Birthdays are occasions that do not often go unnoticed in my family. More particularly, the birthdays of the younger kinfolk in our clan. Probably because the wee ones are so good at reminding everyone around them, well in advance, that their special day is approaching.

Birthday events are great material for scrap booking, but don't forget about the cards and invitations. With Cricut, whipping up fabulous birthday cards has never been so easy. Make a special birthday keepsake card for some one you care about today and share a little bit of yourself. It won't go unnoticed. They'll thank you for adding something special to their special day.

Best of luck and "Happy Cricuting!"

The holidays are coming up and many of you will be purchasing Cricut machines and products for family members and friends. Please remember to save the receipts from your purchases. A receipt will be a necessity if your gift bug has a little bug that needs to be fixed. This will greatly facilitate the servicing of any Cricut products and the recipient of your gift will thank you as well.

The week that I got the Tinker Bell cartridge I also received the Disney Cars cartridge as well. I was so excited to get this cartridge because I loved the movie so much. I have a confession to admit to you all, but I am holding you all in my confidence that you won't change your opinion of me once my secret is out. Okay, here I go: I have watched this move about six times, and four of those times I didn't have any kids with me while I was watching it. Wahoo, so glad that my confession is out! I think grownups can like Lighting McQueen too--or maybe I'm just saying that to make myself feel better--oh well. Let me tell you about this new wonderful cartridge that has been added to the Cricut family.

First off you have all your favorite characters from the move, Lightning McQueen, The King, DJ, Snotrod, Chick hicks, Sally, Wingo, Boost, Mac & Trailer, Mater (my second favorite), Doc Hudson, Sheriff, Luigi, Guido, Red, Sarge, Fillmore, Frank, Tracker, Flo, and Ramone. This cartridge has so many fun images you can cut. Like the other Disney cartridges you have to cut your base layer first then cut out all the other layers and glue them together, similar to a puzzle.

The creative features that come with this cartridge are: Body/White/Windows, Tires/Eyes, Detail/Detail, Spare Parts, Spare Parts Blackout, and Shadow. Obviously the first three creative features are the layers that you have to cut out then glue to the base image. Other images that come on this cartridge are a stop sign, road sign, speed limit sign, and a yield sign. You also get a "The World or Cars" sign plus Lighting McQueen's racing number. There are a bunch of different images on about five different cars, so you have a great selection to choose from when you make your scrapbook. I wonder if I could make a few scrapbook pages with these images for my dog Eddie--he loves to chew on cars--I will have to get some pictures of him doing that so I can have my self a Lighting McQueen scrapbook page, hehehe. The shadow feature provides you with the black outline for each of the cars, so you images will "pop" with whatever project you are making.

The Spare Parts creative feature is really unique. I was really excited to see all the extra images that are provided. Let me share with you some of images that you can cut using this feature. You can now create your own "Piston Cup" and use this as your title. You also get the lighting bolt, McQueen's name, "Start your engines" title, "Speed, I am Speed", "1st to the finish", "Racing Machine", racing flags within a circle, the number "95", trophy with wings, straight road, curved road, construction cone, "off road mayhem", "Vroom", checkered racing flags, traffic hanging light, tires sign, tire, "Pit Stop" sign, fire hydrant, army badge, "Hot Roddin" sign, "Radiator Springs" sign, gas pump, fire design, and Texas long horns for the front of your car. WOW! That is a lot of extras--think of all the cards or projects you could do with all the images on this cartridge.

Check out next week as I continue to explore this cartridge and discover all the fun projects you can do with it. Happy Cricuting!

Crafty Kimber

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