Last week I wrote about Ethan's Octonauts Third Birthday Party and made a quick mention of the decorations that I had embossed. Well, that fun embossing of decorations was made possible by the Cricut Cuttlebug. I received one to review shortly before his party, so I quickly tried it out to make a few Octonauts decorations.
The Cuttlebug is an embossing and cutting machine. It is really simple to use, basically just putting the paper that you want to cut or emboss in between the cutting pads, turning the handle of the machine to push it through and taking it out the other side. The Cuttlebug comes with one embossing folder, and I was given a couple of extras to try it. Unfortunately it didn't come with any cutting dies, and I wasn't able to find any to buy in time, so I couldn't try out the cutting. My only complaint about the Cuttlebug is that you have to buy all of the embossing folders and cutting dies separately, I think that it would be nice to come with some basic designs and shapes, but I think that is true of all machines of this type.
For the party I made some bunting, I actually bought the precut card, but then I embossed it with the zigzag embossing folder and the dotty embossing folder. It was so easy to do and I think that it gave the bunting a little something extra special. I also embossed the bandage symbol for the party boxes. This was perfect as I needed the bandages to have dots like a real plaster, and they came out even better than I had hoped! I can't wait to get some cutting dies and more embossing folders to make some more projects with my Cuttlebug!
Would you like to win a Cricut Cuttlebug? What would you make first with it if you won?
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* This is a review post, I was given a Cuttlebug to use and to write my honest review about.*
64 comments
A birthday card for my youngest son! Thank you x
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party invitations for my mum's surprise party
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ReplyDeleteI would make like to make bespoke christmas cards for my cross stitches and also things for my children for christmas such as Santa please stop here signs and bunting for their rooms. I would also like to make lables for the children's teachers presents which will be snowman soup and also to make name placecards for the christmas table. I love crafting and this would be so well used.
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ReplyDeleteHazel Rea - @beachrambler
A birthday card for my Mum from my daughter :) xx
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