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The winner of the Silhouette Portrait Giveaway is:
#918 Janine M.: There are so many projects I could use this for! I have a whole new house to decorate. Likely, I’ll start with labels for food storage in my new kitchen. Then I’ll move to cutting fabric and vinal for other projects! Endless!!! Really hope I win one!!
Congrats Janine! I’ve sent you an email! :)
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Have fun shopping, hope you score some deals today!! :) Hope everyone had a beautiful and safe Thanksgiving. See you next week!
The Silhouette Portrait is a brand new personal craft cutter from Silhouette with an 8-inch cutting mat. It’s small in size, small on price (Yay!), and BIG on features! The Silhouette Portrait is a personal electronic cutting tool. Like a home printer, it plugs into your PC or Mac with a simple USB cable. However, instead of printing it uses a small blade to cut paper, cardstock, vinyl, fabric and more up to 8 inches wide and 10 feet long.
What I’ve always loved about the Silhouette compared to other craft cutters is that with the Silhouette, you can cut ANY font on your computer — no extra charge! There’s no need to buy countless alphabets or cartridges. With the Silhouette, you have a whole arsenal of fonts that you can start cutting right away, right on your computer. You can also create your own designs with the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition, or purchase individual designs from the extensive Silhouette Online Store. You don’t have to buy a whole cartridge for just one design! Most designs in the Silhouette Online Store are 99¢ or less. Plus there’s a new free shape each week that can be downloaded and kept permanently in your Silhouette Studio library.
The Silhouette Portrait weighs only 3.5 pounds, making it easily portable. The Portrait can be easily carried wherever you go!
There are so many fun things you can make with the Silhouette!
Have you seen these adorable aprons that Ashley from Make It and Love It made using the Silhouette, heat transfer material, and the Our Best Bite’s doodle font?
You can also cut vinyl for wall words & home decor projects…
You can etch glass for seriously fun, one of a kind serving dishes…
Use your Silhouette to cut fabric. Just iron Silhouette interfacing to your favorite fabric and send it through the machine on a Silhouette cutting mat.
With Silhouette sketch pens, the Silhouette can draw intricate patterns. Just pop out the blade and insert the color pen of your choice — even white and glitter pens! How awesome would this be for Christmas card envelopes with a gorgeous handwritten font?? :)
You can even make fake tattoos. Fun!
From magnet paper to temporary tattoo paper, wood paper to transparencies, the Silhouette can cut a wide variety of specialty media.
And be sure to check out Silhouette on Facebook and Pinterest for more great ideas!
How to Enter
To be entered to win a Silhouette Portrait all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. What’s the first thing you’d make with a Silhouette Portrait?
Contest ends Thursday, November 22 at 8 am CST. That’s Thanksgiving day! One entry per person, please. Winner must have a US mailing address. Winner will be chosen at random and notified by email. Giveaway graciously provided by Silhouette America.
If you’re on Facebook, come check us out here! :)
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If you’ve already got a Silhouette (or you’ve got one on your wishlist!), you are going to want to check back here on Friday for some HUGE BLACK FRIDAY savings!! Check right back here on this post for the update — a huge discount code to SilhouettAamerica.com!! See you then!!
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For even MORE chances to win, here are some other great blogs giving away a Silhouette Cameo or Portrait this week too:
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My fiance and I want to make tote bags for our out of town guests that have our names and wedding date that they can take around with them while they tour the area. This would be great for that!!!!
I would make stencils and decorate my first grandaughter’s room.
What a great giveaway! My first thing I would make would be etchings for glass. So cool!
I would make labels for my pantry containers (actually I would buy containers) so my pantry looked organized and beautiful!!!
Hmmm- first? Gosh, maybe a stencil to frost our staircase windows. Or big salamanders for my kid’s bedroom wall. Or fabric cutouts for market stand aprons…. gosh. First? Definitely vinyl names for the dog bowls. Or maybe……..
I would love to do some etched glass for Christmas gifts and then maybe some fun tattoos for the kids!
I love the aprons = would be great Christmas gifts.
I would make some Christmas vinyl and maybe use it to add a little extra something to some Christmas gifts! :)
trying to organize my pantry. Would label the glass containers.
I’d label my casserole dishes and start taking meals to others more often.
It would have to be decorative word art for a wall in my house or life rooms, like “live, laugh, love”
The first thing I would make if I win… It would have to be bridal shower invitations and decorations for my cousin!
I would make some wall art. Scripture maybe. Thanks for chance to win.
Yay for a giveaway! I have been wanting a Silhouette for a while. The first hing I would make is a stencil I could use to paint my bedroom.
Etched glass 9 by 13 pans and give them for christmas presents
The first thing I would make would be a scrapbook for my baby girl.
I would make vinyl wall art!
Etched glass Christmas gifts!
I would start making things for my daughter’s wedding and reception! What a great tool!
The first thing I would make would be matching aprons for my 6 year old and I to do our holiday baking together. How fun! Thank you.
Labels!
I would make monograms for each of my children and grandchildren’s scrapbooks…for the front and the binder!
I would make embellishments for stockings! This would be so awesome!!!!!
I would start etching every glass I have! :)
I would etch some glass!
I would print letter for a wooden sign that I am making. Going to have it by the front door so it’s the last thing you see. Need to narrow down to one quote…have too many options right now.
The first thing I’d make with the Silhouette Portrait is an iron-on for a blanket. The 2nd thing would be the fake tattoos (my 8 yr. old daughter loves them).
I’d definitely start making some Christmas gifts. I loe all the “etched” projects!
i would love to make the etched glass casserole dishes for friends and family
I would personalize t-shirts for my kids.
Love cutting out images to etch on glass!
I’d make a personalized casserole dish! LOVE the idea!
My daughter’s getting married so it would be something for her wedding.
Vinyl seems like a great place to start. I have always admired these from a far so to have one of my own would be super fun :-)
Would use to make so quoted paintings :)
I would absolutely etch some glass dishes, particularly the containers for my dry goods (flour, sugar, etc). I love that look and this would give me the inspiration (and ability) to make it happen! :)
OH, MY! All the wonderful things I could do in my preschool classroom! There are so many ideas running through my mind.. Thank you for the chance to win! Happy Thanksgiving!!
Cut out little alligators for the shower I’m hosting next month!!
Come up with a bunch of awesome designs for my business! :)
I would make a vinyl “welcome” sign for the front door. How neat would it be to win one of these?!
I would make vinyl wall decor for our new home!
I’d use a photograph of my family (including our dog cause she is family!), turn it into a puzzle, and give it to my mother for a gift because she loves to build!
I’d love to cut some templates to make the personalized serving dishes for gifts this season.
I can think of so many uses for this handy craft cutter! The first thing I would do is make labels for my vintage spice jars! I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to make them for so long and this is perfect! Thank you for introducing it and for the giveaway!
The first thing I’d make is matching Christmas t-shirts to go along with our matching Christmas pajama pants. My husband is gonna love his wife and daughter when he see’s what color our pajama pants are :) *giggle*
The first thing I would make is etched jars for Christmas goodies for friends & families! Loving this and crossing my fingers!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I would do so many things! for starters i would go name label crazy for all the jars in my kitchen. I would totally make awesome home made christmas gifts for all my family and friends. Finally i would send so many thank you emails to you guys:)
p.s I LOVE YOUR BLOG!
I think I’d want to try out the glass etching project! I see it all over pinterest but am pretty intimidated by it, not really having the equipment for it. But the fake tattoo project looks fun too! I’ve got a little one that loooves fake tattoos.
I really want to try out the fabric cutting! I think I would love to make some gifts and maybe aplique some fabric.
I would LOVE to organize my kitchen and then make a copycat sign if the drop your drawers sign. Love it :)!!
The first thing I’d make would be labels for canisters.
I would totally vinyl my whole kitchen!
I’d love to create some vinyl phrases for my walls.
I’d make either my youngest son’s name (5 months old and the only one without his name!!) or something for our room!
This would actually be a gift for my mom and she would make tons of stuff for my daughter’s scrapbook.
I would make some vinyl phrases for my living room wall.
Thanks for a great giveaway! The first thing I would do is create one million and five cute labels to organize the heck outta my pantry. :) Happy Thanksgiving!!
Decor for my daughter’s upcoming 2nd birthday party- she’s having a piggy theme!
I would go to town labeling everything!! Thanks for the chance to win!
I would first learn how to use it, then make something for our dog bowls :)
I would love to make the vinyl for baking dishes. This would be such a great Christmas gift !!
I would make some vinyl words to put on my gallery wall in my living room!
Thanks Amanda for the giveaway! The very first thing I would do with the silhouette would finish my kids baby scrapbooks who are now 5 and 3. You can say the photos are piling up :)
Wall decals! Love them and would love to be able to make my own!
With all grandsons?….you got it fake tatoos!
I am pretty sure I would have to make tattoos for my son first :) but if he doesn’t see that you can make those (yet!) I would make a “Believe” sign for the holidays to put in my house.
I would love to make some vinyl letters for my son’s bedroom!
I’d make personalized Christmas gifts for all my relatives!
I would make wall art, as the first item to make. Then Christmas cards.
SO EXCITED about this new machine! This would be an amazing Christmas present! WOW!
I would do some etching on some bakeware for my daughter in law.
I’d probably start with something easy, like a card, before working up to those adorable aprons & glass etching! ;)
Thanks for the giveaway!
Wall art.
A smaller size – fantastic idea! I think my first project would be etched glass plates with a Christmas design. They would be great for serving Christmas dinner. Thanks for sponsoring this awesome giveaway!
I would make some vinyl lettered signs for my home.
I love those aprons and would love to make some for my 3 nieces for Christmas gifts. Love this! Thanks, Amanda!
Wow – how fun! I would definitely make some new aprons! Thanks for the opportunity.
I think I would use this for everything. Most importantly for my wedding invitations! It would save me so much time!
I love the size of it too! Thanks for the chance to win!
I would make cute aprons for all my cooking friends.
I would make something to etch onto glass plates for a christmas cookie giveaway.
OMG…where to start?! The first thing I would make would probably be my daughter’s name and meaning for her wall!!!!
I’d love to make some vinyl-lettered signs for my home.
I would make tons of Christmas tags, cards & ornaments for my family & friends.
Etched glass!
I would definitely try some paper ornaments for my Christmas tree!!
Oh how I want this! :)
I think the first thing I would attack is my washer and dryer. It is a gorgeous gun metal color… but I would love to put designs all over it.
Wahoo! Thanks for the chance to win. Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m not sure what I would create first, but it would definitely be something Christmas related. :)
What an awesome machine – it does so many things! I think I would like to make labels for my kitchen pantry jars!
Awesome giveaway! Thank you! The first thing I’d make is wall art for my dining room that says “EAT”.
Wow, I would make pillowcases with the grandchildren’s names and would contribute pillowcases to the local Shelters that shelter Moms and their children with words like Hope, Smile, Love, Believe.This looks great and I would love to have one. Thanks, Julia
Something for my granddaughters room!!
I’d really like to try the glass etching on some Christmas gifts.
I would make my daughter an apron!! Love it.
Labels! For everything, I’d go crazy w this.. Too fun!
The first think I would do is figure out how to do the Glass etching! Or a scrap booking page out of the Silhouette Sketch pens! Oh the details that could be added!!!
christmas presents! this year is going to be very tight and if i had a wonder like this….i could whip up very inexpensive that only looked expensive gifts for all my kids and grandkids. thank you for just allowing me to dream for a minute or two that i could actually own one of these. thank you for an amazing site and letting me travel along with you on all your travels and adventures.
Labels! Probably something with vinyl or stickers. Not sure what I’d label at first though, but that etching looks really cool too.
What an awesome giveaway! I would etch glass ornaments for the tree!
I’d make some wall decorations! Happy Thanksgiving in your new bee-u-tiful home!
I would do something with the fabric, possibly applique some tshirts for my boys.