Ornament Ideas!

Not all of you may have seen my other blog, Christmas with the Cricut, so here's a peek at some of the ornaments I made recently that you may want to try.

Glitter Ornaments:

Click HERE to see how to make these glitter ornaments!

Alcohol Ink Ornaments:

Click HERE to see how to make these alcohol ink oraments!

Three new Cricut Mini-Cartridges - Valentines, Spring & Mother's Day!

Three new mini-cartridges are coming out! I am so excited because these will be just perfect for our "Christmas with the Cricut" blog. Are you saying, "What? Christmas doesn't go with those!"?? But they do when the "Christmas with the Cricut" blog changes into a year-round holiday blog, which will happen in January! You won't have to change anything - we'll just change our header and keep on going!

Need to make Christmas cards quick!? I've got some ideas!

OK, I don't know about you but Christmas is just 6 weeks away and I am not ready at all! And, this year, since I have the Christmas blog, I can't very well NOT send out home made cards, know what I mean? How's that going to look if I include a letter talking about the Christmas blog and no handmade cards?!!? Not good. LOL!

So, I've been on a quest to get some cards made!!

Fortunately, I was asked to be a guest designer on Hallmark Scrapbook's blog, Hallmark Ladybugs. I am really honored to be asked!! I figured that would be a good time to develop a pretty, but fast card to make. Nothing like a blog post to spur me into action! So, I came up with the quick, but pretty cards above that can be made with the Cricut cartridge, A Child's Year. I made a video to show you how to do this. To see more details and to leave a comment over there, click HERE!



I also had today's post and video over on Christmas with the Cricut....obviously, I didn't have a calendar handy when I arranged these posts back to back....LOL! So, I decided to continue on with the theme and show a card that could be easily made but is simple and elegant, if I say so myself....hee hee! I made the snowflake card above using the Winter Woodland cartridge and the card feature from the cartridge. The background that is glittery is made with Martha Stewart fine glitter and a secret ingredient. You can see the video and post above.

Autumn Card!

I posted this card over on the Cutting Above blog, where I am a designer. You can check out all the details by clicking HERE!

Sweet Treats Cricut Cartridge Handbook Photos!

Capadia, the most wonderful photographer of these shiny cartridge handbooks, has done it again! She has posted the handbook pages of the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge on her blog! THANK YOU! Click HERE to see it all! It is SO DARN CUTE!!

Handbook Pictures of the Paisley Cartridge!

Capadia Designs has posted photos of each of the handbook pages of the Paisley cartridge and it is TOO DARN CUTE! You can check it out HERE!

How to save and transfer files with the Gypsy...

FYI...

Latest info from Provocraft:

File Transfer Steps (PC):
1) Turn on your Gypsy
2) Plug it into your PC
3) Launch Gypsy Sync
4) After checking for updates you will see two windows and two button
5) In the folder window, click on the “+” symbol next to the word Gypsy
6) Click on Designs – this will display all the designs that are currently on your Gypsy in the file window on the right
7) To transfer these files to your PC
a. Select a file(s) and click the button at the bottom of the screen that says “Save Selected File(s) to PC”
8) To transfer files to your Gypsy
a. Click the button that says “Upload File(s) to Gypsy”

File Transfer Steps (MAC):
1) Turn on your Gypsy
2) Plug it into your PC
3) Launch Gypsy Sync
4) After checking for updates you will see a file list window
5) To transfer these files to your MAC
a. Select a file(s) and drag them to the desktop
6) To transfer files to your Gypsy
a. Select the file(s) on your MAC and drag them to the file list window

File Transfer notes:
1) When transferring files to and from the Gypsy the names of the files should only contain the following characters A-Z 0-9 . , - _ . You should also avoid file names that are over 64 characters in length.
2) The Gypsy can be on any screen when transferring files but it is recommended that you are on the Welcome screen when transferring files to avoid problems.

Steps for Converting Files:
*.gypsy to *.cut
1) Open the *.gypsy file using a licensed copy of CDS
2) Click File
3) Click Save as
4) Change the file type to *.cut
5) Change the file name
6) Click Save

*.cut to *.gypsy
1) Open the *.cut file using a licensed copy of CDS
2) Click File
3) Click Save as
4) Change the file type to *.gypsy
5) Change the file name
6) Click Save

File Conversion Notes:
1) Any *.cut file that is converted to a *.gypsy file that contains images that have been slanted/skewed will not cut properly on the Gypsy.
2) Any *.gypsy file that has multiple layers that is transferred to a PC and opened in CSD will have all the layers combined into a single layer.