We regret to announce that Creative Xpress has been asked to withdraw our price matching promotion. CX is no longer able to offer price matching at this time.
We regret to announce that Creative Xpress has been asked to withdraw our price matching promotion. CX is no longer able to offer price matching at this time.
Hey, don’t forget that new promotions just turned on in the store!!
With the Holiday season just around the corner, here is the CreativeXpress schedule for shipping and for customer service.
November
Nov. 25th - Last Day CX Open for Shipping Before Thanksgiving
Nov. 26th-29th - CX Customer Service & Shipping Closed
December
Dec. 14th - Last Day for Fedex Home Delivery/Ground Shipping Before Christmas
Dec. 17th - Last Day for 3-day Delivery Before Christmas
Dec. 20th - Last Day for 2-Day Delivery Before Christmas
Dec. 21st - Last Day for Overnight Delivery Before Christmas
Dec. 24th - CX Customer Service & Shipping Open 1/2 Day Only (8:00 am - 12:00 pm MDT)
Dec. 25th-27th - CX Customer Service & Shipping Closed
Creative Xpress is excited to announce the winners of our random Birthday Month drawing! The following lucky individuals were selected at random to win some great prizes! Congratulations! And thanks to all of you who sent in forms or placed orders throughout the month of September!
Genelle M. - Cricut Expression Machine
Linda S. - Cricut Cartridges
Staci M. - Cricut Cartridges
Cyndy K. - Yudu Machine
Donna W. - YourStory Machine
Linda M. - Stock Your Stash Prize Package
Judith D. - Stock Your Stash Prize Package
Sharon S. - Stock Your Stash Prize Package
Dottie E. - Stock Your Stash Prize Package
Imaginisce “Wild Things” Layout

Inspiration: My assignment this month was to use the “Wild Things” paper collection by Imaginisce. Like many, I have a thousand Disney pictures that are just waiting to be scrapped. When I saw the “Wild Things” collection by Imaginisce I thought of some beautiful photos that I had of the Kilimonjaro Safari at Disney World.
1) Placed two 12×12 brown cardstocks next to each other .
2) Next I layered different patterns of the Wild Things papers. I even placed some strips of the coordinating “Jungle Vine” ribbons to separate the papers. I found that mixing the patterns in this collection was very easy.
3) Next I matted the photos with white cardstock and placed them on the center of my layout.
4) I then cut a 2 ½” title “Kilimonjaro” from my “Life’s a Beach” cartridge and 1 ½” “Safari” from my “Hello Kitty Font” cartridge. I used the Design Studio to weld this word together. (To get the “blackout effect” behind the word safari, I used the Design Studio “hide selected contour” feature of my same word and then recut).
5) Cut several 1 ½” hibiscus flowers with layers on the Life’s a beach cart and adhered to the corners.
6) Cut one 8” and one 7” inch Flamingo from the Life’s a Beach cartridge and adhered to the left side of the layout.
7) Next I mounted the title to the upper and lower parts of the layout.
Cut a 2 ½” <crctp2-h> with window feature from the “Tags, Bags, Boxes & More” for the journaling tag and adhere journaling with a “Beastie Brads”.
Imaginisce “Wild Things” Door Hanger


Inspiration: My assignment this month was to use the “Wild Things” paper collection by Imaginisce. When I saw the “Wild Things” collection by Imaginisce I thought how it would make an adorable door hanger for my “wild things” room. This could also be used for a birthday party decoration or a layout after the party and just add some photos.
1) First I mounted a piece of the Wild Things patterned paper to a 12×12” piece of chipboard.
2) Next I cut out (2) 12 ½” pieces of “Bamboo” with layers from the Life is a Beach cart and adhere to either side of the door hanger.
3) Then cut out an 8 ½” “Palm Tree” border with layers from the Life is a Beach cart and adhere to the bottom edge of the door hanger.
4) Next I cut out a 2 ½” title “It’s a Jungle” from the Animal Kingdom cart and adhered to the top of the door hanger. This is on the “rhino” key using the “sound” feature.
5) Then I adhered some of the pre-made chipboard animals from the Wild Things collection. You can also make your animals with the Animal Kingdom cart.
6) Lastly, I punched two eyelets through the top corners of the chipboard and threaded my ribbon through so the hanger could hang.
Catch some FABULOUS sales this week to celebrate CX’s 14th birthday! Great deals like: The Cricut Expression Machine for only $199.99!! But hurry - that deal only lasts through Monday @ noon! Get the Expression the rest of the week for only $239.99 though.
AND - as a special deal for our birthday month, every order placed throughout the month of September will have their name entered one time into an awesome birthday prize drawing*. This is one drawing you WON’T want to miss - you could win a FREE Expression, a FREE Yudu, a FREE YourStory, FREE Cricut Cartridges or many other great prize packages!!
*No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Click to download the form to fill out and mail in to CX for non-purchase related entries. Only one entry per day, per person. Other rules and restrictions may apply.
Creative Xpress is contemplating launching a fun new cyber-class every month centered around the hottest new product from Basic Grey. Each class would have a very reasonable, affordable fee attached (somewhere around $25) - and with that small fee, you would receive a kit with enough fantastic Basic Grey products to create at least 12 cards each month! AND you would receive full-color, step-by-step instructions for completing 8 cards in ‘class’ with directions for downloading a bonus instruction sheet from Basic Grey for completing the other 4 cards on your own.
Details of how the cyber-class would take place are still being worked on, but we wanted to ask you what you think. Would you be interested in a program such as this?
Let us know your thoughts or suggestions regarding this by simply posting a reply to this blog post!
Just this morning, CX lowered prices on Kaiser products for the first time ever!
Kaiser is bursting with great products! From Rhinestones to Acrylic Paints - there is something for every crafter. Check out these samples of fantastic Kaiser products:

Most popular from Kaiser, is their line of alterable wood products. They offer sturdy wooden albums (such as this adorable princess castle to the left) as well as wood clocks, calendars, frames, miniature shelves with matching miniature books and more!

Adorable rhinestones in a variety of pictures will add a fun, new way of looking at bling to any project you are working on. Shapes are as varied as your projects - with arrows, butterflies, flowers, stars, squares, borders and so much more!
Or, if you’re just looking for some good, old fashioned bling - Kaiser has an array of individual, self adhesive pearls and rhinestones.

Looking for great clear stamps? Kaiser has you covered. They have a wide selection of versatile stamps that can be used across the board for multiple projects!

Plus, Kaiser has an awesome assortment of fresh, exciting double-sided 12×12 papers.

And don’t miss out on their epoxy brads either! A great value for the price - you get a variety of shapes and sizes and designs with each set. And these brads are not only great for coordinating with Kaiser paper, but are versatile enough to use with virtually any paper line with a similar color pallet!

And if you’re looking for good quality acrylic paint with excellent coverage, Kaiser Paint tubes are just what you need! Not to mention that the color pallet is awesome!
So don’t miss out on your opportunity to save on Kaiser with new, lower prices from Creative Xpress!

Where will you go with your new Gypsy?
Provo Craft is offering another fabulous prize possibility! The Great Gypsy Escape, scheduled to run from September 1 - October 15, 2009, features four great cartridges and over 200 inserts for winners!
Cartridges include: From my Kitchen, Everyday Paperdolls, Sweethearts & Winter Woodland. CX currently has all cartridges in stock - except the Sweethearts cartridge which is scheduled to arrive shortly.
Prizes include:
- 200 Free Gypsies
- 20 Gypsy + $2,000 Travel Packages
- 1 Grand Prize of a Swarm at “your chosen destination”
All you have to do now is buy the cartridges and open them to find your Gypsy Insert that will win you a fabulous prize! And remember, these cartridges are $49.99 this week only in the CX Store!
Thank you to EVERYONE who submitted an application in response to this years Design Team call. We had a great turn out and every application was full of fabulous talent. We were sad we couldn’t just choose everyone!
But, after many hours of deliberation, we are excited to announce the 2009-2010 Creative Xpress Design Team!
This years returning team members will be:
- Nikki Hobbs
- Becki Adams
- Laura Mendoza
- Stephanie Ackerman
- Karen Pinsonat
- Andrea Amu
- Megan Peacock
- Jen Nicols
And a great big welcome for the newest members of our team:
- Wendy Price
- Janee Fakhreddine
- Anna Maria Mondro
Congratulations and welcome to the Creative Xpress Design Team!