HOT! Silhouette Studio Designer Edtion for 50% off! (or $24.99)

Hurry! The Silhouette Studio Designer Edition is on sale again! For a limited time, get it for 50% off or $24.99 with the coupon codes at the end of this post. The free Silhouette Studio program that comes with your Silhouette cutting machine cannot open SVG files and you will need the Designer Edition (or a 3rd party program like Make-the-Cut ) in order to import SVGs and cut them with your electronic cutter. Get the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition now at half off the regular price of $49.99!


Click HERE to go to the Silhouette Store and use any one of these codes to get the offer:

BARGAIN
CRAFT
SKIP
TIPJUNKIE

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Silhouette America. I'm just happy to share a good deal. :-)

Free Digital Kit from Pink Paislee!

I'm not affiliated with Pink Paislee but this is an awesome freebie that I just had to share with you. They are giving away their Declaration Kit for free all week! You will have to go through the checkout process to get the links to the download (links will be sent via email) but you don't pay anything since it's free.

Click HERE to go to their site to get the freebie.

No more Google Reader!

 
In case you haven't heard, Google Reader will stop working tomorrow (July 1). Those of you who are following me through Google Reader will no longer be receiving my posts but.....there are alternatives!

If you are currently using Google Reader to follow my blog, please switch to another service like BlogLovin' or the new Digg Reader. The process is very simple- just sign up for an account on either site and import your Google Reader. It's that easy! I started using BlogLovin' a few weeks ago and so far it's working out well and I'm enjoying it.
 

Google Reader will shut down tomorrow. Don't miss any posts from me- please click HERE to start following my blog with BlogLovin'.

Friday Freebies!

It's time for Friday Freebies!

Click HERE or the image above to get your free Stringbean Wagon Cut It (SVG). Add it to your cart and check out. You pay $0!

In case you haven't heard, the LD Stringbeans are now in full-color, and unlike the Original Stringbeans, these colored version come in layers so that you can cut them out with your electronic cutter and paper-piece them together. For a limited time, you can even get all 38 sets (a $152 value) for free! Click HERE for the full details of the promotion.

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If you have not already downloaded it, there is a free Thin Font up for grabs on the LD site. Click HERE to see how you can use it and HERE to get it.

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scrapNfonts is a sister site of LD and they too have a freebie to give away. Click HERE or the image below to go to their Fontaholic site to download the free printable Ice Cream Cone Wrappers.

Silhouette Studio users, don't forget to download your free weekly shape from the Silhouette Online (Shapes) Store.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Friday Humor: Why the guys need the Cameo.

A friend pointed this Amazon review of the Cameo to me and I thought it was too funny to not share:

So guys, what are you waiting for? Click HERE to get your wife a Cameo now. ;-)

The smallest word

I think that I have possibly cut out the smallest word yet with the Cameo. While working on an idea on Thursday morning, I had to cut out the word "coffee" to fit a 0.325"x 0.4" box. I used the LD Urban font and ended up with a word that is only 0.21" tall and 0.38" wide. 

I considered print-and-cut but it seems silly to waste the paper to print such a tiny word. It has been a while since I last used vinyl for a sentiment (see this  and this) and it has always worked well for me. But the question is, can the Cameo cut out such a tiny word?

The ruler shows the measurement in centimeters. In inches, the word is only 0.38" wide.

I placed a scrap piece of black vinyl on the cutting mat and set my blade to 1. Next, I used the preset cut settings for vinyl in the Silhouette Studio program (Speed 8, Thickness 9) and quietly held my breath while I clicked "Cut" for the Cameo to start cutting.

When the machine stopped, I unloaded the mat and half-expected to find a mini-mess but to my (very pleasant) surprise, the cutout was perfect! The letters were SO TINY!

Previously I had used contact paper and regular transfer paper to transfer the vinyl cutouts onto my cards but this time, I wondered if there was a better way. Since the letters were so small, I thought that a little strip of masking tape would do the trick. Luckily I was right and the tape did the job perfectly. Yippee!

So now that the word is cut out and positioned, what exactly did I make? Nothing much actually. Just a little something to make y'all chuckle...

Coffee-on-the-go!

Hope that made you smile. Have a great Friday! ;-)

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Files:
Full-colored Stringbeans (Stringbean Ladies, Stringbean Medical)
LD Urban font

NEW! Layered, Colored and Cuttable Stringbeans! (and see how you can get them for free!)

Last June, LD released the Stringbeans that many of us used for car/vinyl decals. I used several of them for cards, like the ones HERE and HERE. Often I wondered how these little people would look like if they were regular Cut Its (cutting files). If you are like me and have imagined the Stringbeans as regular, layered SVGs, well, today is our lucky day! LD has made the Stringbeans into full colored, layered cutting files and better still, they are giving us a chance to get them all for FREE!

2012: The ORIGINAL Stringbeans

2013: Stringbeans are now in full color!

Here are the full details or you can click HERE to read it from the LD site.

The whole 38-set collection is valued at $152 and to get it for free, just spend $45 on the LD site between now and July 2. You don't even have to spend the whole amount in a single transaction. So long as you spend a total of $45 from now till July 2, the color Stringbeans will be yours for free!
 
Click HERE to start earning your full-color, layered, and cuttable Stringbeans!