Sweet Giveaway: Silhouette Digital Cutting Tool - Worth $300
Thursday, September 23, 2010 
Are you a crafty little cupcake?
Well then, you're gonna be pretty excited about this totally sweet giveaway: it's for a little something called The Silhouette.
What exactly is this thing, you ask? Well, according to the site,
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.
For lovers of cake and craft, this is beyond awesome--oh the possibilities for creating cards, scrapbook pages, or even fashionable cupcake toppers, wrappers, or labels! There are so many great ideas on their blog.
One lucky winner will receive the following:
A Silhouette Machine (a $299.99 value), in a package which 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.
Of course, everyone's a winner because they're also offering a super awesome promo (running from September 23rd through September 30th at midnight): Buy a machine and receive the following (by entering code CAKE on the order page):
- $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)
But even if you don't go for that right away, there's still a GOOD PROMO (running from October 1st through 4th at midnight): buy a machine and receive the following (once again, enter CAKE on the order page to receive this discount):
- $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)
So how do you get in on all this awesome? Simply leave a comment saying what kind of craft you'd love to try first with the super sweet Silhouette! US entrants only, and one winner per household, please. This giveaway will run through September 30 at Midnight PST, and the winner will be chosen at random.
Cakespy
We have a winner! Nina has been chosen at random, and she's going to get started VERY sweetly with her Silhouette: by making her sister's wedding invites! Congratulations, Nina!
Reader Comments (1149)
I would like to try and do the temporary tattoo's for my kids first then tackle some art for the walls!
I love this machine. The possibilities really are endless! Hmmm.... I have a hard time deciding what I'll do first...
Holidays are coming and this would be perfect!!!
Holidays are coming this will be perfect! I can't wait
I would love one to create decorations for my daughter's mermaid birthday party
I want one of these so bad my list of things I wanna' make is so long! I would probably start out with some adorable shirts for my little ones.
I would use it for scrapbooking, and a billion other crafts!
I will definitely be making holiday cards then invitations and party favors for my daughter's 5th birthday party!
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I'd like to try EVERYTHING... !!!
I love the heat transfer and glass etching capabilities. And I love that it hooks right up to the computer!
My sister's wedding invitations!
I would love to have one of these machines it can do so manythings and I can thinks of so manything to do with it, but one of my favorite right now is to make vinyl for wall and the etch glass.. would love to win it.
thank you.
I, like everyone else here, have been lusting after one of these for sooo long! I get swept up in infomercials about similar contraptions and am always imagining ways it would make life so much more fun.
My first project would be to (attempt) a pop up birthday card. Wouldn't a pop up birthday cupcake be perfect! With sparkling dots! And with fuzzy HAPPY BIRTHDAY in fuzzy letters (perfectly cut by the Silhouette, of course. Fun Fun fun!!!
Branding, branding, branding.
I'd use the machine to make all sorts of items for my new biz - stickers, pie boxes, signage, packaging, the works.
would love to decorate my little girls" big girl room" and my teacher husband's classroom with the vinyl!
such an amazing machine!!! I's make matching ts for my boys first thing!!
Well what to start with, vinyl wall stuff, heat transfers, etching, the list goes on!
I would start with holiday decorations and move on from there. How fun!!!!!
i'd make soem canister lables
This machine is amazing! One of the first things I would make are cards since I have a homemade card swap coming up.
I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE one of these printers, to put shapes, pictures, and designs on my cakes and cupcakes! My first design would be to make a cake with a bunch of broadway show cutouts for my daughters birthday!!!!!
I would L-O-V-E LOVE to win one of these!!! I've been wanting to make custom mats for some picture frames for my nursery. Of course that's just one of the many projects I already have plans for with this machine!
Such a neat machine! I would love to make cusotm invites/decor for my son's upcoming first birthday!
Cards. Definitely Cards to make special occasion cards more persona.
I would love to make some T-shirts with my son's football jersey # on it that we could wear to his games! That's just to start....