It's been a while since I scrapbooked and even longer since I used my Cricut to make some die-cut embellishments. With my wonderful trip to California and Vegas fresh on my mind, I was excited to get the photos into an album and actually looking forward to scrapbooking with my old friend, Cricut!
I must admit I was a little rusty. I sparked up the Gypsy but it seems since I last did an update that the 'layers' feature is not working - for example, the shadow background is not cutting at an appropriate size to layer with the icon. I abandoned the Gypsy and decided to work straight from the Cricut using the cartridges. It all came back after a few minutes of playing...and a lot of wasted paper! Since Creative Memories is in the process of restructuring I am very low on paper so every piece is precious! I decided to always do a test cut on copy paper just to make certain I was getting the size I want before sacrificing any more designer paper!
I'm having a lot of fun embellishing my pages. I forgot how much the die-cuts add to the layout (for example, the wave in the above photo), and it's nice to customize the look however I want (I added another wave on the next page of the layout pointing the other direction using the 'flip' feature!). I think it helped that I had already got the majority of my pages done and then just worked on adding the Cricut decorations all at once (versus one page at a time). I moved my machine right onto my large table next to me so everything was right at hand.
The album is coming together nicely and it feels good to scrapbook again - despite the incredible mess I have made and my aching shoulders (I'd forgotten about that). One happy discovery, despite my extremely low inventory of stickers, was the perfect title sticker for my page about meeting up with my blog-pal Stephanie: a single, small sticker with the word GRIN on it! Not only is this a nice reference to our happy smiles but Steph's blog happens to be named "With a Grin"!!!! Perfect!
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