Love My E2 and a Sneak Peek

I know some gals are complaining about their Cricut Expression 2, but I must say that I've fallen in love with mine.  I was asked to teach an E2 class at my local scrapbook store and in preparing for the class I really learned a lot about the E2's features.  Being able to use multiple cartridges and sizes on one screen/mat is amazing.  Being able to see where your cuts are going to be placed - woohoo! Anyway, I designed two projects for my gals to cut during class.  I tried to build in as many features of the E2 as possible when I created these.  I did not embellish, ink, doodle, or add anything (except ribbon) because the purpose was to do everything with the E2.  I'm sure when they took the projects home, they applied their own special touches.  

Our first project was this card where we used the fit to length feature and learned to move the images on the mat to that we could cut 4 different colors at the same time.

 

On this page layout, we used fit to length, the reverse/flip button, and cutting different sizes during the same cut.

 

I had two gals come into class saying they hated their machines.  They left with a much better appreciation of all that the E2 can do and I think they'll be a lot happier when using their machines at home.

Mission Accomplished!

 

Monday will be my debut for the Getting Cricky design team which I've recently been asked to rejoin.  I hope you stop by and see what I'm sharing.

Here's a sneak peek

 

 

It's Tuesday Throwdown

  This is my design team week at Tuesday Throwdown.  We have a fun challenge this week called Cutting Corners.  Challenge #116 is to use photo corners or decorative corner punches.   I've used corners from Cricut Essentials and also an EK Success corner punch.

 

The image is an SKdigis which can be purchased HERE.

 

Our sponsor for this week's challenge is

My Creative Classroom

 

Be sure to visit Tuesday Throwdown to see some amazing design team projects using corners.  Then, you can link up your project for a chance to win this week's challenge.

 

Another Challenge Card

This card follows the 3rd sketch on Raq's Challenge on the Cricut message board.

I used Fabulous Finds for the mat with the circle cutout.  I copied it, increased the size by 1/4 inch and used hide contour to hide the circle - waalaa - a shadow mat.  The flower is from Cricut Essentials.

The papers are all from my scraps - they're beginning to overflow LOL!  Oh, I do love paper.

I actually went back and removed the ribbon after I took the picture - I just wasn't crazy about how it looked.

Hope you have a terrific weekend.  My crafting To-Do seems to be growing.  I'd best get busy.

Hugs and Happy Crafting,

Larelyn