Archive for the ‘Flourishes’ Category

A few years ago I was in the Michael’s store and I saw the new Cricut cutting machine.  $499.00….way out of my price range but I thought it looked SO COOL!  Due to the price, I pushed it out of my head and did not think about it again until I saw the Personal Cricut on a Black Friday deal at Wal-Mart for $125.00.   I bought it and used my sisters employee discount and scored it for $112.50 plus tax.  I was in love with this machine.  I even bought a Disney Cartridge **GASP** for $89.00.  At $89.00 for a cartridge I knew that this was going to be expensive and started having regrets about my purchase…no matter how much I liked this machine until I did a google search online.  I found Cricut Cartridges cheap online trough Oh My Crafts and E-bay and boy I was in HEAVEN….I actually returned the open Disney Cartridge to Wal-Mart and got my money back and bought 3 cartridges for almost that price online.  In my Internet search, I found a video about SCAL and how you can cut font’s using your cricut.  Seemed like an investment to me because I figured I would not need to spend the big bucks on cartridges.  I purchased SCAL and loved it.  I learned about inkscape and making my own files.  I was in Heaven.  My love of Cricut Cartridges never stopped though.  I have just about every cartridge released until Black Friday 2010.  Buying SCAL or Make The Cut software never stopped me from collecting them.  I love to create my own files but a lot of images in the Cartridges are just so darn cute but then came the overload.  More cartridges released then I could ever afford to buy.  The law suit with MTC was settled and now it appears that Craftedge has settled there lawsuit as well because SCAL2 is no longer available on the Craftedge website.  You will be able to use SCAL2 with your cricut, but there will not be any further updates.  I did some checking and as of this post, you can still sign up to download the trial version of SCAL2 from MyCricutBuddy.com so that you can have a back up of the software in case your computer fails or you buy a new one.  I would recommend doing it as soon as possible because I don’t think that it will remain there for long.   

I have increasingly become more and more unhappy with Provocraft and not just because of the MTC of Craftedge lawsuit.  Last year I joined the Cricut Circle.  We were suppose to get exclusive cartridges, exclusive offers and other things that I feel were never delivered.  There quarterly cartridge never lived up to my expectations.  The last cartridge was cricut stuff.  My Cricut Circle membership has officially ended.  Products I purchased like the Gypsy and Imagine were released and sold with promises that they could do certain things but I had to wait (felt like forever in some cases) for updates to make them work as they were suppose to.  Cartridges were released and available to purchase but could not be used with the Gypsy or Design Studio until they finally would get around to releasing an update.  I did watch the new Cricut Expression 2 Premier on HSN to see what it was about, but I did not purchase it.  To many false promises.  I sold my Cricut Cake and Imagine.  I still have my Cricut Expression and Gypsy and will keep them as my investment in them is so great compared to what I would get to sell them.  I did purchased a 13 inch Black Cat Cougar that should be delivered next week….Yeah!  I have also been spending more time with my E-craft cutting machine and I have to admit, I am starting to love it since it came back from repair.  Due to the fact that I don’t want to support Provocraft and all things cricut anymore…I will be changing my blog name.  My new blog name will be…..MYTIMETOCRAFT.COM

I am going to *Try* and change this blog domain to the new one by Friday May 27th.  I don’t want to loose all the work I have done, but if I have trouble changing the blog domain name then I will be deleting this blog and starting over with my new one.  I have done a lot of research on changing blog names and I hope everything goes with out a hitch.  I just won’t know if it will work until I try it.  I also want to say thank you for supporting mytimetocraft.com for the past 2 years.  It really has meant so much to share this site with you. 

For now though I do have a Flower Flourish SVG for you.  It is in 2 layers and I hope you like it!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog.

I love this 2 layer blue flourish!  Of course it does not have to be blue, but I am having hard time coming up with a better name.

It is in 2 layers, but the top layer looks just as pretty by itself.   Pretty pink!

I thought that I would post a quick file before I have to go to work.  I know that I am not very creative with the name, sorry but it is swirls right?

Happy cutting on your cricut!

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for the nice e-mails and comments.  I appreciate it.  At the time it happened I was very upset but I realize now that although upsetting it is not the end of the world.  I love this blog, my cricut expression and SCAL and there is no way I can stop.

My husband the sweetie that he is bought me  a TB Western Digital Hard-Drive so I can keep a back up of all of my files and my blog.  I have figured out how to do a daily back up so I should be well prepared for anything else to come in the future.

I have a bunch of files that I am going to post right now.  Some were the ones that were deleted and some are new ones that I have been working on.

Eeyore SVG

Softball SVG

Mommy Wordbook

Mirror Mirror

Heart Frame

Golden Key

Dotted Heart

Circle With A Spin

2 Layer Frame