New Cartridges revealed yesterday

Oh how I love Hello Thursday!  It is that special day of the month were Provo Craft taunts and teases us with their latest selection of new Cricut cartridges.  This Hello Thursday was especially near and dear to my heart as I have been requesting a music cartridge for sometime!  And Hello Thursday allowed me to say hello to Quarter Note, the new music cartridge!!

All three of my children were in middle school and high school band as well as Jazz Ensemble.  This cartridge thrills me all the way down to my "in time" tapping toes!  Of course most of our musical adventures have been scrapped already but I may yet need this new cartridge and THAT is why it is on my list of must have cartridges!  That and it's three fonts, word art and music art!

And just because I love this cartridge SOOO much, I created a couple of previews in Design Studio.

My next favorite of today's releases is Ornamental Iron.

Initially I had a ho-hum reaction to the name.  But then I visited Joy at Obsessed with Scrapbooking and viewed her Ornamental Iron card!  I quickly went from ho-hum to OH WOW!  I love what Joy has done with this cartridge and THAT is what caused this cartridge to make my of "I want" cartridges!

Next on the list of today's new releases is Paper Lace.  Okay, so you know all of those lacy paper you purchase for $1.50 (or so) each?  No more, I say!!

Not only will you no longer need to purchase those expensive single sheets of lacy paper, you can make your own layers!  You can custom size your lacy paper to custom fit your project!  No more cutting the big sheet trying to make it fit your card, then wasting the rest of the lacy paper.  And guess what?  You know that Glimmer Mist relief stencils?  The Tim Holtz stencils?  Oh yes, with a bit of vinyl you can now make your own custom stencils!!

Next is Wrap It Up, a phase II cartridge.  It is similar to Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, only on steroids!

For those who love their TBBM cartridge, you are going to be THRILLED with Wrap It Up.  Imagine having word art, tags, cards, and bags - which all match!!  For those of us who are slightly OCD, this is a designer's dream come true.  It will all match!!!

Next is a fun little cartridge for those of us who "embellish" our vehicles.  And I just have to ask, why would we NOT embellish our vehicles?  They are an extension of who we are.  My own Honda mommy-mobile (Odyssey) has two embellies, a lime green cricut head in one back window corner and a sweet Hello Kitty face in the other corner!

This cartridge contains so much more than just the fun little people pictured below.  It also contains word art, like Support Our Troops, and additional layers. 

Finally the last of the new releases is Sesame Street Seasons.  I am going to say that with my "children" in the 20s, this probably should not be high on my list.  But I have a confession - I love Grover!!  My older son sounded like Grover as a toddler, forever endearing Grover to us.  Also, did you catch the last word in the title? Seasons.

In addition to the many fun Sesame Street images (did you see Grover with the umbrella) there are also seasonal images and seasonal Sesame Street characters.  OMGosh!  Check out Big Bird on that sledding saucer!  Seriously, if you have small children, you NEED this cartridge!  Move it straight to your must have list!!!   By the way, would you like to see a fabulous and unexpected card created with this cartridge?  You have to see what Melanie did with this cartridge at Courtney Lane Designs.  I love her snowman card. That's right, from this cartridge.

I have updated my "Must Have" and "Want" lists with this release. Now it is your turn to drool and choose!

Introducing 24 New Cricut Imagine Cartridges

Have you been to the Cricut shopping site and viewed the 24 (!!) new Cricut Imagine cartridges?  I am quite impressed that there will be twenty four cartridges for the Imagine right away.  Good job, Provo Craft!!  In the interest of time and space, I am not going to share images of all  of the cartridges.  I am going to share a few of my favorites!!  Ohhh by the way, one of the cooler aspects of these cartridges is that you will have all of these paper patterns on hand to print anytime you want them!!!

There are 12 Art Cartridges:

Imagine More Cards, Snow Angel, Enjoy the Seasons, JT, Blast Off, Yummy, Nursery Tails, 

Lori's Garden, Country Carnival, Better Together, Best Friends, Imagine More

Enjoy the Season

Best Friends

Imagine More Cards

JT

Nursery Tails

Snow Angel

And here are 12 Color and Pattern Cartridges: 

Industrial Glow, Berries & Cream, Snapshot: Texture, Snapshot: Everyday, Snapshot: 

Nature, Mr. Frosty, Mystical Garden, Hopscotch, Elise, Audrey, Ancestry, Blossom

Mr. Frosty

Hopscotch

Audrey

NOTE: After Gaby's comment (thank you Gaby) I did some investigating. The facts are that the Imagine can print some Archival quality images on certain HP photo papers, but not on plain paper. I do not currently have an answer regarding the use of archival paper in the machine. Hummmm.

Updates reveal new cartridges

Oh yes, Provo Craft - the maker of my favorite toys - has been at it again!  Just when I think it is safe to update my Design Studio and Gypsy fonts, PC adds new cartridges so that I may have something new to covet!  The truly sad part of that statement is that I *just* returned from CKC were I spent more than my fair share on new products.  And that was on the heels of CHA.  I think I am a scrap obsessed shopper.  At least I do actually use the products I purchase!

The new must have Seasonal Cartridges include this cute Thanksgiving cartridge:

And the package:

This adorable Christmas Cards cartridge,

And the packaging:

And this cute Christmas Village cartridge:

And the packaging:

Guilt Post & New MS Cartridges

I am still chin deep in dvd production but I wanted to share the images of the new Martha Stewart Cricut Cartridges that I ran across.  I have not been to the MB so I am going to guess that the images have already been posted there, but just in case here they are again.

This is the all occassion cartridge - lots of lacy cuts and BORDERS!!  I know that MS borders were requested!

This is the Elegant Cartridge - again lots of lay cuts.  I love the images in the first row of lines one, two, and three.  I see a lot of potential here!

And finally this is the seasonal cartridge.  Cute, cute.  I really like the birthday hat and the circle poinsettia cuts.  Oh Provo Craft!  Why must you continue to take all of my extra $$$?

You should plan to go by Joy's Blog and Melanie's Blog for info on winning a set of the ms cartridges!  Hurry, go!!!!

New Cricut Lite Cartridges

While I was not paying attention ProvoCraft released a new series of cartridges - Lite Cartridges!  Like the mini's, the Lite cartridges have 50 key strokes. 

I discovered that there are 24 Lite carts and titles include: B is For Boy, Baby, Billionaire, Block Party, Bloom, Botanicals, Carousel, Celebrate With Flourish, Cherry Limeade, Chore Chart, Cupcake Wrappers, Dude!, Feeling Groovy, Handy Man, Hoot ‘n’ Holler, Lacy Labels, Live Simply, Meow, Savory, Slumber Party, Splish Splash, Sugar & Spice, Varsity Letters, and Wildlife. 

Did you notice what I noticed?  Amidst those titles I say boy/man/guy related titles.  I also noticed MEOW for you cat lovers!  ProvoCraft WAS paying attention when you asked for those cartridges!!!

The most complete photo series of the new Lite Cartidges that I have run across is at Samantha's blog (sweet Samantha from the Cricut MB): Scrapmaster's Paradise. 

Sorry that my photos have HUGE white borders - I found them on the Internet and they refuse to cooperate.  But I did want to share because I was so excited about 24 new cartridges!!