I have been so bad about posting on my blog lately. Some of you may notice that I am not on the Keystone Scraps Creative Team right now. I absolutely LOVE these ladies ... but with some serious family issues with my dad's health I felt it best to leave. I cannot say enough great things about Keystone Scraps and their talent and creative team, but I needed to give them 100% for all they do for us and didn't feel I could do that right now.
I am slowly getting back in to some paper crafting and playing with my new toy ...
I got this right after we returned from our road trip to Birmingham ... and what an awesome trip it was ... I'll show pictures tomorrow from that trip. :)
Anyway, I have been getting to know my Cricut Expression 2 and trying to learn Cricut Craft Room. My first HUGE disappointment was that the Expression 2 does NOT support Cricut Design Studio, which I used all the time. Anything I do with my Cricut was through Design Studio! It was my fault for not researching everything including compatibility between the E2 and Design Studio, but I assumed Provo Craft would have their products all compatible with the newer machines. My bad ...
I have been teaching myself Cricut Craft Room (which is free from www.cricut.com) and must say, as upset as I was about having to use something other than Design Studio, I do like alot of the things in Craft Room. I have put a lot of time in to learning this software and how it works with the E2 and my Gypsy. Most of this has been through trial and error. The Cricut boards are great for finding answers too. I have also found some great tutorials on YouTube. The more I get used to using Craft Room the more I am liking it. There are some bugs they need to get ironed out though. I also like that I can take my ".cut" files from Design Studio and convert them to ".gypsy" files and then just use my Gypsy to cut from the E2. The E2 has WiFi capability, but I am not even going there cause I've seen so many problems with it right now. I am happy just using it with the cable.
Hopefully I will soon have something to show for all my studying and playing around.
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