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[Keling]

There are lots of specialty ones, of course, but what ones do you find you use over and over again?

[Queen Mum]

Cursive 101

Calligraphy Collection

Stamped

Cindy Loo (if you make cards)
Blackletter

Ashlyn's Alphabet
I really dislike Mini Monograms.

[GRACEpunches5]

plantin' schoolbook and give a hoot

[baltoscrapper]

By far my fav, esp for quick but FAWSOME cards is lyrical letters. I also reach for StoryBook a lot. AND the cart that comes with everything and I always "poo poo" but find I use it a ton is George and Basic shapes!

[LyndaKay]

I use George a lot, too. I also use Life's A Beach and the Christmas solutions cart. that makes tags. I forget the name of it.

[scraptag]

The thing I love about mini monograms is the scallop circle. When I bought it, it was the only cartridge that had it. Now, Lacy labels and Straight from the Nest have them too. So you may want to pick between them.

[cort]

Storybook (love the font and all the scroll type designs)

Sentimentals (some cute sayings , scissors and the bee and beehive--i collect them so i bought that cartridge just for those images)

A Childs Year (this is a great cartridge for cards...esp if you like silhouettes, there is an adorable little fairy that is awesome on gift bags..I have used this cartridge more then i thought i would )

Very Merry Tags (this is a solutions cartridge from last year..you can still get it but it's kind of pricey now...but it's great for tags. but if you have a tag pattern you can use just about any image for a tag.)

Cuttin up (I like the font..more of a manuscript printing type)

well...i have a lot more then that..but those are the ones that i seem to gravitate to...so many cartridges so little time.

[kcatt79]

I love Cindy Loo and Stand and Salute, use both of them often.

[scraptag]

Okay, sorry, I had to leave for carpool, so I didn't really get to list the ones I use a lot, so here goes:
Plantin
Paisley (they have a great butterfly shape in that one)
and my kids use Keystone for their posterboard projects!

It's pretty much hit or miss from here depending on what I'm looking for. I use my gypsy to weld titles together which I love, and I also use it to look for specific shapes I need.

[scraptag]

Okay, sorry, I had to leave for carpool, so I didn't really get to list the ones I use a lot, so here goes:
Plantin
Paisley (they have a great butterfly shape in that one)
and my kids use Keystone for their posterboard projects!

It's pretty much hit or miss from here depending on what I'm looking for. I use my gypsy to weld titles together which I love, and I also use it to look for specific shapes I need.

[betseymae]

I didn't think I would BUT...I use "Stretch Your Imagination" quite a bit! I did just get the Cindy Loo cartridge - It's pretty awesome.

[Sandi0805]

Some of my most used cartridges are the Lyrical Letters, George and Doodletype. I really like the DonJuan. I just got it on e-bay, but haven't used it yet.

[Nikki_E]

Life's a Beach, Ashlyn's Alphabet and Don Juan are my favorites. Also Paper Pups because I have two dogs.

[writerlady]

I love Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, Cindy Loo, Just Because Cards and Paper Doll Dressup, along with StoryBook.

[Keling]

I use my gypsy to weld titles together which I love, and I also use it to look for specific shapes I need.

Do you need the Gypsy to weld letters together?

[scraptag]

I use my gypsy to weld titles together which I love, and I also use it to look for specific shapes I need.

Do you need the Gypsy to weld letters together?

The machine won't weld, but the SCAL or other programs probably do. I think you were thinking about getting one of them, right? Otherwise, the Gypsy is great for that. What you can't do with the Gypsy is delete parts of a shape. So if you use a shape, you use the whole thing. You can't cut part of it off if you don't need it. But i guess that's what scissors are for.

[gncntry96]

I reach for George and for Lyrical Letters first most of the time. I also have Ashlyn's Alphabet and Zoo Balloo, but use them less often.

winter wonderland...

[maryplus5]

I make A LOT of word books and use Base Camp for most of those.

[Keling]

Thanks, ladies... since i'm gonna get one of those software programmes, I may skip on some of the alphas to begin with, and get shapes... I've got lots of kid crafts coming up!