Total Splurge Today...But Oh So Worth It!

I went to Michael's innocently enough. I was armed with a 50% off coupon that expired today. I wanted to find a particular border punch, but didn't have any luck. I did find another punch that I really liked.

When I was at the check-out counter I glanced over at the cage they have for the Cricut cartridges. They are on sale this week, half off. I never expected to see a newly released cartridge called Paper Lace. I'd just read about it in a Cricut newsletter last Wednesday or Thursday. Well, to my surprise, they had it in stock. So, I asked if they would let me look at the box to see the images on the cartridge. They did. I looked. And got right back in line to buy the cartridge. Yes, I did. I could have asked for it for Christmas, but you know what? I have a feeling that by the time anyone got around to looking for it, it would be sold out.

When I got home and opened up the package to look through the booklet showing what was included, I was thrilled to pieces! There are two lace images per key, plus borders, plus an alpha, plus some word art. Oh my goodness! I was giddy! It was SO worth the splurge in my opinion. I know I will have fun using it over and over again.

Here's my first cut from the cartridge: 

Isn't is neat?! This is the one image that sold me on the cartridge.

And then, with the little bitty cut out pieces, I did this:

I carefully taped down the cut out onto my cardstock and then glued each piece in place 

through the openings.

I know.

I'm nuts.

But it's oddly relaxing for me to do something like this.

Unless I lose a piece.

Which I thought I did.

Argghhh.

I saw down after frantically searching for a few minutes

and there was the missing piece. 

Whew.

I'm sure someone else would dress this up phenomenally, but I was so eager to play, simple is what I got. And these are just card fronts...they aren't even attached to a card.

Confession time.

Don't look too close (yeah, I know you will now) or you'll see that I cut out the design and adhered it to a new piece of cardstock. I did that because I got the bright idea  (not) to trace around the big cut piece. And in theory it would have worked just fine. IF I had taken the time to look for my black micro pen. Which I didn't. I settled for a fine line Sharpie. Big mistake. HUGE. It looked awful. Horrible even. But after taking the time to glue down all those pieces, I wasn't going to trash it. So I carefully cut just inside the Sharpie line.

It looks better. Not great, but definitely better. Lesson learned!

If you have a Cricut you just might want to head to your Michael's and see if they have this cartridge in stock. I think it's THAT good.

But that's just my humble opinion.

Don't complain to me if you see it and wonder...

what the heck is she thinking?

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