An All Year Round Cartridge for Cricut - “Beyond Birthdays”
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Cricut cutting machines use cartridges to create the cutouts and Beyond Birthdays is a shape cartridge. Crafters can also use cartridges that have fonts, solutions, licensed and classmates. Cartridges tend to have themes like birthdays or be focused on an event like Mother’s Day. However Beyond Birthdays is not like this as the cartridge goes beyond just one theme and covers a large variety of them. This makes it great as a general use all year round cartridge.
Its creator is Cecelia Harris and she has decided upon a great gathering of greetings, symbols, phrases, icons and of course shapes. The manufacturers have also added creativity devices like framed in square or oval, shadow and shadow blackout and card in square and rectangle. This cartridge is perfect if you want to design a gift wrap, make a scrapbook, create a greetings card or cut out personalized invitations.
There are still specific times of the year that are referred to in the phrases, symbols and shapes such as birthdays, holidays, baby showers, mother’s day, father’s day, graduation, weddings and congratulations. It pretty much has something that can be used for most special occasions a person can think of, even valentine’s day, 4th July and parties. So whatever you might want to say in a greeting card, you are sorry or thanks or just to say hi, this is the cartridge for you.
There are so many different projects you can take on using the Beyond Birthdays cartridge. For example how about getting a simple and plain calender and using the cartridge to personalise it into a great desktop calender? Each month can have different signs and inspiring words on it and the main picture can relate to a person’s birthday that month. Don’t have any birthdays that month? How about a family picture or using the theme of your children. The possibility in designs is endless and it would also make a great Christmas gift.
Then once the calender has served its purpose take those decorated pictures and put them up somewhere. Or if you don’t have a desktop for a calender use it as notice board by pinning to cork. Great for tracking family appointments.