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Showing posts with label acrylic album. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acrylic album. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Acrylic for Mom
Here is the album I am making for Mother's Day. I am so addicted to acrylic! The entire album was made on Design Studio using the Storybook cartridge. This has to be my all time favorite cartridge. I am still working on the rest of the pages. This is what I have so far!
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
word books
I finally got around to trying out the acrylic sheets on something a little more detailed than a little turtle. I really like how well this cut and I really love how this looks! Acrylic has been so easy to work with. Easier than chipboard has been. I can't wait to get it scrapped!
Here is a chipboard album I did the other day. I still need to scrap this one too! I guess I need to stop playing with designs and materials long enough to actually put pictures into the albums one of these days!
Here is a chipboard album I did the other day. I still need to scrap this one too! I guess I need to stop playing with designs and materials long enough to actually put pictures into the albums one of these days!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
acrylic cutting!
I stopped at a wonderful scrap shop on my way home from Omaha today, called Precious Treasures. What a fun store! They had just gotten in the new Cosmo Cricket line, Girl Friday, and I HAD to pick some up. This has to be the most fun retro mod paper around! If you haven't seen it yet go check it out at www.cosmocricket.com. They have several new lines out that are sure to please!
Getting back on track with the topic here...
While I was at PT I found a stack of acrylic sheets. I had noticed that the store had die cut some custom albums, and decided to try to cut the sheets with my Cricut Expression. It cuts! How cool is that? I used my standard test cut turtles and played with the different blades, depths, and machine settings. I found that having either a roland 60 degree blade, or the cricut deep cut blade in the green housing worked best. I set the pressure at max, blade at 6, multicut at 4 and speed at 4. This will NOT cut clean through the acrylic, but it WILL give you a usable cut. You do need to find a flat edge and bend it so the bottom side of the cut is outward until it snaps, then you can start pulling the excess off the cut. It will come right out. I will have to make a video later to show how to do this.
YAY ACRYLIC! I think I will try the sunshine album next!
Getting back on track with the topic here...
While I was at PT I found a stack of acrylic sheets. I had noticed that the store had die cut some custom albums, and decided to try to cut the sheets with my Cricut Expression. It cuts! How cool is that? I used my standard test cut turtles and played with the different blades, depths, and machine settings. I found that having either a roland 60 degree blade, or the cricut deep cut blade in the green housing worked best. I set the pressure at max, blade at 6, multicut at 4 and speed at 4. This will NOT cut clean through the acrylic, but it WILL give you a usable cut. You do need to find a flat edge and bend it so the bottom side of the cut is outward until it snaps, then you can start pulling the excess off the cut. It will come right out. I will have to make a video later to show how to do this.
YAY ACRYLIC! I think I will try the sunshine album next!
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