Posts Tagged ‘Cricut Imagine’

Hi Everyone,

I woke up to an e-mail with awesome cricut deals so I wanted to make sure that you are aware of them.  The site is papercraftingpro.com. You can see my prior post about this company here. I am not affiliated with this company and I have NEVER purchased a membership.  I order using the 2 day free trial.  You have to use an e-mail account that you have not used before.  One day I am hoping that they will give out free memberships

The new Birthday Bash and Nifty Fifties cricut cartridges for only $27.00 each!!!!!

There is an awesome deal on the seasonal cartridges as well.  I am trying to hold strong on my promise of not buying anything else for a long long long time but the Trim The Tree cartridge is sooooo gosh darn cute!!!! I really really really want it! For $16.00 it is so hard to say no

They even have deals on the new cricut imagine machine and cartridges.  The pattern cartridges are $30.00 and image cartridges $40.00.  I bought the Snow Angel cartridge when I purchased my imagine. It is so cute and perfect for the holidays.  If  you are like me and have a hard time deciding which cartridge you really want first be sure to check out the handbooks online @ cricut.com They pretty much have most of the handbooks online for you to see.  They recently added all of the imagine handbooks as well.

I am so excited!!! I know that this post is kind of  long already but I recently made a dust cover for my cricut imagine.  Here are a few pictures of it.  I am not much of a sewer yet, I hope to get  better, but I don’t think I did to bad for making my own pattern.  The bug head I digitized myself.  It was from the Store Front cricut cartridge.  The pink fabric was just a test fabric, although I love pink.  I actually bought some pink and chocolate paisley colored fabric to make matching covers for my cricut expression and imagine machine.  I did not want to waste the good fabric in case it did not turn out.  You can’t IMAGINE mys surprise when it worked the first time around.

My friend Lana and I had a great time Saturday at the CHA SuperShow.  My favorite booth that I absolutely had the most fun at was…. Crafter’s Companion (CC for Short) The person who did our card demo with us was so amazing.

She started us out with the Rock A Block.  This is amazing.  I have seen it on HSN but until you try it in person, you just won’t believe the difference from the block stamping method and the Rock A Block method.  Large or small stamps, stamp ink so well and with out smudges or having to worry about putting pressure on the stamping block.  I figured I could always stick a smaller stamp on the larger block, so I decided to get the large Rock A Block set.

We created this card above in the demo.  We attached it by using the repositionable adhesive in the large purple can.  It stays repositionable for 2 minutes and then sets firm.  Then they had cut a mask out of the bear stamp where you only see the balloons and we laid the mask over the card and sprayed it with the iridescent spray and the balloons looks so lovely and sparkle and twinkle.   I can’t wait to try this spray on angels, cupcake tops, snow and anything else I can think of.

The sparkle is hard to see but is is sooooo lovely.

Papertrey Ink was my next favorite booth to visit. I really wanted all of there stamps because they are just so darn cute, and they gave you a free pen, paper and pink bag!

I got the Holiday Signature Greetings stamp set.  These are going to be perfect for Christmas Cards!!!!  Dawn Mc Vey has another set just called Signature Greetings that I wanted but they were all sold out

When I watch Youtube videos, I allways see people with these accent stamps to put on the front of the card, I found some that I really like!

I made another card at CHA with the new Cuttlebug Embossing Plus folders.  I got the heart one, I thought that it would always be nice for a wedding or anniversary card.  They were not allowing us to ink up the folder on the demo so I am including the You-tube video from Kim @ CuttersCreek

Yes, I got to see the Cricut Imagine.  They gave out the Cricut Imagine Sunglasses.  They also sold the 4 new cartridges there.  You got the cricut book free with the cartridge purchase.  I totally scored the Rock Princess…. then to be sick to my stomach today when I got the e-mail from papercraftingpro.com has all 4 new catridges for $33.00 a piece now….ugh!  I could have bought 2 of the cartridges from them for the price I paid at the CHA SuperShow!

The thing that I looked forward to the most, was my least favorite.  I signed my friend and I up for the Sizzix ScoreBoard workshop.  We got to the class to find a bag on the table with some supplies inside like glue and stamp pad.  We were suppose to make a note pad holder (shown below) and check book and business card holder and each piece was in the bag already cut.  I was kind of bummed out.  How can you be in a Sizzix workshop and not even even get to use the Sizzix machine.  to make matters worse they handed us our choice of pattern paper or mulberry paper to decorate with.  I took the regular paper and had to trace each piece and cut it out by hand to cover the notepad scoreboard….. how dumb is that?????  I don’t expect that they come with 20 or 25 machines so we each get our own, I kind of expected to share a machine with a group and take turns to cut our paper and scoreboard out.  At the end I asked why couldn’t the cover paper be cut out on the Sizzix machine.  I was told that it could, and she did let me cut the top scalloped piece of the check book on the one machine that was on display in the back of the room.  I was just kind over and done with it at the point.  I did not finish the rest of the it.  The highlight of my Sizzix Journey was that on my way to the class I got to say hi to The Pink Stamper Robyn as she was heading to the restroom before she started her class.

I LOVE YOU Sizzix but I was sure disappointed!

The last thing that I was I have for you is not from the SuperShow.  I got my Martha Stewart Cricut Cake cartridges in.  I can’t wait to play with them.

I think that I have 2 files that I will post tomorrow.  I have to get to bed so I can get a few hours sleep before the kids get up.  I know that my file postings have slowed down.  I have been trying to enjoy this summer with my family and friends.  I decided that I will post when I can and when I don’t, I don’t….. I hope you understand.  I love my new blog look though!!!!   If you like it please leave me a comment!   Die Cut’s With A View has a new site http://300dpi.com  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!!!   They gave out coupons at CHA, use CHA Chicago at check out for a free digital kit with any purchase!

Here is the picture that was posted on the Deseret News website.  Speculation is that this picture depicts the latest Provocraft cricut machine that PRINTS and CUTS in one step.

Provocraft filed a patent request for a new machine called the Cricut Imagine.  Want to read all about it?  You can read the 28 page Patent document that describes the machine.

If you are a cricut circle member they are having a special meeting during CHA (You had to answer a survey if you could attend and they recently sent invitations to those circle members that have been invited to attend the event) and the Cricut Imagine is suppose to be there for everyone to see.  I am so bummed because there was no way for me to get off on Friday to go… so I am hoping when I get to the CHA supershow that takes place the next day that they will have a demo of it at the show.  I read on another blog that someone saw a cartridge at Costco that showed information about a special give away where someone could win the Cricut Imagine valued at $500.00 all I have to say it please Provocraft, have a heart and premiere it on HSN so we can all make payments on it!  That is a big chunk of change for anyone to put down. m