Artbooking Made Easy

I love all these short videos showing highlights of the Artbooking Cricut cartridge!

 Have you tried the friendship-themed keys of the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge, found on pages 78 and 79 of your booklet. Your layouts will shout in celebration of your cherished relationships! With your own ingenuity, you can use these cuts over and over again in creative ways so no two layouts look alike. For more inspiration on how to use these keys, watch the video!




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Artbooking Made Easy

Freedom Layouts

The Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge has shapes you’ll love for your patriotic layouts and cards—and for all celebratory layouts and cards after that! In this video you’ll find great ideas for using the freedom-themed keys to make sparkling titles, photo mats, overlays, and accents for more than just patriotic themes. See the featured ideas and start putting more bang into your projects!






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Discover the Art of Business

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Artbooking Made Easy

If your photos from holidays past are haunting you by sitting untouched on your hard drive, now is the time to put them on display! With the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge, your photos will find a cozy home on the pages of a dazzling holiday mini album. In conjunction with the new Sparkle & Shine papers and embellishments, die-cuts from the Artbooking holiday-themed keys are just what you need to create merry and bright holiday projects.

Haven't ordered your CTMH  Cricut Artbooking cartridge yet?  Hop on over to my website, or shoot me an email to get yours.

Artbooking Made Easy

Happy Thursday!!

Compared to holidays and special events, everyday life is where most memories are made. For capturing those seemingly average yet so important days, the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge has just what you need! Watch the video for ideas on how to rally shapes from a variety of themes to create original artwork celebrating your day-to-day activities.

Z1906 Cricut Artbooking Cartridge

Artbooking Made Easy

You’ll fall for the Cricut^® Artbooking collection when you see what it can do for your autumn-themed projects. Its festive overlays, borders, shapes, and other autumn-themed pieces will give your layouts and cards just the warmth they need for this chilly season. Watch the video for great ideas on using the cartridge!

Z1906 Cricut Artbooking Cartridge

Artbooking Made Easy

Designed Decor Flip Stand Album

Making home décor is easy with the Cricut^® Artbooking collection! Watch as various icons, shapes, and titles from the cartridge are used to make adorable pieces of artwork perfect for all the nooks in your home.

Artbooking Made Easy

Halloween Mini Albums

Using just 2 Halloween-themed keys, you can make truly terrifying (and terrific!) mini works of art. Get great ideas for your own creepy creations in this video.





Have Fun!!

Artbooking Made Easy

Spooky Halloween Layouts

It’s easy to make your spider webs stand out, full moons float, and black cats bounce off the page with the Cricut^® Artbooking collection. Learn a few sweet techniques for using the Halloween-themed keys in this video.






If this is the first Artbooking Made Easy video that you are seeing, be sure to scroll down on the right for previous videos. Over the next months, there will be a new one posted every Thursday.

Don't have your Artbooking cartridge yet?  Check out what it can do.

With oodles of images in each of 15 layout themes, you can create several coordinating pages for each theme using just two keys and one dial size. Images include accents, borders, titles, overlays, photo mats—in standard photo sizes!—and more. The Cricut® keys are optimized for creating 12" × 12" pages in a jiffy. You'll also love creating 10 themed mini books, also optimized for several different sizes using just two keys and one dial size. When you're finished cutting, use the coordinating stamp sets and Dimensional Elements shapes to add even more pizzazz!

Collection includes:

1 – Cartridge (700 images: Font, Mini Books, Layouts)

3 – My Acrylix® D-size stamp sets

3 – 12" × 9" Dimensional Elements (3 sheets of different shapes)

Creative Feature Keys: Title, Photo Mat 1, Photo Mat 2, Icon, Border, Overlay.

Would you like to order one?  Visit my website to place your order.

Artbooking Made Easy

Simple Summer Mini Albums




How easy was that?!  Stop by every Thursday for a new video. Don't have your cartridge yet?  Hop on over to my website to place your order.

Artbooking Made Easy

Get educated on making fun back-to-school layouts and mini books with the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge. Mixing and matching shapes from both school-themed keys will send your projects to the top of the class!




Stop by every Thursday for the latest episode of Artbooking Made Easy.  Haven't ordered your Artbooking Cricut cartridge yet?  You can find it here on my website.

Artbooking Made Easy

Welcome to Artbooking Made Easy! In this 8-month series, you will learn how to use the brand-new, revolutionary Close To My Heart Cricut^® Artbooking collection to create works of art! From mini scrapbooks to layouts, you’ll find themes to fit any occasion—just set one dial size and let Artbooking do the rest!

Join us each week for the Artbooking Made Easy series from September 2013 through April 2014.   Stop by every Thursday for the next lesson.

Haven't ordered your Artbooking cartridge yet?  You can order yours today on my website.

If you have any questions, shoot me an email.