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The winner of the Letterpress is………….

Robin Caldwell, her comment was posted as follow,

Comment:
I would love to win this as blog candy.  I have been “lusting” after the letterpress for quite a while, but with the economy the way it is, I have been cutting way back on “non essential” purchases.  I am crossing my fingers and hoping to benefit from your generosity!!!  Wish me luck.  Rockin Robin Caldwell

Robin, I have sent you an e-mail, please send me your address.

Happy New Year!!!!  I can not believe that another year has come and gone.  I am thankful for my family, friends and all the blessings that I have received this past year.  I hope that 2010 finds you in good health with lots of happiness.  Today is the 1 year anniversary of mycricutscrapbooking.com.  I am thankful for each of you for stopping by and spending a little time here.

I have decided to celebrate this past year by having a give away.  The give away is 2 parts.  1 winner will win the entire blog candy give away.

Part 1

Yesterday I was shopping at Michaels and I came across the Sizzix Texture Boutique.  I have the Sizzix Big Kick that I just love but decided since I had a 50% off coupon and the machine came with a bunch of new folders that I would get it.

I LOVE this little machine and so does my daughter.  We had so much fun doing this together.  I cut the paper and made the sandwich and she turns the crank.  My sister stopped by today to wish us a Happy New Year and my daughter had a blast showing her how to use it.

This machine is so cute!

Here are the folders it comes with.

and more

In case you are wondering…. cuttlebug folders do work in it.

Here is a 5×7 christmas folder

Here is an A2 folder

I have some older Sizzix embossing folders and they work great as well.

Part 1 of the blog candy is this, brand new in the box, Sizzix Texture Boutique with 10 Bonus embossing folders.  (The pictures above opened were of my machine, yours will be sent new in box, unopened.

Part 2

The second part of the blog candy give away is your choice *up to 800 point value* of 1 cartridge that is currently available on the www.cricutrewards.com site.   You can pick the cartridge as long as it is in stock, I will order it and once it is delivered, will mail it to you.  Due to the time that it takes to get the cartridge from the rewards program the Sizzix Boutique will be mailed first and once the cartridge is received it will be mailed in a second package.

Rules

Please share one of (leave 1 comment on this post) your favorite cricut projects, experiences or story from the past year.

One of my memories from the past year that is a favorite is on a Sunday, I was working on my computer creating a svg.  I finished it and wanted to test cut it.  My daughter and son were standing on the couch looking at me (my desk is in the living room behind the couch) I told my son that mommy was going to cricut.  He got a huge smile on his face and said cric-cut, and would giggle and laugh.  My daughter said she wanted to cric-cut too!  I put a cartridge in and loaded the mat for her and let her push the button.  She was so proud of the Hello Kitty head that she cut and ran to show daddy that she cric-cutted.

I will read through the comments and choose 1 winner on January 9th.  Due to excessive international shipping cost this blog candy is United States shipping only, sorry.

Here is a Happy New Year svg to cut on your cricut.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I hope that everyone has a safe and happy one.  I have already done some shopping online.  I am so surprised that places like the Boston Store, Old Navy, Joanns and Office Max have  a lot of the deals online and in store and some of them have already activated there online sales already.

I stopped by our local Wal-Mart to pick up some Christmas Tree lights.  I had a chance to check out the specials that they have already set up.  They either were wrapped in plastic or had caution tape around them stating that it was not for sale until tomorrow.  To avoid what happened last year they have decided to keep Wal-Marts that were not open 24 hours open tonight all night.  My sister had told me that but our Wal–Mart never had any signs up saying they would remain open but today the cashier confirmed that they were staying open all night.  I think that there will be a lot of disappointed people tomorrow because our store does not have very many of the big ticket items.  There was 5 of the microwaves.  There were only of few of the Xbox and PS3.  There was 4 of the brother sewing machines.  I was most interested in the toys.  They were a lot of mixed pallets out.   A few of each toy piled up.  I think that they are going to sell out very early.  We are going to go with the mindset that we get what we get and if not, that’s okay.  They only had one pallet of cricut machines.  I think that there was only between 4 of each color and the cricut cartridges display was not out yet.

Today after dinner I went to Michaels to to check out there Thanksgiving day sale.  There was about 40 people in line already by the time I got there.  When the door finally opened there was a mad rush for the cricut display.  They had lots and lots of cartridges.  Most of them were the Sweat Treats, Pagoda, Old West, Paisley and Designer’s Calendar.  The unexpected deal was the cricut personal.  Michaels had it listed in the paper for $97.99 and at the store they have reduced the price to $69.99.  I think that they did it to avoid having to keep price matching Joann’s $74.99

I picked up one of  the cartridges that I did not have yet (Pagoda).  Designer’s Calendar and Old West were a gift from my friend.

It will be exciting to play with them.

I decided since the cartridges were such a great deal that I would be giving 1 away on my blog.  The cartridge that I decided to give away is…………………

The Sweet Treats cricut cartridge!!!!!  I love this cartridge.  It is brand new and in the package.  To enter, please leave a comment on this post stating which cricut cartridge is your favorite and why.  Only 1 comment per person please.   A winner will be selected via random.org on Friday December 4th.

Happy Saturday morning everyone.  The winner of the $50.00 gift certificate is……

Linda Jones:

It’s amazing that I found this website. Ohmycrafts.com is my favorite place to shop for crafting. Their prices are the best on the net, even better than most ebay sales!
Hubby bought me my christmas present from ohmycrafts and 1/2 of it has already arrived! The cricut design studio was on backorder so they have to ship it out seperate. I simple can’t wait for christmas so I can play!
I received the expression for my 50th birthday in August and was disappointed because I couldn’t cut the shapes the sizes that I want. I’m hoping the design studio will fix that. I am a very new newbie to the cricut.
Your website is so clear and easy to browse. I love the layout you chose and your header is simply adorable! The colors are perfect and easy on the eyes.
I have posted your link on my blog under ‘Blogs I Visit’

Thank you for the give-away chance.
****IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK ALOT LIKE CHIRISTMAS****

Congratulations Linda, I hope you get some new cool things for your cricut and scrapbooking hobby.  Linda, I have sent you an e-mail.  Please respond to it so I know that you received it and I got to the right place and then I will send you the certificate number.  A big thank you for everyone who posted a comment and stopped by mycricutscrapbooking.com

***Give Away is (1) $50.00 OhMyCrafts.Com Gift Certificate

Okay, it’s not Christmas yet but It really does feel like Christmas today.  I have a new blog look (just for the holidays) and the Cricut Design Stuidio and the Gypsy updates came out yesterday.  There are so many enhancements that I am saving them for a different post.  I received Very Merry Tags, When It’s Cold Outside and Snow Friends cricut cartridges that I ordered from OhMyCrafts.com.  They were in my mailbox Monday when I checked it before work.  Boy, I would have checked the mail a lot sooner if I had known they were waiting for me!  I just got the shipping notice the same day they came in.  I paid for first class postage and they were sent priority.  They are sooooo cute!

The picture above was used for reference only.  The give away is 1 $50.00 gift certificate for ohmycrafts.com.

I wanted to have one last give away for the year on my blog.  I could not decide if I wanted to give out the three cartridges up above, or the Imaginisce I-top or even the YourStory machine.  I love them all so what I have decided to do is give away (1) $50.00 gift certificate for www.ohmycrafts.com and you can order what ever you would like!

If you would like to enter into the drawing please leave a comment on this post.

You can also enter a second comment if you do ONE of the following.

1.  Post a link back to this blog give away on your own blog.

2.  Post a link to my blog give away (where you have proper permission) on a message board, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter or similar service.  (If a message board already has a link back to this post bumping of the post will be considered a post and you may post a second comment.)

Max of 2 comments allowed per person.  I will choose a winner on Saturday November 14th using random.org.  The second entry requirements will be verified if your second chance entry is chosen.  I have already purchased the gift card.  The gift certificate code will be e-mailed to the winner and you will be able to shop right away!

**I have no affiliation with OhMyCrafts**

Good luck to all, and if you have any questions about this give away, please send me an e-mail at beth@mycricutscrapbooking.com.

Hi Everyone.

I chose the 2 winners today.  There are 107 comments.  Comment poster #1 is #1 and so on, the last person to comment is # 107.  The winners were chosen via random.org.

Paula Lee and Becky are the 2 lucky winners.  I am sending you an e-mail, please respond with your chosen colors.

Thank you

Beth

Hi Everyone,

I think that it is time to give away something again.  I think that I will give away some more Vinyl.  I have 9 fabulous colors.

I have Yellow, Turquoise and Metallic Gold (all three pictured above)  *Not pictured* White, black, pink, purple, red and 2 different colors of blue.  The winner will receive (5) 12 x 24 sheets of Oracal Exhibition 631 vinyl.  This is the same vinyl as sold by Provocraft.  I will allow the winner to pick the 5 colors of there choice but it has to be 1 sheet of each color.  Example… you could not choose all Turquoise or all Metallic Gold.  Transfer tape or application stick are not included because I order my Vinyl by the roll and use a craft stick (Popsicle sticks work fine) that I bought from Michael’s and a roll of clear contact paper that I bought at Wal-Mart.  The vinyl will be sent priority mail with a tracking #.  All you have to do to be included in the drawing is leave a comment on this post.  The contest will close on next Thursday September 24th at midnight.  I will choose a winner Friday September 25th using random.org.  If I receive more then 25 entries, I will add a second set of vinyl and 2 winners will be chosen.

I think that my favorite vinyl color is the Metallic Gold.  I want to cut some Christmas ornaments out with it. It really is a beautiful color in person.  The picture does not do it justice.

The winner of the cricut cuttables is Lorna.  Congratulations Lorna.

Awhile ago I had some 50% off coupons for Joann’s so I decided to buy some custom cricut embossing folders.  I just got around to trying them tonight.  It was more difficult then I thought.  I read the directions very carefully and still my first attempt went straight to the garbage.

I tried to do a grouping of rose buds from the Walk In My Garden Cartridge.  The directions say to use blade depth 6, Speed 3, Pressure 5 and multi cut 2.  I followed the directions to a T.  It looked pretty good when I removed it from the mat.  

Step 2 is to remove the outside paper around the design.  Which came off wonderfully.  Then you put it in the emobssing folder and run it through your embossing machine, (I use the the big kick) and then you are suppose to open the folder and remove the design part from the back.  The problem is that the cut did not go all the way through so on the back it was just a solid blank sheet.  It was not going to come off properly.  The instructions say multi cut 2, but even with a brand new mat and blade it did not cut through even a tiny bit.  

I decided to try again with a less complicated design so I used the heart from the Weddings cartridge.  I set the multi cut on 4 hoping that would do the trick. 

It cut out wonderfully but when I lifted it off the mat the back was not cut at all.  So I removed the outer front paper and adhered it as directions indicated.  Then I used my Martha Stewart knife and basically cut the paper portion of it by hand.  It turned out okay this way but I don’t understand why the cricut would not cut through it even on 4 multi cut.  Next time I will do the 4x multi cut 2x and see if that makes a difference.

This is what I ended up with.

Here is a sheet of paper that I embossed.

The embossing design did turn out well.  I did waste a few piece of paper the first couple times I embossed with the folder.  It is a little sticky from the left over residue and you have to pull the paper off the folder and it gets little waves it in.  

There is one tip that I can give though that really helped me.  I took a rectangle from the George cart and sized it to the same size of the cuttables page which is 4.25×5.75 and then put my design in the middle.  That way I knew exactly how my project would work and where to put the cuttables on my cricut mat when it was time to cut.  Then I just deleted the rectangle before cutting.

If this is something that you want to try then read on.  I am giving away 1 Cricut Cuttables Embossing Kit and 1 Cricut Cuttables Embossing Sheet Refills.  You will end up with 1 embossing folder and 5 sheets of cuttables.  Just leave a comment on this post and the winner will be chosen on Sunday May 24th.  I will post the winner here as well as e-mail you.  You will have 3 days to respond or another winner will be chosen. 

I hope everyone is having a terrific Mother’s day.  I am having an awesome day.  My husband made me blueberry pancakes with cool whip topping for breakfast.  I got three really awesome cards from my two children and husband.  My husband got me flowers and I also get to pick some stuff out from www.ohmycrafts.com.  I am thinking of getting the 10 pack of vinyl but I have not decided yet.  Later after the kids go to sleep I will spend some time picking out what I want.  They have free shipping or 15% off on a $75.00 purchase right now.  

I also had a chance to pick the name of the winner of the cricut markers.  The lucky winner is….. Ann Stahmer.  If you are the Ann Stahmer I have sent you an e-mail.  Please respond with your shipping information by Wednesday 05/13/09.  I can not tell you how much I appreciate all the awesome comments that people have left on my blog… thank you all very much.