Early Black Friday Sale at Cricut

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Don't miss out on the great deals on Cricut images, supplies and machine bundles during the Early Black Friday Sale!

Cartridges Starting at $9.99

Save on physical and digital titles. 

33% Off Supplies & Materials 

Cricut Explore One™ Coral Deluxe Bundle Clearance!

Get the coral machine and everything you need to get started for only $169.99. 

Explore Machine + Cuttlebug Machine - color coordinated bundle

Don't forget to use the code HOLIDAYDEALS to get an extra 10% off and FREE shipping

(excludes Cricut Access and Explore Air 2)

or

Free Shipping - No Order Minimum with code FREESHIPNOV

US FedEx Home Delivery and Canadian flat-rate economy only

(good towards Explore Air 2 purchase)

Don't forget if you are a Cricut Access Subscriber you also save an additional 10% off all orders on Cricut website and in Design Space.  Great savings if you also apply one of the coupon codes above to your purchase.

Cricut Christmas In July: MIN Watercolour Christmas Card

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I love the Make It Now Projects in Cricut Design Space, especially the pen projects.  

Here is a MIN Project called Watercolor Christmas Card.  

Instead of using watercolours, I decided to try out a new set of Prismacolour Pencil Crayons that I had purchased off of a local garage sale site.   It's been a long time since I've done any colouring but I really liked how smooth these pencils are - not bad for a $7 purchase.

I used a Pilot Precise V5 Black Pen in my Explore,  it was perfect for the fine lines in this project.
After colouring I added a sequin and a bit of silver cord for embellishment.

The images in this Make It Now Project are from the Anna's Christmas Cards and Embellishments Cartridge - on sale for $14.99 during Cricut's Christmas In July.


Also on sale for Christmas In July:

Cricut Explore Air Bundles starting at $229.99

40% off Supplies and Materials

Cartridges $14.99 or less

Clearance items starting at $.99

Free Shipping on all orders to the US and Canada using code JULYCHRISTMAS

CTMH Blossom Scrapbook Layout with Springtime Wishes Thincut Dies

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Working on layouts right now using up retired CTMH cardstock from 2015.

This layout uses the Blossom paper pack from last year's Seasonal Expressions 2 Idea Book and I got my inspiration from the cover of the 2016 Seasonal Expressions 1 Idea Book.   I love the new Thin Cuts metal dies that CTMH introduced in this Idea Book back in January.  

I also used a pattern from the Regatta Workshops Your Way Guide.  The Workshops Your Way program was also introduced in the SE1 Idea Book - the layouts for these workshop kits are available to download for free right off my CTMH website.   Each guide is only available until that Idea Book retires so make sure you download the current layouts and then check back in September for the Holiday WYW layouts - each guide features card and scrapbooking layouts.  

My son, the clown...

Springtime Wishes Flower on Blossom patterned cardstock with Lagoon and Pear die cut accents.  Embellished with Coral Reef Sequins and Bitty Sparkles.

Large cluster of Springtime Wishes Flowers using the cover of the SE1 as inspiration.   Embellished with Bitty Sparkles.  I cut the title and date pieces with my Cricut and sponged the edges of the Sunset and Glacier Cardstock with the coordinating inks.  

 I used a Ranger Clear Embossing Pen in my Cricut Explore to write the words out, then heat embossed with Ranger Super Fine While Embossing Powder.  

CTMH Products Used In This Project:

Springtime Wishes Stamp Set (retired)

Springtime Wishes Thin Cut Dies (retired)

Blossom Paper Pack (retired)

Sunset Cardstock

Pear Cardstock

Sweet Leaf Cardstock

Lagoon Cardstock

Glacier Cardstock

Sorbet Cardstock

Coral Reef Sequins

Bitty Sparkles

Glacier Extra Thick Twine

Mini Staples

Mini Stapler

Ranger™ White Super Fine Embossing Powder

Glacier Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Sunset Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

Cricut Cartridges Used:

CTMH Art Philosophy - Frame 

Days and Dates - Oval

Haley Font from Cricut Access

Other Products Used:

Ranger Clear Embossing Pen

Sizzix Big Shot Machine

Sizzix Magnetic Platform for Wafer Thin Dies

Chicken Pox Scrapbook Layout using Cricut Dr. Checkup cartridge

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Finished another layout this week from when my son had the Chicken Pox.

I used CTMH Magic How-to book for the page layout and used up some of my Bella Blvd Color Chaos scraps from previous layouts.

It is really hard to find cardstock to match Chicken Pox spots so a bit of the multi-coloured cardstock with some Recollections embossed cardstock in red had to do for the spots on my layout.

I used Recollections solid cardstock for my Cricut cuts and embellished with a bit of CTMH Red Shimmer Trim.

Cricut Cuts Used:

Dr. Checkup for title and thermometer

Barnyard Babies for Chicks

Plain Jane Cricut Font for Date (from Cricut Access subscription)

CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge for Slider Tag

Introducing Cricut Access™

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Cricut Image Library Subscription is now Cricut Access™.


A new name and some new features were added to the Cricut Subscription last week.

In addition to the use of over 30,000 images, 1000 Make It Now Projects and 370 fonts in the Cricut Image Library,  Cricut Access™ subscribers now also save 10% off all orders on Cricut.com* and in Cricut Design Space.

Cricut Access™ subscribers will also be the first to access new images, projects and exclusive designs.

Thirteen exclusive new fonts were added with the introduction of Cricut Access™last week, along with new images also exclusive to Cricut Access.  

I love the writing feature in Cricut Design Space and that I can use pens with my Cricut Explore. 

I can't wait to use some these new fonts with my pens to journal on my scrapbook pages.   

Great new images were also added to Cricut Access™ - I noticed right away that some of these will go perfectly with some pages that I am working on. 

Items included in the Cricut Access™ subscription are now marked with an icon to make them easy to find in Design Space.

Look for the green Access™ icon to find projects and images included in Cricut Access™.

Design Space Images - images included have the green icon to the left of the image. 

Make It Now Section: Cricut Access™ images are highlighted with green Access™icon.

  I love that I can now see what is included with the Cricut Access™ subscription.  I was able to quickly choose a font for this tag by looking for fonts that had the Access™ icon.


Cricut Access™ is available monthly for $9.99/month (cancel anytime) or for one annual payment of $95.88 (New lower price! Was $99.99 - works out to be just $7.99/month now!)


*The 10% off discount is only applicable on Cricut.com (USA and CAN only) and in Cricut Design Space™. The 10% off cannot be used to purchase or renew Cricut Access™, to purchase Cricut Circle™, or on iOS in-app purchases. This change does not require any action from current subscribers. Terms and Conditions apply.