My first Cricut pieces

[Hanover]

This is my first picture upload on Disboards. I tried to resize and hope they are ok.....


The top picture contains some of the characters, etc. I've made with my cricut and Disney cartridge. I did several of each character while I had all the particular colored paper ready.

The bottom picture has 2 Animal Kingdom toppers I made after seeing the one
alexwyattmommy posted of Adventureland. I used the ZooBallo cartridge for the title box, vines, grass and letters. I used the Animal Kingdom cartridge for the tree top and bottom (cut out several animals at 1 inch). I added Mickey, a lizard and bird from an EK Success sticker set.

 

[Mickey'sfriend]

Those are totally cool!! Great job. (I didn't want to look too long. I only have so much will power not to buy that machine!!)

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Love the AK title!!!
I was going to ask how you got Mickey's boots and safari hat.. good thing I re-read that posting!!!!
Great job!!
I must have that AK cart soon!!!!

 

[ddavis860]

Oh, that Mickey Pants journal box is just TOO CUTE!!! I'm definalty scraplifting that one! Wish you posted that yesterday before I finished my last CJ!

Love the AK title! Way cute!! Yup, going to have to lift that idea too.

 

[Faerie]

I love love love love the AK topper. Guess i need some new carts

 

[aroyer]

Those are adorable!! I hope you don't mind me scraplifting! I really have been wanting the AK cartridge. Looks like I "need" it!

 

[DisneyJan]

WOW, I love the Animal Kingdom topper. Did it take long to make it? I can't wait to get the Disney character cartridge. Very nice, thanks for sharing.

 

[bearbear]

I really want one. I just showed my husband the post and he just doesn't understand.
MEN

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I love it!!! 2 more weeks and I'll know if DH gets enough bonus money to buy a Cricut!!!
I love the Mickey Pants journal box and the AK toppers. Very cool!!

 

[Mickster]

They are super cute! Thanks for sharing (and making those of us without the Cricut really really really wish we had one.)

 

[Kim1964]

Those are great!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

WOW!
That looks nothing like mine. Yours is sooo cool!! I will be taking your idea for my own book. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

[New England Eeyore]

Somebody sign this lady up for a swap, stat!

Absolutely gorgeous!!

 

[Sha]

Just got my character font from the store today... didnt even know they were out... just thought i would look.. just in case for anything new.. and omg! there was! (when the cricut was just being released... i wrote suggestion that they do a disney font... as i am sure MANY others did) and I am SOOOO excited!

hope mine look as good as those shown below! too bad i cant play as much with mine... got to study for school!!!

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

Those look great!! You did an awesome job!!

 

[desiab]

Hanover, your Animal Kingdom topper is beautiful! I don't think that I am savvy enough to scraplift it, but I think that I may try. Thanks for sharing.

 

[momx3boys]

Those are great!! I have both of those cartridges, I may have to try those.

I haven't played with mine enough. When you put the layers on the characters do you use the same size as the bottom piece?

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Momx3
Yes, use the same size.. it layers so it will adjust the size automatically.. just the sliver of an inch...

 

[Hanover]

Thank you all for the nice comments.

The AK toppers really only should have taken about 15 minutes each to do, but took about 2 hours total. I had not used either cartridge before and instead of looking at the guidebooks I kind of did trial and error cuts of my own (thus I probably threw way too many errors away) I also had to experiment with the pressure and speed buttons because the cardstock I used had various thickness (threw more errors away from shredding some cardstock). I've only had the cricut about 6 weeks (whenever it was on sale at Michaels) and I'm still getting used to the shift/layer buttons for specific cuts. The easiest part was the Tree of Life. I cut out several trees at 2 inches and a couple at one inch and used a photo split to hold them together, cutting off the bottom. I then cut out the animals I thought looked most like the ones you'd see in AK...lions, rhinos, elephants, monkeys, hippos, giraffes and I did the kangaroo because it was tiny and looked good...at one inch and stacked those to look like the base of the tree. The letters were all cut at 1 inch (shadow and regular). I used a Creative Memories glue/adhesive pen and tweezers to put those together. The grass and vines I did follow the guidebook for and they went quickly.

I have found that the CM glue pen works quite well and shows the least of anything I have used adhesive wise. Even the small CM taperunner tape is too big for a lot of the character parts and letters I have done.

Thanks again for all the nice words,
Danielle

 

[happycampers]

Those look fabulous! I just got the Mickey and Friends for Mother's Day. I'm lovin' it. I don't have Animal Kingdom, though. I've seen some cute AK trees done with that. Do you think a Tree of Life could be done with any of the ZooBalloo animals, or would that just not look right?