American Greetings Crafts Deluxe

by Mindscape

Product Features

• Deluxe Features * Brand new craft designs & types! * 3D Puzzles * Costumes * Gift Enclosures * Package Decorations * Paper Dolls & Towns * Pinwheels * Desk Plaques * And many more!
• * 200,000+ craft possibilities! * Exclusive art, verse & characters from American Greetings * Easy Creativity with ready-to-print projects
• To Use American Greetings Crafts! Deluxe You Will Need: * Windows 95 or Windows 98 * 486/66 MHz or faster * 16 MB of RAM * 30 MB free hard disk space * SVGA video card supporting 256 colors * 2X CD-ROM drive
• Optional: * 14,400 kbps modem for internet access * 12 MB free hard disk space for Internet browser installation * Sound card and speakers * Printer

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S5PT
• Item model number: 113168
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,204 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Creating crafts has never been easier. Search through the ready-made crafts, categorized by type, occasion, or keyword. American Greetings has done the hard work--all you have to do is personalize, print, and assemble.

Easily personalize your workspace. It is easy to edit text, adjust or add pictures, and add sentiments. Onscreen tutorials and printed assembly instructions come with every craft, so there's no guesswork.

Product Description

Comes with: * 192 page (plus appendices) American Greetings Crafts! Deluxe User's Guide * 1 program disk and instructions * 1 Design Art Collection CD which includes 5,000 additional pieces of art to add to your projects! * 1 disk entitled Art & More Store which includes gorgeous Add-On Packs featuring the world's most famous art and characters * Invent It! specialty papers for spectacular print quality - Sample Pack

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Full of Bugs! Frustrating!, February 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: American Greetings Crafts Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I really do like this product, only I have found this version, the Deluxe one, to be full of programming bugs. I have to reinstall it occasionally, for no apparent reason. It often takes 3 or more tries to get the program to run. The CD won't read half of the time when I'm on my Dad's computer. (sometimes it does, but when I'm on a deadline, like right NOW, it just DIES on me.) It won't display thumbnails of my own projects 50% of the time when I'm trying to open them. When I scroll through the "your own projects gallery" the program crashes. Spool time to my top of the line Epson printer is over 2 hours for a page with 2 simple postcards.

There are no true help files included with the program. There are no online bulletin boards for tech support that I can find anywhere. If you want to call Tech Support, you have to do it during "normal business hours" on weekdays only, and there is NO 800 number, so you have to pay for the long distance call yourself. Of all the products in this particular line, this one is the least supported.

A friend was on a deadline for her business, and when the program crashed and wouldn't come back, she was told by tech support that she needed to buy more add-ons from them to make it work.

Maybe I will have better luck (luck is the operative word) with the Crafts 2 program. The program can do some really neat stuff, when it chooses to work.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best home card-maker, October 3, 2000

By A Customer

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: American Greetings Crafts Deluxe (CD-ROM)

This program is great. Kids love the "crafts" like masks and three-dimensional package tags, but for my money, the best feature of this program is the unique greeting cards you can make with light-weight card stock. There are photo cards, cut out cards, over-size cards, pop-up cards, slider cards . . . features like these put this one head and shoulders above most other card maker programs. The program is a little cumbersome to use, always returning to the "start" screen in between previews of projects, and there are several categories of projects that consist only of "ads" for add-on packages, which is annoying. Overall, though, this is a great program.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, August 1, 2000

By 

Michelle a Crafter (Wyoming) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American Greetings Crafts Deluxe (CD-ROM)

This program is wonderful! If you have some computer smarts and love to craft...this is the product for you! You can design your own really neat stuff like gift bags, mobiles, masks, pop up cards...etc. Or you can use the already made items and add your own personalization. It's Wonderful! And the people you give the gifts too will be amazed and delighted at how talented you are!