School-Themed Die-Cuts with Locker Talk Cartridge

Aren't these cute? I had fun cutting out shapes from the Locker Talk cartridge for Cricut this afternoon. There was lots of layering involved in some of the shapes I made, but there is also a blackout feature if you simply want to do a silhouette of an object. Here are individual pictures of each die-cut with a bit of an explanation of what was involved.

Single book and stack of books: For this one I cut out a shadow in black, the main shape in brown, and the layers (pages) in almond. To make the pages look more realistic, I cut out the page section of the brown layer and slid the almond pages underneath. To attach the skinny little book covers, I used a ZIG 2-way glue pen.

This one is probably my favorite. It's a pennant cut with green paper for the flag portion and gold for the ties. The letters were not on the Locker Talk cartridge. I used all capital letters from A Child's Year, and set the size one-quarter inch smaller for each subsequent letter.

The desk is really easy to do with layers. In the instruction booklet, the legs of the chair are the same color as the seat. I just cut the chair portion out twice - once with red and once with dark grey. I cut off the seat portion of the gray die-cut and glued the legs on top of the red ones. The desk was a very simple layer with tan card stock.

The laptop or notebook computer was the most difficult to make. If I had cut a larger size than 2 inches, it would surely have been easier. To make the screen a different color than the rest of the computer, I cut out a second computer with gray paper, and cut out the screen to glue to the black background. Same thing with the keys, except there is a layer to cut with all of the little keypad squares and the internal mouse.

The notebook paper, A+, and paperclip were super easy. No layering involved. One suggestion: use a newer mat with a stickier surface for the paper clips.

The pencil was quite easy as well. I used four colors on one cutting mat, and cut the main shape in yellow, and layers on all three of the others (sand, black, and rose). You will end of throwing away portions of the layers, since you only need the eraser in pink, the wood in sand, and the lead and metal band in black. It took me a while to figure that out.

So there you have it! A little tour of the Locker Talk cartridge. There are many more shapes and phrases available than the ones I'm showing here. 

 

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