Oh Prima, the most beautifulest of them all. I just love love love these prima flowers and the example layouts that they have in there booth. I have ordered heaps and heaps of flowers.

Everyone who is coming to our retreat in September, hold onto your seats, I have choosen a Prima Layout for one of the classes, it is so so beautiful. I will share some sneak peaks of that on the retreat blog.

Ok, so most of you will know by now that there is a new machine coming to the Cricut Family. I didnt get a good look but I'm sure you will find lots of info on the cricut.com website. But it prints in colour and then cuts. All existing cartridges are used, and yes the gypsy can be used with this new machine. looks very intriging.

Oh and yes check out the new look for the cuttlebug, I like it. Particularly the way the handle folds away. very cute.

Magnolia Stamps

I just love love love these Magnolia Stamps, I have ordered a whole heap of them. We will get them up for pre order very soon.

Tim Kingdom

Here's Tim's Ideal-ology booth. I stumbled across it accidentally today, whilst I was looking for another company and boy was I blown away. It was simply beautiful. No expense was spared.

Check out all the pretty ribbons above, they all started out as white (tim says why need any other colour) and they they have been coloured with Distress Ink Reinkers mixed with water and sprayed from a Mini Mister bottle. They look so pretty.

King Tim

Ok here's what you've all been waiting for, some news on Tim. Well here he is with his new machine the "Vagabond". Unfortunately us aussies will have to wait until next year for our machines but they are definitely on the way. The US should have theirs by October. Ok so what is it do I hear you asking. Basically it is a electronic Big shot, no winding a handle, just press a button, but in Tim Style. The machine looks like a suitcase (in January Tim said he wanted a machine that would look good sitting on your desk, even if you never used it LOL) and it sure does look great, and from what I can see it cuts great too. No problems cutting through grungeboard, and really thick cork. The other great thing is that it will be compatible with other brand dies, ie spellbinders. I think I've gotta get me one of these.

By the way I asked him about a visit to Brisbane..... more to come on that one.

Day 1 at CHA

Hi Everyone

I'm back with a CHA wrap up of Day 1 of the show. One thing I know many of you have been waiting to hear about is when is the new e-Craft coming. Well here is some interesting news

Firstly, Craftwell have completely changed the machine since January, when I 1st saw it. The colour is slightly different it has lost the pearly look, and the colours now are much stronger, and there is now also a blue colour. Hot Pink and Purple are shown here.

Secondly there is not 3 models as originally planned, there is now only 1, but the extra software that was originally an optional extra is now included as standard. Thats the software that will enable you to hook up to your computer and cut whatever images you can obtain from your computer. The price has now gone up, but not as much as it would have been if you had paid for the extra software.

So still an exciting machine, it still will be very very reasonable compared to other machines that are similar. Oh did I mention that it will become cordless as well, it will have a lithium battery included.