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Cricut Shapes Cartridge

I'm looking for a beach pail and/or beach shovel cricut cartridge, oe die cut. Where can I find these?

I am planning a summer wedding and was hoping to do either design/shape for escort cards.

There's a new cartridge designed for the beach, that has items like this. I'd also suggest you get the Sure Cuts A Lot software (available on ebay, some hobby/craft stores, online, and others). With the SCAL software, you can use any svg file you can fine online (and there's other software available), as well as almost any font, including dingbat fonts. With the versitility of this, you can make almost anything you want, in almost any size, and for things like the shovel, you can change the orientation of it, and utilize the 12x24 inch mats for the Cricut. The cost of the SCAL 2 software is around $75-80, but it makes buying more cartridges almost obsolete. Congratulations on your upcoming wedding.

Cricut Design Studio Help For Dummies - 5min Tutorial

Turn on your computer! If you've successfully installed your Cricut Design Studio software you should see the little green Cricut Bug looking at you with big eyes right from your desktop.

When you load the software, you'll be presented with a large window with components that may look strange (or not so strange) at first glance.

Here's a short description of the main items in the Cricut Design Studio software to help the beginner (you!) get started without pulling your hair to baldness because the software's manual is a little too thin:

1. The first thing you'll notice is the virtual mat which looks just like your physical cricut mat. That's your virtual design space and where most of the action is going to take place. Start by clicking on any shape in the keypad overlay (the big box just on top of the mat) and play around with the image. You'll see big circles around the shape, those are called "selection handles" and they let you manipulate and distort the image in every direction.
2. The second thing you'll notice is, as talked about in the previous point, the keypad overlay. This is your virtual keypad that changes according to the cartridges you've selected.  Every time you click on one the shapes or letters available it will appear on your virtual mat so you play with it and design what you want.
3. Third are the 2 boxes just besides the keypad overlay: the cartridge library on the left and the shape properties box on the right. The cartridge library is just what the name suggests, it's kind of an index of all the cartridges available. You can design with any of the cartridges and even use shapes or letters from  different cartridges in the same design but you'll be able to cut only with the cartridges you own (not cool!... I know). The shape properties box lets you manipulate the selected shapes or letters with more precision. You can give them X and Y coordinates (just like back in school), you can give them precise width and height,  you can rotate them, you can nudge them, weld them or kern them.

What is nudging? Clicking on the nudging buttons moves the shape you select by very small increments. Use it when you need to make small adjustments.

What's welding? Welding enables you to have shapes "glued" together when you cut them with the cricut. Just make shapes or letters overlap on your design, when you turn the weld function on those overlapping letters will be glued together when you cut them.

What's kerning? Kerning let's you specify the space between words. Use it to have a specified number (negative or positive) between words without having to nudge them over and over again.

Things to remember:

• You can design with all the cartridges that exist on planet earth (don't know for other planets) but you can only cut with the ones you've purchased.
• You can use other people .cut files if your not in a very creative mood. just head over to the cricut message board or do a quick search on Google for "cricut design studio cut files".
• Make sure to update your software when necessary to get new cartridges loaded in your cartridge library and to get bug fixes.

About the Author

If you'd like to learn how to use the Cricut Design Studio software to it's full potential, save time and money from trial cuts and avoid going bald from hair pulling out of frustration with the software, visit TamingTheGreenBug.com for the full Cricut Design Studio Tutorial. Inside you'll learn how to create shadows, use multiple layers for your creations and more.

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