***GIVEAWAY CLOSED. Teresa #347 is the lucky winner!***
Late in July I got an email from HowDoesShe.com asking if I’d like to try a Silhouette Craft Cutter and give one away on my blog… the week of September 23. My first reaction?
“Hi Missy — I’ve been away from my email. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The Silhouette sounds like an amazing product, and it would be so much fun to try one out. But… I’m due to have my 4th baby in the “middle of September” so I don’t want to overcommit. I just don’t know if I can be crafty and have a baby all at the same time.
Thanks so much for thinking of me, though!”
I bailed.
Then they emailed me again. After second-guessing myself, I replied:
“Hi Missy — I originally declined your offer because my 4th baby is due around September 15-20th, but I’m really regretting that decision. Wondering if we can work something out. If I could get the Silhouette early, perhaps I could play around with it and make a few things before baby arrives? I don’t want to miss any deadlines… maybe I could have the giveaway post written up in my drafts before I go into labor? My readers would be SO EXCITED about this. Let me know what you think.”
Uh-huh. Joke’s on me. They sent the Silhouette early, and my Silhouette remains in its box. My grand plans of making “Big Brother,” “Big Sister,” and “Baby Brother” shirts for baby’s birthday… didn’t happen. I’ve still got grand plans, though!
The Silhouette can make custom apparel. I’m thinking some family team shirts would be fun! Something like this:
And Christmas gifts? Using the vinyl decor setting, I could easily snag some cast-off tiles at a home improvement store and make these:
With a little imagination and some paper crafting, I could turn regular ol’ cupcakes into Mom of the Year cupcakes for my children’s class parties:
The scrapbooking, the glass etching, the card making… the possibilities are endless! Just as soon as I come out of my sleep-deprived newborn survival mode, I’ll get right on that!
The Silhouette is a digital cutting tool for personal use. It connects to your computer just like a printer, but instead of printing designs it cuts them with a small blade. With the machine connected to your computer, you’ll get access to all of the fonts on your PC plus the thousands of cuttable designs found on the Silhouette Online Store.
One of YOU is going to win a FREE Silhouette, but if you don’t want to chance the giveaway, here are a couple of excellent deals you can get in on by using my code, FINER. (After you enter the code, the discounts and freebies will show up in your basket.)
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1) AWESOME PROMO (running from September 23rd through September 30th at midnight)
Buy a machine and receive the following:
- $50 off the Silhouette Craft Cutter
- fuzzy white vinyl (Valued at $7.99)
- light blue smooth heat transfer (Valued at 14.99)
- yellow flocked heat transfer (Valued at $14.99)
- Home Décor CD (Valued at $50)
- $10 Gift Card to the Silhouette Download Store (Comes in the box)
- Cutting Blade (Comes in the box)
- 2 Cutting Mats (Comes in the box)
All for $249.99
A Savings of $137.97
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2) GOOD PROMO (running from October 1st through 4th at midnight)
Buy a machine and receive the following:
- $50 off (receive for $249.99)
- 2 rolls of Heat transfer ($29.89 value)
- $10 Gift Card to the Silhouette Download Store(Comes in the Box)
- Cutting Blade (Comes in the Box)
- 2 Cutting Mats(Comes in the Box)
All for $249.99
A savings of $79.98
*** Remember to enter FINER at checkout to get your discounts!***
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Aaaannnndddd, on to the GIVEAWAY! Silhouette is giving one of my readers
A Silhouette Machine!!! (a $299.99 value) Plus…
- Software for Windows XP/Vista, Mac
- Power cable, USB cable
- 2 Cutting mats (one for thick media, one for thin media)
- One cutting blade
- $10 gift card to the Silhouette Online Store
***To enter the giveaway, simply tell me the first thing you’d make with your new Silhouette!***
If you’d like an extra entry or two (or three!), share this giveaway (with a link to this post) on twitter, facebook, or your own blog and leave a separate comment for each place you shared it.
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Winner will be chosen (by random.org) and announced on Thursday, September 30. Winner must have a United States shipping address. My Silhouette for review and the giveaway were given to me for free from the Silhouette company. No other compensation was given for this post.
I’d love to make some vinyl projects! Hmm… labels!
hmm.. hard to decide! I think vinyl decor for my walls.
I think those cupcakes are awesome. They would have to be my first experiment. Although I think if I won this, I would have to give it to my mom for an early Christmas present. She is very creative, and I’m sure she would make way cooler stuff on it than me.
I’d make a family name sign with vinyl. and then vinyl labels for my glass food storage. oooh then lots more stuff!!
Wow, how fun would this be!!!!
Glad to see that it works with a Mac. I would so love to get back into my scrapbooking that it would be fun to make some great titles with the silhouette. But I may need to make some of those cute cupcake holders first!!! 
Since the holidays are right around the corner, I’d make some kickin’ greeting cards and gift tags
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I would love a Silhouette! I would start with quotes for my walls!
I loved the cupcake wrappers, but I also loved the tiles, hard to decide…
Wow, this is very cool. With Christmas coming, I’d like to use it to make somoe gifts- your ideas were great- shirts, decorative plates with the glass etching, or vinyl decorations.
I would make a personalized birthday banner for my daughter’s first birthday!
I live in Mexico, but my Mom is coming in November, (haven’t seen her in 2 years) so…I’d spend time making Christmas presents with her! Ooohh we’d have lots of fun!!!
I would love to win this! And my first project would be a vinyl sign for my laundry room…I’ve been wanting one in there for so long!
would love to try my hand at homemade Christmas gifts with this baby…maybe some cool tiles?
I’m most excited about the vinyl! Thanks for the chance!
Wow! This sounds like a great machine! I would be working on my daughters scrapbooks that I started a while ago (I don’t even want to say how many years ago). But I’m finally getting into the groove of doing it and this would really help. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I would first make a sign for my son’s nursery. I have been wanting to put I Sam 1:27 up in there. Then I would get started on Christmas gifts…unlimited opportunities!!
I think I would make family tee shirts. This machine sounds like a lot of fun.
I would love to use it to decorate with vinyl….
I’d probably start with some vinyl decals for my walls but quickly move on to many other projects.
I’d love to use it to scrapbook about my new granddaughter.
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I would love to decorate some homemade journals with a Silhouette!
I would start with a vinyl wall decal that I’ve been wanting to do for our schoolroom. What an awesome giveaway, this would be so great to have in our home! Thanks for the chance.
I would LOVE to make some vinyl wall sayings for my entry way and actually for all over my house!
I would make a Scripture verse for our family room wall.
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Would love to have fun with this! I think a sweet 16 birthday shirt for my girl would be in order!
definately some cute outfits for my first granddaughter, she is a month old now and need some more clothes that show her how much grandma adores her!
My daughter is having a yard sale as a fundraiser for her National Honor Society trip and something tells me this machine could help us make some really cool signs announcing the yard sale!!
I would make the cupcake covers – or whatever the actual name is. LOL!
I would recover all my house with vinyl text and decoratiions: walls, storage. I’ll begin with the children’s room.
I would love to make some vinyl signs for my kid’s room.
I would start right away using it to prepare Christmas gifts for our family! Tnank you for this opportunity!
I would do some vinyl for the walls in the bathroom that I’m re-doing.
I have so many ideas for ways that I could use this, but my first project would have to be glass etching. I’d like to make a spice rack with matching jars and put the name of the spice on the glass. This would be perfect. PLEASE PICK ME!!!
Monogrammed onesies for my daughter
The first thing I would make are some wonderful Christmas crafts! Homemade gifts are the best gifts and this would really come in handy this holiday season…not to mention, the 30th is my birthday so that would be a wonderful (free!) gift to myself
I would start with stencils for Halloweent shirts and follow that up with some cup cake wrappers
This is something I would love to have but would never feel I could justify. I love the vinyl things, but I sew and cook, so it would probably be a toss up between the cupcake wrappers or something similar or something for clothes. I love that O Holy Night example you included! What a wonderful Christmas gift that would be!
First thing??? Hmmmmm…..I want a monogram for the glass door, welcome on the front door, something for the in-the-midst-of-remodeling bathroom, ghosts for the front windows, chandy for daughter’s room, Ts for the kids, etc, etc, etc. First thing likely would be the monogram as it would be easy to learn on.
I would love this. The first thing would be to make vinyl letters for a project on canvas!
I love this! I’ve been dreaming about getting some cutouts for my wall. This is perfect. And gift ideas! Wowzers!
Wow! the possibilities with that thing! What would I make first? Maybe something on clothes for my girls.
aside from the fact that I can’t stop thinking about those cupcake liners – the first thing I’d make would probably be actual silhouettes – been wanting to do those of the kids for my in laws
I would make some new cool tshirts for my homeschool!
I’d make stencils for the walls- I love whimsical little pictures on walls, but I’m not very good at drawing/painting!
The first thing I would make is our Advent Calendar for this year – it’s a project that I’ve been wanting to make for a LONG time and I’ve wanted a cutting machine… The Silhouette would be above and beyond my wishes!!
I need to get started on my Christmas cards.
I think the first thing I would make would be shirts for my kids. An owl shirt for my daughter (she was named after my great-grandmother who collected owls). Some Mario design for my oldest son, robot for my second boy, and dragon/dinosaur for my third boy.
Whoa!! What an awesome giveaway! I would make wall cutouts because we’re moving soon and I will need to re-decorate my kids’ rooms!
I would love to make some shirts for Christmas Gifts or even the tile decor you showed! That looks really neat and I would love to personalize those for family and friends for great Christmas gifts! I often opt for only homemade gifts so this would come in handy for that. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Oh…the family team t-shirts is an AWESOME idea! I’d make them as Christmas gifts for the family!
I have been lusting over the Silhouette for months now!
If I won, I would make some vinyl words/letters to decorate the house.
Would love to make some tshirts and then some personal Christmas cards.
Yep sign me up for some vinyl projects too!!
This machine is awesome!!!
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Winning a Silhouette would be awesome. Hummm, the first thing I would make would probably be a scrapbook page or two, or maybe a card, since I’m addicted to papercrafting.
Oh goodness! I wouldnt even know where to begin! Maybe the first thing I’d do is write out a favorite verse in vinyl to put in my living room. I can think of lots of projects i can do with it and would love the chance to experiment and play!
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The very first thing I would make are vinyl wall decorations. I’ve always wanted to to decorate my nephews’ bedroom but picture frames don’t exactly do well in a room full of rough & tumble boys.
What a fun looking product. My teenage girls & I would go nuts with the Silhouette. I am especially excited about doing vinyl decor.
I’m dying to get one of these! The first thing I would make would either be something vinyl or a t-shirt.
Wow, this would definitely make my current scrapbooking project fly by! Definitely would use it to help me document our family vacation to Alaska.
My imagination is already running wild!! First project… finally doing something with my bedroom, 2 years after moving in to our house! geesh.
I would make a big brother t-shirt for my 3 year old as we are expecting our second baby in a couple months. That would be so awesome!!
I would make Team football shirts for football season get togethers!
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I would love to make some funny saying onsies and little brother/ big sister shirts. Had all intentions of doing these as iron ons (even scrapped the print outs already) until my little one decided he wanted me on bedrest at 32 weeks and arrived at 34 wks (9/11/10).
I have been wanting one of these FOREVER. The first think I would do would use it for homeschooling. So many things I could create with it!!! Then I would move onto Christmas presents/cards and tags!!! Oh yea my sons 5th birthday is coming up so I am SURE I could find something to use it for that
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I would make all my Christmas gifts!!! This would be wonderful!
Oh, I would love to make some vinyl quotes for the wall- I’ve been meaning to order some for awhile now, but making my own would be much cooler!
I would make some vinyl designs for tiles and my wall.
I am not very craft but I would love to try making the vinyl project on the tiles-great idea!
Something with the vinyl decor setting – my house needs some decorations! And Christmas is coming up!!!
I would love to make some vinyl wall sayings for my house!
Christmas presents!!!
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I have been intrigued with the vinyl projects you can make with the Silhouette.
Baking season is around the corner… first thing, the cute cupcake holders and other containers for our goodies…. orrr, my teenagers would take control, and I wouldn’t ever get to touch it!!!
Christmas ornaments! How cute would that be?
I don’t know what I would make because I am new to scrapbooking, but those cupcake wraps are really cute!!!
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I think it would be fun to make cards and do projects using vinyl.
Oh I would love to make some shirts for my boys! Maybe even family shirts for a christmas card. Then Christmas presents for all!
I could start my son’s scrapbook — stickers are expensive!
I want one of these SOOOOOO bad! I would make vinyl wall art first, then christmas cards and gifts. My family loves handmade gifts and this would be great for me to do so!
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I would make some cards for Christmas or maybe a sign for my boys bedroom!
I would make big sister t-shirts, and christmas gifts, oh the christmas gifts. I need one!!!!!
I’m a scrapbooker and I LOVE the creative titles the Silhouette makes. That would be the first thing I would make. I have just the page in mind and a Silhouette title would be perfect!
I REALLY want to make some vinyl letters to stick in picture frames to spell out “Family”
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AHH!! I’m so jealous!! First thing I would make is a paper craft – cupcake liners!!
I’ve been waiting to finish the family chore chart…I would start on that!
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Oh wow! I would definitely do some scripture on the walls.
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I would make some adorable tile coasters! Or maybe some cute wall art for my boys!
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I would love to try some projects with vinyl!
i would have so much fun with this! i’d start out by doing iron on shirts, for my new baby girl & her big sister!
Oh, my!!! Now that my Mac and I would be able to hook up with a Silhouette…..woooowwweee! First up: etched glass monograms for my glass vases and apothecary jars! Yippee! : )
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Vinyl decor for the bathroom and laundry room.
This would be so much fun! First, something vinyl for over my son’s crib, “I love my big/little brother” and “My brother is my hero” t-shirts, and then I think some of those tiles would be great for gifts!
The cute cupcake wrappers. My daughter is pregnant and we ae having a very girly tea party baby shower.
Lots of things, but the shirt set up would be a blast!!
this looks neat! I think i’d use it to decorate shirts to match handmade pajama pants for my kids for christmas.
The first thing I would do its iron ons for the kids! They would love for me to make them some cute decorated shirts:)
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I would attempt to make something for my beautiful wife.
I would make a bunch of birthday, wedding, and new baby cards!!
I’d love to make a tshirt for my brand new baby nephew who was born earlier this week. He lives a thousand miles away but in my thoughts all the time! I would send him a personalized shirt from his 2 little cousins, my 4 and 2 year old.
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Awesome machine. I would try something vinyl.
So excited! i was thinking a welcome vinyl for my door…or a birthday pennant banner….or i love that cute pic of the tshirt (w/#’s on back)! too many choices, so much fun to be had! Pick me RANDOM.ORG,pick me!!!
Oh how exciting!! I think I would make “Daddy’s fishing buddy” shirts for my girls first!!
Wow, I would love to win one of these!! The first thing I’d make is probably some vinyl wall art for a photo wall.
I would love to make some vinyl wall decor and labels for my house (heaven knows I need more organization!)
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I would make some vinyl decorations for my daughter’s room. We are redecorating her room because I guess her 3 year old decorations don’t work for a 7 year old!
I would LOVE, LOVE to win this! I have been wanting to make some decorations and sayings for years but haven’t been able to afford “Uppercase Living” goodies. The first thing I would make would be a small design or wording to place over a canvas of my two children running in a field. The canvas is beautiful but really needs something to finish off the space!
I would definately make some wall cut outs. I have committal issues with putting things on my walls. By making vinyl things I can slap them on and off with my ever changing moods!
Wow..so hard to choose. Loved the cupcake holders – I think that would be my first project then some Christmas presents. This is so great. Thanks for re-considering.
I would love to win one!
I would be cranking out the vinyl projects!
I would make holiday decorations with the kids.
I make labels for everything in my life…papers, bills, books, kitchen cabinets, my classroom…everything!
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I think I would make the lettering for some “I’m the big sister” T-Shirts for my 3 nieces that are getting a baby brother around Thanksgiving . . . and vinyl writing for the wall, and cards, and . . . oh so much more! Super great giveaway! Thank you!
T-shirts, for sure!
I’d love to make those “Big Brother”, “Bigger Sister”, “Big Sister” AND “New Baby” shirts (we don’t know what we’re having in January!). i’d be such a neat thing to have! Thanks for the chance!
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I would LOVE to make some decorative things for the upcoming holidays to add to my already out of control stash! Thanks for the offer!
I really want to try the vinyl. I have seen so many cute projects.
Oh my gosh – how absolutely neat! I think I might start on Christmas things!! Cards, doo dads…who knows!!!!
I’d make a decal that says “Grandma Rules.” I saw it on a car and thought it was great.
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I have been dying to make some custom faith based and political bumper stickers. It seems like this machine would be just what I need! It would also come in handy in my art classroom and Sunday School classes! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love the tiles, they would make great Christmas gifts!\
I could think of a whole lot of thing I could use this for. Gift tags, phrase wall hangings, etc. This would be so cool It would really put me in the crafty mood. Thank you for the chance to win.
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I’d love to try the tile idea…..probably lots of cards too!!
I think that I’d go crazy labeling everything!
I’m all about making some decorations for my walls!
I would love this! I would do the cupcakes for my grandchildren and make up a new bulletin board for my Sunday School class
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I would make vinyl designs for all over my house!!!
I would love to make some vinyl wall decor for my bare walls in the living room! We’ve lived here over 2 years and I hardly have anything on the walls! I also want to make some fun Christmas gifts for family members!
I would probably start with some vinyl projects as we recently moved and need to decorate. What a neat craft!
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I would consult with Myra for some good, creative idea… and roll with that.
First thing – Christmas decorations!
Looks like there is so much you can do, I would make t-shirts with my husbands business logo on them. THanks for the giveaway.
Probably some sort of vinyl project. I’m fascinated with the stuff!
I’d probably make some Christmas presents with it. I love that tile.
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I would make christmas cards and Presents!!!!!
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I would love to make T-Shirts for my daughter!
I would love to make family t-shirts for my parent’s 40th wedding anniversary party next year.
I would make wall decor for the nursery I just found out that I’m going to need =)
Gosh, what WOULDN’T I make may be an easier question!! My high school sons are always seeming to paint their bodies up for various soccer games, football games, etc. My first project would probably be to make them t-shirts to wear instead. Would likely be cheaper than all that body paint, not to mention easier on my tub drains!
I would make tshirts for my kiddos!
I would glass etch some gifts for Christmas! Super excited for this giveaway!!!
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the first thing I would try is the cupcake papers. I’ve just started baking different kinds in hopes of having a small side job. The cute papers would def give me an edge.
Or, I would finish up my sons’ 2 year scrapbook. I’ve got 18 days to get it finished!
I I like the tile idea, but I would make coasters for gifts!
Cupcakes! They’re so cute. . . .
First of many projects…..cupcake wrappers for my daughters birthday!
I’d make some vinyl decor for my kids’ rooms.
Oh, so hard to decide…creating stencils for glass etching sounds cooool! Maybe some monogrammed glass candle holders for Christmas gifts…
My daughter’s 4th birthday is coming up–love to make some custom decorations for her big day!
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The first thing I would make would be decor for the millions of thank you cards I need to make, ok not millions but it feels that way
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Oh My Gosh!!! I really need some luck in life right now! I would do so much with this machine!! Crafts Galore…the possibilites are rolling around in my head..LOL…I guess If I had to pick one right now….I’d just have so much fun with the Vinyl!!
I just found out that I am expecting our 6th child. I want to create a special annoucement to share with our friends and family and this would be the perfect tool to help me do that.
Hard to decide what to do first! It all looks like fun. It would be great for school projects and crafting with my kids.
My friend and I were just discussing the advantages of the Silhouette! The first thing I’d make would be a vinyl “welcome” sign for my front door. We just purchased our first house and I’m sl0wly working to make it our home…!
I would love to make some shirts for my children’s sports teams.
I would use vinyl to make inspirational sayings to put on our hallways at school. It’s a Christian school, so I think a Bible verse would be first!
I love making cupcakes and those adorable cupcake wraps would make the perfect finishing touch!
I would make some wall vinyl words first, but oh my! I love the family team shirts. I need to make those too!
cute t-shirts for my little one or quotes for my walls!
I would love to make the vinyl decorations!
i would use it to make the wall arts and the tiles
Oh wow, would I love to win this! The first thing I would make would be shirts for my 4 kids to cheer on their Daddy’s football team. Thanks for the chance at this great give-away!
wow, would love to make birthday cards and templates for glass etching on my kitchen jars!
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I’d love to win one!! The first thing I would try would be to cut something in vinyl for the wall in my family room. 
I would make wall decor!!!
I think I’d make “big brother” t-shirts for my boys (to announce #3′s arrival) – which isn’t yet, but we are hoping soon!
I would make some vinyl sayings for my house as my first project. It is such an awesome machine!
I would make cusom t’s using the heat transfer!!
I would make favors/decorations for my daughter’s 5th b-day next month.
This sounds amazing! I would love to make some vinyl writing for my walls!
I would love to make the tiles. I have some ideas for how I would use them for various holidays.
Something for my daughter’s walls. I’m finally going to re-paint her room (she’s been asking for months), after her new baby sister is born in 2 months.
I would definitely start with some vinyl wall decor!
I would love to make vinyl wall decor!
Oh how fun that would be! A friend of mine has one of those Cricket cutters, and it just looks like a ball of fun. I’d finally be able to get started on the boys’ scrapbooks. I’ve been collecting my favorite photos and miscellaneous memory items, but I haven’t started the books yet.