Welcome to the Merry Merry Month of May! April just moved out with all of it's rain...and snow in my neighborhood. Some say that May is a boring scrap and craft month. I would like to help them with a few ideas. May is full of some great holidays and celebrations to scrap about. It all starts off with May Day, Mother Goose Day, followed by my birthday?(I had to mention that), then Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day, Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, not to mention graduation season starts. I thought you would also like to know that the first ice cream freezer was patented May 29, 1948. That alone is reason to celebrate. We wouldn't be eating ice cream at all of our celebrations without that one! I personally plan on scrapping and celebrating May with a bowl of Rocky Road Chocolate ice cream. Yum!

Did you know that you can insert the cartridge either direction? Even though the label indicates a specific "front", the cartridge actually works both ways. This may prove useful if you ever have a cartridge that has difficulty reading when inserted. Just flip it around and try again. (Powering off first is recommended.)

Well, this week my great idea for Indie Art is still a work in progress. But don't worry, I will persevere and figure it out, so that I can share it with you, my fellow scrapbooking Cricuteers. In the essence of time and since my great idea/project was giving me issues I decided to explore the Stone Script Solutions Cartridge. WOW! This cartridge is a wonderful font, the flow of the lines makes you think that your titles or words are written in cursive. With the DesignStudio you can weld the letters together to make one smooth cursive word. I think I have found a new font cartridge that I will use in my scrapbook books for a while (you know when you get something new you use it for a lot things till you get another new cartridge that takes the favorite spot). Now if you don?t have DesignStudio that is okay, because you can still cut all the different letters out using this font and create some beautiful titles or sidebars.

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I went on a cruise a while back, and the friend that I went with is having a rough time right now, so I thought I would cheer her up with a special package. I used the Stone Script and DesignStudio to create my words, and then added some eyelets (I cut the metal off the back) with some glue dots for special effects. Next, I added my photo and some ribbon at the bottom of the picture frame (see pic). Here is my cut file for those of you that have DesignStudio and want to copy my idea.

This cartridge comes with two creative features the Shadow and Blackout. The difference for those of you that are new to the Cricut scrapbooking family, is the shadow will cut a proportionately larger image of every letter?and number, thus creating an outline around your image. The blackout feature will cut a proportionately larger image that is solid and does not cut detailing inside the shape. When I am making scrapbooking pages I love to use these two features because you can make your titles or sidebars stand out.

This cartridge comes with all the letters, numbers, and lots of extra symbols. The "=5B" symbol can be used to accent a word on your scrapbook page, and the letter "O" would make a great frame for a photo or another way to accent your layout. You get both large and small letters and some math symbols, as well as a checkmark and an arrow, to help draw attention to a special area on your scrapbook page.

Keep collecting the plastic from the top of your Cricut mats, and I will figure out this project for next week. Have a wonderful week of scrapbooking and playing with your Cricut. (Have you given it a name yet?) See you next week!

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Crafty Kimber