Pick Your Plum Grab Box Time

Get yours here Pick Your Plum is a fun daily deals site. Every so often they offer a “grab box” packed full (and they really really mean packed) fun surprise items. The Pick Your Plum Grab Box is now available, but you have to hurry because they usually sell out within the hour!!! The first 300 customers will get...

Resetting your Cricut Expression

Has your blade ever dragged across your design? Is your Cricut suddenly not working correctly? If your machine freezes, experiences power problems, cutting issues, or anything out of the ordinary, this reset procedure is a good place to start the troubleshooting process. Nine times out of ten, this reset procedure...

Silhouette Studio tutorial on tracing images and logos

In this Silhouette Studio tutorial, I teach you how to trace a logo for a company that has hired you to work for them. I also give you some tricks for when the image gives you problems. ...

Cricut Design Space update for April 22, 2015

This update includes the follow new features: Updated Design Space to support Cricut Explore One. When an Explore One is connected, Design Space will prompt the user to change between pens, the scoring tool, and the blade housing as needed. (The pen and its adapter for the Explore One will be sold separately.) Insert...

Etsy is now officially on Nasdaq

Sure hope this is a good thing for Etsy sellers!!! Check out my Etsy shop here Bell ringing ceremony is here  ...

Changing settings in Google Chrome (42) to work with Design Space

 If you have updated to Chrome version 42 or higher In Chrome, type the following address in the address field: chrome://flags/#enable-npapi Don't worry about this warning: You will see a long list of "experiments". Find and click the link to Enable NPAPI. This image shows you how far down on the screen...

Silhouette Studio print and cut troubleshooting links

Some people have a super easy time with the Silhouette Studio print and cut features, others want to tear their hair out and toss the machines out the window. Below is a list of links to troubleshooting tips on Silhouette's web site that should get you up and running.  Instructions for using the print and...

Converting Silhouette Studio files to SVG files in Windows

I have received so many requests to show how this is done in Windows! In this tutorial, I teach you how to convert Silhouette Studio files to SVG format in Windows. ...

Accessing additional options in software

Whenever you see triangles beside icons or menu items, it means that additional options are available.   In this post, I am showing SCAL4, but the same principle applies to all software programs.  To choose additional options when an icon displays a triangle with additional options, just hold...

Adding nodes to or deleting nodes from existing shapes in SCAL4

Have you had a hard time adding nodes to existing shapes in Sure Cuts a Lot. I'm not surprised because it is a bit tricky, but in this video, I show you how to add and delete nodes and why it doesn't seem to be working, which is what I thought at first. Plus symbol lets you add a node     Minus...

Walking Dead Pocket Letter Swap

I am working on a pocket letter swap and the theme for this swap is The Walking Dead. My swap partner and I both like Daryl Dixon the best so we are both working on pages with images of him. The name of the show is perfect for a knockout design so that is what I am including in my pocket letter. Since I have the file...

Convert your Silhouette Studio files to SVG format

In this Silhouette Studio tutorial, I teach you how to convert Silhouette Studio files into SVG format files using Sure Cuts a Lot (SCAL), Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator. ...

Unicode Character Viewer for using Samantha font in Design Space for iPad

The Unicode Character Viewer is actually an iPhone app, not an iPad app, but it will work on your iPad and will allow you to select the extra characters in the Samantha font in the Cricut Design Space app. The video below shows the two apps you need for this and how they are used. Some people have written me...

Enabling cut lines in Silhouette Studio

In this quick written tutorial, I am going to teach you how to turn on the cut lines in Silhouette Studio version 3. When you first open an SVG file in Silhouette Studio, the image looks like this: Cut lines are always displayed as bold red lines so you can see that there are no cut lines in the text cutting...