We'd like to introduce you to the Cricut Gypsy, for those days when the world just keep going around faster than we can keep up with it. If you are always on your way to someplace, or just coming back, and just plain on the go at pretty much all times, then the Cricut Gypsy is just what the doctor ordered.

The Cricut Gypsy let's you sit on the train, riding in a car, or even sitting in the waiting room of the doctor's office, and all with the same functionality that is available on your PC at home. It's perfectly named, as the Cricut Gypsy is so portable you can take it anywhere, just slightly larger than your cell phone.

Designing your own scrapbooking materials is a wonderful way to make your scrapbooks personal and unique. You can hook it up afterwards to a scrapbooking die cutting machine and cut out your designs. Die cutting machines for scrapbooking abound in the hundreds, but the one that works with the Cricut Gypsy is one that most scrapbookers are familiar with.

The only difference between the software that you install on your computer to use the Cricut and the Gypsy software is basically the screen size, as you still have full functionality to move, stretch or skew images, browse the library or go through your own perfectly organized cartridges. You can store up to 7,000 of your own purchased cartridges and up to 10,000 of your own designs so you'll never run out of space on the Cricut Gypsy.

The Cricut Gypsy is only eight by three inches so it's easy to carry around in your purse, pocket or in the glove compartment of your car, and it's even easier to store. Plus, it runs on batteries and if full charged you can use the Gypsy for up to four hours straight so it doesn't matter how long you are stuck somewhere you'll always have something to do. Plus, everything stored in the Gypsy is organized intuitively and easily searchable so more flipping through pages and pages of manuals to find the design you want, which means you'll be able to concentrate on making an awesome design instead.

Just connect the cable to the Cricut machine and press the button and you'll see your design in the reasl world. You'll choose from a huge selection of fonts so that each picture in your scrapbook tells exactly the story that you want it to say.

It doesn't matter where you are or what you are doing, whether it be traveling by bus, train, car or plane, you'll have the Cricut Gypsy to make designs the whole family will love. Imagine, sitting down with your kids or at Grand ma's house and deciding on the perfect images, layout, fonts and sizes that make that picture look perfect in the scrapbook.

The Cricut Gypsy also connects to your computer easily for bug fixes, and new software updates, as well as easily allowing you to add purchased cartridges. Where ever you go, you'll love the ease and portability of the Cricut Gypsy, and you'll love the designs that you create with it. Happy Scrapbooking!

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Scrapbooking is a wonderful creative, artistic and therapeutic craft that allows you to keep all of your memories for your loved ones to cherish, or for yourself to remember for years to come. Your family can have an insight into your life when browsing your scrapbooking albums which can be filled with memories of your life in the form of photographs, memorabilia from holidays and memorable events and other embellishments, presented along with the story.

Scrapbooking is a wonderful therapeutic hobby, that many have taken to a new level, so that each of their pages, becomes a project and challenge to make into a form of artwork, demonstrating their skill and craftiness.  One of the best ways to achieve the best quality and unique pages is by cutting titles using a Scrapbooking die cutting machines. They have been a revolution in the scrapbooking world, enabling their uses to cut titles and die cuts from various materials and in every font and shape imaginable.

There are two general types of die cut machines including the electronic version and the manual versions. The Cricut range of cutting machines from Provo Craft, are the most popular and well known in the electronic cutting machine range.  Cricut innovated a lot of the electronic machines market by introducing a machine that could cut automatically and also not needing to be attached to a computer.

Of  Provocrafts Cricut range, the Cricut Expression is the top of the range of scrapbooking die cutters. With the original Cricut Personal Cutter, you were only able to cut a sheet half of 12x12inches. For scrapbookers with lots to do, this was somewhat of a pain always having to cut or having half sheets of paper around. So to meet the needs of the ever growing market for demanding scrapbookers, Provo Craft introduced the new Expression Die Cutting machine, which can now cut both 12x12 and 12x24 inch sheets.

Do to this new increase in mat size and cutting ability, the Cricut Expression Die Cutting Machine, is also a lot larger than the Cricut Personal or Cricut Create machines. So it loses some of its portability. It was really designed to be left in the home office, scrapbooking room or for Cricuts new market, the school media room.

Just like the first Cricut Machine, the Expression has all the same loved features. It cuts shapes from cartridges, which means no computer connection required. All of the Cricut cartridge range, also works across the whole Cricut Machine range, so there are no worries with compatibility and there are sooo many designs to choose from. And of course its main feature is that it can cut varying sizes automatically of any of the shapes and fonts on the cartridges.

Given that the Expression has the same basic design and functionality as the original, it also has its annoying sticky mat. However after having reviewed some of the other die cutting machines, like the Making Memories SLICE, I see that this is a slight advantage, as the Making Memories SLICE has to be babysat while cutting, as it doesn't have this sticky sheet.

One day, we are all hoping that the makers of Cricut, or perhaps a competitor!! Will design a machine that has the ability to cut sheets without a sticky mat and without having to babysat. It is a real shame that some of the most delicate papers, which would make wonderful cut outs, arent able to be used with the sticky mat, as they will just get destroyed.

So if you are a die hard scrapper with money to burn!!! or you have just been frugle with your scrapbooking so you could save up for the Expression (well done!) then it is truely one of the best on the market at the moment.

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So you own a Cricut machine and love it. Just imagine though, all the things you dreamed you could do with the Cricut are no suddenly possible with the Cricut Design Studio Software.

Cricut Design Studio

Just hook up your Cricut to your computer, install the software and now you can weld, redesign, reshape, resize, twist and contort the Cricut cartridge designs in any way you like to make your scrapbooking pages totally awesome! You can even combine images from different catridges. OMG!

Now I know Cricut advertise their Cricut machine as being "no computer required". This still holds true, but to extend the possibilities of your Cricut Cartridges, the Design Studio Software is a must have. It really isn't hard to use either. The on screen cutting mat matches your Cricut machine, so you know exactly where your cuts are going to be.

A word of warning though: you can only use images from catridges that you actually own. Buying the Cricut Design Studio Software does not mean you have free access to all the Cricut Cartridge designs currently on the market. That would be crazy now wouldn't it! Cricut still want to make money from you buying the cartridges, not just give the designs away for free in the software package.

So if you are an avid Cricut user and own a good collection of cartridges already, the world is now your oyster! The possibilites of what you can create using this design software is endless. However, yes, you do need to know how to navigate a computer. It is really for the computer savvy.

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The inventing team at Provocraft must be just loving their job. Look at all the amazing things they come up with.

Cricut Jukebox

New in the Cricut range is the awesome Cricut Jukebox. No it doesn't belt out your favourite tunes while scrapbooking, it is a wonderful invention that lets you connect up to 6 different Cricut Cartridges to any Cricut Machine (thats right the Crictu Expression, Cricut Create and the Cricut Personal) at a time,. So no more swapping cartridges. Just select the one you want at the push of a button.

And what is more amazing, is that you can connect jukeboxes to jukeboxes, so you can access your whole collection of Cricut Cartridges (if you were so included to spend that much money for the convenience that is).

If you would like to buy a cheap or discounted Cricut Jukebox, then eBay is your best option.

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I guess one of the main disadvantages of the orginal Cricut Personal Cutter, was that you could only put in a half 12x12inch sheet of paper to do the die cuts and this was a real drag having to always have half sheets of paper around. So the makers of Cricut decided to upscale and make a larger version where you can now do die cuts with 12x12 and 12x24 inch sheets.

Cricut Expression

However the machine is so much larger, it is certainly not easily portable and is meant to be kept in a permanent place in the home, or as they are now targeting... the school place!

The Cricut Expression Machine has all the same great features of the original Cricut like no computer required, lots of cartridges available (same catridges are used across the whole Cricut range) and the ability to cut shapes in varying sizes automatically without having to babysit the machine too much.

Given that the Expression has the same basic design and functionality as the original, it also has its annoying sticky mat. However after having reviewed some of the other die cutting machines, like the Making Memories SLICE, I see that this is a slight advantage, as the Making Memories SLICE has to be babysit while cutting, as it doesn't have this sticky sheet. Hopefully one day they will come up with a better way to be able to cut sheets without holding the paper and without having to use the sticky mat, because it is a real pain, especially if you want to cut shapes from delicate paper.

The Cricut Expression is also the most expensive machine currently on the market at around US$500.00 RRP, however just looking around on the internet, you can easily buy it from various places for US$300 plus shipping.

So if you are a die hard scrapper with money to burn!!! or you have just been frugle with your scrapbooking so you could save up for the Expression (well done!) then it is truely one of the best on the market at the moment.

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