Butterfly card

Inspired by the butterfly on the Cricut cake cartridge (You can sneak a peek if you have the latest Design Studio libraries loaded). I made this card in SCAL for two of my beautiful nieces. One turned 14 today and tomorrow the other one 27. Oh my, I'm feeling old now. They both love butterflies, green and black.

Shadow box Baby Keepsake

The best of both worlds. A Cricut Cartridge & SCAL.

Using SCAL and a free font called "Little Lord Fontleroy" I cut vinyl and adhered it to the glass. I covered the velvet backer board with some scrapbook paper via Scotch double sided tape in several place. Added the cut from A Child's Year as well as the baby stats. A bit of ribbon was added a the top. The hardest part was cutting the baby stats down and then creating the right size of matting. I am not well practiced at this.
Using SCAL 2 is great for the title. You can center align the two rows effortlessly and size it exactly. I cut the vinyl, weeded it and transferred the whole thing using transfer tape in 1 step. That way there wouldn't be any uneven lettering. It may seem like your not conserving vinyl but you are after you throw out a couple pieces due to mistakes!
A very simple but remarkable gift. This shadow box is only 8x10 which is a great size. If you put paper on the back, you don't have to layer or splice two sheets and hide it with ribbon.

Boo

It's been a while since I posted. I created this card using Stretch Your Imagination & Plantin. My Cricut didn't want to cleanly cut out the eyes but I made it work. I wouldn't want to go much smaller unless I had a sticky new mat.

An inch is an inch

There was a discussion today on Cricut Chat MB about the sizing of everything. I offered my 2cents worth and added a visual.

The size of your cut is always measured from the top to bottom of the mat, not the longest part of your cut. Some things are laid out in such a way on the cart that 1" tall makes them 3" long!
Imagine my surprise when I cut 1" tall waves to go with my little 2" light house from Life's a Beach. It looked like Tsunami! I almost always use CDS for planning cuts.
Here's a visual example. Everything here is 1" tall. But everything varies in proportion tremendously.

Inkscape isn't just for SCAL users

I’m falling in love with SCAL for fun journaling blocks. Check this out.

Font is Crazy Harold from somewhere on the internet.

Create a text box & enter text.

Create a spiral of a reasonable size.

Click on the Spiral, under the Path Menu, click “object to path.”

Hold down the sift key so you can also select the text box (both will be selected)

Under the Text Menu, click “Put on Path.”

You’ll have to fiddle around with text size and the shape of the spiral to get it perfect. I don’t have all the specifics on that because I’m just figuring that out.