$300 Silhouette Giveaway!!

Remember when I said there was an exciting giveaway coming?? Well I wasn't kidding! Back in August I was asked if I wanted to not only try out the uber cool Silhouette cutting machine, but also if I wanted to give one away to one of my readers. Hmmm, let me think... umm, YEAH! It was hard not saying anything to you guys as I was really excited to be able to participate in this giveaway, and even more excited to try this fun tool out for myself. So I opened my Silhouette box of awesomeness, pulled out all the goodies, then realized the software was made for a PC. :-/ Well, I'm a Mac user, not a PC user so I was a bit bummed out thinking this might not work out after all.

However, the team over at Silhouette and How Does She worked diligently to finish the development of their Mac software and I was finally up and running with my Silhouette late Tuesday night. I didn't have a lot of time to play around with it, BUT I was able to use it to create the vinyl face for my Jack O'Lantern TV! 

He is sooooo cool, I hope you'll go take a look after entering!

The Silhouette SD cutting tool hooks up to your computer just like a printer, except instead of printing, it cuts. See there's a little blade that runs across your paper or other material and cuts the precise design you enter into their software. It cuts paper, card stock, adhesive vinyl, heat transfer material, rhinestone templates, and more! This cool machine comes with different cutting blades, sketch pens for when you want to draw a design rather than cut it, and you are given access to thousands of downloadable designs on their website. 

I cannot wait to play with this machine some more! My teenage daughter and I are already trying to come up with ideas to make stencils for t-shirts and I am excited about trying out the sketching tools. My living room definitely needs some cool vinyl lettering, and you can use ALL of the fonts that are currently on your computer!

Here are some other ideas for using the Silhouette SD:

Scrapbook pages

Card making

Custom apparel

Vinyl décor

Etched glass

Sketch designs

Temporary tattoos

Paper crafts

So now, on with the giveaway! This prize package includes the following:

A Silhouette Machine  

(a $299.99 value)

And it includes...

• Silhouette machine
• 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

The Silhouette can only be sent to a winner living in the United States and a winner may only win once, even if it’s from a different host. Winner will be announced on September 30th!

Simply post a comment below and tell me what you would love to use this machine for!

SOME GREAT DEALS!

Here's something really awesome too! Since we can only give away ONE of these machines, Silhouette has been gracious enough to provide some very generous discounts for readers of this blog. Here are the details:

Here is the discount code for Crafts by Amanda readers: AMANDA

After you put in the code, all the discounts and freebies will show up in the basket

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

Just think of how much you’ll save on gift giving this year!

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

Good luck to everyone!