New cartridges for May are:  Event-Over the Hill, Event-Tablescapes - Spring & Summer, Wildcard 2, Project-Pretty Pennants, Project-Paper Play, Imagine-Spring Chic, Imagine-To The Cabin.
New Cricut Craft Room cartridges are:  Father's Day Fan Club, Father's Day Daddy, Father's Day Best Dad Ever, Father's Day Mountain Man, Father's Day Dear Old Dad.Sales this week are:
AC Moore - Cartridges are $19.99, 24.99, 29.99, and 34.99 depending upon the original price; ArtBin cartridge boxes are $10; ArtBin magnetic die boxes are $10; photo boxes are 5 for $10.

News and Sales week of April 8

New digital cartridges for the Cricut Craft Room (CCR) announced this week are:  Mother's Day Kids Cards, Mother's Day Coupon Book, Mother's Day Phrases, Mother's Day Moments, Mother's Day 3D Corsage.

Hobby Lobby has Cricut accessories 30% off through April 14, 2012.
Joanns has Cricut Project/Event cartridges on sale for $24.99.

Sales and New CCR Designs

New Cricut Craft Room (CCR) Designs announced this week are:  City People, City Buildings, City Transportation, City Icons, 3DCones.
Sales this week:
AC Moore has the Cricut Mini Machine for $99 and cartridges for $36.99. Smash books are on sale for 30% off. AC Moore has a coupon for Moonlight Madness tonight from 6-9pm for 20% off your entire purchase, including sale items.
JoAnns has select cartridges for $29.99, online only.

Sales

If you are looking for a cartridge with a Cricut head on it, Car Decals has one and the Michaels in Northeast Columbia has about 20 cartridges in stock and they are on clearance for $19.99 each.

www.cricutmachine.com is having a St. Patrick's Day sale for the next 72 hours with a lot of cartridges $14.99-29.99. They also have the 4 new cartridges from March in stock for $49.99 each.

New Blog Pages and New Cartridges

I already had the Cartridge Graveyard page available, so I decided that I should add pages for a Cartridge Nursery and CCR digital images nursery. You can find the links for the pages at the top of my blog. New cartridges are announced each month on the 3rd Thursday. New Cricut Craft Room digital cartridges are announced on other Thursdays of the month.

New Cricut Cartridges for March are:

March 2012
Paper Dolls Teen Scene
Imagine-Contemporary Nature
Project-Chip Decor (Hobby Lobby exclusive)
Seasonal-Spring Cottage
Art Deco

Black Friday 2011

Black Friday Sales

Here's what I have found out so far on Black Friday sales. I'll update this if I find out more.

Walmart (Cricut items are on sale starting Thursday at 10pm through Friday)

• Cricut Imagine machine with 2 bonus cartridges $187

AC Moore (Open Thursday from 4pm-9pm, Friday from 6am-10pm, Saturday 8am-10pm).

• Cricut Cartridges $28.88 (Friday-Saturday doorbuster)
• Cricut Expression 2 machine with 4 preloaded cartridges $168.88 (cartridges not listed, but probably are Cricut American Alphabet, Cricut Essentials, Cricut Decals, Just a Note(Friday 5am-noon; after noon it will be $199.99)
• Cricut v1 machine $69.99 (Friday doorbuster - 5:30am-9pm only) 

• Michaels (Open Thursday from 4pm-10pm, Friday from 5am-9:30pm, Saturday 8am-9:30pm).
• Cricut Cartridges $26.99 (regularly $59.99--$1 cheaper than last year) (Thursday-Saturday)
• First 25 customers to buy 2 Cricut Cartridges will get Jubilee cartridge for free
• Cricut Expression 2 machine with 4 preloaded cartridges $199.99 (cartridges not listed, but probably are Cricut American Alphabet, Cricut Essentials, Cricut Decals, Just a Note (Thursday-Saturday)
• Cricut v1 machine $69.99 (Friday doorbuster - 5am-9:30pm only)

 JoAnns (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

• $159.99 Expression, $89.99 Cricut Cake Mini machine, $26.99 Cricut Cartridges (doorbuster, Friday all day)
• Cricut Cartridges - Buy 2 cartridges plus 1 Artbin Cartridge Storage Bin, get $12.49 rebate by mail
• $229.99 Expression, $18.99 Cricut Project and Event Cartridges (doorbuster, Saturday all day)

Scrapbook Utopia (Friday and Saturday) Reward Cards may NOT be redeemed during this sale.

• Spend $25.00, save 10% ($2.50).
• Spend $50.00, save 20% ($10.00).
• Spend $75.00, save 30% ($22.50).

The Stamping Place (November 21-27, closed Thursday and Friday, will be open on Sunday 10-5)

• 80% off all items in Clearance Area (recently re-stocked)
• 30% off all Valentine, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and 4^th of July patterned papers, embellishments and art stamps.
• 15% off remainder* of your purchase on Nov 21, 22 & 23
• 20% off remainder* of your purchase on Nov 26 & 27

Black Friday Tips

• Plan - research all the sales and make your plan of attack. Plan out what time you need to be at each store.
• Prepare - If you are going to any of the 5am sales, prepare before you go to bed (take your shower, choose your clothes, do everything you can possibly do the night before because 5am comes early).
• Go! - When the alarm goes off, get up and go! I find that it is best to get any Black Friday shopping done by lunch. Most people don't start until then.

October/November Cricut Classes

 

Hello, here is the October/November schedule of Cricut classes. The schedule through December is posted on my blog at http://hbeecomer.blogspot.com. There are alot of classes on the schedule to help you make Christmas presents, like glass etching, vinyl tile, fabric cutting, and shrink plastic. If you are interested in the classes or swarms, please call AC Moore at 407-5242 or register in the store. Make sure you get your class supply list or email me and I will send it to you. If you have any questions, just send me an email. Pictures of the class projects and supply lists can be found on my blog at http://hbeecomer.blogspot.com.

Cricut News
New Cartridges are: 'Tis the Season (Creative Memories); Cricut Lite Cartridges:  Sweater Weather, Pet Shop, Fast Food; Project Cartridge:  Stencil; Imagine Cartridges:  Santa's Village, Floral Emporium, Christmas Wish; Paper Trimmings (Cricut Circle); New Testament; Noah's ABC Animals (Michaels Exclusive); Go Canada (Canada Michaels Exclusive; Ribbons and Roses.

Retired Cartridges are:  Handyman, Savory, Billionaire, Block Party, Slumber Party, Chore Chart, Lovely Floral, Splish Splash. 

Remember:  The latest Gypsy update includes the Imagine app to make the Gypsy and Imagine work together. If you don't have an Imagine and don't want the app, uncheck the Imagine options when you update your Gypsy. Otherwise the update takes a very, very long time.

SCAL Users:  The firmware update from the Cricut Craft Room only software will upgrade your machine and make it not compatible with SCAL. The new Expression 2 machine is also not compatible with SCAL.

Cricut Craft Room:  The Craft Room is now available for everyone on www.cricut.com. This is like a web-based version of Design Studio/Gypsy. You have to be connected to the Internet to use it.

 

AC Moore News
Operation Write Home project - We made and collected over 100 cards for this program.

Expression 2 - the Expression 2 is now available at AC Moore.

Cartridges are on sale this week for $29.99.

AC Moore Schedule
Gypsy Basics - $30

Learn how to use the Gypsy handheld device with your Cricut machine. You will learn how to weld words together, cut words or images out of the middle of shapes, and make an object outline. We will make a scrapbook layout for our final project.

Sun. October 30, 1-4pm

 

Embellishing Your Cricut Projects - $20

Learn how to embellish your Cricut cuts with techniques like inking, distressing, pen stitching, and more. These techniques can also be used on your scrapbook pages and card designs. We'll make a tag book showing each technique so you'll have examples to refer to.

Sun. November 6, 4:30-6:30pm

 

Creating with Cricut - $30
You will learn all of the basics of the Cricut machine (Original and Expression) as well as how to get the most out of your cartridges in this hands-on class. We will make a scrapbook layout for our final project.
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Sun. November 6, 1-4pm

Sun. December 4, 1-4pm

 

Glass Etching with Cricut - $20

This hands-on class will teach you how to use your Cricut to make and use stencils for glass etching. We will do a practice project and a final project. Class price includes 1 piece of glass, glass etching cream and vinyl for stencils.

PRE-REQUISITE:  Creating with Cricut class.

Level:  Intermediate

Sun. December 18, 4:30-6:30pm

Cricut Design Studio - $30 - *Audit the class for $15
This hands-on class will teach you how to use the Design Studio software in conjunction with your Cricut machine (Original and Expression). You will learn how to weld words together, cut words or images out of the middle of shapes and make an object outline. We will make a scrapbook layout for our final project.
NOTE: A laptop and Cricut Design Studio software are needed for this class.
PRE-REQUISITE: Creating with Cricut class.
Level: Intermediate
*Don't have a laptop? Audit the class for $15
Sun. December 18, 1-4pm

 

Cricut Vinyl Tile - $20

This hands-on class will teach you how to use your Cricut to cut vinyl words and shapes and how to apply them to a decorative tile. These make great gifts! Class price includes one 12x12 inch tile and one 4x4 inch tile and black vinyl.
PRE-REQUISITE:  Creating with Cricut class.

Level:  Intermediate

Sun. October 30, 4:30-6:30pm

 

Cutting Fabric with Cricut - $20

This hands-on class will teach you how to cut fabric with your Cricut. Class price includes fabric and project materials.

PRE-REQUISITE:  Creating with Cricut class.

Level:  Intermediate

Sun. Nov. 13, 4:30-6:30pm

 

Cricut Shrink Plastic - $20

This hands-on class will teach you how to use your Cricut to cut shrink plastic to make jewelry charms. We will also learn how to use jump rings to add charms to bracelets or other jewelry. These make great gifts! Class price includes shrink plastic for charms, jump rings and a bracelet.

PRE-REQUISITE:  Creating with Cricut class.

Level:  Intermediate

Sun. Dec. 4, 4:30-6:30pm

 

Design Studio and Gypsy Updates
There are updates for Design Studio and the Gypsy with the September announced cartridge releases. Get the Design Studio update at http://www.cricut.com/CDS/Update.aspx. The Gypsy update has the same cartridges. Get the update by running your Cricut Sync software on your computer.