subject: What I Enjoy About The Mini Monsters Cricut Cartridge [print this page] The Cricut Mini Monster Cartridge is really a great and entertaining cartridge that I think is perfect for creating a wide selection of objects with, including cards, scrap pages for my kids and also using the cut outs as room decorations.
The Mini Monsters Cartridge is filled with a large assortment of distinct monster pictures, but these are not your usual scary ones, these are significantly more fun looking and entertaining. Every one of the monsters that are included are actually monsters of particular kinds of other 'things'. As an example you can find dog monsters, cat monsters and pirate monsters. The monster design and look reminds me nearly of jelly monsters or those Pac Man video games from the past. The colors of these pictures that are shown in the instruction booklet are fantastic combinations and I must admit that several of my monster designs have 'borrowed' Provo Craft's much more designer inclined eye. I know what I like, but sometimes my design and color combination outcomes just do not turn out that visually appealing.
When I first bought this cartridge, I actually only noticed the great array of enjoyable monsters that were on it and wanting to create a few particular items for my boys, that adore anything to do with monster characters, I thought this could be perfect. It turns out that it really is indeed perfect for this. Nonetheless, what I did not realize back then was how suitable this cartridge is to all of those entertaining Halloween items that you always seem to create during this holiday period. I never really paid much attention to the choice of phrases that this cartridge has, or I ought to have guessed that it also had a excellent Halloween use. I suppose this has ended up being an extra on what I originally purchased it for, so it now represents even better value for money.
My initial item that I used this cartridge for was a set of party invites for my son's birthday, as not surprisingly he wanted a monster and ghouls themed costume birthday party. On a side note, you'd think that getting hold of children sized monster costumes should be relatively straight forward, but as I now know, unless you want pretty ordinary looking costumes, good ones are unbelievably tough to track down. Just felt I would let you in on that in the event any of you face this fancy dress theme in the future! Anyway going back to my monster invitations. I had thirty-two to produce, so I wanted to make sure the layout was basic and to be honest didn't take a long time. I stole a easy card style idea from a video I noticed on the web after which I removed a few of the extra components that were added to it. I really only needed a monster character and phrase and also the event details with my son's details added of course.
I started out by creating all of the cards with the identical monster and also the exact same phrase and then my son began to want other monsters, so I ended up utilizing different ones from then on for every different invitation. I even added a couple of additional elements to a couple to create them a bit more fancy for a couple of his particular friends, as their moms are always sending out fancy celebration invitations for their children, but not handmade master pieces like these needless to say! I should confess, the Cricut Mini Monsters does possess a choice of phrases to choose from, but it does not contain a full font, so I turned to using another Font Cartridge for the specific wording on the invitations, but that is fine.
Anyway, the invitations turned out great, my son was happy and I believe the fancy invitation moms had been jealous of my superior celebration invites as they later asked where I had got them from! I now have a sneaky suspicion they are going to purchase a Cricut Expression machine prior to their sons' next birthdays.
I have a couple of excellent concepts for Halloween items that I need to make for the youngsters shortly and there are even more fantastic ideas around the internet that tickle my fancy, so I will definitely be utilizing the wide variety of Halloween monsters, Halloween extra cut outs and some of the better phrases shortly.
All in all the Mini Monsters Cartridge is really a really enjoyable cartridge to use for and with children. I do not feel it is worthwhile buying for strictly adult projects and you'd probably need to grab any lettering from other cartridges to complete your projects, but even with that said, I still believe it is a uniquely fun cartridge to have and use.
