I love making banners. Big or small, vintage looking or colorful and hip, I am all about thinking up new ideas for banners and garlands. The card designer told me about this incredible machine that actually cuts letters (or shaped die cuts) in any size you can want.Oh, and you can use the remaining part of the paper with the cut out space as a stencil.
Really?!
Really.
It's called the "Silhouette". I got confused and referred to it as "the Stiletto" (must be my shoe addiction kicking in) It's a "digital craft cutter" and it. is. way. too. cool. (If you have one of these, I'd love to hear what you make with yours!!)
A little bit unusual but oh, so meant-to-be string of events ended with me as the proud (and slightly scared) owner of one of these babies. Proud, because, once I mastered the machine, the sky would be the limit for me to create new things with lettering. Scared... for two reasons. First, it was an investment type of purchase. (cha-ching) I don't make purchases like this often, and I was totally freaked that it might not be all it was cut up to be. (pardon the pun, I couldn't help myself) Second, scared because the computer and I go way back, with me always managing to jack something up each time I want to install new hardware or try to download anything other than a photograph (I once ended up with Chinese writing all over my desktop when I installed too many fonts. It wasn't pretty, and I remember that I had to do an intervention, or a reinstall or some such nonsense to get my computer world right side up again.)
Anyway.
The machine has been sitting on my work desk in my craft room, waiting for me to have a go at it, since...oh, the first week of June. I've studied it and I've stared at it. Finally, Sunday, the card designer and I tackled it, head on.Oh. My. Gosh. (did you hear that squealing? Yes, that was us.) So easy peasy. I am in love. The sky is the limit. (What was I afraid of?) This little tool has rocked my world, let me tell you.
My picture doesn't do any of it justice. I'll show more later in the week when I have time to actually create some banners, place cards, invites..oh yes, I have big plans for this little machine.
