Cricut Cartridges

Expand Your Creativity with Cricut Cartridges

The Benefits of Using Cricut Cartridges
Cricut Cartridges allow crafters who currently use the Cricut Original or Cricut Expression to cut letters and shapes from 1" to 5.5" high as well as phrases, titles and borders up to 11.5" long. The George and Basic Shapes cartridge comes with the machine to get you started, but additional cartridges, ranging from cartoons and sports to home accents will keep your projects fresh and creative.

Some User Favorite Cricut Cartridges Include:
• Alphalicious - Create projects that say, “You’re the Best or “It’s a Party. These fonts have attitude and add variety to your scrapbooking or cardmaking projects.
• Animal Kingdom - Perfect for travel pages in your scrapbook and gives you all the animals you need for all your projects from school reports to scrapbook pages.
• Base Camp - This cartridge contains complete upper and lower case fonts. It also contains lots of shapes and phrases that you can use for greeting cards and other paper craft projects. “Perfect for military scrapbooks.”
• Beyond Birthdays - “if you make hand made cards- you MUST have this set for your cricut!”
• Jasmine - “very versatile” use for cutting smaller letters that fit onto tags. Also great for elegant holiday cards and scrapbooking.
• Joys of Season - “a must have cartridge for any season”
• New Arrival - the “baby” set. Excellent for cards, invitations and scrapbooking baby albums.
• Opposites attract - very versatile for card making and scrapbooks because of its different font styles that are long, delicate and also bold.
• Paper Doll Dress Up - “You will not regret purchasing this cartridge if you do a lot of card making or scrapbooking!” Kids love it.
• Plantin Schoolbook - “...this is the basic alphabet must have!
• Tags, Bags, Boxes and More - Great for all of your gift making needs. “Terrific! A zillion uses for this set.”
• ZooBalloo -“ I can’t believe how much is on this one cartridge” “Not only does it have the letters, animals, and words, but it has the ability to layer colors to make the animals look better, it has a cursive form of some of the words, and it has lower case letters.”

What are the Newest Cricut Cartridges?
ProvoCraft, the maker of the Cricut, is always adding new cartridges to their already large list. Here are some of the newest one’s becoming available in 2008.
• Sesame Street
• Disney: Cars
• Disney: Fairies
• Graphically speaking - has lots of titles and phrases and would be a great addition for designing posters with titles or phrases for home décor.
• Hello Kitty
• Storybook - comes with lovely borders and frames for all of your magical fairytale projects.
• Wildcard - This cartridge includes shaped cards and envelopes for mixing and matching.

The Cricut has recently added a second type of cartridge called Cricut Solutions and it costs about $49. The packaging is different and each cartridge includes 50 designs and 2 creative features.

So whether you are starting your very first scrapbooking or paper craft project or have been crafting for years you’ll find many uses for Cricut Cartridges.