Tool Tip Tuesday: Cricut Craft Room

Tool Tip Tuesday:  Artbooking & Cricut Craft Room

I love scraplifting from the Close To My Heart Idea Book (this comes from page 48 of Spring Summer 2014).   My tool tip for today is for all you E2 Cricut owners.

The overlay is cut from the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.  I could have easily sent several different patterns through my Cricut and pieced together this project, but I wanted to save paper since this Timberline kit is so darling…I don’t want to waste a scrap!  As E2 owners will attest, cutting on scraps is not nearly as easy as it is with the regular Expression.  Far too many screens to navigate.  At least the view screen lets me know exactly where to place my scraps!

Cricut Craft Room To The Rescue

Yep, gotta love the Cricut Craft Room!  I used the hide contour feature to hide everything except the pattern that I wanted to print.  I then placed scraps of paper on my mat following the guide in CCR.  I sent the mat through my E2 and got perfect pieces every time.

I inked the edges of all my little pieces and then put them in the overlay.  I’m really happy with the way this page turned out!

Leave a Comment for a Video & CCR File

Let me know if you would like to see a video of the process with a free CCR file download.  I’ve had some severe back pain this week and haven’t been able to sit much, so I wasn’t too excited about creating a video.  If there is an audience for it, I’ll do it once my back starts feeling better.

The good news about having back pain is that I’ve been standing for most of the week.  That has kept me off of the computer and spending more time scrapbooking at the high table in my craft room and at the kitchen counter.  I have been a ridiculously productive scrapbooker this week with 5 2-page spreads and this single page!  Go me!  With that said, I am looking forward to feeling better.