creative type. You like to craft, explore your creativity, and share your creations with others. And it’s for people like you that Cricut created their line of personal electronic cutting machines. 

A little known fact about Cricut is that they’ve actually been in business for over 50 years, and their primary purpose has been to develop tools that inspire creativity in people. 

Today, millions of people use Cricut’s award-winning products to create beautiful, inventive, and personal projects. 

So, what is Cricut? Cricut is actually a family of electronic cutting machines that make it possible for you to easily create amazing do-it-yourself (DIY) projects. Well, not totally DIY because Cricut’s incredible machine’s do a LOT of the heavy lifting. 

The two machines that Cricut offers are:

• the Cricut Explore One™ - allows you to cut
• the Cricut Explore Air™ - allows you to cut and write wirelessly

To give you loads of creative freedom and versatility, Cricut developed the Cricut Design Space™, a cloud-based software that works seamlessly with the Cricut Explore® family of machines. 

Design Space gives you access to all of your images and projects from any compatible computer or iPad, so you can design just about anything, anytime, and anywhere. 

Once you’ve uploaded your design (or pre-designed image) to your Cricut Explore cutting machine, you can sit back and watch it magically bring your design to life. 

There are so many interesting things you can make and do with Cricut – which we’ll be sure to cover in a future post. But before we get too ahead of ourselves, it’s best to go over each of Cricut’s machines, what they do, and how they are different. And since I’ve given you quite a bit of info already, we’ll pick up on there in next week’s post!

Until then … happy crafting! 

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Hawaiian Thank You

While we were in Hawaii, our neighbor kept an eye on our house, made sure that the newspapers were not piled up on the porch and watered our plants.  When we got home, as a little thank you we wanted to give her some of the cookies we purchased at the Honolulu Cookie Company.  You can find them on Facebook also.

I used my Sizzix Scalloped Flap Box die to cut some paper I had from a Jinger Adams paper pack.  I thought the color and print of the paper had a tropical feel.  It reminded me of some of the patterns I saw on fabrics in Hawaii.

Then I cut just the bottom of the scalloped flap and the flowers from a white glitter cardstock.  This gave the box a simple little accent.

To tie it all together, literally, I used a piece of raffia.  This tied in to the tropical Hawaiian feel with the look of traditional hula skirts or thatched roofs.

I put a few of the cookies from Honolulu Cookie inside the box along with a small package of Hawaiian coffee.  My neighbor loved it.  I found out that her daughter was married in Maui and that she loved those cookies and the Hawaiian coffee that she had on that trip.

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Simple Thank You

Making a Thank You card does not need to be an elaborate or time consuming project.  It just needs to let someone know that you appreciate what they did for you.

For this card I cut a standard 8 1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock in half and folded it over to make the base of the card.  Then I cut a brown polka dot patterned paper slightly smaller than the front of the card.  I have a paper stack that includes one sheet that is divided into journal or message card sizes, and there was one with an anchor on it.  I knew that the person I was giving this card to loved anchors so I cut just that portion of the paper out, rounded the corners, and added it to the card.  Then I cut the word Thanks out of the same color cardstock as the base.

Simple. Quick. But it got the point across.

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