Well, before I get too excited and start showing off my skills with the Silhouette you might be wondering "What the heck is a Silhouette Portrait?"
Well, for anyone who has not heard of it, it is an electronic die cutting machine. That means for anyone who is sick and tired of cutting stickers by hand, this is the machine for you. If you don't want to spend tons of money buying every metal die out there, and then the storage for them, this is the machine for you!
I have always loved making shapes to use on my cards, and dies can be so expensive! Almost $40 CND for a set of nesting dies. That means that for just 5 different dies, I can get my silhouette that can make any shape imaginable!
If you are just making things for personal use, you can take any image off the internet and trace it, print and cut it. That means you can print out a picture of Minnie Mouse and have it cut out as a die cut! (I have a printer that will print on card stock so my die cuts are even more sturdy, but you could also just print on computer paper!) There are so many possibilities!
Let me show you some of the things I have made so far...
Well, for anyone who has not heard of it, it is an electronic die cutting machine. That means for anyone who is sick and tired of cutting stickers by hand, this is the machine for you. If you don't want to spend tons of money buying every metal die out there, and then the storage for them, this is the machine for you!
I have always loved making shapes to use on my cards, and dies can be so expensive! Almost $40 CND for a set of nesting dies. That means that for just 5 different dies, I can get my silhouette that can make any shape imaginable!
If you are just making things for personal use, you can take any image off the internet and trace it, print and cut it. That means you can print out a picture of Minnie Mouse and have it cut out as a die cut! (I have a printer that will print on card stock so my die cuts are even more sturdy, but you could also just print on computer paper!) There are so many possibilities!
Let me show you some of the things I have made so far...
There are so many things available on this machine and so many things to learn. Hopefully I'll soon have a post with some of the tricks and terms that I have learned since getting my machine!
Happy Crafting!
Aynsley
Happy Crafting!
Aynsley