Because of its garden-based theme, this cartridge is perfect for use on outdoor related projects such as creating labels for a mini-garden or perhaps creating your own personal plant book where you and your kids can write down all the new kinds of plant life you discover in your garden. It would make for an incredibly fun way of documenting your discoveries. Of course, its uses aren’t limited to that alone. With the eye-catching colors and shapes, you can use it in a wide variety of ways such as teaching children garden related words and helping them formulate sentences through using the different shapes available.

Some of the whimsical shapes you’ll find in this cartridge include a jolly little snail, a potted flower plant, picket fences, a brown bird, a red flower, a blue butterfly, leaves, an assortment of flowers and even some green grass. It really makes it easier for you to construct your own mini garden through this cartridge. So if you like to add pretty cut outs and designs to your scrapbook or simply beautify family albums and add flair to the cards you send out every year, this would surely come in handy.

The letters are cleverly hidden in parts of a caterpillar’s body so every time you put a set together in order to create a word, you would be able to form a very lengthy caterpillar as well! The caterpillar is made up of various words and colors that any kid would surely enjoy reading and seeing. The cartridge also provides you with great phrases along with the various letters it already has. Among these phrases are: “growing minds”, “the early bird catches the word”, “reading inch by inch” and “word power”. These would make for simple but really cute tag lines or headers to the various artworks that you’d be able to create with the Garden Of Words Cricut cartridge. It also helps that the phrases themselves use very kid friendly fonts and are just as whimsical as the characters themselves. Your children would surely adore them.

Each icon key in the keypad overlay has two images on it and you may select the image on the right portion by pressing the shift key before selecting the icon. If you select the icon without using the shift key, that means you are selecting the image on the left side. You also have the option of selecting more than one image at a time. This is done by pressing the shift lock key before selecting the individual icons. Once you are ready to print, just press the CUT button and all the images you selected will be cut and printed in the style that you chose.

There are six special creative keys included in the 50 States and these keys are the capital, bird, flag, shadow, flower and the flower shadow. These keys are located at upper part of the keypad’s left panel. With these creative features, you can easily make your layouts more interesting and unique. The images that you choose will be cut according to the style that you selected as well. Since not all sizes and shapes are compatible, it is best to check the diagram in the Icon Gallery. This diagram is found in the handbook that comes with the 50 States Cricut cartridge package. The special features keys may be selected either before or after you select the image to be printed as long as you press it before hitting the CUT button.

The images included in the cartridge may be cut in sizes ranging from an inch to 5 ½ inches of from ¼ of an inch to 23 ½ inches. A package includes the cartridge itself, plus the keypad overlay and a detailed handbook to make your designs a lot easier to make. The cartridge dimensions are 9.5×5x1.6 inches and it weighs 8.6 lbs.