Time’s Up!
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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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!!
p.p.s.
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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If i get it in time, labels for the food for our holiday brunch!
I would try the personalized baking dishes. I’ve wanted to do that ever since the first time I saw it!
Christmas gifts galore!
What a great giveaway!
Oh so many things I would want to make! I think I would start with labels to organize my pantry!
I would LOVE to win one of these – it would make a great Christmas gift for me, lol! I’d make a welcome sign for my front door!
I would first use it to cut out decorations/embellisments for gift wrapping. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I think I’d make some vinyl cutouts for the fridge and then go on to etch some of my glass bakeware. I’ve wanted one of these little gadgets for years….they just look so much fun!
I would etch some new jars I bought for flour and sugar. Thank you for this giveaway!
I’m having a “grandma day” in December and wanted to make my grandkids some cute aprons. I was trying to figure out how….after seeing this, I know I’d be able to make them each a darling personalized apron!
I would cut out the letters CREATE for my scrapbook room wall.
So many great things to make! I would make lots of christmas presents.
Hi Amanda! The first thing I would make would be personalized Christmas gifts for my friends and family!
<3 Noelani
Glass etching on casserole dishes!
I would make some vinyl decals to make some custom subway art for my husband’s home office. He keeps hinting I should make something to put up on the blank orange wall.
I would use it in creative ways to create kits for decorating my Craft-Dee BowZ and selling them as an add-on.
love this smaller version! the first thing i would probably do is cut some letters from a favorite font and make a card.
How fun! I think I would try the glass etching first. I love how it looks!
I’d make my Christmas gifts with it.
I would use it for my scrapbook pages….it would be awesome to have for my December Daily. I am starting to see lots of great cut files for the DD!
I would love to try it out on my Christmas card envelopes with a fun font!
My daughter-in-law and her mom recently made the cutest invitations and party favors for our granddaughter’s first birthday. I am so intrigued by these cutting tools and don’t have one (yet). I would love to do some of the “etching” for jars in the pantry and other glassware. What fun!
I would LOVE to be able to cut vinyl, but can also think of 100 other things to do with this great baby!
The first thing I would make is a personalized baking dish for my sister. What a great Christmas present idea!
I would spruce up our living room/entry area.
I would make Christmas ornaments! Vinyl and etched glassed ones.
My first would either be etching or vinyl. Might be a toss-up between the two, especially with the holidays right around the corner! Both look too cool not to try!! Thank you for the opportunity!
My husband and I aren’t buying gifts for each other this Christmas since we are in the process of completely remodeling our kitchen. This would be an awesome gift this year. I’ve always wanted one, but couldn’t afford it. The first thing I’d do is label all the canisters in my new pantry!
I would really like to make matching tshirts for my kids for Christmas, but of course have something personal on it for them as well. Thanks for the chance to win! happy thanksgiving!!
Oh, I’m not certain what I would create first, but I will say I have three big parties I am preparing for between December and January. Thanks for the opportunity.
I have seriously been wanting one all year! The first thing I would make would be subway art as Christmas gifts!
OMG you have the best give aways! I would make so many things, but first i need to make some etched glass pans for Christmas!
I would love to any and all of the projects you showed us. Endless possibilities! But I think I like the idea of putting my favorite sayings on the wall. Love that idea.
Thanks for the chance to win.
I would make everything you show examples of in this post!! I especially LOVE the etched baking dishes.
I would love to be able to use this to make labels and tags for the mason jar gifts I plan on giving for Christmas this year. That would be so wonderful!
Omgoshhh! I think I would make tshirts for all the kiddos to wear this Christmas as the family reunites for some good holiday family time! :o)
My first project would be some wall art for my living room or craft room.
I would make Christmas vinyl for my home!
I would make personalized etched glass containers for Christmas gift packaging.
I love love this giveaway… I would probably do something with one of my scrapbooking projects…. thanks for the chance to win this!!!
I would make Christmas cards!
I would use it to make some “handmade” Christmas cards. Thanks!
I would etch some glassware, using a holiday theme.
I would make a few pages in my December Daily album.
I would make personalized etched glass for Christmas gift packing!
A MOM tattoo for my boys! (They’re 21 & 19 !)
I would make personalized Christmas cards and fake tattoos :)
I would make 1 of 2 things first – either glass etching gifts or vinyl wall cut outs for my home.
I would definitely start by labeling some pretty jars!!
I would start etching some glass to make Christmas gifts! Then I’d start cutting fabric letters! It looks like so much fun! :)
So many options–probably some glass etching. Thanks!
Hey it looks amazing!!!!!!
I would make embellies for my dogs coat and booties.
Ideas are rampant. She would look soooo cute with butterflies and flowers
I want to win!!!! yea!!!!
I would make embellies for our Christmas cards!!
I would love to use it on fabric!
I would make some cute decals for some baby onesies!
I would make our Christmas Cards!
the first thing I’d make is a baby gift for my BFF who is expecting her first baby!
I would love to win this Silhouette because my little boys and I LOVE to make greeting cards and other art projects for our family far away, place them in beautiful packages, and mail them off. We think it really brightens someone’s day when they receive a cheery package in the mail with a sweet sentiment ‘just because’. Right now, we use a lot of scrapbook paper and paper cutters, but the three of us would be OVER THE MOON if we won a Silhouette because it means we could take our ‘cheer spreading’ projects to the very next level! We live roughly 700 miles away from our family (and I’m a single mom!) so it’s a very important part of every week for us to let people know we are thinking about them in a beautiful way. Our recipients would be so grateful and impressed with our new projects if we won! (Especially grandma!) Thanks so much for the opportunity & happy holidays!
I’d make Christmas ornaments with my grandkids!
I WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS WONDERFUL MACHINE. I OWN MOST OF THE CRICUT CARTRIDGES, BUT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN’T DO WITH THEM. MY GRANDSONS LOVE TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES AND IT WOULD BE FUN TO MAKE SOME OF THE IMAGES THEY USE FOR PARTIES.
THANKS FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN, AND ALL THE AWESOME PICTURES YOU PUT OUT
NANCY
I would make cards!
I would make Christmas cards and fake tattoos for my grand kids.
I am drooling over the opportunities…first my pantry!
would be great to win
Lovely – I think I would make custom baking dishes
I would make a “Shhh. Sleeping!” sign for my front door, for those days when hubby has been up all night at work, so the neighbor kids know not to knock or ring the doorbell.
OH MY GOSH!
I WANT THAT!!
First, I’d make wall decals for my daughters rooms. I’m afraid I’d use it to death.
I think I would make Christmas cards first. How exciting!
I would love to etch my bakeware for all the potlucks during the holidays! Please pick me!
Ther first thing I would make are actual silhouette’s of my grandchildren and gift them to their mom’s! Great give-a-way!
I would make some vinyl wall art! I hope I win!!!!!
I would make personilized aprons for my four grandchildren……this is such a cool product!
I’m making some recapped Mason Jar banks for gifts and would cut some pretty things to label them : )
I would love to etch glass with a Silhouette Portrait! :)
I would cute some cute tattoos and vinyl for my boys.
I would definitely print out cute vinyl labels for each of my spice jars so my husband doesn’t get confused and use curry instead of cloves!
I have wanted one of these FOREVER! The first thing I would make would be a vinyl for my mother-in-law’s wall. She has wanted one for a long time and I know it would make her happy! :)
i would make some cute homemade christmas gifts for friends and neighbors!
thanks!
*kelly
kelly-tillotson@hotmail.com
I would monogram anything and everything for my monogram-crazed daughter!
The first thing I would do is to make vinyl labels for everything in my classroom. Then I would use it for like a million other project. I think every teacher should own one of these. :)
M
The first thing I’d use this fabulous machine for would be to make cut-outs for my walls in my scraproom.
I would start with some fabric and make some personalized Christmas gifts!
The first thing I would make is my Christmas cards. I have been checking out all of the great Christmas designs in the store already. Thanks for the chance to enter.
I would definitely make an apron first!! So cute!
I would help my daughter in law cut out some letters to make some christmas presents.
I have been jonesing for one of these so I can cut out the millions of fonts I already have stashed on my computer. They would make great scrpabook page titles!!
I really want to play with the vinyl lettering
I’m itching to try glass etching! This looks like a great machine and I can think of so many uses!
CHRISTMAS CARDS!!! (thanks for the chance to win)
Vinyl is final!! Labels, labels and more labels. Thanks for the chance!
First thing I would make is ART for my daughters room! Very exciting about the smaller size.
I would make cupcake liners! ;) thanks for the opp!
My first project would be gifts for all of our family and friends who are helping with our wedding!
Fun vinyl stickers
I want to make a cute vinyl decal for my laundry room :-)
Vinyl words…..
Vinyl stickers
The first thing I would make would be some cute cut out boxes to put goodies in for friends/teachers gifts for Christmas. Although, I should probably start with something simple like vinyl lettering for cups for my kids! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh my. Not sure what my first project would be…possibly etching glass.
Super cool giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
And I’d definitely try to do some fabric transfers!
I would definitely label my glass canisters – among many things!!!
Kerry