Stampede Calling Cards

These are the calling cards i did for the Stampede in Frisco last weekend. Unfortubnately I only had 85. After a few mishaps, I at least got these done. Doesn't look like much but each one contains 6 cuts then times the 150 that I cut. Yikes.

I got a bunch of really cool ones that people traded me for. I'll try to take pictures and post tomorrow.

Have a great evening. Enjoy your weekend and happy Cricuting.

Lori

Rainy day here in Houston

Well, weather wasn't the greatest today. No projects done. Bummer. I did however open a bunch of my new cartridges and got all my rewards points out to register. Dang hope they have some good rewards soon, I'm getting up there.

I am still on the hunt for a new Expression. Problem being that I don't want cartridges that I already have and since I have 168 I believe was the total, I have to go with an exclusive expression. However most of them have cartridges I already have as well. I really want Pink Journey, but I just refuse to pay that much for a machine for a partial cartridge and cartridges I already own. So if you see any awesome deals here in Houston, let me know.

I have also been saving all the plastic clam shells that the cartridges come in. Gotta come up with a good recycle project for those.

Really want to play with my toys, but guess that will have to wait a couple more days.

Hope you guys all stay warm and dry.

Happy Cricuting.

Lori

Let's get this Blog up and running this year.

Life has sure been exciting lately, but I need to get this blog off the ground and running. So, here we go.

I have been ordering cartridges like crazy lately with all these great sales. I got the Disney Classics so I now can do my favorite character, Jiminy Cricket.
Goodness, I really need to count and see how many I have. I think 165 to 170 but I could be wrong. I got the cricut cake mini at Christmas. Still unopened in the box. I have been trying to get an imagine, but since the 4 they have sent me haven't worked Provo craft told me to send it to them and they'll send me one that works. Fingers crossed. I also got a YUDU Thanksgiving day. Still have yet to try a shirt. Maybe I will do it tomorrow and try a video. That's just a scary thought.

I am hosting a local SWARM here in Houston, February 19, 2011. Looks like it could be a full house. We'll see. I'm really excited about my SWARMS this year. I have some great ideas and hoping to make them even more fun for the cricuteers.


Provo craft is doing a huge event in Frisco, March 18, 19 and 20th. The Stampede. I will be going. Hoping it will be as much fun as everyone expects.
A bunch of my Houston SWARMing buddies are going. It will be fun, getting to play all day without worrying about hosting the event.

So stay tuned. We'll be getting this show off the ground starting tomorrow. If nothing else, I'll do a project and post it.

Rewards Cartridges Arrived

I just got 4 rewards cartridges today. I had ordered them using my cricut rewards on October, 14, 2009 they arrived today October 21, 2009 I paid $22.50 for shipping. Not to bad $5.63 each cartridge. I got 3 solutions cartridges and one Full cartridge. Baseball, Basketball and Christmas were the solutions cartridges and Printing Press was my full cartridge. i had all of the other full cartridges but this so it worked out great. Plus. I just opened them and got 150 more reward points from the solutions cartridges. Printing Press was to old to get any points. I'm going to link them to my Gypsy tonight and see if I can't get some more experience with my Gypsy.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful day.
Lori

I'm back and ready to get started

Well, with Disney World now behind me and my trip to Mississippi over I'm ready to get back on here and get this blog going.

I am working on another SWARM. Still waiting on information. The clubhouse lady is on vacation again. I had alot of request to do one before Christmas. So I'm trying.

I have played with my Gypsy a little bit but sadly not much at all. mainly just updated her and loaded all my cartridges.

I am wanting to get some of the new cartridges soon. I won't do pre orders again so I'm gonna just keep watching.

Have you seen the new mini cartridges? I love the snowflakes.

Better get busy.

Oh yes, I did use my cricut the other night to make garage sale signs with some vinyl. Love the vinyl.

Have a great week.
Lori

She's on the way

Well, my new little girl should be here soon. She's made it to Houston and is ready for delivery. You realize I'm talking about my Gypsy right? Stalking the UPS guy now. Last time I was expecting a package he arrived at 7:03 pm. I'm so excited. I'm planning on video taping the opening so who knows maybe I can get it posted. We'll see.
Have a great day.
Lori

Gypsy

Well, I did it. I went ahead and ordered the Gypsy. I should have it Friday. I got a new customer coupon so I saved almost $45.00. That pretty much covered 2 day shipping and tax. I just couldn't wait. I'll have it before my Disney trip next week. My husband will be happy I'm not gonna gripe when he watches football in the hotel room at night. I'll be playing with my Gyspy.
When I get back, I'll start working on Videos and stuff.

27 Ladies SWARM the day away

We had a blast. Everyone was given their own 6 foot table. We demo'd everything from Vinyl, to Shrinky Dink material. Tons of door prizes and food. Already planning the next one. Everyone was very interested in a 3 day retreat as well as doing 3 or 4 of these a year. Guess I had better get busy. Sorry all of the ladies aren't in our group picture. I kinda got sidetracked and forgot about the picture till the end. Next time. Have a great evening.

Our very own press release.

How cool is this. One of the ladies at the SWARM writes press releases and I jokingly told her I exprected one. Here is what I got. Pretty cool.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lori Brodnax
thecricutlady@gmail.com


Cricut© takes center stage at Houston swarm event
Dozens gather for demonstrations, camaraderie, capturing memories

HOUSTON (Sept. 12, 2009) – Twenty seven women from across two states came together today for a 12-hour scrapbooking retreat at the Westador Clubhouse in Houston. The event was hosted by the Cricut Lady Lori Brodnax, who provided demonstrations, food and fun for all while attendees shared best practices for page layouts, Cricut applications and card designs.
“Today’s Cricut swarm was so inspiring,” said Danielle Percy from Austin. “I learned several innovative techniques that are bringing a whole new level of creativity to my projects.”
Demonstrations included methods for using gel pins in the Cricut, application of heat bond on fabrics for making boxes and purse bags, shrinkie-dink jewelry creation and Design Studio tutorials for constructing advanced embellishments.
The relaxed atmosphere combined with plenty of pictures and paper to go around led all participants to agree that the event was a success worth repeating on an annual basis.
“I’d certainly attend this swarm again next year,” said Debbie Field, a new Cricut user. “I learned so much and can’t believe how many pages I was able to finish today!”
The Cricuit Lady is already planning her next event, which will likely be a two-day retreat in Round Top, Texas, in the spring.

The SWARM

Well, it was a blast. We had 27 people total. I of course got nothing done. I really had a blast though. Learned a couple great tips and tricks. Thank you to Tereas for the gel pen one. I'm shopping tomorrow. We did demos on stamp material, magnet material, vinyl, heat and bond, shinky dink(Teresa) and more. Learned a great card, got to see some great pages, projects and met some fantastic women. I have to tell you craftjunkietoo is awesome (not that everyone wasn't) but I was really excited about meeting her since I'm alwasy on her blog. Everyone won at least one door prize. Several people won multiples.
Anyway, it was great. Everyone is looking forward to the next one. Looking into planning a weekend retreat now. 3 days of Scrapping!!!!
Still haven't figured out the picture loading on here but i will.
Have a great night.
Lori

Cricut Celebrates 100 Cartridges

Creck out what Cricut is doing.

Help us celebrate our 100th Cricut cartridge—Winter Woodland! That’s right, we reached 100 cartridges. As a thank you for our great Cricut community members we want you to celebrate with us. So, we’re giving away 100 cartridges over the next five weeks (20 per week). Here’s how it will work. Each week we will be posting a thread. When you respond to the thread you will be entered to win. You can enter once by replying and you can enter a second time by posting on your blog about the celebration and linking back to the cartridge product page.
Here is the link to include in your blog. Once you’ve posted on your blog with the link back you can post again to this thread. this may be helpful :)
http://www.cricut.com/shopping/productdetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Hope you win,
Lori

Cricut Celebrates 100 cartridges

Did you see what Cricut is doing? Direct from their post. Check it out you could win.

Help us celebrate our 100th Cricut cartridge—Winter Woodland! That’s right, we reached 100 cartridges. As a thank you for our great Cricut community members we want you to celebrate with us. So, we’re giving away 100 cartridges over the next five weeks (20 per week).

Here’s how it will work. Each week we will be posting a thread. When you respond to the thread you will be entered to win. You can enter once by replying and you can enter a second time by posting on your blog about the celebration and linking back to the cartridge product page. Here is the link to include in your blog. Once you’ve posted on your blog with the link back you can post again to this thread. this may be helpful :)
http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Good luck.
Lori

Well, I played with Vinyl yesterday. I got some great Metallic Vinyl on sale at Cricut Express. Orange (One of my favorite colors) Did a little decorating on my Expression. Gonna work on embossing folders today. I'm gonna video it and see if I can't get it on the blog. Wish me luck.
Have a fantastic day.
Lori

The Cricut Lady Blog

Hello everyone!! I'm so excited to get this blog off the ground and finally running. I will be posting some videos in the next couple days to show you some of the projects that I'm going to be doing at the Houston, TX SWARM this Weekend. I've even made it official and changed my Cricut.com name to The Cricut Lady. Since everyone already calls me that it was just easier. I was at Joanne's the other day and some lady was looking at some cartridges and I was able to help her and she asked "Are you like The Cricut Lady or something?" At CHA this year here in Houston I was helping Cricut Dan and a few of the ladies started calling me The Cricut Lady. So I figured what the heck, I'll go with it.
I'm also going to be teaching some Cricut classes soon, so stay tuned for details.
I'll try to post a video later.
Have a great day.
Lori

Welcome

Hello, I created this Blog as a place to talk Cricut and show ideas and projects done witht the Cricut and other crafting tools. I will be posting classes, tips, tricks and eventually videos. I hope you enjoy this blog and visit often.
Lori