Cutting with my Cricut

I wanted to have a new blog to post today. I thought I would find some time to spend in my stamp room, and I did, but..... I didn't quite create something fun. I have a girls camp I am responsible for this summer, and I have a lot of little projects I am making for the 16 girls when we are at camp. There are a few things I wanted to do that have been nagging me to get them started. I have been putting these projects off because they are a little tedious. Kind of like weeding my flower pots and strawberry beds and planting my flowers.

Well today I got most of them done, plus I served a great a Bar-B-Que lunch in the afternoon. Then I found some free time, and I went into my craft room, and setting there was one of those projects I have been putting off.

So instead creating a fabulous card.

I started the project.


I did this --->



Well not exactly that. I did cover the one composition book, I still need to cut out something to cover the corners. The green Bind it All book is a sample of what I am making.




<----- This is what
I actually did.
I cut out the papers in order to make 16 each of the above projects.


For the Composition books, I cut 16 rounded squares with my George cartridge, at 4-1/2". I am so thankful that my Cricut made these projects easier. I also cut 16 rectangles of the striped paper to
3-3/8ths by 4-3/8ths.

I cut 64, 3 1/2" circles with the same cartridge, of the Terra Cotta Paisley, and 320 circles the same size in white copy paper. The white ones will be for pages. The Terra Cotta print ones for the inside and outside covers to go over the round coasters.


In order to get 6 circles from
one sheet of 8-1/2 x 11 " paper. I had to fool the cricut. It helps to be smarter than a machine sometimes. I had to offset the sheet of paper by about a 1/4th of an inch. so the cricket would think the paper was 6 x 12". ^^^
Sorry the picture is blurry.

<-------You can see how tight the tolerance was to get the 3 circles cut the circles rest on either end of the paper. All in all I had a very productive Memorial Day I got alot of projects off and running, and now I just have to complete them. And do the fun part...Decorating!!! Well at least after I punch them with the Bind it All.

I will do another post in the future when I get some of these projects finished, but I may not get all the binding done for a while. I still have some more things to cut out. I have some of the girls coming to help assemble things once school gets a few days a month. I have about 20 projects to get at least semi assembled, before the camp this summer. I hope you wont mind the ocassional posting of these projects, mingled with my others for the next few months.

The paper's I used, except the white copy paper, I purchased at Micheals. It is beautiful paper.
I needed something with a little hint of green in it since, Lime green is our camp color.

The striped one didn't have a name on it, but it was made by Amscan, Inc., and was kept in the same general area as the other two colors.

The other two were; "Brown,Pink and Green Polka Dot" by K & Company, LLC
and "Terra Cotta Paisley" by Creative Imagination, and Sonnets Studios.

Until tomorrow... Happy Stamping... (and cutting he,he)!