Painted "herb" container with stencil

For about, forever, I’ve wanted a craft cutter – I have drooled over them in your posts. I have coveted your adorable crafts. I have sighed as I walked by them at the craft store.

And now…the day has come. I have one of my very own. My BFFs at How Does She and Silhouette contacted me and asked if I’d like to try one out – and if I didn’t like it I could send it back.

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I looked up the Silhouette online just to see what it was capable of, and got more and more excited with every click. I did the happy dance the day it arrived on our porch. It was soooo pretty:

There are SO many crafting possibilities with this one! My favorite by far is the vinyl cutting option. 

I have wanted to try the glass etching forever and now. I. can. I love all of the scrapbook tools and papers but have never scrapbooked! But those of you who do would LOVE the Silhouette!

Can you even imagine the fun I’m going to have during the holidays? The pumpkins? The ghosts? The Santas? GIDDY!

My mind was swimming with ideas when mine arrived, but my first completed project was for the kitchen, of course. :)

I took a little crate thingamabob from a recent thrift store shopping trip with my pal Beckie:


Since I didn’t have any apple green vinyl, I tried it out with some card stock. I had a blast trying out some of the (many!) fonts:


The one I loved was a bit delicate to glue it onto the crate, so I decided to paint the negative space (punched out the letters above and then used the paper as a stencil) instead:


To get a really clean look you’ll want to use vinyl as the stencil, but I actually LOVE how this looked a little imperfect – it was just the look I was going for!

I finished it off with some faux greenery and I luuurve it!:

I had planned on putting this up above the cabinets since it’s so full and tall, but it’s so darn cute, I love having it down on the counter too!:

   

Gah. It is adorable!

What I think is the best part about the Silhouette is there is NO need for cartridges – you create your own text and shapes. AND it comes with ton of images you can use, as well as a bunch you can download online.


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