Cricut Cartridges: Add Variety to Your Scrapbooking Layouts
Thursday, February 4th, 2010How many Cricut cartridges do you have for your Cricut machine? Whatever the answer, you probably don’t have all of them! Using a Cricut machine is one of the best ways to update your scrapbook pages and because of that, the manufacturer is almost always offering new Cricut cartridges.They offer many licensed characters like Big Bird from Sesame Street, Cinderella from Disney or Hello Kitty, as well as holiday cartridges like Christmas and Halloween in addition to many different fonts for lettering.
One of the best features about Cricut cartridges is that they come in so many fonts for letters and so many shapes.This is a key feature that sets them apart from other die cut machine manufacturers. Imagine being able to create vacation scrapbooks using shapes from the beach – beach balls, seashells, sailboats – or being able to create sports scrapbooks using shapes from your favorite sports, including footballs, basketballs, baseball bats, and so on. This means that with Cricut cartridges you don’t need to fumble with awkward and difficult to use stencils, cutting your paper by hand and coming up with imperfect shapes and papers. You can even find “indie art” cartridges that offer shapes of guitars, skulls, hand grenades, and all those other difficult to find shapes that are perfect for your particular scrapbooks. You’ll also be able to cut out a variety of letters in creative fonts for all of your scrapbook phrases.
There is such a wide variety of Cricut cartridges that you might be surprised at the variety and the new ones they offer every time you shop.Whether you are designing scrapbook albums for yourself or with your children, you are sure to find something that is just perfect for your project and create more scrapbooking crafts.
Creating a scrapbook the old fashioned way, that is, using stencils and cutouts and just hunting down the right shapes for you is of course okay, but typically the more options you have the better your scrapbooks are and the more enjoyable the hobby becomes. Using a variety of Cricut cartridges with your cricut cutting machine will enable you to find just the right embellishment for your pages, no matter what the theme of your book.You will also be more efficient and save time by no longer having to cut every shape and letter out by hand.This allows you to get more page layouts done in the same amount of time so now you are spending more time being creative with your scrapbooking.So do you have enough Cricut cartridges? Whatever your answer, chances are you could easily find many more that would work perfectly for your hobby.