Cricut craft day!

Yesterday was Cricut craft day at our house. What is a Cricut you ask? A cricut is an electronic personal cutter! AKA the most amazing crafting tool ever! I have the original Cricut Expression personal cutter, since I bought my machine four years ago they have released a Cricut Mini which is a smaller and simpler machine and also the Cricut Expression 2 which is a new and updated version of the Cricut Expression. The Expression 2 also comes in a few different colors. I love to use my Cricut for paper crafting, scrap booking,card making, and even vinyl letters, shapes and such.

What inspired Cricut craft day is the lack of Thanksgiving decorations available in the commercial stores these days. We happen to think that Thanksgiving is a very noteworthy holiday here in the Abbay household and feel that decorations are an easy simple daily reminder of the holiday itself as well as everything that we have to be thankful for. So of course I started browsing Pinterest for awesome homemade decoration ideas and although I am no Martha Stewart I can craft with the best of them. So on our outing to Joann's and Micheal's the "staple" crafting stores here in town, the kids and I picked up all the necessary supplies to make a "Happy Thanksgiving" banner.

With all the supplies and my trusty Cricut I set out on a mission. I used the Celebrations cartridge in my Cricut to cut out the triangle banner base, set on 7". Then I used the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge to cut out the letters for HAPPY THANKGIVING, set at 2.75" and all capital letters. I used the Accent Essentials cartridge for the background leaves in various sizes and combinations. To tie it all together I just used some orange bakers twine from the pack I picked up a Micheal's and Ta-Da! we have a neat, easy,and simple, Thanksgiving banner.

Can I just say again how much I LOVE my Cricut?!?! Ron loves my Cricut too. I've cut him vinyl letters out for his hard hat at work, or shall I say hard hats and probably about 15 of his friends hard hats as well. The cricut machine is one of the things in our household that if it broke tomorrow we would go out and buy another right away. Not so much teh blender, waffle maker, popcorn popper, or microwave, but the Cricut, I'd have a spankin new one the same day. I highly recommend any level of crafter investing in a Cricut. It is going to be priceless for all of our school projects in the upcoming years.