kampfirekim 260 Posted February 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Anyone else planning to scrap this weekend?I will try to post some photos when the weekend is over!Please do! I'd love to see your work!Ah, Kim, you have the expression, I bet you could learn to use SCAL too!The cost of SCAL is about $60, but you NEVER HAVE to buy another Cartridge again!Any font you have on your computer you can cut.Most any image you can cut.You can download a trial of SCAL, and I think it is active for 10 days, and you can cut whatever, BUT it will put three cuts right across the middle of your image or font.... that is their "watermark"... so you can see it will cut your image, but the trial will make it useless.check out this link for things cut with either SCAL or MTC: www.svgcuts.comThey have a lot of free svg files that cut awesomely.They also have a great help section with lots of tutorials on there.And of course lots of svg collections that you can purchase.For a forum to ask questions, go to the SCAL forum, they folks are awesome.I don't usually purchase much, but the paper crafting is what I wish I had more time to explore.Thanks for the info! I'll make sure to check that out when I get a chance. Sounds great! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4mickey2 41 Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 i need to get some things together this weekend. maybe i will post a few pics. lorna, i think piratejeff uses scal. he has made a lot of stuff with his cricut. sorry, cathys' cricut. lol he uses that thing sooo much. :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Kristina~ 10 Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I haven't done anything in so long. My poor 14 month old only has 1 layout!http://www.flickr.com/photos/themurrayfamily/sets/72157604000714946/with/2916565425/Let me know if that works. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kampfirekim 260 Posted February 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Those are great layouts!!!! Thanks for sharing them with us! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4mickey2 41 Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 love the layouts, kristina. i will post a couple pictures of layouts i did last weekend. i have to go on the other computer to load them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4mickey2 41 Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 Here are a couple pages i did last weekend. the pics are from our easter trip 2010. sorry, i didn't use my cricut cause we were havin' puter problems. other than when i go to crops i always use my cricut on the computer. i love welding my words,etc. i miss it at crops and one day will probably get a gypsy so i can do more when i don't have the puter available to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
campingmommy aka Kelli 7 Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 i love my cricut. my friends here in the northwoods and i do crops a couple times during the winter. gets us out of the house and we have a great time. a few of the girls at the crops walk down to one of the bars and bring their drinks back. we have a great time and if you want to get some pages done find a crop and go have some fun...Still trying to figure out my Cricut (and Gypsy for that matter...that things a piece of :wiz:)...I'm determined to make t's with vinyl for our trip...just need a day to sit down and do it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MicknMin...Holly 54 Posted February 27, 2011 Report Share Posted February 27, 2011 Cheryl and Kristina, your layouts look great! Cheryl, you need to get a Gypsy!!! I love mine. I use it all the time...well, all the time when I'm actually scrapbooking. I don't seem to do very much of that nowadays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Kristina~ 10 Posted February 27, 2011 Report Share Posted February 27, 2011 Thank you!! Cheryl, I'd love to see more. I just got a cricut for Christmas, I've only used it for PTO/school stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
campingmommy aka Kelli 7 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 I use SCAL, and never had a need or desire to check out MTC.But, both are similar and of course there is a learning curve for both. And I liked the challenge of learning the software. so for me it was fit. :rofl2:I do not do much "designing" in SCAL, but I use inkscape to design.To design with SCAL, you would import the image, then trace it. then the image is in scal and is a scal file.You do the same type of thing with inkscape, but it gives me more control to create a cleaner end product.Inkscape creates svg files. You can import the svg files into scal.If you find an svg file, those can be cut with MTC or SCAL.That is the VERY basics.The SCAL forum is VERY friendly and helpful.. they do stay on task, and there is not a lot of banter :rofl2:, but that is not why those folks are there for, but still a great forum.And here is a great resource I have found with disney svg files. Some are cleaner than others:http://reddyrd5.blogspot.com/I bought SCAL after I got my Expression. I got the Windows version so I could use with DH's laptop in my sewing room. He ended up buying a new Mac and sold his windows computer so there went SCAL. We don't have a windows computer in the house now so I'm going to have to re-invest in the Mac version. Too bad they won't let you buy it for just a little more since I already have the other version. And I finally got my Gypsy to work after messing with it for hours on Sunday. Got my 5 free downloads of cartridges so now just have to find the time to make some new designs! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MicknMin...Holly 54 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 I use SCAL, and never had a need or desire to check out MTC.But, both are similar and of course there is a learning curve for both. And I liked the challenge of learning the software. so for me it was fit. :banana:I do not do much "designing" in SCAL, but I use inkscape to design.To design with SCAL, you would import the image, then trace it. then the image is in scal and is a scal file.You do the same type of thing with inkscape, but it gives me more control to create a cleaner end product.Inkscape creates svg files. You can import the svg files into scal.If you find an svg file, those can be cut with MTC or SCAL.That is the VERY basics.The SCAL forum is VERY friendly and helpful.. they do stay on task, and there is not a lot of banter :o, but that is not why those folks are there for, but still a great forum.And here is a great resource I have found with disney svg files. Some are cleaner than others:http://reddyrd5.blogspot.com/I bought SCAL after I got my Expression. I got the Windows version so I could use with DH's laptop in my sewing room. He ended up buying a new Mac and sold his windows computer so there went SCAL. We don't have a windows computer in the house now so I'm going to have to re-invest in the Mac version. Too bad they won't let you buy it for just a little more since I already have the other version. And I finally got my Gypsy to work after messing with it for hours on Sunday. Got my 5 free downloads of cartridges so now just have to find the time to make some new designs!Keep your eye on their website because they sometimes sell SCAL for half-price. I got mine for $35 on Black Friday. Of course, I haven't even tried to use it yet! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4mickey2 41 Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 SCAL lets you cut anything? but, is it anything you have that you can load up on the computer or anything that you can find on the computer, too?Here are a couple of my favorite pages in my little Fort Fiends album.the 2009 i did on the cricut.i wish i would of shadowed the letters on these two pages. i did the letters and the mickey icons on the cricut on this one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MicknMin...Holly 54 Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 Your pages look great, Cheryl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogcarbon 0 Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 SCAL will let you cut any font already on your computer. And you can shadow any font too.Also, you can cut most any image you find on line, with a slight learning curve, you could do any paper piecing you want. the easiest way is to find a coloring book page that you can print out. You can use that coloring page and create a paper piecing that way.And I love your papges. I like that 2009.I will need to take photos and upload my pages from the last few weekends (tho on those pages I did mainly cartridge cutouts because I had access to a TON of carts at the crop).But I can show you some of my SCAL creations too :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MicknMin...Holly 54 Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 I finally sat down and did some scrapbooking today! I haven't done that in months! I finally finished my page about my grandson, Dylan being born...he's almost 10 months old now!!! I don't think I will ever get caught up on his book. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4mickey2 41 Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 'bout time, holly! j/k. dogcarbon i would love to see some of your pages. i wish i could post some of the pages from dh's book. i did one of all the cars we've owned. did most of the pages in the cars theme. but, i put it somewhere and i can't find it. been gone for almost 2 yrs. :)i know it is around somewhere and the two year mark is normally when i find stuff again. lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LORNADUCK 261 Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Love your pages. I downloaded Make the Cut and tried working with Snarky not east. I am going to download the trial version of SCAL it looks a little easy. The thing I read was that MTC has free upgrades and SCAL doesn't. I will see how I feel after I try it.BTW I love all my cricut carts, but do I use them noooooooo, I need to make some time to do something for me. Maybe If I stayed home and didn't go camping I could do something. :rofl2: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogcarbon 0 Posted March 8, 2011 Report Share Posted March 8, 2011 Ah, thanks Cheryl, for wanting to see some of my pages.... I will try my best to get some photos uploaded soon, just do not know when. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4mickey2 41 Posted March 20, 2011 Report Share Posted March 20, 2011 My favorite page of the girls-Thelma & LouiseLouise and Duke and some of her other pups in this one.A friend came to the Bichon Bash that we hold for rescue. She competes with her dog Kirby in the dancing competitions. He is a rescue she took in and kept. This was a little dance that they demonstrated for us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LORNADUCK 261 Posted March 20, 2011 Report Share Posted March 20, 2011 Love your pages :banana: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MicknMin...Holly 54 Posted March 20, 2011 Report Share Posted March 20, 2011 My favorite page of the girls-Thelma & LouiseLouise and Duke and some of her other pups in this one.A friend came to the Bichon Bash that we hold for rescue. She competes with her dog Kirby in the dancing competitions. He is a rescue she took in and kept. This was a little dance that they demonstrated for us.Great pages! I went to a crop yesterday and was there for almost 6 hours...I only got one two-page spread done. I swear I'm the slowest scrapbooker!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4mickey2 41 Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 i did a lot because i got there later. the girls were there at 9am and i didn't get there until 5pm. so, they were done talking by the time i arrived. i will be there bright and early next month. it would be so cool to do a disney crop with all the fiends. could you imagine all the fun we could have. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CCIntrigue...aka Gwen 547 Posted May 15, 2011 Report Share Posted May 15, 2011 I'm a scrapbooker too, but I went totally digital a few years ago. There's so much free stuff out there to take advantage of. Plus you can design your own papers and embellishments.Not my greatest work, but here's a layout I did for my birthday a few years ago:Digital scrapbooking is quicker, faster, and a lot less expensive ... you only have to pay for your photo books. I get mine from Artscow, and they are nearly always running specials. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LORNADUCK 261 Posted May 16, 2011 Report Share Posted May 16, 2011 That is a really nice page. I can't do digital because I wouldn't be in my craft room surrounded by stuff I don't use and deam about it :rofl2: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kampfirekim 260 Posted June 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 Wow! You ladies have some beautiful pages! Doesn't look like i'll get back to my scrapbooking until school starts back in the fall. I have to say, looking at all of your work makes me feel inspired. :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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