Pat Catan's Crafting & News Blog: Scrapbooking

Cricut Tips from Provo Craft!

The Provo Craft website hosts a lot of tips & tricks that can be very helpful for all levels of Cricut machine users! One of my favorite tips is on the paper save mode

Paper Save Mode

With all the swooshes and extended lines of Jasmine, you may want to cut it with Paper Saver Mode on. If not, you may type in a 4" "Ty" or the like and get an error message claiming "Character(s) won't fit...". At first thought this doesn't seem right. But with further investigation it's actually correct (see picture).

The top of the capital "T" all the way to the bottom of the lower-case "y" is well beyond the 6" maximum width the Cricut can cut. If you don't need the "negative" space of the cut, simply select Paper Saver Mode and try again. The result will be the "y" moving up, to fit well within the 6" width.

Another mode you may want to be aware of, especially with Jasmine, is Real Dial Size. If you need an exact sized cut, you'll need to turn this on. Otherwise, you'll engage proportionate sizing to the set's Key Height Character. And once again, Jasmine has a lot of swooshes and curves that may affect this.

Just keep these two modes particularly in mind with this set. 

For more great tips, tricks, and ideas visit the website at http://www.cricut.com/tips_and_tricks/

 

Some Martha Stewart Supplies Ideas

 Christmas Martha Stewart Supplies Endcap Ideas

Projects by Jen Langman

Give boring bags pizzaz!

Uses: red glimmer card stock, light green cardstock with swiss dot, Martha Stewart line: large santa sticker, alphabet, and gingerbread tag.  Also needed: paper trimmer, double sided adhesive tap

To create the bag simply cut the green paper small enough to fit inside the front of the bag surface. This will vary depending on the size of bag you use. Trim the red paper to be about a quarter of an inch smaller then the green paper. Attach the stickers to the outside and add the tag! I added extra adhesive to the stickers because they are on a bag and it's something that will be handled more than a scrapbook page and the stickers being 3-dimensional may pop off.

Chinese Take Out treat box

This uses 8.5x11" velvet paper trimmed to size and Martha's snowflake felt ribbon garland. Bow is made from the velvet paper or you can make one from regular velvet ribbon.

 

 

Dress Up Your Candles!

This uses the same paper as the bag. The green paper used a paper punch from Martha to create the ornament border. I used ribbon from the Martha end cap and the letters from the bag project. I glued the letters on to make sure they stayed put. Set on a decorative glass candle holder of choice.

As always with candle crafting we recommend you do not light the candles. If you chose to do so please keep them in an area that they can be monitored at all times they are lit and keep decorations lower on the candle. Decorated candles can be a fire hazard if the materials get near the flames and are meant for decorative purposes only.
 

New Product: I-Top Brad Maker by Imaginisce!

Ever wanted to make you own brads?! Now you can! The new brad maker by Imaginisce can create brads with a variety of materials from fabric to paper, photos and more! Check it out, in stores now!

We also cary these accessories

Row 1: Small, Medium and Large brad forms

L-R Small, Medium and Large craft punches for brad materials

Stencils to cut out non paper material!

 
 Check out the idea gallery over at Imaginisce!

 

New Product: Christmas & Winter Themed Paper Endcap

Lots of cool new paper supplies on the end of the scrapbook aisles, get them while supplies last! Working on some cute ideas now!

Double Bugging a Fall Card

 

Here are some of the supplies you will need to make this project:

Cuttlebug

2 embossing folders (I used the swirl and pumpkin folders)

Light Ink

Darker Ink

Paper Cutter

Card stock

Applicator for ink such as Embossing Brush or Fantastix

 

 

Cut card stock to size (depends on what size your card is) insert into swirl folder and put through the cuttlebug. Run it through only once.

 

Using the embossing brush or fantastix (I'm a big fan of the fantastix but that is just me) color the swirls with the lighter color ink.

 

Next, put the card stock in the pumpkin folder and put it through the cuttlebug 3 times (just run it back and then forth 3 times). Putting it through this many times flattens the swirls and allows the pumpkins to stand out.

With the darker ink go over the pumpkins just like you did with the swirls. 

This makes a great background paper to use in card making or scrapbooking.  Experiment with different embossing folders and ink colors. 

 

This post courtesy of Vicki O'Dell

Halloween Endcap 2009

Ah, it's that time again! Halloween and fall (and even Christmas eek!) are making their way out on our shelves! This post is dedicated to new Halloween scrapbook supplies! Here are some great ideas using new products sent to us here at the blog! Check em out! Photos of new products to come soon!

 

 

 

Handmade Beach Album Tutorial

by Jen Langman

This album was completely hand made using chipboard, acrylic pages, and all sorts of fun supplies.

New cool idea for organizing your ribbonscraps!

 

Supplies :

1206-36 Ribbon scraps

FN2 36pk Darice slit paper punch

Thanks Jill T for sending in this great idea!

New Spellbinder Die Cuts in!

Find them on a sidewing in the scrapbook department!

New Items: Wedding Endcap

 New wedding endcap located in the scrapbook department! Lots of beautiful paper and embellishments. Clear papers, cream lack and white papers and embellishments.

 

Here is an idea using the clear paper by Creative Imaginations! This paper contained a few patterned frames. I cut one to size using a paper trimmer and placed it inside a frame. Makes a pretty decorative element for your wedding framing project!