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Baby Album Using Cricut and Sure Cuts a Lot
A baby album with elements cut with my Cricut and Sure Cuts a Lot lately to make a first year baby album for my little niece for Christmas.
I found a great set of baby cut files by The Scrapping Table. These files were bought with a subscription, however, there are tons of free files out there you can use with your SCAL cutting software and Cricut. For this project, I just wanted to find files already grouped together for me, and I loved these. All her files are well worth the small subscription fee. The files are easy to use, stored by theme, and clean to cut. I also enjoy the emails she sends out with links to how-tos on updates to the SCAL software as Craft Edge releases them. I am not being paid to endorse her site, I just love it.
SLIDESHOW OF ENTIRE ALBUM:
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My favorite adhesive so far for piecing is tape dot roller. I just got a pink ATG gun on sale at Jo-Ann’s, so we’ll see how that goes.
INFO ON FALL .SVG FILES:
The autumn title (see slideshow above) is a free file from a cut file internet seller called www.svgcuts.com. They also have great files for small charge bundled by theme (like cartridges), so that they are tested and easy to find. I’ve bought several from there usually very reasonable prices with great sales (join their mailing list for free weekly files and promotions). I created the Halloween title myself by welding letters together in SCAL with a pumpkin welded in the middle for the “O”. The scarecrow is the most complex paper piecing I did, but I had made it for fun during some down time the previous fall–he was just waiting for a page!
SPRING SVG FILES:.
The Easter embellishments are for her first Easter photos this spring. Everyone who sees the cut embellishments can’t resist holding onto them and rubbing them for a while! Even me. We laugh at each other at our scrap group…you just have to hold them! You just can’t help but want to touch and hold them. I know, it’s crazy, but textiles are just that way!
The donkey and cross are three layer file–they look great and were easy to assemble.
SCAL gets two thumbs up from me!
Related Articles On This Blog:
Fancy Free Fonts I Love & How to Install Them
Fall Pumpkin Card Using Cricut and SCAL
Great Shape Font for Cricut Using SCAL with Brackets/Flowers/Scallops
If you have Sure Cuts A Lot for your Cricut, you should check out this post with a great shape font. She requests you give donations to McDonald House when given the opportunity, which I plan to do. LOVE this font! Thank you!
If you don’t have SCAL yet for your Cricut, you can get it here (click my link and I’ll get a cent or two). There are often coupon codes for SCAL on blog posts on the web, so be sure to check for them before you click in from here to buy. If you look around the site, click back in through here to purchase so I’ll get credit if you don’t care! That would be cool. I can buy another SCAL file! Thanks!
Card Making with Sure Cuts a Lot (SCAL)
This was my first project using SCAL and Cricut on New Year’s Day. It was such a fun project while everyone played with their Christmas gifts. I’m just getting into card making for fun, fast, personalized projects in a pinch…so these are first attempts, bear with me! It’s fun to do and share what I’m learning, though.
The idea I had was to send a few cards to those people who I realized I didn’t get to see over Christmas. I thought that a fun, personalized New Year’s card seemed like a more energizing project than “I’m sorry I’m late” outdated Christmas cards (though I do enjoy receiving those, too! Send them on!)
I picked a font I thought would cut well for my first SCAL (Sure Cuts a Lot) project. The font I chose was Times Roman. (Hard to recognize with it all resized in a funky way, isn’t it? Who knew Times Roman had it in him?)
Card #2 With Glitter Added
STEPS for Happy 2009 CARD WORDING:
- First, you must select your font and let SCAL load it. (The computer has to be hooked up to your Cricut for SCAL).
- I clicked a spot on my virutal SCAL mat and typed in Happy.
- I clicked a second spot under “Happy” on the mat and typed “2009″.
- Then the magic begins: I took each letter and scooted it, or more technically “nudged it” to touch adjoining letters.
- I moved the entire 2009 box up overlapping “Happy” so it would all be one word unit when cut.
- I selected one word box at a time, and clicked the “weld” option in the text properties box.
- Select “preview” to see the welded result.
- Made any adjustments, insert paper, set your Cricut settings, and click “cut” on your computer screen. Cutting begins!
If you want to read my review on SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot), just follow the link.
CARD #3: Cuttlebug Embossing folder added:
OTHER ELEMENTS:
I didn’t know how to cut scallops using SCAL yet, so I cut the scallop in Card #1 was cut using my Nestabilities Dies and Cuddlebug.
The cardstock back-ground in the cards was made using my swirl stamp set.
The black satin bow (gotta love black satin) was tied from my stash after I punched notches with my new Making Memories tool I got for Christmas (found for 70% off at Tuesday Morning–”Hubby, this was a great deal. I want it! Wrap it!“).
Click here for More Info on SCAL found on the Sure Cuts A Lot site
Whimsical Bird Card (SCAL + Cricut Instructions)
I love the birdies popular in scrapbooking right now!
I cut this little birdy out using the “dbwoodsy font” + Sure Cuts a Lot (or “SCAL” software–click here for my explanation and review of SCAL, or here to purchase). I think I bought this font at a scrapbooking font site for $2–lots of great stuff in it. I’ll have to add that link in when I find it. It is eluding me at the moment.
I cut the bird it out three times to get the yellow beak and blue wing (no waste, I can mix and match the pieces for three birds with the leftover pieces.)
“Get Well Soon” is in the font “Fabulous 50s Normal” available for free at www.fontspace.com.
THE PROCESS:
I opened Sure Cuts a Lot, then “welded” all the word boxes together so that they would cut in one cut wherever they overlapped (or where I moved text to overlap them–each letter can be moved over another with your mouse, so it’s very easy to do).
WELDING:
The clear advantages of welding things are
- perfectly aligned text on a straight line
- one Xyron run or glue process instead of each letter
- a very customized look
I even welded the red birdie to the text!
OTHER ELEMENTS:
Textured cardstock using a Cuttlebug embossing folder.
Scalloped card using “SCAL” (Sure Cuts a Lot) and my Cricut. I’m still perfecting that scalloped card process–when I do, I’ll write instructions!
Not seen here: I even cut out the recipients name and put it out the outside of the card. Who doesn’t love to see their name personalized on a card?
Lots of fun, and fun to deliver…
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MAGNANIMOUS FOLK