***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 think my desire for a Silhouette has turned from a want to a need. Do you think I could convince my husband? (Well, if it were free, he’d be totally happy to have it in our home…)
I think I need to do heat transfers first – my wardrobe would look much nicer than it does currently with just a bunch of plain Ts.
I would make something for my walls. Or start in on Xmas and make stuff for family and friends!!!
I want one of these so bad I am drooling. What would I make first? Probably a hybrid box, because it’s easy, but it would get no rest!!
I have wanted a Silhouette for quite a while. I would like to try everything, although my top three are: make table decorations for my son who is getting married next year, make a banner for my grandchild who is to be born in April, and try glass etching! I would love it ALL!
I would make t-shirts for my kids and the other family that we hang out with that has four kids as well. Eight kids between the two families is a lot to keep track of on a playground. We have talked about making shirts alike for all of them so that’s what I would do first.
I’d make cutouts for my son’s room! It would be great…and he’d love it.
What a cool giveaway…thanks for reconsidering it
Heather
Vinyl cutouts for my new baby boy’s room! And maybe a few for the big sisters as well
I think I’d try the etched glass! Love this!
I’d make a giant vinyl ‘B’ (for our last name) to hang on our entry way wall.
I would make the cute tiles as shown for some Christmas presents as well as vinyl names for our daughters rooms and some other vinyl sayings as gifts for family and friends!
No wall would be safe from the vinyl letters! How very fun!!! Thanks for the giveaway.
I would definitely make this year’s Christmas cards. What an awesome product!
I would totally use this little machine for VINYL! I’ve been drooling over it for sometime and Christmas just seems sooooo far away! I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed!
I posted a link on FB!
I would start making some Christmas gifts and crafts if I won, which I would love to win!!!!!!!!!
I would love to start off with some vinyl projects for my walls & then get some things done in my scrapbooks.
I would love to make some t-shirts and tattoos for my boys!
I would love to etch some glass vases.
I think I would make tile wallhangings with a few of my favorite Bible verses…
I would make cupcake liner covers for my daughter’s Halloween party at school!
I would LOVE to win! I design papercraft templates, so I would use this for my business! Perfect!
It looks so cool! I’d definitely do vinyl cutting first – I need some quotes for my walls!
I would use it for headings in my scrapbook.
I would make Christmas presents for sure!
Halloween decorations would be fun to make with the Silhouette! Possibilities are unlimited and fun, too.
Pick me! Pick me! I’d make favor tags and banners! Such fun!
What an amazing machine! I would finish off my boys’ baby books first, then try out the glass etching. How fun!
There are so many cute things to make, but I think the first would be a couple of custom t shirts for my daughter.
I’d probably make some sort of Christmas presents with it. yay! Thanks for the chance to win!!
I would make cute scrapbook pages for my family scrapbook!
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My little man is turning 1 on October 12th! I am so excited. We are also having family pictures done soon after that and I would love to make the team shirts for our family for that!
I would also love to create some fun crafty items for Thanksgiving and Christmas! It would be so awesome to win this.
Thanks so much for the chance Amy!
Momma to 3
*Shay B*
vinyl letters
What an amazing giveaway! I would love to try making my daughter a shirt.
I’d have to try out some of those Mom-of-the-Year cupcake holders! As a second option, we are going to be a homeschooling family next year and I could see many school room decorations and art projects produced by a professional!
I would make Christmas cards!
Oh my goodness, where to start…this looks so amazing. First would be T-shirts for my daughter, then cupcake wrappers….and on and on and on. Thanks!
I would do some paper crafting (which I never heard of before) and make some awesome Christmas presents!
How Fun! Can it make quotes for your walls? I would LOVE to do that!
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Cupcakes for sure, and then holiday decorations. Thanks, and I so hope I will win.
this would make creating special baby quilts, clothing, etc an easy task!!!
I would make some vinyl decor for my walls…
I’d love to make some cute shirts or wall art! Such a cool machine!
I’d make labels
I would love to make some vinyl phrases to put on the walls in my home!
I would make some words for my wall, my first thought would be to do something for my bedroom walls.
I would make a First Birthday onesie with a cupcake on it for my little girl!
I would do some cut-out things for my bathroom. I’m redoing and have some decor items!
I love a good party and there are so many things I could use this for to help with the decor: cupcake liners, banners, personalized tableware and favors. So many ideas!
The first thing I’d use the machine for is to make scrapbooking pages for my first baby AND the one I’m pregnant with as I write this.
I would love to make some vinyl decor.
I would make Christmas presents! This looks so cool.
I’d make some of those awesome cupcake wrappers. You are right, they take “nice” cupcakes and make them extraordinary! Thanks for the chance to win.
The first thing I’d do with my silhouette: KISS IT! Brand spankin’ new, right out o’ the box – ok, maybe I’d even kiss the BOX!
Then, I’d scrapbook and make homeschool materials and make t-shirts and make things for the house!
Oh, it would be wonderful – most certainly a FINER THING!
I would make a beautiful cut out for a Thank You card for the nice lady doing the give away. : ) Then I would make paper cut outs for my scrapbook stuff.
This looks like fun!
Cutouts for scout activities and celebrations came to mind first~ So cool.
Wendy
Definitely family shirts for our reunion in November!
I would love to use it for vinyl decor!
I would make a sign for our homeschool room…already tried using computer printout, but it just isn’t going to cut it (hahaha) for the length of my board. Thanks for the chance and congrats on the baby.
The 5 plus vinyl quotes I’d like to put on my walls but am to cheap to buy!
Definitely homemade Christmas gifts… I’m thinking t-shirts would be up there. I’d have to share with my crafty MIL, though, and who knows what she’d come up with! Thanks for the chance, Amy, and I got a good tee-hee over the timing of all this. :>)
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Oh I’d make cards and shirts and and and…I LOVE cutting! ME ME ME! PLEEEZE…..!
I would make some wall art with scripture. This look soo cool
This looks like fun. I would make my husband a t-shirt saying.
I would totally get caught up on my scrapbook pages–they are way behind! Thanks for the great giveaway!
it’s hard to decide on one idea. I’d use it for scrapbooking or for matching t-shirts for the whole family or for labeling things in my preschool classroom. Can you imagine how much fun you could have with that?
I’d scrapbook my kids baby books that I’ve been meaning to get to:)
Definitely make vinyl Christmas presents, maybe on tile like the cut-out. What a neat giveaway!
WOW! What a cool giveaway!
First thing I would make with one of these puppies is those awesome cupcake wrappers! I’m a cake decorator and I have a little girl who is turning 6 next month… ’nuff said!
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I would use the heat transfers to make t-shirts for my son’s new Eagle Scout Frat. They have no money and want t-shirts like the other frats. Thanks for hosting.
Oh, I really want to win this one! I’d make Christmas cards right away & then do a ton of scrapbooking!!!
First thing I would make are etched glass picture frames! One for everyone I love! This thing is great! I love it and need one!
Oh my–whatever my mom wants! This has her name written all over it. I’m sure something for scrapbooking.
I would love vinyl for my walls! Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
I would make letters so that I could put Scripture throughout our house.
I have been drooling over this machine for a while now. I want one so bad! I want to use it for creating titles for my scrapbook layouts but I love the etched glass idea too! So many possibilities!
I would love to win this! I love to do crafty things and scrapbook, so I would use it for all kinds of things. The first thing I would make with it would probably be some type of Christmas gifts, or a specialized shirt for my daughter. She’s always wanting a shirt that says something unique that I would never find in a millions years, like “I Don’t Like Baked Beans” or something else really random!
I would love to make personalized onesies for all my friends having babies!
I would love to try vinyl, I really would. That is the first of many things I would do. Thanks!
I would make some vinyl cutouts for my back door window for some needed privacy from my neighbors. Thank you for the great giveaway.
I’d start etching my name on the bottom of my glass baking dishes!
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So much fun!!! I have sooooo many things I would love to do! Probably the first thing would be to start my Christmas gifts. I have seen a ton of great hand crafted gifts that I want to recreate
I would love to be able to make my own vinyl decor-so many walls, so many choices!
I would get the creative juices flowing (oh what fun !) and make wall art for my soon-to-be born grandson.
thank you,
Donna
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Oh my Goodness! What first?? T-shirts, vinyl art, cupcake liners? I would love love love love to try this out! Thanks for the chanc!
I’d love to make vinyl decals!
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the first thing I would make is something fun for halloween:)
I’d make baby onesies!!!
I’d make some temporary tattoos for football season, then try something with vinyl. I’ve been dying to work with vinyl and I just love the Silhouette! Awesome giveaway!
Matching onesies for my twins!
I would love to make some vinyl projects for Christmas presents!
I would make shirts for my kids! I had good intentions of making a big brother shirt for my son….yet 3 months later I have yet to start that task!
I would love to make some custom onsies an t~shirts for my 7 month old!
This is so cool. Thanks!! I would use it for appliques on my quilts! OR Maybe use it for my scrapbooks…oh the possibilities.
I would start with vinyl and glass etching. My son’s room is screaming to be decorated and I would no longer have any excuses!
Thanks for hosting this
I think I would start with vinyl lettering for containers or walls, then t-shirts, and then everything else it can do!!
Hmmm. I think the first thing I would make would be some vinyl lettering for my son’s nursery, and then a whole bunch of gifts for others! It would be so fun.
Would love to make some homemade cards. Thanks for the giveaway!!
OH MY!!!! The projects i could do with this machine, I don’t know where I would start. I have been thinking about it for 30 seconds and 10 project come to mind. I think first I would do the glass etching and organize my pantry. All the christmas gifts, personal birthday cards, the list is endless. I would love to win one of these and I will definately share with my friends……
Invites, vinyl for the house, scrapbooking goodies, the ideas are endless. I need this!
Oh wow, scrapbooking & card making are my passion! I would have to try that out first!
Oh, tough call: I would definitely put it to great use making lovely vinyl word art for our walls, followed closely by those adorable cupcake holders!!!!
I would love to do some Vinyl lettering! But with Christmas coming – so many other things to be made!!!
I would definitely use this for scrapbooking!
I want to replace the glass in my front door and do a custom etching w/my name and address on it.
Squeeee!!! I would start off with some vinyl letters for my home!
I’d love to try the cupcake wrappers!
The first thing I would is etch my casserole dishes I take with me to other people’s houses
I would use their heat transfer stuff to make shirts for my bff and I to wear while training for the Breast Cancer 3 Day.
I would totally make t-shirts, wall art, and label for everything!! I love all that the Silhouette can do! So exciting!
i think i would go on a card making spree
just in time for the holidays!
I’d love to use it with heat transfer vinyl to make cools shirts and such
I would love to do some tattoos! what a cool idea!
The first thing I would make would be decals for my children’s doors. I’m not sure yet whether I would do monograms or names, maybe both and see which I like best. I hope I win…
I would start with some cute vinyl pictures and words for my daughters’ room.
I love that gray and yellow bag, so I think the first thing I would make would be some heat transfers. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would absolutely have so much fun with one of these machines. I could see myself making some custom shirts for my kids and some wall decor. How fun! What an awesome giveaway. Thanks!
Vinyl wall decals — that would be my first project! Awesome giveaway!
I’d make everything that my cricut can’t!!!
The first thing I would do is start making some Christmas gifts with the vinyl.
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Wholey Moley!! I’d use that baby to make decorations for my cupcakes!!
Not a single cupcake would leave my kitchen without a cute cupcake wrapper
Vinyl and school projects
I would make personalized vinyl damask cutouts for my twin girls’ nursery!
I would love to use it for paper crafts and making cards . Thanks for the chance.
I would make some vinyl lettering…and I would choose from all those fonts that I have on my MAC, yes finally something for us MAC users. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
Congrats on baby #4
Oh I would so love to be able to make cool wall art with one of these!
Thanks for the chance
My plan is to start simple- a scrapbook of my baby girl’s first year!
oohh pick me! I would LOVE to make vinyl for my boys room. I would love to make anything and everything. Times are really tough in our household and this would be AMAZING to win!
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I would go straight for the heat set vinyl and make matching t-shirts for the family!!!! *Hugs*
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ohhh, I just need to win this! I want to do vinyl first, but then use it for stenciling, and glass etching and heat transfer!
thanks so much for a chance to win!
gail
I’d make the cupcake wrappers. SO cute.
I’m in love with this machine! Would love to try out the heat transfers and glass etching!
Some Halloween decor with vinyl!!
I would make vinyl wall lettering and decor for every room in my house–and for gifts
Thanks! I just signed up for you post – cute stuff!
Hmmm, I think the first thing I would do with a Silhouette is try their sketch/design feature – I would love to use some of my illustrations, then cute cute additions to create 3d cards. Sooo much better than those cartridge machines – I finally get to use my own designs – yay! Thanks for the opportunity!
I have wanted to decorate a couple of my rooms with vinyl lettering…if I won it the first thing I would create would be for my teenage daughter’s room!!! Then I would move onto heat transfers for clothing, then Christmas cards and gifts…oh man!! I could do so much with this!!
If I won, the first thing I would make are cute heat transfer tshirts for my girls. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Oh I would so love this! I would first make vinyl quotes for MY(not the landlords) walls. We are moving into our very first home in a week and I can’t wait to decorate how I want to! This would be so nice to have to personalize my home.
Thanks for the chance!
I would love to make some etched glass dishes for Christmas gifts.
The first thing I would make are some wall vinyl’s to spice up my boring apartment walls.
I love the glass etching ideas, how cool for Christmas.
I would make vinyl holiday signs!! So much to do!!!
Oh wow! The vinyl on tiles for holiday decor would be so neat. There are so many fun activities to try. Thanks for the opportunity!
I would like to do some glass etching for my first project!! I could REALLY use this machine!!
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I would make tee-shirt transfers! I have tons of artwork that would be perfect for tees.
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The first thing I would make would be a fun party favor, cupcake or cake topper for my Grandma’s 90th birthday party. I’ve purchased a few things for the celebration from others (who’ve probably used this machine to design what I’v purchased.) Now I want a turn to try. And I can’t think of a better person to try to design something for the first time than my Grandma!
i would make a vinyl wall decal for my sons room first!
Vinyl for kitchen wall decor that I’ve had in the back of my head FOREVER! Apparel design for my daughter T-shirts and scrapbooking for my son’s baseball team. That’s just for starters!
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I would start with Vinyl but the possibilities are endless!!
Thanks!!!
Thanks for the effort to make this giveaway happen! =)
I’d use it to make vinyl letters and images to decorate my new place! =)
I would use this wonderful machine to cut birthday announcements for my kids instead of cutting them by hand which takes hours. I just recently cut 30 trains and freight cars and 120 wheels all by hand! I’m crazy and in need of this machine.
maybe use it for glass etching some wine glasses or jars!
Definitely something for Christmas (vinyl, glass etching, paper crafting) … probably all three.
I would be making cute christmas gifts for my daughter and her lil buds!
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I think I would make custom t-shirts first off! It’d be really hard to decide, though, because there’s such a vast array of things to make!!
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I’d make our family motto in vinyl!!
I want to try vinyl soooo bad!
I would make wall art! : )
tshirts and onsies for my children
) I’d love this thing!!!
I love love love the cupcake wrappers! I love this giveaway!
Wow. Everyone wants a Silhoutte. I’m just giddy about possibly winning one. I have some lovely heat transfer projects in my mind!
I would make some cute shirts for my little girl!
It’s all about the Vinyl baby, haha… SO many projects I would love to do and make for others, and so many include the vinyl. But what’s not to love about this machine!?
The first thing I’d make would be matching t-shirts for my daughter and my niece. Too cute! Thank you for the chance.
i’m soooo loving the big bro, big sis, etc shirt you’d do for your little ones! i think i’ll have to do that WHEN I WIN one for myself! would that be a fun litttle picture to send to my parents and in laws with the kids in shirts hinting that i’m preggers with #4. cause they dont know it yet! ha!!
I think I would mostly use all the vinyl lettering, I am sure I could decorate our house so cute! I also like all the card and scrapbooking possibilities!!!
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I would love to make my own tattoos!! So glad to see that it’s MAC compatible now!
I would start by making some super cute t-shirts for my kiddos and my nephews – what great Christmas gifts they would be!!
Would love to win and start making vinyl decor. Thanks!
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I would make a Big Brother shirt for my little guy who is getting his first sibling in 7 months!
If I were to win, I’d get to work on “I beat cancer” decorations for my mother-in-law’s upcoming celebration.
I want to make some cute vinyl something or other for my new walls!
I would love to be able to make my own vinyl cutouts. I have to order them from others now. There’s nothing that the Silhouette machine can do that I wouldn’t be able to use. Pick me, pick me, PLEASE.
OOh OOH! I would love to do vinyl lettering projects! Love it!
I love the letters for making wall art!! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!
oh my goodness, what to make first… I think I’d have to put all the great things I want to start with into a hat and just pull one. Honestly though I’d get a quick jump on personalize Christmas gifts for friends and family first, homemade soup starter in a personalized jar…who wouldn’t love it! Honestly my very favorite feature though has to be that it is now Mac compatible ♥♥
The first thing I would do with the Silhouette is to create some beautiful layouts for my wedding scrapbook!
First thing, Christmas on the brain, but love the t-shirts:-) Well love it all…..hoping for an early Christmas gift for MOM, keeping fingers crossed.