My Cricut Scrapbooking

The other day when I tried the cricut cuttables I thought that there must be a cheaper and easier way to make embossing folders.  I did it!  I used 3m transparency paper, cricut new arrival cartridge, 1 piece of chipboard, Design Studio, brayer (optional) and Beacon’s 3 in 1 Advanced Craft glue.

I created this pattern in Design Studio and then cut it with chipboard on 4x multi cut.  (I created a rectangle 4 1/2 by 5 1/2 to match an A2 card and then fit the flowers inside and deleted the rectangle before cutting).  I cut the transparency paper a little larger.. sorry I forgot to measure it.

I used the Beacon’s 3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue and glued the outside (negative) of the design to the 3m Transparency paper.  I then rolled the brayer over it to make sure that the glue dried as flat as possible.

After the outside part was dry, like a puzzle I placed each flower back in to the negative.  I dabbed some glue on each flower piece.  I closed my embossing folder and then ran the brayer over it.

This is what I ended up with after everything dried.  The flowers glued to one side of the transparency paper and the negative of the cut glued to the other side.

This is the final result.  I embossed this with my Sizzix Big Kick.  I made my sandwich on the texturz setting on the multi purpose platform.  I first put down the first cutting pad, then the texturz rubber mat, the embossing folder with the paper inside, then the 2nd cutting pad and then a piece of foam on top.  It went right through my Big Kick.  I think that that embossed design turned out great.   I am sure you can use this same method on other machines like the cuttlebug.

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