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Today I had a little bit of time to work on another word book.  Here is a 2009 wordbook to cut on your cricut.  I just wanted a simple wordbook that I could embellish and put a few pictures of my kids in to give as a gift.

With the latest update to SCAL 2 I wanted to share how easy it is now to import a single wordbook svg into SCAL 2 and separate the layers and have them ready to cut on your cricut in just a few minutes.  I included the complete svg file in the zip file for download but also included the separate layers svg files as well for people still using scal1 software.

Can you believe stores already have Valentines Day items out.  I decided that I might as well get started on Valentine’s Day things.  I came up with a scalloped heart valentine box that you can fill with sweets for all the sweeties in your life.  Plus, it is just fun to cut this on your cricut and put it together.

I used Martha Stewart glitter on the outer hearts and a satin ribbon for the handle.  I used foam pop dots to secure the glittered hearts to the box.

Happy New Year!!!!  I can not believe that another year has come and gone.  I am thankful for my family, friends and all the blessings that I have received this past year.  I hope that 2010 finds you in good health with lots of happiness.  Today is the 1 year anniversary of mycricutscrapbooking.com.  I am thankful for each of you for stopping by and spending a little time here.

I have decided to celebrate this past year by having a give away.  The give away is 2 parts.  1 winner will win the entire blog candy give away.

Part 1

Yesterday I was shopping at Michaels and I came across the Sizzix Texture Boutique.  I have the Sizzix Big Kick that I just love but decided since I had a 50% off coupon and the machine came with a bunch of new folders that I would get it.

I LOVE this little machine and so does my daughter.  We had so much fun doing this together.  I cut the paper and made the sandwich and she turns the crank.  My sister stopped by today to wish us a Happy New Year and my daughter had a blast showing her how to use it.

This machine is so cute!

Here are the folders it comes with.

and more

In case you are wondering…. cuttlebug folders do work in it.

Here is a 5×7 christmas folder

Here is an A2 folder

I have some older Sizzix embossing folders and they work great as well.

Part 1 of the blog candy is this, brand new in the box, Sizzix Texture Boutique with 10 Bonus embossing folders.  (The pictures above opened were of my machine, yours will be sent new in box, unopened.

Part 2

The second part of the blog candy give away is your choice *up to 800 point value* of 1 cartridge that is currently available on the www.cricutrewards.com site.   You can pick the cartridge as long as it is in stock, I will order it and once it is delivered, will mail it to you.  Due to the time that it takes to get the cartridge from the rewards program the Sizzix Boutique will be mailed first and once the cartridge is received it will be mailed in a second package.

Rules

Please share one of (leave 1 comment on this post) your favorite cricut projects, experiences or story from the past year.

One of my memories from the past year that is a favorite is on a Sunday, I was working on my computer creating a svg.  I finished it and wanted to test cut it.  My daughter and son were standing on the couch looking at me (my desk is in the living room behind the couch) I told my son that mommy was going to cricut.  He got a huge smile on his face and said cric-cut, and would giggle and laugh.  My daughter said she wanted to cric-cut too!  I put a cartridge in and loaded the mat for her and let her push the button.  She was so proud of the Hello Kitty head that she cut and ran to show daddy that she cric-cutted.

I will read through the comments and choose 1 winner on January 9th.  Due to excessive international shipping cost this blog candy is United States shipping only, sorry.

Here is a Happy New Year svg to cut on your cricut.

Where is Santa? Did you know that there is a toll free number that you or your kids can call to track Santa?  There is also a website as well.   As of 8:44 a.m. central time Santa was last seen at Yakutsk, Russia and his next stop will be Irkutsk, Russia.

Track Santa’s Sleigh this Christmas Eve
As the famous song about Santa Claus goes, “he sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake.” But this Christmas Eve, children around the world will be able to see Santa while he’s awake flying around the world on his sleigh. Verizon is again teaming with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to provide a special toll-free number for children and their parents to determine Santa’s exact location. Starting Dec. 24 at 2 a.m. Mountain time through 3 a.m. Mountain time on Dec. 25, children in the U.S. and Canada can call 1-877-HI-NORAD to speak with a volunteer at the military center and find Santa’s whereabouts. Callers outside North America can dial 719-556-5211. Children can also visit the NORAD Tracks Santa Web site www.noradsanta.org, to track Santa’s location with radar maps and view the streaming SantaCam. Last year, nearly 74,000 calls were answered at the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base.

Here is a Christmas Tree for you to cut on your cricut.

What is Christmas with out bells, here is a set of Christmas Bells.

This will probably be my last post for the next few days, so be safe and have a Merry Christmas.

I just found out that I am off for New Years!  Here is a champagne glass svg for your cricut to celebrate.  I found out last week that I got Christmas off which is what I am most thankful for.  I was not looking forward to leaving the kids and having to go to work.  New Years day off is a bonus!

Here is a cute little snowman for you to cut out on your cricut.  I did not make a face for him.  I planned on stamping on a face with stamps that I got from Peachy Kean. Sometimes I have trouble with the circles that are small cutting nicely.  I found that if you just have a regular hole punch that it works perfect.  Nice even circles and large enough to put a little adhesive on.

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

Dear Editor—

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

This is my very first wordbook done entirely in SCAL 2.0.  I am mainly an inkscape user when it comes to creating files to cut on my cricut.  I decided to just try using SCAL 2.0 by itself and see how I like it.  I am getting ready to mail my brother and sister-in-law there Christmas gift and I wanted to include something that I made myself.  I decided that a HOHOHO wordbook would be perfect.  It was very easy to make the wordbook in SCAL 2.  The chipboard cut wonderfully on my cricut.  I also only used the paper from the 2 My Minds Eye Christmas packs.  I love the last page with the Santa’s on it.  I wanted each letter to remind me of a wrapping paper from a Christmas gift, but cricut style!

Here is how it turned out.  (click on the picture to download the scut file)  This file is ONLY compatible with scal version 2 for Windows or Macs.  It will not work with version 1 at all.  Sorry.

I binded it with my pink Bind It All.  It turned out soooo cute.  I don’t know if I was a mad women cricut possessed but I managed to create it, cut and put it together in less then 2 hours.  I am going to let my sister-in-law decorate it.

I am hoping to get most of my Christmas shopping finished this weekend.  I have not had much time to play with my cricut this week or any of the new cartridges.  Tonight I decided after I get this posted I am going to watch a Christmas movie.  It is the 12 Men of Christmas that I recorded from LMN.  I will be making up time with my cricut and cricut cartridges soon though.  I am going to be on vacation the first part of January and I have made plans to have a scrapbooking-cricut party.  I am really looking forward to it.  It should be lots of fun.

Here is a simple little Merry Christmas SVG for you to cut on your cricut.  I love, love, love this font.  It is a free font that I got from Debras Fonts Doodles and Dingbats Yahoo group.  If you would like this font, send me and e-mail and I would be happy to forward it to you.

What is winter time with no hot chocolate?  Not winter of course.  Here for you to cut on your cricut, a cup of hot chocolate with whipping cream.  I am trying to work on some sprinkles.  If I get them figured out I will post them.