Marti from Pezadoodle has aswered our call for Swarm prizes

Our good friend and fellow Cricut MB sister Marti from http://www.pezadoodle.com/ has kindly offered to make a prize donation for our Swarm. A big thank you Marti from all the Aussie Swarmers.

We have an Aussie sponsor for our Swarm :)

That's right we have a sponsor from Australia, I am so happy to introduce Mandy from http://www.scrappy-go-lucky.com.au/ We have a fantastic prize coming from Mandy, something that you might not have seen before, as usual once the Swarm is on you will all know, but it is a product that will be very useful with your Cricut machines.............................. I have to give myself a crash course on how to use it/them so I can show you while you are at the Swarm. I will wrap the prize and post a pic once it arrives. I can tell you that all attending the Swarm will also be receiving a 10% off voucher when you shop at http://www.scrappy-go-lucky.com.au/


As well as the sponsorship by http://www.scrappy-go-lucky.com.au/ I have been asked to join their design team and I am dizzy with excitement and have design ideas going through my head a at a million miles an hour. I will let you all know when I have my designs up for display on their blog.

Pink Expression with a new exclusive cartridge.

The people at Provo Craft have come up with a new Expression machine, it is pink. It comes with Plantin Schoolbook and Accent Essentials cartridges plus the exclusive cartridge called "Pink Journey" So I guess it is geared towards raising funds for Breast Cancer awareness, what a great idea. These pink Expressions are available from Michael's store in the US.
Lets hope they also let this cartridge become available on it's own for everyone to buy and help raise even more funds for a great cause.


close up of cartridge contents

(permission to post these pics was asked for and granted by the picture taker)


This got me to thinking about what new cartridges are on my wish list and here they are.

EUROPEAN DÉCOR
EVERYDAY PAPER DOLLS
FROM MY KITCHEN
KITCHEN & BATH DÉCOR
PICTURESQUE
PINK JOURNEY
POTPOURRI BASKET
SERENE
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
SWEETHEARTS
WINTER WOODLAND

Do you know there are now 101 carts. (99 if you don't count the two international versions of Keystone and Daisychain)

What's on your wish list?

Screen shots of the 6 yet to be released carts now on the Design Studio software

Here are the screen shots for all 6 of the yet to be released, but rumored for a September release, cartridges. I used both shift and non shift and all features available, with the exception of the shadow and blackout features.

The following carts are featured in the screen shots below.
From my Kitchen
Winter Woodlands
Serendae
Picturesque
Everyday Paper Dolls
Sweethearts

Everyday Paper DollFrom my KitchenPicturesqueSerenadeSweethearts Winter Woodland

WOW 6 new cartridges on Design Studio

That's right the new update for Design Studio is out and there are 6 new carts on it.

Picturesque
Serenade
Sweethearts
Winter Woodland

Everyday Paper Dolls

From My Kitchen

If you have the Design Studio software here is the upgrade, you will need to save it before installing it.

http://content.cricut.com/b/downloads/software/DesignStudio/FontUpdate_V090716.exe

Happy 50th Rita word book

Well after seeing the word book I made for my friend Stacey (see posting below) one of the guests at the party commissioned me to make one for her mother's 50Th.
I used the George and Plantin Schoolbook cartridges for this project and the design studio software. Let me know what you think about it.