Cricut Time

Did you read my post last week about a Cricut Machine?  It's used for cutting out words, letters, designs, etc onto scrapbook paper.  If you've never heard of it and are an avid scrapbook person OR are into crafts, this is the machine for you.  I have a Cricut Expressions which can cut 12x12 paper, it can also cut vinyl, and other materials.  I LOVE IT and am really starting to use it more and more.  In the beginning I used it just on pages in Gavin's scrapbook, but then I used it to make two banners for different parties (I'll show those later), as well as invitations for a party I'm throwing next week.  I was at Hobby Lobby looking for black cards and envelopes and found a pack of beige cards and had the idea to make my own greeting cards using my Cricut, too.  So, in one day's sitting I decided to tackle these projects all at once.  I loved getting to use my different cartridges and try new things with the Cricut.  

Here are two of the cards I made so far!   

   

Can you guess what this invitations for? I'll tell you more about this later... let's just say March 20th can't get here soon enough!

By the way, if you have a Cricut of any kind and are tired of buying cartridges for $60-80, there is a program called Sure Cuts a Lot... it's a computer program you purchase and download onto your computer. It allows you to use any standing font that is on your computer (which means you can download any free font and your Cricut can cut something out for you using that font).  You just hook your Cricut up to your computer and VOILA... there's the program!  Try googling Sure Cuts a Lot and search for coupons and deals.  

While we're talking about fonts... I'm always looking for cute fonts to put on my computer (especially when I was teaching) and I've come across some websites that have a lot of different types of fonts that are free!!!

Check out www.fontface.com , enter the website, then search font archive.  You can click on any letter and it gives you all the fonts that start with that letter.  Download them to your computer and voila!

I also found this website that has a TON of FREE and really cute fonts that you can download to your computer AND incorporate it into your blog.  This site has some really good ones.  The website explains how to download them to your computer and use in blogger.  I hope that you find these as useful as I have.  Enjoy!   http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/