Review of Cricut Cartridges

A revolutionary breakthrough in paper crafting and scrapbooking design, Cricut has quickly become every scrapbooker’s best friend. Whether you are creating a scrapbook of you and your kid’s vacation trip or a scrapbook about your high school years, Cricut is the best machine that you can have handy and you won’t need a computer to get it started. The Cricut Expression machine is  worth making room for.

It is the perfect little machine that will cut shapes, letters, and other figures for your scrapbook project. All three versions of the machine: Cricut Create, Cricut Personal Cutting Machine, and Cricut Expression are excellent products and loved by many.

The secret to Cricut machine’s success is the various, unique new Cricut cartridges which dictate what kind of shapes, letters, or designs the machine can cut out for you. The Cricut cartridges are classified into:

• Font cartridges which have many different fonts you can print up and combine to make beautiful lettering.
  
• Shape cartridges which have basic and advanced shapes like the wingdings and dingbats that you have on your computer.
  
• Licensed cartridges which include different cartoon characters and popular toy figures which kids would surely enjoy.
• Classmate cartridges are different shapes, letters, and other figures that are related to school work and school life in general.
• Solutions cartridges are different types of design solutions with various themes such as sports, street signage, seasons and occasions, and many others.

Cricut font cartridges were created by many artists and include different font styles used to label scrapbooks, journals, or other creative projects which you can design using words and letters or different symbols.

Cricut shape cartridges concentrate on different shapes and how they can be cut to make great and unique designs which can accentuate your scrapbooking project or other projects you can make using Cricut such as photo frames, organizers, and bedroom signs.

Cricut licensed cartridges are made by Provo Craft who obtained the license from different companies such as Disney© and Sesame Street© to create Cricut designs especially using the shapes, characters, and patterns set by these patented brands.

Cricut cartridges come as one cartridge per package. You can buy as many cartridges as you wish or get the whole collection. Each one has its own use and the designs cannot be found anywhere else. Each Cricut cartridge comes with its own instruction manual or handbook which contains instructions on how to use the Cricut machine and how to install the cartridge, as well as sample projects and designs you can work on with the Cricut cartridge that you bought.

There are many types of cartridges to choose from but the great thing about the Cricut cartridges is that they were made in such a way that even though you have the basic shapes, letters, or figures to choose from, you can still create your own designs, mix and match the different characters, and create your own work of art with just the basics. You can take two different shapes and convert them into a Cricut design before cutting them up. You can customize what shapes you want to place together or what elements you want to put, and it is very simple to learn once you learn the basics of using your Cricut machine.

It's more than possible to create dozens of different designs using even just one Cricut cartridge. But why would you settle for just one, when there are 80 plus cartridges with unique designs and characters to choose from? You can create a journal or a scrapbook and make it come alive with the different Disney® or Sesame Street® Cricut cartridges.You might need to get a whole Cricut jukebox just to hold all your cartridges!

Let your kids have fun, too, helping you sort the shapes out and putting them on your scrapbook accordingly. Scrapbooking can become a fun, new way to spend time with your family. You can all enjoy working on small projects which don’t require a lot of work because the Cricut machine can do all the cutting for you. You'd be suprised what kind of scrapbooking embellishments your kids can come up with! The Cricut makes it so easy too, all you need to do is put the pieces together and you are done.

A company called CraftEdge makes some Cricut software for your computer that lets you make your own designs, shapes, and import any font you want. It's compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems, and it is super simple and easy to use.

If you don't want to invest in a ton of expensive cartridges for your Cricut, and you happen to have a computer, then we really recommend you take a look at the great Sure Cuts A Lot software!