The Home Decor Solutions cartridge offers various shapes for you to choose from. The shapes include flowers, insects (like butterflies, ladybugs, and dragonflies), birds, fruits, basic figures (such as stars, hearts, and arrows), and other miscellaneous items (like crowns). Aside from these shapes, Home Decor Solutions also offers various embellishments (such as elegant swirls which look quite pretty on wall or frame borders) which you can use to make your designs really stand out. Just like the Home Accents cartridge, Home Decor Solutions also features phrases and words, such as “beautiful,” “love, “create,” “hope,” and “miracle.”

This cartridge offers a couple of creative features, specifically Shadow and Blackout. The Shadow feature is used for enhancing a particular shape to make it pop out even more. This creative feature may be used for making banners or anything that will be used to draw attention. The Blackout feature, on the other hand, fills in all the empty spaces in a shape, thereby highlighting its details even more. This feature helps add more depth and dimension to die cuts.

Teachers can create posters for their Students and classrooms. The Classmate line of Cricut Cartridges are well suited for this task.

Make billboards for garage sales with pictures of the objects you want to sell.

Cards for any occasion, saving you time and money.

Tags for presents at Christmas and Birthdays. Many Cricut Cartridges have tag and card patterns build right into them.

Create labels for your storage boxes.

Scrapbook any occasion! There are Cricut cartridges designed for specific holidays and events.

Send out hand crafted wedding invitations. You know you’ll save a bundle doing it yourself. While you at it, make table cards to let people know where to sit. There is even a wedding themed Cricut cartridge!

Decorate boxes and hand them out as gifts. Better yet, wrap another hand-crafted project in the box.

Make a cook book to keep your favorite recipes in.

The Cricut and all the Cricut Cartridges are not limited to personal use. Make stationary for your business.

Send creative invoices to your clients. That personal touch will have them coming back for more.

Send thank you cards after a transaction.

Include your family and friends in your projects. Cricut is so easy to use that children (while supervised) can use it to create whatever they desire. Spend quality time with your family and friends while creating. The Cricut and Cricut Cartridges helps children’s minds develop creativity.

Create plant signs for you garden. There are a couple of garden themed Cricut cartridges available to spur you on.

The possibilities are truly endless with the Cricut and Cricut Cartridges. If you have any creative uses please post a comment to help others create!

This article will document some of the more advanced functions in an attempt to enlighten the average user. In the end this will save more time and more money – both things that everyone could use more of!

The first function I wish to cover that is included with all Cricut Cartridges is the Real Dial Size function. Every Cricut Cartridge has a character which is the largest, measured from top to bottom. This is called the Key Height Character. You can find out which character is the key height character by looking in the manual included with every Cricut Cartridges. When the Real Dial Size is turned off each shape will be cut in proportion to the largest shape. This allows lowercase letters to appear correct when lined up into a word. If the Real Dial Size is turned on then each shape will be cut according to the dial size and not the largest character in the cartridge.

The shift button allows you access to the alternate shape on a key. For the Font line of Cricut Cartridges this usually is the uppercase letter. For shapes it could be any number of items. Please refer to you included cartridge handbook for shapes accessible with the shift key.

Shift lock accesses the same shapes as shift but allows you to do so on multiple key presses. This is useful for typing words in all uppercase letters.

Space and Backspace work just like they do on a computer’s keyboard.

Clear Display completely wipes out whatever is on the LCD screen. This is useful to start a new cut or to delete multiple key presses that were entered incorrectly.

The Reset All button will do the same thing as the Clear Display with the addition of setting all the settings back to their factory defaults.

Repeat Last places the last cut’s information onto the LCD screen. You can then change any setting then cut again.

Sound On/Off turns the chirp on or off. This setting is retained through a power down cycle of the Cricut machine.

Load and Unload Paper are used to insert and remove paper and the mat from the Cricut machine. Never try to do this manually. Doing so could damage the machine.

There is also a set of blade navigation keys which can be used to precisely maneuver the cutting blade where you wish to start your cut. Useful for reusing scraps of paper!

The Set Paper Size button is to be used when using pieces of paper smaller than 6″ x 12.” To use it simply load the paper and mat into the Cricut machine then navigate the blade to the upper right hand corner of the paper and press the Set Paper Size button. The Cricut will automatically measure the size of your paper and it’s size will be displayed on the LCD.

Finally, a very useful button that will save you money is the paper saver button. This allows the Cricut machine to set up the cut so as to minimize the amount of paper used. This mode is retained even when you turn the Cricut off and back on again. It really is nice that this button is included with all Cricut Cartridges

Just like all the other 50+ Cricut Cartridges, Walk In My Garden comes with a handbook, keyboard overlay, a binder, and the font cartridge. This cricut cartridge is compatible with both the orginal Cricut machine, and the Cricut Expression machine. It is simple to use this cartridge: simply plug it in, turn on the Cricut machine, and then turn on the machine.

Like all Cricut cartridges belonging to the shape family, this cartridge has a multitude of fun shapes and phrases to cut. There are tons of different flowers to use in your projects including daisies, posies, bleeding hearts, daffodils, irises, roses, and tulips. What is neat about the flowers is when you cut them with the Cricut machine is that the machine can make all the layers needed to create a multi-layered, multi-colored flower. Perfect for you next project!

This cartridge doesn’t just do flowers. It also does other garden inspired shapes like pots, watering cans, gardening tools, wheelbarrows, and leaves. Garden critters are also included like bees, turtles, butterflies, dragonflies, and ladybugs.

The words that are included on the cartridge are ‘be’, ‘happy’, ‘friends’, ’smile’, ‘thanks’, ‘a bunch’, ‘thinking’, ‘of you’, ‘to:’, ‘from:’, ‘for you’, and ‘love’. As you can this cartridge, like all Cricut Cartridges, are infinitely useful for all your scrapbooking projects.

It even has cards and tags that you can fold up for custom, money saving labels for your presents and gifts.

Like all Cricut Cartridges, cartridge features Special Features. There are 6 Special Features included in the cartridge; Card, Bread Tag, Tag, Borders, Shadow, and Shadow Blackout. Card creates a card version with a small emblem of whatever base shape you choose in the lower right hand corner. Bread Tag is just like card, but creates a bread tag like slit which allows the tag to be hung of off whatever you wish. Tag makes a bookmark-like tag with a loop at the top, useful for tying it to whatever projects you have. Shadow creates a slightly larger version of a shape, useful for creating multi-layered, or multi-colored objects. Blackout is like shadow except it has all the details omitted, useful for a foundation upon with to build a shape. Finally, the most exciting Special Feature is border. This creates three linked shapes in a row and the shift border will create the detail.

If you enjoy this cartridge then look for more Cricut cartridges designed by Brena Birrell.