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Ever wanted to make your own greeting cards? Well now you can with the new and exciting Cricut Yudu CardShop! The Yudu CardShop provides a fun and easy way to screen print your own cards, staitonary, gift tags, and party invitations quickly and easily. The CardShop machine comes with everything you need to finish your first project. It includes: pre-burned screen, squeegee, adhesive mat, black ink, three color ink pad, and a guide.

Additional accessories are avaliable for things like pastel inks, bright inks, and primary/secondary screen printing inks. Also, you can get many custom CardShop screens for quick and easy printing like the Cupcake screen, the Tweet Screen, and more!

The Yudu CardShop machine is different than the Yudu machine in that it is much smaller and comes with ready to use screens making the whole process easier. The Yudu machine will let you create your own screens, but the CardShop machine uses pre-made ones to get you printing your cards faster and easier. It retails for $59.99

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The Cricut has been around for 5 years now, and with it, Provocraft has turned the scrapbooking world on its head! Now, in honor of the 5th anniversary of the Cricut, the crafting geniuses are unveiling the new Cricut Expression 2!

Cricut Expression 2 Features

What makes the Cricut 2 special? Quite a bit actually!

Now, they are featuring a full color touch screen on the Cricut Expression 2, no more keyboard overlays, and more importantly- no more loosing your overlays! Also, the new Expression 2 has a LED light that shines on the paper so you can see what it’s cutting as it cuts. There is also a new port on the front that will let you use Cricut Imagine image cartridges and Cricut Imagine Font cartridges as well! The new Cricut Expression 2 also will let you save special settings for cutting things like vinyl and cardstock, so you don’t have to re-enter your settings every single time you want to change medium when cutting shapes. Also, the new Expression uses wi-fi for transmitting data, so you don’t need to use those pesky plugs and cords anymore!

Essentially, the Cricut Expression is everything you love about the Imagine and the original Expression wrapped into one package. It has received a huge update with wi-fi and color touch screen support, and it’s gotten a sexy makeover too! The Cricut Expression 2 release date will be April 26th, and it will be a limited edition item, so if you want one, you had better hop to it! We’ll be sharing our in depth reviews, as well as the best Cricut Expression 2 sales, deals, and discounts we can find!

Note: The Cricut E 2 does NOT print like the Cricut Imagine, it only cuts. So if you have a Cricut Imagine already, you probably don't need to rush and buy one of these when they are hot off the presses.

Cricut Craftroom

Additionally, many users will be excited about this, Provocraft is launching a new online design website called Cricut Craftroom. It will work on a PC AND ON A MAC!! Access to the site will be free, and we are sure it will provide ways to share your creations and meet new likeminded scrappers! Finally, a real social network for scrapbookers!

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So you thought the large Cricut Cake Machine was good? Well think again! Introducing the Cricut Cake Mini! Good things come in small packages my friends... Provo Craft just announced that they were miniaturizing their already amazing Cricut cake machine to be more portable and more affordable than ever. Now you can make your edible works of art easier than ever. Make it Special. Make it Perfect. Make it with Mini!

The perfect companion for every occasion just got a bit smaller. The Cricut Cake Mini offers the same high quality and tasty results as it’s big brother the Cricut Cake while using less space in your kitchen so you have more room for those giant cakes!

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What Is New With The Cricut Cake Mini?

You will get precise professional looking results ever time you create something special for an event, holiday, or just for fun. Just imagine all the fun delicious Cricut Cake projects you can come up with and share with your friends and family! The Cricut Cake Mini works with al the cricut and cricut cake cartridges and is half the size! This machine is specifically designed to cut smaller embellisments and designs for professional looking cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and confections in no time flat! The machine can cut gum paste, fondant, pie crust, and much more. Just choose a shape, a size, and press Cut! It couldn’t be more simple. The result is a beautiful, precise, and consistent result every time. Now you can decorate like a pro no sweat!

This is still a pretty new product, but you can find some great deals and discounts on the Cricut Cake Mini online. We’ve found a few for you to start to enjoy. Otherwise, you’ll have to go to your local Jo Ann Fabrics to pick one of these babies up!

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The Cricut Imagine is the latest scrapbooking machine to be released by Cricut, it’s a tool designed to be used by artists at home or by professional designers at the studio office. The machine is an updated version of the Cricut Expression that allows is a high performance cutting and printing machine to make albums and showcase collections quicker and easier than ever. The Cricut Imagine lets the designer or the home scrapper cut and adjust page layouts professionally and with finesse.

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Imagine cutting out letters and numbers to size and without nicks, let alone the tremendous savings in time since the machine is easy to use and performs as expected without rips and tears. When creating layouts for a design, the Cricut Imagine gives you the freedom to change parts, alter size to achieve your perfect finished look, professionally and quickly. The really exciting features include the ability to create multi-colored designs in just one cut. You get total control over patterns, layers, and all the design elements. The new touch screen puts all the controls right at your fingertips. 3D effects, space saving, no computer needed, compatible with the Cricut Gypsy and all Cricut cartridges, and more!

The Cricut Imagine machine has fewer parts than the older Cricut Expression and is more streamlined to work for a professional designer while also being inexpensive enough for the home designer of albums and scrapbooks. Making a collage using the Cricut Imagine would be a great project to start out with and super simple with the booklet included and the ease of functionality. The Cricut Imagine is a designer layout tool that was built on a similar platform as Cricut’s previous die cutting machines. The Imagine machine is well built and inexpensive with features that can produce a professional exhibit for a designer or create a portfolio for a beginner layout artist. The ease of function and simple operation opens so many new doors, which is why it’s got a new name: Imagine. All you need to do is to imagine the layout you want and start cutting.

Useful for arts and crafts projects in schools as well as at home, the Cricut Imagine will provide hours of activity that is both constructive and artistic. Meant for the professional as well as for the amateur who builds scrapbooks, albums, posters and other exhibits for fun or work. Just Imagine the possibilities!

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Cricut Cake is the latest product to be released by Provo Craft. The new Cricut Cake is a great way to make your cakes possitively amazing while saving you money, time, and space! Mark those special occasions in your life with a work of art cake, whether its a wedding cake, anniversary cake, birthday cake, or any other event!

The Cricut Cake allows beginning decorators to add lettering, patterns, and custom decorations to any cake quickly and easily. Easily make monograms or anything else as well with no cost involved! Roll out the gum paste, put it on the Cricut Mat, load it into the Cricut Cake and push a single button! Provo Craft even offers Cricut Cake Decorator Sheets to get you started in your new cake decoration obsession. It can be an asset to your business, or a new hobby to impress all your friends and neighbors.

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Cricut Cake Cartridges

The Cricut Cake can use all available Cricut cartridges to make your new edible designs. Now you can decorate your cake and eat it too! Just imagine the world of creative decorations you can add to make that cake even more special. Customize any cake quickly and easily for themed parties and more! There are plenty of fonts and Cricut Cake cartridges available as well from flowing cursive script to calligraphy and fun lettering. It doesn’t take much experience to decorate a cake with this machine, just an imagination! The Cricut Cake Basics cartridge comes packed with the machine. This cartridge has all kinds of perfect designs for decorating cakes from birds and flowers to hearts and many beautiful flowing designs and accents.

How To Use The Cricut Cake Machine

Wondering how do I use the Cricut Cake machine? It couldn’t be easier, just take your cake cutting mat, either one of the Cricut Cake cutting mats or a traditional Cricut Cutting mat with all the sticky paste taken off (you can do this easily by using a little nail polish remover and warm water and rubbing it down in the sink) and lay the gum paste flat. Dial in your designs, and push cut. It will cut your cake designs just like a regular Cricut Expression machine will. A nice trick is using multiple layers of gum paste on the Cricut Cake cutting mat. Cut a nice deep design, and you can then pull the pieces up to make 3d effects that pop out of the cake!

Keep your Cricut Cake Cutting Blades Sharp!

Since gum paste is a little sticky, you are going to want to make sure your cutting blades are as sharp as possible on your cake cutting machine. It’s always good to have an extra set of Cricut cake replacement blades in case you need to make a quick swap in the middle of your project.

We think the new Cricut Cake machine has a lot to offer to already established cake making businesses, but also will open the way for creative people to start their own cake making and decorating business to make money at home easily and enjoyably!

Stay tuned as we keep you updated on this exciting new device. We will be posting all the Cricut Cake sales, discounts, and deals we can find to help get you started for as little as possible!

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There are new Blue and Red Cricut expression Machines hitting the shelves! We just knew these colored Expression machines were going to be a huge hit. It started with the pink cricut expression, moved onto the baby blue cricut expression (note: there are two different blue cricut expression machines, one with just the highlights blue, and the other with the entire body blue), and now we have fully colored Red and Blue Cricut expression machines!

This trend is very exciting, and we are loving it! There's nothing like having your own personalized expression machine with its own unique color. These new red Cricut expression machines are entirely red, not just the highlights anymore! Totally shiny plastic and stunningly decorated, these guys are a must have if you don't already have your own Cricut die cutting machine!

Who knows, maybe you will even be inspired to print up some of your own adhesive vinyl designs and decorate your new blue or red machine to make it even more personalized! These special edition Expression machines come with both the Serenade Cricut Solutions cartridge and the Plantin SchoolBook font cartridge.

While these guys are extremely cool, they are exactly the same as the original Cricut Expression, so if you already have one then perhaps you won't be quite as excited about this. Or maybe you'll be like us and wish you could buy one!

Well, either way, we are loving all the new additions to the Cricut lineup and can't wait to see what they come out with next! We personally are very excited for the Batman and Superman Cricut cartridges that are going to be released soon!

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If you are looking for a new Cricut Expression project or idea, why not consider doing some Vinyl lettering on your Cricut? Making adhesive wall vinyl shapes, designs, and letters is a great way to decorate your house and your kids bedrooms.

Don't worry about the vinyl dulling your Cricut Expression cutting blades either, in fact many people have had to dial the pressure back so that it doesn't ripple and damage the material itself. There are so many cool options that using vinyl opens up to you. From inspirational phrases on your office walls to welcoming messages in your kitchen and bedrooms. You can smile every morning as you enjoy your cup of coffee and read off the inspirational quotations you have put up around your house.

With a little creativity you could easily make your kitchen and dining room every bit as trendy as Starbucks! Get yourself a single cup coffee maker that brews Starbucks coffee and it will be just like you are in your very own personal cafe!

How To Cut Vinyl using the Cricut Expression Machine

First you put the vinyl sheet on your cutting mat and load it into the the Expression machine. Make sure you are using the correct cutting mat size! You cut the vinyl numbers or letters just like you were cutting paper, no need to dial up the pressure at all. Blade depth should be 6 and the pressure can be 2-3 depending on the kind of vinyl. Lay out your design and press cut... it’s that simple. If you are using static vinyl, then it won’t be sticky nor will it stick to walls. The adhesive vinyl will peel off nicely. The paper cut settings will give the vinyl a “kiss cut” which will cut the material without cutting through the backing.

Applying Vinyl Lettering With Transfer Tape

Next you can take your transfer tape (if you are using this) and place it gently over the freshly cut shapes. Once you have the tape correctly positioned burnish the tape with an applicator stick with overlapping strokes beginning in the center.

Applying the Vinyl should always be done on a clean and dry wall or surface. Make sure the cleaner you use doesn’t leave a film or residue! Gently position the transfer tape and vinyl where you want it first to make sure it’s in the correct position. Once it’s there just use your applicator stick one more time to burnish the transfer tape with overlapping strokes. Finally you gently pull back the tape at a forty five degree angle while being careful that the vinyl doesn’t start peeling away with it. If it does, put the tape back and burnish away.

Applying Cricut Vinyl Without Transfer Tape

Applying Cricut Expression Vinyl cuts without transfer tape is as simple as peel and stick. It’s good to use a guideline of some sort, whether it’s your husbands laser level or a pencil mark on your walls. Carefully peel the stickers off and apply them. Once you are done, you can use the vinyl lining/backing and put it against the lettering on the wall. Use your applicator stick to burnish this and press the vinyl firmly into place without damaging the actual cuts.

Now sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor with a nice warm cup of coffee or tea!

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The YourStory product from Provo Craft is a thermal book binding a creation center which is perfect for scrap bookers of virtually any age. It is the perfect starter kit with regards to beginning scrap booking and allows you to do so much almost immediately. You can even get a YourStory kit that comes complete with a variety of covers, art and of course lettering which will help you get well on your way to creating your first and of course many more scrap books over the years.

The thermal book binding capabilities of the YourStory allows you to make use of laminating covers in order to seal your scrap book in plastic that will help it to stay good for many, many years. The machine itself is also capable of binding the books and with the help of the kits; you can in fact create an entire scrap book with ease.

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Of course you can always build a scrap book the old fashioned way; by hand. But not everyone has the artistic capabilities of cutting out each of the letters and shapes and you still have the issue of not being able to bind the scrap book by hand. This is why so many people have begun to make use of scrap booking equipment such as the YourStory and many other products which are made available through Provo Crafts.

The YourStory system allows you to build, bind and laminate scrap books up to 12 inches square which give you plenty of space to do all sorts of unique and interesting things. While there are many other alternatives available today, only Provo Craft has continued to make some of the finest equipment especially made for the scrap booker in all of us. Even if you are not wanting the YourStory for scrap booking, the capabilities of both binding as well as thermal lamination makes this product perfect for many other situations as well.

So whether you are an up and coming scrap booker or just love to make your own books, the YourStory book binding and thermal lamination machine will help make your hobby a more enjoyable and easier one. The less time you have to spend worrying about how to protect and bind your books, the more time you can spend on creating and living the experiences which will be stored within the book forever.

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*Update: Be sure to note that there are now TWO version of the Blue Cricut Expression Machine. There is the special edition bundle pack with the blue trim highlights and the custom decal on the back, and there is also the entirely blue version with the whole plastic casing being different colors of blue. Both are stunning!

Have you all seen the new blue Cricut Expression machine yet? We are loving the new trend in colorizing the Cricut Expression machines! Just a couple weeks after the Pink Cricut Expression hit the shelves, now there is a blue version that matches the YourStory machine! (update: now there is a new red cricut expression machine that has been released as well)

This limited edition Blue Cricut Expression bundle has beautiful blue trim in it, and a has a very beautiful floral decal on the back as well. It comes bundled with two special Cricut cartridges: The Accent Essential Shape Cartridge and the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. Reportedly, this special edition isn't going to be available in any brick and mortar stores any time soon. The only place you can get it is online! Here are the best deals we could find on eBay just for you:

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Where is all of this Cricut colorization going to stop? We are loving the new trend in making much more personal Expression machines. We'd love to see the same thing with the Cricut Create as well. This is a great way to make your arts and crafts much more personal, and isn't that just the whole point of crafting in the first place? Colored Cricut Expressions are going to be super hot this holiday season, we are sure of that. Who wouldn't want one of these adorable machines!

We are all so hard at work on our crafts that often we overlook the one thing that is making it all possible! Has anybody else customized their Cricut expression machines? If so, let us know and we'll feature you on our website! We'd love to see some custom decorations, paint jobs, decals, and whatever other zany things you all can think of!

Check out this great video reviewing the new Blue Cricut Expression:

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Ever wanted to use your Cricut Expression while you were away from home and away from a power outlet? Is it hard to find an outlet at your crafting fairs or at a craft booth? (why don't they give those things more outlets anyway...) Do you want a cool, green, and efficient way to power your electronic devices while you are on the go?

Well if you have ever found yourself wishing you could do any of those things, then you might want to look into the new Gobe Power Hub and accompanying Solar Briefcase.

The Gobe Power Hub is a super cool little device that is released by the company called GoBe Solar. Essentially is a powerful battery you can charge up and take with you anywhere. It is state of the art and reliable. Anybody can use it as a portable energy source, and it packs a ton of power into a relatively small space!

It will keep a normal laptop running for up to 6 hours, a dvd player running for almost 14 hours, and it can keep your Cricut cutting machines running for up to 6 hours! That's plenty long enough to get all your scrapbooking and crafting needs taken care of! It will keep your Cricut Gypsy running for up to 15 hours as well!

Don't worry if it runs out of juice though. You can recharge it with the accompanying Solar Briefcase. Just place the solar paneled briefcase in the sun for a few hours, and it will charge up your GoBe just like new. It takes 10 hours to get a full charge. You can also charge the GoBe in a normal outlet, and that will only take one hour to reach maximum capacity. Also, if you are looking for some presents for men, then this little guy can power all of his devices as well while you guys are out and about. It's a pretty cool gift for anybody!

Now you can power your Cricut and other crafting devices no matter where you are. Check it out, it's pretty cool!

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