Weddingbee Blog

So, that Cricut of mine? It’s been in our coat closet since the day I bought it (a year ago—no joke). And, since we scrapped the envelope liners I was at a loss of what we were going to use it for. Especially since I’m not much of a DIY-er.

The solution? Belly bands. I toyed with this idea off and on for some time and with a little nudging from Mr. A, it was a go. I was definitely not going to hand cut them—I totes don’t have the patience for that, and I wanted to forgo the hand cramping. Insert the Cricut.

I had downloaded Sure Cuts a Lot (SCAL) a while back, knowing that the Cricut Design Studio was not compatible with my Mac, plus I can import .SVG files from Illustrator if I ever needed to create a custom design. You can only do so much with a Cricut cartridge.

First I used SCAL to create an 8.5 x 11 file that would have 9 strips of paper for each piece of paper, evenly sized.

I lined up my paper on the Cricut cutting mat and loaded it up, then hit the “Cut” button on the screen. And away the Cricut went a-cutting.

All that was left to do after doing this 20 times (it went by quickly, promise), was the peel them off of the sticky mat. Check out those perfect strips!

And, lots of scraps!

But wait. I couldn’t just have a plain ol’ strip of chocolate brown paper. So, I decided to add circles to the mix. To go along with this whole “circles” theme we’ve been playing off of. And, boy was the Cricut ever helpful. If you thought it did wonders with the strips, it was a LIFE SAVER on the circles. Especially since we opted for two sizes.

Oh glorious Cricut how I bow down to thee.

So, how did they turn out? Quite fantastically, if I do say so myself. Guess you’ll just have to wait for the reveal…