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Dinosaurs a Dozen As a child, I and my friends had an interest in dinosaurs. We used to spend hours looking through the dinosaur books we had checked out from the local book-mobile and went through heeps of paper, pencils, and crayons drawing one version of our own dinosaur after the other.
With Cricut, you and your children can create some pretty fine dinosaurs of your own! Mix it up a little. Fancy, colorful, hairy, scaly, or scary, tall, tiny, shiny, or fat...craft them how you like 'em. Your Cricut pal is at your side.
Happy Cricuting, Lonna Joy Smoot- Editor, Cricut CHIRP! 
PROJECT CORNER AND SPOTLIGHT
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| Jessica Tolbird |
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| My name is Jessica Tolbird and I have been a scrap booker for several years. I received my Cricut as a birthday present last October. I do not know how I worked with out it. The Cricut makes scrap booking so much easier and my pages look excellent. Lately, I have started using the Cricut for much more than just scrap booking. There are so many wonderful things that you can do. Your options are endless. My cousin who is like my sister is having a baby boy. She is decorating the room in baby dinos. I decided to make baby dino table decor/favor holders for her shower, that match the dinos that she is using as a theme for her room. They are perfect for making the room cute and can be removed from the boxes after the shower, to be used to decorate the baby's room. |
Jessica's Project: Shower Dinosaurs |
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Paper Dolls Dress Up,and Tags, Bags, Boxes & More |
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I chose a selection of boy pastel paper that I had collected. I cut all of the dinos at 5 1/2 inches using the paper doll cartridge. I chose to cut each of the dinos in two different colors. With the tyrannosaurus rex, I cut out a light blue and an orange dino, I cut the scales off of the orange dino and glued them to the blue dino. I did the same with the belly, and the toes. Once all of the orange pieces were glued to the blue dino, I chalked around the edges and on the inside of the dino with brown. I added a small piece of white paper behind the head of the dino for the mouth. Finally, I added the small eye.
I created a new dino with the left over orange piece. I added a new arm and trimmed around the feet of the orange
dino. I also cut small blue circles or ovals, chalked them with brown chalk and glued them to the body of the orange dino. Similar steps were taken with all of the other dinosaurs.
Creative embellishments were added to each of the dinos to make them unique, yet similar to the dinos that would be decorating the baby's room. The triceratops had a shield added which I made a stencil for, traced for each triceratop, and cut out each time. I used a circular stamp to make the circle designs on the belly of the triceratop.
By the time I was done, I ended up creating 9 different dinosaurs. Each dino was made using parts or leftovers from a different dino. All of the dinos were chalked with brown and had an eye added.
After all of the dinosaurs were finished, I cut bags using the Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More cartridge. Each bag was cut at 5 1/2 inches. The handles of each of the bags were cut off because they were to tall. A box was attached to the back of
each dino using a small piece of a three-d sticker. I used a small piece of sticker so that the dinos could be removed from the boxes easily, after the shower. During the shower, pastel colored mints were placed in each box. |
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CARTRIDGE EXPLORATION - Pooh and Friends
This week I realized that I've never finished writing about the "Pooh and Friends" cartridge. This cartridge has so many wonderful images that can be used in many different projects or scrapbook pages. The six creative features that come on
this cartridge are: Layers 1 & 2, Layers 3 & 4, Icon, Icon (Square/Circle), shadow, and blackout. The two creative features that I've never explored are the Icon, and Icon Square/Circle so I pulled out the cartridge and started to explore. Some of the extra images that come with this cartridge listed under the Icon category are: beehive, honey bees, Pooh's honey pot, book, stars & moon, the sun, dragonfly, butterfly, a bug net, flowers, grass, fence, sign, watering can, wheel barrel, clouds, rain, umbrella, kits, sailboat, three directional signs, fall leaves, pumpkins, turtle, two different types of trees, a snowflake, balloon, birthday cake, and a present. When you first look at this cartridge you get all excited about what characters are included, my personal favorite is Eeyore and Lumpy. I also like to make Tigger and use him on whatever card I am making. Now beside all the main Pooh characters you can get a lot of extra images too. The beehive and bees
would look great on a invitation, add the three directional signs then write "You Are Invited to" on the signs and you have an adorable party invitation. Any of the bugs would look great on children playing in the park scrapbook layouts or for a boys party theme. (Do you think I could get away with this same theme idea for my dog? Hummm...my little Edward's birthday is in September, I could have a dog birthday party. That is something to think about.) The pumpkins and fall leaves would work great for any fall photos. The trees could be used for any time of the year and you could even create a birthday theme using the cake, balloon, and present. You can even use the DesignStudio and weld some of the extra images together to create a corner layout for your scrapbook page. The software makes creating so easy and fun. Here is what I created if you want to copy me. I used
the fence, grass, butterfly, and dragonfly. This creative image would look so great on a scrapbook layout. Other icons are: a pirate hat, witches hat, winter hat, top hat, Santa hat, happy birthday hat, baseball hat, cowboy hat, robin-hood hat, and a chiefs hat. All these different hats can fit on any one of the characters that come with this cartridge. For example, you are creating a Christmas page, so you cut an image of Pooh and then the Santa hat to make the die cut fit your layout. In exploring the cartridge this second time I discovered these hats. For some reasons I never noticed them before, now I have to create some different layouts so I can use some of these hats in my designs. The Icon (Square/Circle) creates the same images in ether a basic square or circle. These would look great for a border on a scrapbook layout or for a sidebar. The shadow feature also comes with a way to shadow your icons, to give your images that extra layer which also helps
them stand out. So, you can see this cartridge has a lot to offer and is definitely one you must have in your Disney collection. If you have kids, your children will love to watch as you create the Pooh characters right before their very eyes. Check back next week as I continue to explore the Cricut Cartridges. Happy Cricuting! Crafty Kimber
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
| "I remember buying a set of black plastic dishes once, after I saw an ad on television where they actually put a blowtorch to them and they emerged unscathed. Exactly one week after I bought them, one of the kids brought a dinner plate to me with a large crack in it. When I asked what happened to it, he said it hit a tree. I don't want to talk about it." ~ Erma Bombeck | |
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