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Silhouette Portrait Giveaway

This Giveaway is now CLOSED!

If you have been following me for the past couple of years…then you know how much I enjoy my Silhouette CAMEO. I have used it SEVERAL times on all sorts of different home décor and crafting projects in and around my house.

Well, Silhouette has come up with a smaller version of the CAMEO with all of the same great features. I can’t even begin to tell you how happy this makes me! The Silhouette Portrait weighs only 3.5 pounds which makes it perfect for a girls craft night out…or a trip to your friend’s house for a fun project, the Portrait can be carried easily wherever you may need to go.

Silhouette Portrait™

The Silhouette Portrait™ is an electronic cutting tool for personal use. 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″ wide and 10 feet long. The machine also has the ability to register and cut printed materials.

Contents:

Silhouette Portrait™ electronic cutting tool
Silhouette Studio® software for Windows XP and higher, and Mac® OS X 10.6.8 and higher
50 exclusive cuttable designs
Power cable, USB cable
8″ cutting mat
Cutting blade
$10 gift card to the Silhouette Online Store
Basic Instruction Guide

Want to see the Silhouette Portrait in action? You can check out this Silhouette Portrait Video.

So what do you say…do you want to try to win one for yourself? Simply follow the directions in the Rafflecopter entry below to enter for your chance to win a Silhouette Portrait!

Be sure to check back in early for some awesome Black Friday (November 23) news too!! I will also be checking to make sure that the winner has completed all the necessary steps or a new one will be selected.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Here are some other gals giving away a Silhouette Cameo or Portrait this week too:

Infarrantly Creative

All Things Thrifty

The Idea Room

Sawdust and Paperscraps

Southern Hospitality

Beneath my Heart

Today’s Creative Blog

Positively Splendid

Home Stories A to Z

Makely School for Girls

Craftaholics Anonymous

*Disclaimer–Entrants must be U.S. residents and 18 years or older to participate.

This giveaway will close on Friday, November 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm MT.

The winner will be announced back here later on the same day.

One winner will be chosen via Random.org and will have

24 hours to claim it or another winner will be chosen.

November 18, 2012 · Filed under: Giveaway Winners, Giveaways Tagged with Silhouette, silhouette cameo, Silhouette machine, what is a silhouette

Silhouette CAMEO giveaway

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This Giveaway is now CLOSED!

Yep…You read that right! Today I get to give away a Silhouette CAMEO™ to ONE lucky Idea Room Reader!

Who wants one? First…since I know many of you are dying to get your hands on one of these bad boys…let’s get the giveaway stuff out of the way first. Here are the details:

You know the drill:

To Enter:

Main Entry:

Leave a comment on this post telling us why you would love to win!

Additional Entries:

1. Follow the Silhouette blog. Come back and leave a comment here.

2. Follow Silhouette on Pinterest. Come back and leave a comment here.

3. Follow The Idea Room on RSS or Google Friend Connect.

4. Follow The Idea Room on Pinterest.

5. Share this giveaway and leave a comment with a link to your share.

*Disclaimer–Entrants must be U.S. residents and 18 years or older to participate.

This giveaway will close on July 29, 2012 at 2:00 pm MT.

The winner will be announced back here later on July 29, 2012.

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Okay…so…let’s say that you don’t want to take your chances for winning the giveaway…since there can only be one winner…

Want to take home this great bundle for $269.99?

Well you can do that by simply clicking on the blue link below, and entering the code: IDEAROOM upon checkout!

Order the Fabric Interfacing/CAMEO bundle promotion!

use the code: IDEAROOM

This deal ends July 31, 2012!

What exactly is in the bundle?

With the CAMEO:

This Silhouette fabric bundle with CAMEO includes:

Silhouette CAMEO® electronic cutting tool
Silhouette fabric blade
24″ CAMEO cutting mat
sewable fabric interfacing (17″ x 36″)
clean cut fabric interfacing (17″ x 36″) (MSRP $348.95, savings of $78.96!)

This blade is brand new and is for cutting fabric only. Like your good sewing scissors, cutting paper with your fabric blade will dull it. So this blade is color coded blue to distinguish itself from your regular Silhouette Cutting blade.

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And finally, If you already own a CAMEO and just need the Fabric Interfacing Bundle…you can get it for a limited time at the great price of $29.99.

Without the CAMEO:

This Silhouette fabric interfacing bundle includes:

Silhouette fabric blade
24″ CAMEO cutting mat
sewable fabric interfacing (17″ x 36″)
clean cut fabric interfacing (17″ x 36″)

(MSRP $46.96)

Order the Fabric Interfacing bundle promotion!

use the code: IDEAROOM

This deal ends July 31, 2012!

You can make some pretty cool projects with the Fabric Interfacing! I made some monogrammed hand towels for the main bathroom in my home. I love how they turned out. Want to see how I made them? You can check them out here:

Monogrammed Hand Towels

July 26, 2012 · Filed under: Giveaways Tagged with silhouette cameo

Silhouette CAMEO Rhinestones tutorial

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Have any of you had a chance to use the Silhouette CAMEO Rhinestones? I had the chance to use them this last week for the very first time. Believe it or not, I was a bit nervous about the easiness of the Rhinestones. But this was one of my easiest CAMEO Silhouette Projects to make.

It is fairly common knowledge that I don’t love really sparkly things…except for diamonds! But my girls love them. I am planning on making me a sparkly shirt for the Neil Diamond Concert I will be attending with some of my favorite girlfriends this summer (Woot Woot! Any fellow Neil Diamond fans in the house?). But the idea I have in mind for that is a bit more involved so I decided to go with a fairly easy design for my first Rhinestone Project.

I designed the number 8 in my Silhouette program and set it to fit the 10ss size of Rhinestones. Then I stretched it to make it the height and width that I wanted it to be on her shirt.

Then I cut it on my Silhouette. I made sure to choose the special Rhinestone Media setting and set my blade to a 3. I cut it with a speed of 10 and a thickness of 33.

Then I carefully peeled off the green layer. There were a few holes that did not come out so I simply picked them out with my Silhouette vinyl picking tool.

Then I laid the green layer with my image onto the white sheet of cardboard that comes in your kit. I set it into the adorable yellow box and poured in some pink Rhinestones and used the Rhinestone tool to brush the Rhinestones into place.

Then I used this handy dandy Rhinestone Pick Me Up Tool…which was totally awesome, to easily pick up and place the stray Rhinestones in the right place.

Peel your clear plastic sheet off of the cover and then carefully lay it on top of your Rhinestones. Be sure to rub over the Rhinestones carefully so that each one is attached to the plastic sheet well. Then peel the plastic layer off. Your Rhinestones should stick to this plastic sheet.

Transfer your Rhinestones to your shirt or the item you are adding them too. Iron them on by placing a thin towel between the Rhinestones and the iron.

Carefully peel away the plastic sheet. Rhinestones should be securely attached to the shirt. I then just placed the thin towel on the stones again and ran the iron over it for good measure! I wanted to make sure they were on there well!

I was really surprised with the overall ease of this project. The hardest part was making sure you had all the Rhinestones in place…and that was pretty easy due to the fancy little Rhinestone tool I had. You will have to purchase that separately!