It's finally here and a video for you

Big news in the land of cricut today. ProvoCraft finally finally got the much awaited (a few years now) gypsy linking to Cricut craft room yesterday.

The letter they sent out said the following:

"April 16, 2013

Dear Cricut Gypsy™ owner,
Gypsy linking is here! We're happy to announce that you can now upload content from your Cricut Gypsy™ device to your account in the Cricut Craft Room® design software. Here's how:
Make sure you have the latest versions of Cricut Craft Room® and Cricut Sync.Connect your Cricut Gypsy™ device to your computer and follow the prompts to update the firmware.Open the latest version of Cricut Craft Room®, agree to the linking Terms and Conditions, and then sync and uplink your cartridges.

That's it! After you link your Cricut Gypsy™ device to your Cricut Craft Room® account, you will be able to access the cartridges on your device in Cricut Craft Room®—and vice-versa! For more information, visit our FAQ page. We've put detailed, step-by-step instructions there, too.
If you're not familiar with the Cricut Craft Room® design software, now's the time to link your Cricut Gypsy™ device and try it out! Just like your Cricut Gypsy™ device, Cricut Craft Room® lets you drag and drop your images onto the virtual cutting mat design away—size, slant, weld, rotate, flip, or stretch to make your perfect image.
If you're not familiar with the Cricut Craft Room® design software, now's the time to link your Cricut Gypsy™ device and try it out! Just like your Cricut Gypsy™ device, Cricut Craft Room® lets you drag and drop your images onto the virtual cutting mat design away—size, slant, weld, rotate, flip, or stretch to make your perfect image.
We'd like to give you a $20 credit to purchase digital images and try Cricut Craft Room® and Gypsy linking for yourself. Just shop for digital content on Cricut.com—when you check out, you'll see your credit in the shopping cart. Then log in to Cricut Craft Room® using your Cricut.com account information and you'll be able to start using your images. Any unused portion of the $20 credit will expire on May 17, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. MST, so hurry and start shopping now!
We know that the wait for Gypsy linking has been long—we appreciate your patience and are confident that you will find it worth the wait!
Thank you,
The Cricut Circle™ Team"

I also wanted to share this post from the cricut message boards:

"While we are dedicated to providing ongoing support and repair options for the Cricut Gypsy™ device, we have made the decision to stop production on the current Cricut Gypsy™ model. This will allow us to focus our efforts and prioritize our product offering. We will still offer support and content updates for the Cricut Gypsy™ device."

I've had quite a few people ask questions about it so.... I took a few screen shots of how to check your cricut.com account for the credit and I made a video of everything I had to do start to finish (mostly in fast forward since YouTube doesn't allow hour and a half videos LOL) to get my gypsy linked up to CCR for my cartridges to show up in CCR that were only on my gypsy before.

To check your Cricut.com account for a $20 credit: 

• Log into your Cricut.com account and then follow the 3 steps in the photo

• If the credit is there make sure you use it up as it expires May 18, 2013!!

View the video here:

Please pass this link for the video http://youtu.be/8NPl4trWfA4 on to any you think would benefit. 

If you have any questions please ask (remember if you ask in a comment to please leave a way for me to answer you back as blogger does not share your contact info with me when you comment unless you put it in there).