Don't forget about this giveaway!!!



In this Cricut Design Space tutorial, I teach you how you can create a text-on-text knockout effect without have to do each of the letters individually.



If you are a card maker, you will want to know how to resize any envelope.

In this Cricut Design Space 2 tutorial, I teach you how to resize envelopes to fit any card size.




If you have been bitten by the Samantha bug, this will be right up your alley.

In this Cricut Design Space iPad app tutorial, I describe the two iPad apps I used to install the Samantha font (and others) on my iPad and to choose the special characters (glyphs).

 





You are going to love it!!!!

The video below explains how the plugin is installed, but I don't think many people will need the video!



In this Cricut tutorial, I show you how easy it is to set up the original Explore with the bluetooth adapter to work with the Design Space iPad app. No more excuses. Get those machines set up and let's play!!!



If you want to see what all the excitement is about, check out my video below where I show you how easy peesy it is to set up the Cricut Explore Air with the Design Space iPad app.

Note that both the Explore Air and iPad app will be launched early next week.

Join us at I LUV my Cricut for the HSN launch and tons of giveaways all this weekend and into next week. We are giving away coupons for SVG files, bluetooth adapters for the original Explore AND an Explore Air!!!!





 
In this Silhouette tutorial, I teach you how to split the screen so you can see your design area and the image of the finished project in the Silhouette store.
 
 

We are so excited about the launch of the Cricut Explore Air and we want you to be as excited as we are. On the night of the HSN launch, we will be running a giveaway in our launch party event.

One lucky group member will win an Explore Air, which is the same as the current Explore, but has built-in bluetooth. We will also have two bluetooth adapters to give away. These can be added to the current Explore to give it the same capabilities as the Explore Air.

Full details are in the I LUV my Cricut group. Look for the Explore Air HSN Launch Party Giveaway event.

The Rafflecopter form below is the one you need to complete as part of the entry in the contest.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

In anticipation of the imminent launch of the new Cricut Design Space, I am giving away a $75 coupon to my Etsy shop in which you can choose many different SVG files that you can cut with your Explore.

You can use the coupon to pay for existing files and fonts, or you can use it to pay for custom designs. You can even use part of the coupon to pay for my Commercial License so that you can use the designs to make items you sell.

To enter, you will need to click on the Rafflecopter giveaway form below and then follow the instructions. You must be subscribed (new or existing subscriber) to my YouTube channel to win and this is the requirement in the Rafflecopter giveaway.

The contest will run until midnight on February 18 to coincide with the HSN launch of the Cricut Explore Air, the new Design Space and the iPad app for Design Space.

Good luck everybody!!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The latest version of SCAL4 (4.0.13) has a built-in text knockout function and this is the easiest way to achieve this effect yet.

The video below shows you how easy this is.


Someone in my SCAL group was asking how this is done.

The video below explains the process.


I am giving away one license code for the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition.

All you need to do is enter below. Good luck everybody!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway
I have been asking about and searching for the answer to this forever, so now that I found it, I had to share it.

The icons on the toolbars in CorelDRAW are very tiny and I wanted to increase the size to make it easier to see them while I'm working. Finally!!!! I found the answer to this by accident today and it's so easy ... of course!





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