Lots of new products at Cricut.com

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Have you seen all the new products available at Cricut?  Click here to see them:

==> NEW PRODUCTS AT CRICUT <==

Here's just some of them...

There's 24 different packs of heavyweight double sided printed paper
(Hello Kitty, Avengers, Disney and lots more)

   

   

    

Holographic Sparkle Iron on (5 colours available)
(Blue, Fuchsia, red, green, gold)

Foil embossed paper
(5 different packs - Gold/White, Silver/White, Gold/Craft, Silver/Black, Gold/Black

   

Sparkle Paper
Bejewelled Sampler, Spring Meadow Sampler, Classic Sampler

Foil paper
Classic Sampler

Shimmer paper
Bedazzled Sampler, Classic Sampler

 

Foil Poster Board
Pastel

Party Foil

Faux Suede
Rustic Sampler

Holographic vinyl
Opal, Blue, Pink

Plus Pens and digital cartridges. (Including Anna Griffin's Fantastic Flip Cards.)

You can purchase here:   ==> NEW PRODUCTS AT CRICUT <==

Don't forget to use my discount code ==> NARELLE <== to receive free US/Canada shipping and 15% off the price of your order.  That's on top of the 10% you get if you're a Cricut Access subscriber.


I'd love to know... what's your favourite new product?

Happy crafting!  ♥

New tools at Cricut!

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Have you seen the new tools that Cricut have released?

Last week the extra large scraper was released.

The scraper is about twice the width of the regular scraper. Which means you can clean up your mat twice as fast. And it's great for applying vinyl.

The cost of the scraper is $9.99 less any discounts.*

Link here: Cricut.com - XL Scraper

Today they have released a Paper Crafting Set.

Here's what it contains:

• A piercing tool
• A Quilling Tool - perfect for rolling flowers
• An edge Distresser for creating a textured edge effect on paper. (Perfect if you like the shabby chic look)
• A Craft Mat that features multi-use piercing and self-healing surfaces

This set is $24.99 less any discounts.*

Link here: Cricut.com Paper Crafting Set

Current discounts available. (As at 3rd May 2016)

Use code CRICUTSPRING to get 10% off your purchase and free USA shipping.

Plus, if you are a Cricut Access member you'll receive a further 10% off.

And if you're a Cricut Circle member you get yet another 10% off.

Happy crafting!  ♥

Dreaming Tree Gatefold card and some news!

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I have some exciting news to share with you!

I am very happy to announce that my Facebook group "Cricut Explore and More" and Dreaming Tree are teaming up!

Leo from Dreaming Tree has offered to sponsor our group with fantastic offers and WEEKLY giveaways... for an entire year! They will be our official 3D paper project sponsor and we will be Dreaming Tree’s preferred Cricut Facebook group!  How cool is that? ☺

Each week we will have two $6.99 gift cards to give away. Right now our members can enter the draw by taking part in our Green challenge. That means make a project with a green theme.

That could be using the colour green, or St Pats day, or frogs, crickets (or Cricuts as it's Cricut's 10 year anniversary) or nature.... whatever fits the green theme!

This challenge closes on Tuesday so hurry and request to join so you can enter!

Does this mean you can't share any other 3D projects in the group? Not at all! You are still welcome to share projects no matter where you purchase the files!

But… if you haven't used Dreaming Tree's files... please give them a try. We know that you'll love them! They have awesome 3D projects and you’ll find an assembly video for each one!

Here's the link to the Dreaming Tree website. Please be sure to sign up for their newsletter: http://www.3dsvg.com/

And here's their Facebook page. Don't forget to "Like" it! https://www.facebook.com/3dsvg

If you have crafting friends who love Dreaming Tree too, then now is the time to add them to our group.  We'd love to have them see what a happy and welcoming group we have created. Admins Jess, Janis, Jooniper and I are looking forward to seeing you and your crafty friends. ☺

So now onto my project!

Here are two versions of the Dreaming Tree Floral Gatefold Card.

This is such an easy card to put together so I have no excuse for putting the front panels on upside down. Other than I had friends over for a night of crafting... and wine may have been consumed. ☺

I love this card and I know I'll be making many more of them as it's so versatile!

You can purchase this card from Dreaming Tree right here: Floral Gatefold Card SVG

Or as part of a 3 card bundle here: Gatefold Cards SVG bundle

I again reached for the beautiful Cricut Pearl paper for this project. The colours were Cocoa and Scarlet.

Happy crafting!  ♥

CRICUT: Explore - saving paper with Print then Cut

It's time I started blogging some Explore/Design Space tips....  here's my first one!

Saving paper when printing small images with Print then Cut.

There's a couple of ways you can do this depending on how big your image is.

For something that only uses approx 1/4 of a sheet of 8.5 x 11 I cut my cardstock in 1/4's and use temporary adhesive (I used a Scrapbook Adhesives E-Z Dots repositionable tape runner) to adhere one piece to the corner of a sheet of plain copy paper. 

I insert that into the printer tray (you'll need to work out which way it needs to go in - face up/face down etc) and send that to the printer in the usual way from Design Space.

If printed perfectly! And the registration marks were in exactly the correct position and the correct size for the Explore to find them. 

For bigger images, you can use half a sheet and print it the same way. Or on my printer I was able to load the half sheet into the rear paper feed slot. 

I was also able to just place it in the regular paper tray without adhering it to copy paper, but that can jam the printer. (It did for me once out of about 5 attempts. 

But I have to say... I have never had so many paper jams with a printer than I have with this Epson 7620... So it could just be my printer.)

Happy crafting!  ♥