Sept 8 & 9, 2012

Art Stamps, Card Making, Scrapbooking and Paper Arts featuring art stamps, paper & cardstock, ink & pads, pens & markers, tools, brass stencils, glitter, embossing powder, embellishments, ephemera, books & DVDs, brads, eyelets, die-cuts, ribbon, fibers, etc.  Classes, make & takes, workshops and demonstrations.

Orange County Fair & Expo Center, 88 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Sat 10-5  Sun 11-4
Heirloom Productions: since 1993 ~ events throughout the US
541 574-8000
3900 NW Cherokee Lane, Newport, OR 97365
www.heirloompro.com

Queen of the Crop Scrapbooking Retreats “Spring Fling” 50+ hours of cropping! April 28 – May 1, 2011 in Stockon California.  Great prices, loads of door prizes and tons of fun! Visit website for details @ www.queenofthecropscrapbookingretreats.com

Queen of the Crop Scrapbooking Retreats announces “Winter Wonderland” event.  Weekend retreat will be held at the Best Western Heritage Inn in Stockton, California on February 18th -20th, 2011.  Space is still available but filling up fast.  Registration deadline is 1/28/2011.  Please visit website for details and cost. www.queenofthecropscrapbookingretreats.com

Riverside Convention Center, 3443 Orange St, Riverside, CA 92501
January 16 & 17, 2010

Sat 10-5 Sun 11-4
Art Rubber Stamps, Cardmaking, Scrapbooking and Paper Arts featuring: art stamps, paper & cardstock, ink & pads, pens & markers, brass stencils, tools, books & DVDs, glitter, embossing powder, embellishments, ephemera, brads, eyelets, die-cuts, ribbon, fibers, etc.  Demonstrations and make & takes.
Heirloom Productions
www.heirloompro.com

Solano County Fairgrounds, 900 Fairgrounds Dr, Vallejo, CA 94589

February 20 & 21, 2010

Sat 10-5 Sun11-4
Art Rubber Stamps, Cardmaking, Scrapbooking and Paper Arts featuring art stamps, paper & cardstock, ink & pads, pens & markers, tools, brass stencils, glitter, embossing powder, brads, eyelets, die-cuts, embellishments, ephemera, glue, tape, ribbon, fibers, etc. Demonatrations, workshops, make & takes.
Heirloom Productions
www.heirloompro.com

How many Cricut cartridges have you bought for your Cricut die cut machine?  Whatever the answer, you probably don’t have all of them!  Using a Cricut machine is one of the best ways to update your scrapbook pages and because of that, the manufacturer is almost always offering new Cricut cartridges.They offer many licensed characters like Big Bird from Sesame Street, Cinderella from Disney or Hello Kitty, as well as holiday cartridges like Christmas and Halloween in addition to many different fonts for lettering.

One of the great things about Cricut cartridges is that they also offer many shapes as well as letters.This is a key feature that sets them apart from other die cut machine manufacturers.You will be able to easily design albums using theme-specific shapes, like sports albums with footballs, hockey sticks or basketballs – or even vacation scrapbooks with beach theme shapes like seashells, sailboats or beach balls.Because of this, with Cricut cartridges you won’t need to struggle with difficult to use stencils or cutting by hand and coming up with crooked or imperfect letters or shapes.They even offer “indie art” cartridges that feature shapes like guitars, skulls and other hard to find shapes that work well on teen page layouts or in teenager scrapbook albums. You’ll also be able to cut out a variety of letters in creative fonts for all of your christmas scrapbooking quotes.

There is such a wide variety of Cricut cartridges that you might be surprised at the variety and the new ones they offer every time you shop.Whether you are designing scrapbook albums for yourself or with your children, you are sure to find something that is just perfect for your project and create more scrapbooking ideas tips.

Creating a scrapbook the old fashioned way, that is, using stencils and cutouts and just hunting down the right shapes for you is of course okay, but typically the more options you have the better your scrapbooks are and the more enjoyable the hobby becomes.  Using a variety of Cricut cartridges with your cheap cricut machine will enable you to find just the right embellishment for your pages, no matter what the theme of your book.  You can also save time by no longer having to cut out each shape and letter by hand.  This will enable you to complete more pages in the same amount of time which means you’re spending more time being creative with your albums.So do you have enough Cricut cartridges?Whatever your answer is, you could very easily find many more than would be just perfect for your scrapbooking projects.