Storybook Cricut Cartridge Review
The Storybook cartridge was designed by Deena Rutter, and its characters are based on storybook-style lettering and are inspired by fairytale images. The shapes on this cartridge are best used for crafting children’s greeting cards, notebooks, reading and alphabet flash cards, bulletin boards, and scrapbooks (which may be made to look like personalized storybooks). Storybook’s shapes can also be utilized in coming up with props for children’s make-believe games or parties. For instance, a princess-themed party is never complete without wands and tiaras, which can be given a fun twist by personalizing each with the initial of each child. Apart from these possible projects, the cartridge’s images may also come in handy when decorating playrooms, daycare centers, and preschool classrooms.
The cartridge includes all the letters of the alphabet, numbers 0 to 9, and the ampersand. Each character comes in different fonts based on lettering styles commonly used in children’s books. Apart from appearing in various fonts, each letter and number also comes with assorted accents, such as icons or graphics, borders, frames, corners, and shadows. These icons include flowers, leaves, butterflies, birds, plants or trees, vines, swirls and curlicues, basic shapes like hearts, and basic symbols such as exclamation points, question marks, and parentheses. Of course, no storybook is ever complete without the requisite images in fairytales, so the cartridge includes illustrations of crowns and mirrors as well as the phrases “Once upon a time,” “Happily ever after,” and “A wish came true.” Other words included are “the,” “and,” “To,” and “From” as well as common phrases, such as “Thank you,” “Birthday Girl, and “Birthday Boy.”
The Storybook cartridge offers the following six features: Tall/Border, Shorty/Holes, Fancy/Corner, Accent/Frame, Shadow, and Accent Blackout. The Tall/Border feature refers to shapes that are drawn to look thin and tall and to accents that may be used as borders. Shorty/Holes enables users to work with shapes that look squat and with the shapes’ corresponding icons that are drawn with holes. The Fancy/Corner feature is for users to work with letters and numbers that are written in a calligraphic style and with shapes that are used as corner accents. For more elaborate fonts, the Accent/Frame is the best feature to use. This feature also gives users the ability to use shapes that are drawn to look like frames. Shadow refers to the boldfaced versions of the Tall/Border lettering style, and if this feature is used with the corresponding icon of a letter or number, the icon’s empty spaces are filled in. Just like Shadow, the Accent/Blackout feature is the boldfaced versions of the Accent/Frame lettering style and frame. Using this feature causes the empty spaces of the frame shapes to be filled in completely.
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