04/30/2024
*****LadiesāBig reminders:
1) If you have bought any digital SVGs that match our CTMH Paper Packs/Collections, please go & log into your CTMH account. If you donāt get them downloaded to your own device soon, you wonāt be able to get them. Please get these files downloaded by the end of May if possible. I think you actually have until June 15th, but itās going to be crazy at the end, when CTMH is getting ready to close & thereās a good chance that the servers might be getting overloaded there at the end. So PLEASEš, I want my customers to get everything you ever paid CTMH for, so please get yours downloaded ASAP, but at least try to get it down b4 the end of May. -***FYI, I had TONS of these digital files, because Iām a Cricut girl & I wanted to be able to use the SVGs from our CTMH Collections with my Cricut machines (or any other Electronic cutter that uses SVG files)!! It only took me a couple hours to download everything to my computer (& I had TONS of these files!!).
Once there & signed in, do the following:
-Click on your name -Select ACCOUNT in the drop down menu.
-When your account opens up, select DIGITAL LIBRARY.
-When your Digital Library opens up, any digital product youāve ever gotten from CTMH should be listed under there.
-Located to the right of each digital element, youāll see a blue DOWNLOAD button.
-You need to DOWNLOAD each Digital Element to your computer or phone. FYIāI find it much easier to organize these files by saving them to my computer (rather than my iPhone). I made a folder on my computer called CTMH DIGITAL FILES. I downloaded all of my Digital Files to this folder.
- Once youāre done downloading all the files, that blue Download button will STILL BE THERE. Thatās ok. But what I did after downloading then all to my computer, is I went to my Download folder in my computer, or you can log into that folder I told you to create, I called mine CTMH DIGITAL FILES. I had 2 windows opened up, & the one with the CTMH DIGITAL FILES folder in it & the other was where I was logged into my CTMH account and in my digital library, where it showed all the digital files/SVGs that Iād ever bought from CTMH. And I looked at them and went down the list. Letās say the first one was CHERISH. I looked at that I saw that in the list on my CTMH account and then I looked where I had downloaded all those files onto my computer and made sure there was a folder named CHERISH also. FYI, IF ITāS A COLLECTION, THEN YES, THERE WILL BE A FOLDER WITH THAT COLLECTION NAME AND INSIDE THAT FOLDER WILL BE ALL THE INDIVIDUAL SVGāS THAT BELONG TO THAT COLLECTION. IF ITāS JUST A SINGLE TITLE THAT YOU BOUGHT, THEN IT WILL JUST BE A SINGLE FILE, an SVGā it normally will not be inside a folder. so go through that list from the CTMH site and double check that you have everything thatās in that CTMH list now onto your computer. If youāre missing something try to look through the names and see if thereās something else similar that maybe just is named a little bit different, because that did happen to me. But if you canāt find it anywhere, try to go and download it again by clicking on that blue download button.
-Once youāve made sure that you have downloaded any digital files from your CTMH digital library, now itās time to upload them into your software for your electronic cutter. Iām going to explain how to do it for CRICUT DESIGN SPACE, because that is what I use.
-FYI, Once, youāre 100% sure that all these files are now on your own computer, you can take your time and either sit down and do these all at once, or just a few of them a day. The biggest tip I can give you here is to keep track of what youāve uploaded from your computer, into Cricut Design Space. I actually made screenshots from my computer that had the whole list of digital files that I had needed to download from CTMH and put it in my computer & printed those out. As I uploaded everything inside each folder, I highlighted it on the screenshot.
-I am going to assume that you all know how to upload a digital file/SVG into Cricut Design Space. If you do not know how to do that, then in the help section of Cricut Design Space thereās a great tutorial about how to upload files. If you still need more help after reading that, then please get a hold of me for more additional help.
-For the easiest & quickest way to get all the files uploaded today into DS (aka Design Space), again, open up two windows. One window will be the main page of Cricut Design Space & the other window will be where you have put that folder with all of your CTMH digital files in it. I like to put it so that these two windows are sitting right next to each other if possible.
-With the main page of Cricut Design Space open, click on UPLOAD, then click on UPLOAD IMAGE. Then rather than going to Browse for each file, because I have those two windows open right next to one another, I just grab the file I want, and I drag it right on top of where it says ādrag and drop fileā in DS. And then I usually put some tags, such as CTMH and whatever the thing is, and then hit upload. And then go back and do the next item thatās in your folder. Once your folder has had everything uploaded from it, thatās when I go ahead and highlight it, but that entire folder has to have everything done in order to get highlighted. And then I go onto the next folder.
Sometimes you will just have a single SVG if you bought something like titles that were standalone, such as the ones that were in our annual catalog. So with those, you normally just have the one SVG to upload, so upload it, highlight that off your list and go onto the next, whether itās a folder full of files or just one standalone SVG. Keep going until youāre all done.
-Again, you do not have to upload everything into Design Space at the same time, you can do a few folders and files a day, because now all of those things that you own are on YOUR OWN COMPUTER, that is the MOST important thing, that you get those files off of the CTMH server before theyāre gone. That is an urgent thing!!!
I hope this helps everyone to get anything you have still sitting in that CTMH digital library that you havenāt brought over to your own computer. It is a little repetative work if youāve bought a lot like I have, but the reward is that now youāre going to have all those amazing files in your DS software, woohoo āand thereās some beautiful stuff in a lot of these collections, lots of flourishes and whirley gigs and titles and all kinds of beautiful stuff, lots of images like cameras & florals and I mean all kinds of stuffāincluding, if itās a collection, then each of those collections has at least a one and often a two page, full scrapbook layout in there, all ready to go. All you have to do is select it, put it on your mat and hit MAKE IT in DS, and thereās also premade cards in those collections.
-A big hint for you to make it easy to find these images and titles, etc. again is to make sure you put in the tags when you upload them, āCTMHā. Also, I always go up to the name/ title of each item and after it, letās say itās a flourish, Iāll put a little hyphen ā and then Iāll put CTMH. That way when Iām looking for it I donāt have to look through a b-zillion flourishes, I can just ask DS for flourishes plus CTMH and that brings them up easily! Yes, I know itās a little more work when youāre uploading them to DS, but let me promise you it is so worth it for future ease!!
***If there are any collections you loved, please go look under my CTMH shopping site B4 the end of the day April 30th & go to SHOP>DIGITAL ART & look thru & grab what you want!! If you want to help me get credit for those, you must submit your order b4 the end of the day on April 30th at midnight MOUNTAIN TIME. You will still have until June 15th to get them downloaded from the CTMH website to your own computer (but please donāt wait until the last minuteš!!). And because these are digital files, there obviously is no shipping on them.
OK, I will have a shopping link as of May 1st for my Stampinā Up site, but I will have a better one thatās easier to get to probably right around the 3rd or 4th of May, when I go set up my business site with STAMPINā UP & as soon as I get that official business site link, I will post it over here for you.
I truly hope all all of you here will follow me over there and continue to be my customers. I canāt tell you what your patronage has meant to me over the years and I hope it will continue going forward.
I love all of you, thank you for everything and I look forward to seeing you over at STAMPINā UP!!ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
