This cartridge is best used for educational purposes, so use this for your next Printing 101 project. It includes basic math symbols in addition to its regular icon keys. It also has very useful teacher helper characters, which makes it even more ideal for classroom use. Each icon key has two images and these images may be selected by directly pressing the icon key for the image on the left and pressing the shift key before pressing the icon key if you want the image on the right. For times when you want to save time by printing several images at a time, just press on the shift lock key before selecting the images that you want.

The creative function keys may be used by pressing on a design before selecting the CUT button. This will result in your image being printed according to the design that you chose. This is where you can use your imagination and creativity. You have to decide how best to use the special function keys and make careful combinations since each design will not work well with all characters in the cartridge due to their different sizes and shapes. By customizing your characters you can make the design uniquely yours.

The Printing 101 Cricut cartridge also comes with two Foundation Keys, which create either a solid version of a creative feature image or a proportional image that can be paired with a creative feature. The shapes that you create with these keys may be used as layers and may be made more attractive when combined with another shape or perhaps a phrase. Furthermore, you can choose the size of the images that you are going to print. The cartridge has a Real Dial function that allows you to print all selected images in the dial size that you specified. The set of characters in a cartridge has a key height and if you do not press the Real Dial option then the images will be printed in proportion to the key height.

When you first use the Going Places font cartridge, you will encounter the Creative Feature keys which are located on the topmost left side of your keypad. These Creative Feature keys include labels of the features mentioned previously: Circle, Sign, Card, Slider Envelope, Shadow, and Shadow Blackout. To use the Creative Feature keys, simple select the button and press it prior to cutting your desired shapes. Aside from the Creative Feature keys, you will also encounter the Foundation keys which are located on the bottom-right part of your keypad and have two characters on each key. The Foundation keys are the solid versions of the Creative feature keys which can be used together to enhance the type of shape that you wish to produce. You can also add other shapes or phrases to the combination to make them look better such as overlaying the shapes with the male and female symbols.

Once you have accustomed yourself to the different Creative Feature and Foundation keys, you can start making your own unique projects, starting off with your very own Travel Journal. Gone are the days when people use simple slip-on photo albums. Being more creative and artistic in displaying your travel photos wouldn’t hurt, and travel journals can help you recall the experience more vividly with the use of the different shapes and characters found in the Going Places font cartridge. All you need to complete your own travel journal project are a notebook or journal, preferably “5 x 7” in area, different cardstock printing paper in earth colors such as dark olive, turquoise, brown, or dark orange, or other color combinations you wish to use to enhance the appearance of your travel journal. Begin by designing the front cover of your journal with the most memorable shapes or phrases which you can remember from your travel that would suggest places you’ve been to. Continue by putting together the pages in your journal in chronological order, piecing in different shapes and gluing them onto the cardstock paper.

You can use your Going Places font projects to create a variety of projects which you can use to decorate your office or home desk, your work area, or your kids’ play area or bedroom. The Going Places font cartridge can be also used to create signs which you can put up inside your home or decorate your garage.

On the other hand, card making is an interesting way to remember an occasion. This time, the card is sent to a person. It is unlike scrapbooking wherein the output is kept by the maker.

As scrapbooking and card making had evolved, paper crafting became popular as well. Paper crafting is a useful art to enhance the visual appeal of the scrapbook. From its early beginnings with simple paper cutters and scissors, paper crafting equipments were developed to further enhance the creativity incorporated in its creation. Cricut Machines are like printers that require cartridges in order to produce accurate shapes and letters. It comes with various specialized cartridges that will most definitely answer to your creativity needs.

Beyond Birthdays Cricut Cartridge is one of the cartridges available for the Cricut Machine. The Beyond Birthdays cartridge is created by Cecelia Harris. The creator’s undying interest with reading and writing resulted to the creation of various cartridges.

The cartridge includes the basic shapes such as rectangle (Framed and Card), oval, card (square). It also has the basic features of most cartridges which are the shadow and shadow/blackout creative features.

Beyond Birthdays Cricut cartridge is not limited to fonts and shapes commonly used in a common occasion like birthdays. It also contains a wide selection of phrases and icons that will come in handy for every occasion. It works well as an additional design to your card or to your scrapbook.

Beyond Birthdays cartridge adds a personalized touch to your occasion. Use this cartridge to produce inspirational phrases and icons for all of your paper crafting needs. Add these to your card and achieve a personal feel and presentable finish to your hand crafted creation.

Making a handcrafted card or scrapbook makes the Beyond Birthdays project special. Add an extra touch of creativity with the use of Beyond Birthdays cartridge brings it on a whole new level. The features that come with the Beyond Birthdays cartridge will let you create meaningful and special cards and scrapbooks. You can be assured that your projects are pretty and presentable without the difficulty of creating something from scratch.

One of these tools made exclusively for paper crafting is the Jasmine cartridge. As the name implies, the theme of this cartridge is inspired by princes Jasmine from the Walt Disney animated movie, Aladdin.

Cecelia Harris is responsible for the creation of the Jasmine Cricut cartridge. Her love and passion for art and art works are very remarkable that it took her almost a lifetime to master her hobby and her profession as an artist. She confessed that she cannot do away with art, or live a life without colors, lettering, and paper crafting. Her enthusiasm over the incredible art world is the sole reason why she invented this very valuable art tool. Now, children and even adults can simply finish their own paper crafting using her creation.

This cartridge is capable of cutting papers into different forms and sizes depending on the user’s preference. The package actually contains several features that will surely give one’s masterpiece an amazing look. It includes letters, numbers, and symbols that were styled in a very fashionable manner. The most unique feature of this cartridge is that it includes foundation keys that allow paper cutting of different shapes. Some of these creative shapes are diamonds and ovals.

In addition, the cartridge also includes other special features for the characters, such as italic, shadow, and shadow blackout. The italic feature will italicized the letters; the shadow feature can add depth to the characters; while the shadow out can add weight to the numbers, letters, and symbols. Any of these special features can be achieved with just a single press on the keypad overlay buttons, which are specified for this cartridge alone.

There are numerous Jasmine projects, it is only limited by your imagination. It can be used to create notebook covers, photo album captions, banners, greeting cards, diary covers, scrap books, and to personalized items at home and at school.

The price of the Jasmine package is very affordable and it includes the cartridge, the keypad overlay, a binder, and a handbook or manual that will guide users in installing the product. The manual also include tips on how to do paper layers and how to combine the special features.

The Cursive 101 Cartridge boasts beautiful and classic fonts and features. With its own instruction manual, the creative features include: puzzle, tile, notebook, shadow and shadow blackout designs. This cartridge is perfect for more serious and “grown-up” cards, and other arts and crafts handiworks. With the Cursive 101 Cartridge you’ll now be able to make cards fit for a queen.

Planning a posh, high tea party? Hosting a bridal shower for your best friend? Just feeling oh-so-quaint and Victorian? The Cursive 101 Cartridge is the way to go!

But don’t think that this means this new cartridge is boring. With the special features, you can make almost any kind of card for any occasion. Make puzzle cut-outs for your kindergartener. Or spell the name of your Scrabble-obsessed friend in tiles. You can also use the notebook feature to label your planner or other writing materials. You can even go ultra artistic with the shadow and shadow black out designs, and use them for casual house party invites. For only $89.99, you will be able to make a lifetime worth of cards and other creative crafts for friends, family, and of course, yourself. So what are you waiting for? Get your own cartridge now while supplies last!

As for me, I’m purchasing 2 of them for our next Cursive 101 projects – one for me and one for my teacher friend. I foresee fun, cursive-filled days ahead.
Thanks, Cricut!

The special features included in this cartridge are Shadow and Shadow Blackout. The keys of these features are found on the upper left corner of the keypad overlay. The Shadow feature will create a larger shadow image exactly like the selected character, while the Shadow Blackout will create a larger shadow image that is more of an outline of the character. Just press the said keys before pushing the Cut button for the desired character style set in the preferred special feature. Real Dial Size is also included where the characters will come out in the actual size indicated by the user. After familiarizing with the cartridge, the user will realize that some characters look better when cut at a larger dial size.

This cartridge is good for making educational street signs or creative invitations and posters in a traffic-inspired designed.

Mothers bringing along their toddlers and pre-schoolers on a long road trip will find that this will be a good way to while away the long travel time and keep the little kids occupied. The children can copy the street signs they pass by. This game will then serve an educational purpose in teaching children about street signs, what the symbols mean, and why they are important. The children can also make their own street signs to mark milestones from the trip that they can put on a scrapbook or to accessorize the trip’s photo album. Either way, both parents and children will be assured of a stress and hassle-free trip.

The Street Sign Solutions cartridge can also make an imaginative invitation for a birthday party or any party for a traffic cop for example. The party and invitation will be designed using traffic sign fonts and symbols. The invitation can also creatively show the instructions on how to go to the event’s venue using the actual street signs one will see on the way.

It also provided some punctuation marks that are usually used for greetings and invitations such as exclamation point, semicolon and question mark. Additional cutouts from the cartridge include simple doodle type illustrations that would provide an apt accent to the quirky feel of the font. The simple yet effective illustrations are as follows; flowers, sun, snowflake, heart, star and boxes. There are also layouts complete with holes that are perfect for attaching them into whichever project that is fitting.

It is up to the person’s creativity where to use these quirky fonts. For instance, printed on a card with a ready hole, it can be tied with a piece of string. Yarns and ribbons can also be used and the important thing is having a color theme perfect for the occasion. For example, if it is to be used for the Christmas season, the color of paper and string can play around red and green or gold and orange. This can be attached on gifts such as a bottle of wine, some cookies or pastries or the boxes containing the presents themselves.

Another possible project in using this font cutout is making labels for a quirky spice rack. If a person already bottles with different spices, a label with these doodle fonts can be cut out and either pasted or tied into the bottle. The paper to be used is dependent on what kind of theme the kitchen a person has.

This cartridge can be used for numerous projects that would require fun fonts to work. With the combination of upper case and lower case letters and changing the positioning of the cutouts, there can be many different outcomes from the same set of font. This font would also make fitting labels for young children’s books, notebooks and other school supplies. It can also be used for the headlines of scrapbook and album pages with the likes of baby shower compilations and other events.

The font was intricately designed because its objective is to truly capture the characteristic that Hello Kitty is leaving most of its supporters worldwide. The users can only experience the elegance and cuteness of the font of this cartridge through its very unique and distinct curves which are contained in its script letters. There isn’t any other way to describe or picture the characteristics of Hello Kitty than to use this font as it truly captures the image that was encrypted in our minds by the character’s original creator many years ago.

Aside from the special font itself which is a script, there are also other types that people might find the true image of Hello Kitty from. These are: round, round shadow, silhouette, flower, shadow blackout, and shadow. The variations of the script font are silhouette, shadow blackout, and shadow. On the other hand, round and round shadow will give you another type of font which is the normal one; and of course there are also different variations included for the normal type of font. Lastly, the flower font is a very feminine font as each letter is enclosed in a silhouette of a flower.

Because of the background and the market type of the character Hello Kitty, the function of this font is solely for the amusement and enjoyment of children. Most people who buy this cartridge are parents who are usually very concerned with giving their children what they want. Some parents also feel that in giving their kids what they want, they will be able to encourage them in everything that they are doing such as in school and also with their social development. Of course, aside from the everyday circumstances, this cartridge is most popular and useful when the parents are planning to orchestrate their kids’ birthday parties. Parents, most especially mothers, usually use this to make the invitations and designs of their kids’ birthday parties more appropriate with the right theme and feel.

This is truly a cartridge worth trying for it has a lot of creative uses.