Hi everyone! Just dropping by to see how we are coming along! I was gonna say I have no problem waiting, but see they have received the replacement machines and mailed! Did you all see the sad announcement that they have discontinued the Imagine machine? reading in the thread on that announcement in the Cricut Chat section, it tells what update we should be using, and they recommend updating to it before your warrenty runs out, but I am afraid to do it for fear I will mess up my machine!! maybe next week I will give it a try and cross my fingers, eyes and toes!! Sorry to see they are discontinuiing the I already.....hope mine keeps working for many years!!

Jen -- It wasn't a cartridge, it was the print head that locked it up. Once it misreads an ink cartridge, it goes haywire. I am really concerned about this because the machine is being discontinued, what happens to those of us with our machines? No more cartridges???????? So we just have to get really good at using the original carts with the imagine and see what we can do. Maybe you could come up with a swap where we would have to do something with an original cartridge using our imagine and make some neat projects?????

Thanks again for all your patience and to the ladies in this swap. Words can't express how much we love this group and the support we received during our "crisis" was fantastic.

Evelyn

I like the idea of an Imagine swap that uses original cartridges too. Maybe to create a cut from a non-I cartridge using colors and patterns from I cartridges. What do you all think? Suggestions are welcome!

evelyn- what is the status of your cuts?

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I like the idea of a swap with non-I cartridges because it forces us to use our machine and explore its capabilities. A person learns a lot from just experimenting and a swap would just reinforce that. Just think of all the cuts we would get. Wow!

Evelyn

received packages from ScrapLady, EvelynRobinson, and #1BabySister yesterday. The final one is in transit from SumrBrez. The DC# I have isn't working but I'm sure it's on its way

Can't wait to see what everyone did.

I bought my Imagine for the regular carts, not the Imagine ones :) The RGB code is the best thing on that machine I think. Getting pretty exact on the character cartridges (i.e. disney etc) is great! There's an RGB thread on the Imagine forum. I can't do the new swap you posted. Just too swamped at the moment. If anyone needs help with that though, just give me a holler. :)

:)Khrista

It's actually fairly easy GrandmaJ. I tried it out with the Best of Pixar cartridge for Katt's preschool class. I made a Sulley and Mike W. using the Disney RGB codes and they looked great! You can find some blogs and stuff where people have created their own lists of RGB codes, I found Sesame Street ones which I will definitely use! Might even do that for this new swap!

The swap was successful and all packages are on their way home.

Return DC#s
-scraplady2001- 1108 2000 0037 7357 14
-sumrbrez- 0312 0090 0001 4060 4729
-khrista- 1108 2000 0037 7357 07
-crystalslate- 1108 2000 0037 7357 07
-grandmaj- 0311 0820 0000 3773 5691

enjoy ladies, they look amazing!

I got my images today opened the box and took a quick peek. can't wait till morning when I can sit and look through all of them!! Then I will give Scraplady2001 alittle time on ebay before I hit it so we don't keep bidding each other higher!! LOL!
Thanks everyone for all the cuts and thanks Jen for hosting!! It was a great idea!!

Mine showed yesterday, but I didn't realize it as my daughter brought the mail in. So it was a nice Sunday surprise this morning :) Now to make some cards with all the great cuts and papers.

Thanks for a great swap Jen!
:)Khrista