Some Thanksgiving Deals - direct from Cricut.com

 Well - the day was far busier than I thought it would be so there was no time to make a video.  I did get a lot of preparations finished for tomorrow - including five pies!

I want to make sure you know that there is a great deal on cartridges available directly from Provo Craft on the Cricut.com site.  I just ordered three cartridges (Designer's Calendar, When It's Cold Outside and Stamping Solutions) for a total of $75.98 with free shipping!  Full cartridges are $36 and solutions and mini cartridges are $19.99.  Most cartridges are available (but not the exclusive or bundled cartridges).  Pagoda, Dinosaur Tracks and Old West are some of the most recent cartridges listed that are available now.

Just go to the Products section of the Circut.com site (here is a LINK) and do some easy Black Friday shopping - starting right now (the offer is good from November 26 - December 1, 2009).  The Jukebox and Design Studio were both listed at $20 but are showing out of stock right now - with luck they may be replenished before the sale is over....

I hope you have a wonderful holiday and much to be thankful for.

The file for the Happy Thanksgiving with the detailed welded turkey is available to download

Turkey Happy Thanksgiving (with details)

Some new embossing powder...

There are several "deal of the day" scrapbooking supplies websites. Three popular ones I know about are Crop Chocolate, Flowers to Flourishes and Peachy Cheap. I have ordered from Peachy Cheap a couple of times and last week I couldn't resist the offer for some embossing powder by American Crafts called "Zing."



Here is a LINK to a video by American Crafts demonstrating this embossing powder.

The offer was for six jars for $8.99 (plus $3.99 shipping) and the video says the regular retail is $4.99 per jar so I thought this was a good deal. I ordered on Tuesday of last week and the powder arrived today.



I had to laugh - the green color was called "Cricket" (not the same spelling but even so...!)



I had to try it out right away, so I stamped some flowers with the new foam stamps I wrote about yesterday using Versamark ink, then covered the impression with the powder, tapped off the excess and heated the paper from below.



The embossing powder is truly amaZING (I think that's where they got the name!).



Here you can see the small flowers before I heated the embossing powder. It sticks to the Versamark ink very well - the power is a bit more granular than some others I have used but very fine.



The shine after heating is incredible...



The lines are sharp - these stamps have large lines but I plan to try the powder with some more detailed stamps as soon as I can. I really like the look of the embossing on the textured cardstock.



My assortment of test flowers wasn't really planned but I think it makes a pretty card.

This "Deal of the Day" is over but sometimes the same item shows up again - I know I will be looking for more colors of this embossing powder in the local stores

I have been working on a lot of Design Studio projects but most of them have to stay "secret" for a bit longer. There is something new and very exciting coming in September...watch this space!