A ‘Design Studio For Cricut’ Book – When the Manual Isn’t Enough
If you’re a scrapbooking fiend, you’ll have heard of the Cricut. Even if you’re just beginning to explore this most popular hobby, you might have come across some reference to this best loved die cutting tool of the scrapper. It was great day when they came out with the Cricut Design Studio, which allowed you to hook your Cricut up to your computer, giving you access to every image in the Cricut library. Suddenly thousands of shapes, fonts, letters, and phrases were right at your fingertips.
Much has been written in praise of the Cricut. Book after book has been devoted to helping the dedicated scrapbook fan make the most of this tool, offering tips, tricks and design ideas. But when it comes to Design Studio, possibly the best product marketed by the creators of the cricut, book help can seem pretty scarce. But the fact is, as helpful as DS is to the scrapbooking process, the manual that comes with it is pretty thin on explanations.
The relative complexity of Design Studio is what makes it such a worthwhile program. It allows the scrapbooker to do amazing things that would have taken hours of manual labor before, if it could even be done at all. Wouldn’t you love to know how to:
Eliminate having to search through cartridge after cartridge, looking for just the right shape? Re-use scrap cardstock by being able to position the cutting precisely where you need it on the mat? Manipulate images and letters into the EXACT shape for your immediate need? Weld an image inside of a frame? Create shadows? Use multiple layers and cutting mats in one project?
You can. All those things and more are possible with this great software. But lacking help in the accompanying manual, you must put your project on
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