I went shopping!!!!!

Yesterday....got a new cricut cart(new one for me), and 4 New stamps!

yay for you. i would have to drive far to go "scrap" shopping. well, atleast 45 to a chain craft store. have fun with your goodies!

I drove an hour....each way but was going anyway to visit MOM!

oic!

What cartridge did ya get???? Nosey... er... inquiring minds want to know! :face: Enjoy your goodies!

Robin wrote:What cartridge did ya get???? Nosey... er... inquiring minds want to know! :face: Enjoy your goodies!

Home Accents......been wanting it for a while and other than online...no one locally had it!

OH I LOVE that cartridge! I just recently got it as well!! I have used a bunch already & have even more ideas for future LO's & cards! Enjoy!

I have oodles of stores around here! It is hard to stop myself from buying all the time. Michaels is within walking distance. I am good friends with 2 of the local scrap store owners! ....... The home accents cartridge...hhmmmm I am going to have tosee if there is anything I want you cto cut!

My next purchases are mats and blades.....I have had both my machines so busy....they are now tearing the paper...UGH!

I LOVE my Cricut. Just got it last month for my birthday. What an awesome scrappy toy!

Jennifer Hodge wrote:I have oodles of stores around here! It is hard to stop myself from buying all the time. Michaels is within walking distance. I am good friends with 2 of the local scrap store owners! ....... The home accents cartridge...hhmmmm I am going to have tosee if there is anything I want you cto cut!

Jennifer, I have a bunch of Cricut Cartridges (including some Disney), so if you need/want anything cut, please let me know!

Do you ladies have the original Cricut or the Expression? I'm going to ask for some advice when I get more time to chat but I was having some "issues" with my Cricut the other day.

I have both the original and the expressions......I use them constantly! I Work for a sales rep and do all of her scrapping for examples and her personal scrapping......so usually I run both machines at the same time to get the job done faster! LOL

I too have both the Original & Expression. I usually only use the Expression, but it's nice to have the smaller one to take to crops too!

Okay so I have had the cricut for awhile and am embarassed to say that I rarely use it. I finally pulled it out again the other night to make my grandnephew a birthday card.
I used SU cardstock and tried to print out "Happy" and "Birthday" from the celebration cartridge and also balloons with little swirls in them.
I found that my paper was tearing on the intricate things so that the balloons and the word "birthday" were useless. I also have a hard time getting things off the sticky sheet. It makes me just want to put it in the closet. HELP!!! What am I doing wrong?? :geek: :geek:

JayZee wrote:Okay so I have had the cricut for awhile and am embarassed to say that I rarely use it. I finally pulled it out again the other night to make my grandnephew a birthday card.
I used SU cardstock and tried to print out "Happy" and "Birthday" from the celebration cartridge and also balloons with little swirls in them.
I found that my paper was tearing on the intricate things so that the balloons and the word "birthday" were useless. I also have a hard time getting things off the sticky sheet. It makes me just want to put it in the closet. HELP!!! What am I doing wrong?? :geek: :geek:

You need the pressure set to high and the speed to LOW...and use the spatula tool to remove the cut items! Hope that helps.....if it doesn't work.....change the blade!

Thanks Holly I'll give that a try. I know that I have the pressure high but not sure about the speed. I've barely used it so the blade should be fine I would think.

JayZee, I found at first that I had to pay attention to the cutting speed, for how detailed my image/lettering was, and to the pressure setting in relation to the thickness of paper I was trying to cut. The manual helps A LOT! Or it did me anyway. Hope that helps. I still pull the manual out from time to time. But playing with it, on scraps, is the best way to figure out what works for you.