Since Cricut cartridges appeared, scrapbooking is getting more and more popular in many homes, as a relaxing and pleasant activity for the entire family. It can be used to conserve the family history with journal entries, photographs and memorabilia. Just put together a Cricut Expression machine and some Cricut cartridges and they will make old pictures, filled with history to come alive for the generations to come.
Ever since photography was invented, people struggled to come up with better ideas of how to store their photos for safekeeping in the most innovative ways. The paper became available and affordable for ordinary people in the 15th century, and since then, many have started to create scrapbooks, or commonplace books that were used to save correspondence, poetry, quotes and recipes. Similar to the current customs, every scrapbook theme was uniquely created by its author. Later, in the 16th century, friendship albums were in vogue, and they were used similarly to our yearbooks, where friends and colleagues sign each others albums at the end of the school.
Inspired by the history, Provo Craft put their imagination and creativity to work and figured out some effective ways to ease the crafts creating process. Cricut Jukebox comes very handy for scrapbookers who want to easily keep all their cartridges in one place. With this amazing tool, they do not have to stop their creative flow every time they need to switch out the Cricut cartridges.
There are all kinds of cartridges available, from Hannah Montana and Old West themed to Christmas Solutions Cartridge or Disney Mickey Font Cartridge. Just take a look at the wide variety of wonderful cartridge designs and you will understand what Provo Craft meant in their slogan by endless possibilities. If you download and install the Design Studio software, you will be able to view all the cartridge images in their collection, which by the way, contains over one hundred cartridges you can choose from.

If people would read a Cricut Machine review, they can easily point out the best thing about this piece of machinery. Most of the reviews are raving about the weight of this handy equipment which is only 7 lbs. This means that it can be conveniently transported by the user with much ease.

For those who are not aware of this simple paper cutting equipment, it is often used for paper crafts such as scrapbooking. With just a press of a button, it cuts paper according to the specifications of the user. The size and the style of cutting can be controlled that there are many different cutouts that can be done. Most people would think that it has to be used with a computer but this piece of machinery is completely stand alone. It makes use of different cartridges for the flawless cutouts of a variety of fonts and shapes.

Making your own scrapbooking embellishments is a wonderful way to make unique page layouts. So many common items around your house can be used as embellishments. Ideas include bits of string, thread and yarn, pictures cut from old magazines, handmade knitted or crocheted items, paper flowers or other paper designs, etc. You can also purchase raw ingredients to manufacture your own embellishments.  Polymer clay can be used to make almost any item and can easily be painted to any color. Acrylic's can be manufactured in molds to hold any type of little item that you would like to show off.

Wire can be woven or bent into an enormous variety of shapes and can be made to fit any space or position on your layout. Wire also comes in a variety of thicknesses and colors which can also add that unique touch to your layouts.  You can also make embellishments on your sewing machine using bits of old thread in any color, and old pieces of fabric. You might even try the embroidery setting on your machine to write words or make little pictures. As you can see, the possibilities for making your own scrapbooking embellishments are endless and only limited by your imagination.