Blog Candy Cart, Free Directions, and a Video!

Hey Monday Lovers! (And the other 99% of you too, hehe.) I hope you all had a fantastic weekend! Last week sure was fun posting on Everyday Cricut. I'm amazed at how many new followers we have here on this blog!  The designers and I have a game plan for going forward. It seems that you all love getting to see new projects AND learning how to make them. So we'll work on showing you some projects with "recipes" so you can make them yourself and we'll also continue to show you our kits as they're released.

This week's blog candy is.... the Paisley cartridge!  This is a great cartridge - so fun and happy!!  To enter, just follow this blog and leave a comment on today's post.  Then come back each day this week to do the same.  BONUS ALERT!!  I will also give out one more prize this week, but you've gotta work for it (just barely).  Go to the "Cricut Kits" tab at the top of this blog and check out the new page with pics of all of our available kits.  Then include in your comment which one you would choose if you won your choice of any kit.  You've gotta name a kit to be entered for it.  That's it.  Good luck choosing!

I get a lot of questions about how the kits work, so here's a short video to show you. Also, you can download a FREE full set of directions for the In Bloom layout shown in the video and pictures below by clicking HERE ($10 value).  This will help you see first-hand that these are really quite do-able.



The nice thing about our kits is that it's still something you get to make yourself, but without all of the hassle of trying to find all of the patterned papers, cardstock and ribbon that coordinate perfectly, and without spending all the time figuring out sizes, layout, etc. That's stuff is all done for you, and you get to do the fun part. Plus all the while, you get to learn new things about your Cricut and some design principles.

Even for the many of you who are perfectly capable of designing your own beautiful projects, we get a lot of people who buy our kits simply because they're fabulous for taking to crops and Swarms.  You can grab them and go rather than spending hours sorting through tons of paper and trying to figure out what in the world you're going to work on.

The little embellishments are all measured out and tucked safely into ziplock baggies.

We also do some of the basic stuff for you.  For instance, we pre-cut the photo mats and border strips so you don't have to waste time on that or worry that you might cut them the wrong size. 

The magic is really in our directions.  We keep careful track of our cuts as we're designing.  Then we go back and organize all of those details into a chart.  So if the chart starts with light blue, you find the light blue cardstock in your kit, load it onto your mat and into your machine.  You then go line by line and do each light blue cut according to the size and feature listed.  And you can just keep going - you don't have to unload between cuts.  Only unload to switch to your next piece of paper or cardstock.  And it often helps to put a little checkmark by each line once you've cut it.

After you've worked through and done all of your Cricut cuts, there will also be directions on how to assemble the background, a list of the photo mat sizes for future reference, tips for assembling and attaching the Cricut cuts, where to use pop-dots, where to add white gel pen accents, etc, etc.  Plus there's bunches of color photos too.  It's like a self-contained class that anybody can do.

If you have ever done one of our kits, how did you like it?  I'd love it if you could share a little review in your comment so that others can read it.  And we're constantly working to improve things, so if you have some ideas for us, we'd love to hear that too.  Thanks!!