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[ScrapHappy]

I agree. I'm not interested in the TS on HSN. I do watch the demonstration(s) from time to time but never a full presentation. I have the Cricut Imagine (poor me) which as many of you know how be discontinued. I don't use it nearly as often as I should so I won't be running out by another. I know the trend is going more digital, but a real draw back to the Explore is the use of the computer and the fees that incur. I really thought the TS would of been the AG Christmas cardmaking kit. Didn't stop me from not buying it though.

[Kati]

My 'craft room' is my dining room table. Not a lot of room for anything much besides my cuttlebug and me!

[mewsmomtoo]

For me it seems like I get to a certain point with technology and then it passes me by and I know I won't catch up. For instance, I don't understand all the new TV stuff (Roku, AppleTV) and I probably won't bother - I still have a box TV

Anyway, all this is my way of saying that papercrafting just passed me by with this Cricut item. I don't even own a printer because they never work for long at my house, I don't know why. Now they want me to hook the Cricut up to my computer, print out and then put it through the Cricut machine and while they do give you some nice things, what they really want you to do is subscribe for $9.99 a month (!) to their image service (see edit below)

This is too much money and work for me. I guess I am now among the older and simpler crafters. The youngsters can fiddle with this and make boxes and flowers and truly beautiful things, but I am going to pass. The Cuttlebug is as much technology as I need.

We now have such beautiful papers and dies and embossing folders plus inexpensive acrylic stamps (compared to what we pay for one wooden stamp) and stickers and rub-ons and wonderful kits from Anna and 3Birds and now Inspired Inc. that I feel I have more than enough to keep on creating beautiful scrapbooks for myself and cards and small scrapbooks for everyone else without wanting to add a Cricut.

I'm not criticizing Cricut or those who use the machines - I think they are brilliant, but I now know they are not for me and I am somewhat relieved to have finally decided that

ETA: To be fair, you might not have to subscribe to the Image site oneline. They are letting you keep any images you already own through cartridges, their older Craft Room, (another online image site I gather) and the Gypsy (remember that!). Thank goodness, because at the end they got a call from this poor woman who bought one of the other Cricuts, but hadn't even opened the box because she was intimidated. She said she owns 150 cartridges! I think she has a friend who is going to help her, plus Anna and the host told her to call Cricut when she needed help, that there were people there to help her. She also had computer issues (she's going from Apple to Windows). I hope the friend who encouraged her to buy this is really going to be there to help her. She sounded like a nice woman.

[Kati]

Mewsmomtoo, I'm into simple, no stress crafting. The cricut looks like more than I can handle.

[Krimpette]

I agree about "simple crafting". Once the Cricuts needed a computer hook up, I lost interest. I think I'm getting too old to have to devote time to learn all that "new-fangled" stuff!!!!

[Kati]

On 10/8/2014 Krimpette said:

I agree about "simple crafting". Once the Cricuts needed a computer hook up, I lost interest. I think I'm getting too old to have to devote time to learn all that "new-fangled" stuff!!!!

Sounds like me. I'm more into "hand made" versus "machine made." I'm certainly not anti-cricut; it's just a personal choice for me.

A cuttlebug is as high-tech as I need to be!!

[glor46er]

I'm with you..........simple crafting is my thing. I own the original Cricut that I use now and then. One thing I would like to get is an electric embosser.........I think it is called ebosser. My shoulders don't want to crank, crank, crank anymore. Once I heard that you hook the Cricut up to your computer, I knew it wasn't for me.