Glad I made the decision to learn ( still learning how to use the craft room, it is a wow experience for me.

Lin

Your Sizzix sounds really nice. Did you say it cuts and prints from your home printer? Does it do color images like the Imagine? I will tell you why I ask, I love the “D.J. Inkers” website. I have several CD’s from them because I use their images for my classroom bulletin boards, name tags and just so many things. For Halloween I used the D. J. Inkers Images and made 14″ images for the children. Then we snapped pictures of each of the children in my class, printed the pictures in the classroom and then let the children cut out their face and paste their face onto their D.J. Inker paper doll. We used those cute paper dolls on the front of their lockers for the month of October. The images were so colorful and cute plus the children had fun selecting the “Inker” character they wanted to be. It was fun. They really liked doing this, they used their “serious” face, their “silly” face, their “happy” face any thing they wanted to do. Each child was allowed to have 4 photographs taken and then they selected the one that they figured was the best “Halloween” face.

Provo Craft says that we will soon be able to link our Gypsy with the Cricut Craft Room. Have you tried to link your Cricut with the Craft Room? Before you try to connect your original Cricut or the Create you might want to call Provo Craft’s 800 support number to talk to someone before you try to connect your Cricut cutting device to your computer’s USB port. After my Imagine broke when I tried to Sync it with the Provo Craft website I have been too afraid to connect any device except the Mini to the Craft Room.

I did get the new Tags, Bags, Boxes & More 2 cartridge and when I tried to use it, the Expression 2 said the machine required an update but the machine all by itself went into “update” mode and in just a few minutes the cartridge was recognized. Now my Gypsy had been updated so it recognized the cartridge but when I tried to cut with the Gypsy it wouldn’t work. So maybe I needed to update the Expression 2 then if I had plugged in the Gypsy it probably would have been fine.

I must admit though, it is a little scary, like I said my Imagine was destroyed by the Sync process and had to be replaced by Provo Craft because it was not even 6 months old. That was an expensive error and all I did was download the Sync program and plug in the machine when the website said to plug in the machine. I think you will love the Paper Pups; they are so cute. Good Luck!