Cricut Craftin'

If you are a scrapbooker, you no doubt know what a Cricut is.  It's about the coolest tool ever to use for paper crafting.  Before I received one 2 years ago, I thought for sure I could do without it.  I had a healthy obsession with stickers which were so much easier to use than die cuts.  Little did I know how much I would fall in love with this little machine. 

Sure the poor thing gets neglected every few months when I hit a crafters block.  But when the creative juices start flowing again, this little baby is always there waiting for me.  Such was the case this week.  My parents' 33rd anniversary (Happy Anniversary Buds!) is on April 21 and I hadn't a clue what I was going to give them.  Cricut to the rescue!

They like most Marylanders (why? I have no idea...) LOVE  crabs and with Summer coming, a gift card to a crab shack was the perfect present.  But unlike a normal person, I can't just drop the gift card in an envelope...That's just not fun at all!  This is where the Cricut came into play.  I had a vague idea that I wanted to put the gift card in a bushel of crabs.  After some thought, cutting and gluing and one craft-related injury (Don't ask!), I created the gift card holder below.  I'm so happy with how it turned out.  It's super cute (I think) which is exactly what I was going for.  The crabs are my favorite part which were created with the Create a Critter cartridge for the Cricut. If you are in the market for the perfect cartridge, this one is it!

It's hard to tell, but the gift card (or in this case a certificate which caused some thought re-jiggering...Who has certificates anymore!?) is attached to a piece of cardstock.  When you pull up on the crabs the certificate pops up (if that makes any sense). And since you can't have crabs without a cold beverage, I made these too.  I kind of love them!  It's a little hard to see but they are covered with clear vellum from a sticker package.  See?  The healthy obsession with stickers still pays off!

Now that that's out of my system, Jiminy the Cricut is going back into hibernation, until my next inspiration hits.