I received the most WONDERFUL box today from eclecticpaperie.com!!! I was lucky enough to score TWO of their Cosmo Cricket value packs (25 double-sided or striptease sheets each) and the paper is so great I don’t want to use it! Seriously though, I am really looking forward to using it for giftbags and boxes now that I have the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cricut cart. I also got the Hello Sunshine & Halfway Cafe crafting packs, and the small Get Happy and Hello Sunshine paper pads. I have been loving CC from afar for a while now but with EP’s great prices I dove in. Yum, yum, yum.
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I may be placing another order once they get their website refreshed. Also, the box came way before I expected it, and with a little bonus gift, and there’s nothing better than that. I placed an order with Oh My Crafts about the same time and it has not shipped yet. Oh, to think of that cuttlebug, just waiting for me. *anguish*
I used SCAL for the first time this weekend. I used the font Tattoo Ink and broke apart the base and the highlight using inkscape. I then cut the highlight and the base in two different colors and I am more than tickled with how it came out. I had read that it cuts slowly, but I thought it was uncomfortably fast! I have a lot of little pieces of stock from a strips & snips lot from a California Paper Goods auction and they’re very heavy – I couldn’t get them to work very well when using SCAL.
Using inkscape has been more difficult than I thought, considering that I use Corel at work and have used Photoshop for a long time. However, SCAL itself is quite easy to use if you are just cutting text.
I should mention that I usually cut on the slowest setting when using my cricut. I am going to experiment a little more with that setting, however. I cut some birds from the 50 states cart on some thinnish DCWV paper and a lot of the inside cut lines looked rough.
