I stayed up late quite a bit last week gazing at the beautiful night sky and the marvelous shooting stars from the Perseid Meteor Shower. Several family members viewed the celestial spectacle as well. Thanks to clear skies and good weather, we were able to enjoy the same heavenly show together even though we were several states apart.

As children we frequently watched the stars. On summer evenings after play was done, we spread our blankets around the lawn to do some star gazing. We shared stories and jokes and did our fair share of laughing and giggling. For me, the stars have always been associated with laughter, happiness, and belonging. A sky full of them is the perfect way to complete a great day, or in the case of last week, to commence a new day. Our childhood giggling and gazing became a sort of silly sibling tradition and a time when we could set our rivalries aside and just bond.

One certainly shouldn't wait to gather with family and pals but once a year. A sky full of stars is beautiful but not the only prerequisite for starting a tradition of gathering to share ideas, tell stories, jokes, and giggle. Crafting parties and Cricut Swarms provide the perfect sort of environment to do just that! Swarms, with family, friends, and your always amiable Cricut bugs, are a productive and relaxed environment for sharing your creative ideas and Cricut expertise with each other. Craft some spectacular shooting stars of your own with Cricut. Hmm. I wonder if you could catch your own falling star and put it in your pocket.


Happy Cricuting :-)

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Today I decided to explore the Disney's Hannah Montana Cartridge cartridge. When I first looked at this cartridge I thought, "What could I possible ever use this cartridge for with my scrapbooking life?" Then I did my ritual, and flipped through the handbook and discovered a varity of images that I really liked and would personally use. I will use some of these images with my new Yudu machine that just came out from Provo Craft. I can?t wait to put the guitar and butterfly on a t-shirt or even a card. I think most of these images would be fun to put on a party invitations or birthday cards.

This cartridge comes with a full alphabet both upper and lower case letters, besides numbers and some symbols as well. The creative features that are included are: Pop Princess, Daddy's Girl, Music, Rock Star, Shadow, and Daddy's Girl Shadow. This means that you can shadow two different alphabet styles as well as have additional four different font styles. The Music style places the letters on music cords, and the Rock Star font has a star placed somewhere on the letter. The Pop Princess font has an extra design, Celtic cross placed somewhere on the letter as well. The images that come on this cartridge are: "Hannah Montana" phrase, "Rock Sensation", "Daddy's Girl", "Girls", "Pop Star", "Star", "Princess", "Glitter Shine", "My Music My Way", an image of Hannah herself, a rose, diamond, lips, microphone, flower, star, pegasus, shooting star, heart, musical notes (treble clef, whole note, 16th note, etc), swirl frame plus 4 additional frame styles, butterflies (four different styles), and a butterfly with a guitar. Other images are a swirly guitar plus 4 other different styles, birds, and a guitar with wings.

ScrappinForMyFamily from the Cricut message board, created a great layout using this cartridge (see picture). If you are interested in getting the cut file you can visit her blog at www.scrappincricut.blogspot.com for instruction on creating this layout.

MichelleWinegardner from the Cricut message board cut images from this cartridge out of vinyl for her daughter's wall. They are so cute. To see her thread on the message board click here.

To see other idea of what you can do with this cartridge please check out the website www.cricut.com. Check back next week as I continue to explore the many wonderful cartridges of the Cricut family.

Crafty Kimber

A. Phrases and/or shifted shapes don't always work with all of the creative features. Refer to the cartridge handbook for which features work with which phrases.