The Biggest Silhouette Sale EVER!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I hope you all get to enjoy friends, family and good food today! We have so much to be thankful for!

Quickly, I wanted to share Silhouette America's HUGE Black Friday deals that they are offering starting today, this is their biggest sale ever!!!

Y'all know how much I love my Silhouette!! I have made so many fun projects with it...letter garland, tattoos, stickers, labels, even Halloween treats, you name it! It is one awesome machine! You can cut vinyl, adhesive paper, chipboard, and of course scrapbook paper with it and Silhouette even offers my most favorite thing ever, the Print and Cut feature so you can print off any design you desire and then cut it out with your Silhouette!

Here are the HUGE deals that are being offered but only until December 8th, so you better jump on these now!

(1)          A Silhouette CAMEO®, Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software, a dust cover (the color is decided by Silhouette), a $25 download card, a hook, a scraper, a spatula, and a pick-me-up® tool for $229.99. Retail price for all of this would total $406.93 (over 40% savings!)

(2)          A Silhouette Portrait®, Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software, a dust cover (the color is decided by Silhouette), a $25 download card, a hook, a scraper, a spatula, and a pick-me-up® tool for $129.99. Retail price for all of this would total $286.93 (over 40% savings!)

(3)          A Silhouette CAMEO®, a Silhouette Portrait®, and two $25 download cards for $299.99. That’s right: If you buy a Silhouette CAMEO® at full price, you get two $25 download cards and a Silhouette Portrait® ABSOLUTELY FREE! Retail price for all of this would be $406.93 (over 40% savings!)

(4)          40% off consumable products at silhouetteamerica.com. This excludes machines, subscriptions, download and gift cards. Cannot be combined with any other offers. Rain checks not available.

(5)          FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25.

Pretty sweet deals, right!

Just remember to use my exclusive coupon code: CARROTS when you check out HERE to get any of the deals above!

Have a great rest of your Turkey Day!!

XOXO,

Halloween Treats and Party Favors

Anyone else feeling the time crunch of Halloween...one week to go!!!! I just finished two of the kids' costumes last night and I'm hoping to get the last two done in the next couple of days. We need them for a few parties this weekend, gah!!! Nothing like a little last minute stress, hahahaha, no. 

A local mommy group I'm in is throwing a big Halloween bash for all the littles in the group this year and they asked me if I wanted to help with the decorations and general party-ness. I have been creating goodie bags, table decor, treats, and favors over the past month and loving every minute of it, I love this kinda stuff!

I thought I'd show you what I've been creating over the last few weeks! 

I picked up these spooky little chocolate eyeballs and originally intended them to be in a vase or as some type of table decoration until I was browsing through designs in the Silhouette online store one night and I found this rad skull and cross bones design. I created a cute little party favor with it using their nifty print and cut feature!

I love catchy, some would say nerdy, word phrases (see past Valentine's here and here)

so I thought it would be fun to hot glue two eyeballs where the eyes would go and say, "Eye hope you have a Happy Halloween" *Snort!* Get it!

I die. :-)

I also found these fun "night creatures" at the dollar store and my mind went straight to that super cute Valentine I pinned about a year ago from Dandee (seen here). I thought I'd throw a Halloween spin on it and came up with this...

How freakin' cute, huh? Little specimen jars with creepy crawlies in them :-) Just like all the mason jars we use in the summer collecting bugs! Again, I found the cute little design in the Silhouette store and used the print and cut feature to create them.

I'll try to post some of the other things I created for this party if I can get the rest of my littles' costumes done...can you guess what they are going to be? They all go together again if you can believe that! Our theme this year is...SCARY!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

XOXO,

How to Make Temporary Tattoos with your Silhouette and the October Silhouette Special!

Have you ever tried making temporary tattoos with your Silhouette machine? Oh my gosh, I made some this past weekend for the first time ever and they turned out awesome! The kids were in heaven. I love that they last about a day and come off easily so you don't have remnants of tattoo on their skin for weeks afterward. I don't know, there is something about that that just isn't right, you know what I mean?

To make tattoos with your Silhouette, Cameo or Portrait, you will need to buy a pack of Printable Tattoo Paper.

I decided it would be fun to make some Halloween tattoos since I'm helping with a Halloween party later this month and I thought these would be a nice little activity to do with the kids. I used the Halloween Circle Tags which are a part of the Print and Cut designs. By using a Print and Cut design I am able to print out a design in color by using my home printer and place the paper into my Silhouette which is able to read the registration marks printed as part of the design so that it will cut out the shapes perfectly.

To make your own temporary tattoos, you will first need to click the "Registration Marks" button (second from the right at the top of your Silhouette screen) and click the box at the top in the column that pops up on the right side of your screen to "Show Registration Marks". It looks like 3 of the 4 edges of the paper are highlighted...see it up there? Then add your design to the grid on your home screen making sure that the design you choose is within the registration marks hash marks on your screen. Also, make sure you choose the 8 1/2 x 11 paper size as that is the size of the tattoo paper. I left the design size as is but you can always make it bigger or smaller depending on big you would like your tattoos. Once you have done everything above, place your tattoo paper in your printer so that you are printing on the glossy side and then click the "Send to Printer" button (5th button from the left at the top of the screen...see picture above!)

Once your tattoo paper is printed on, let it dry for a bit. Then press on the clear sheet making sure there are no air bubbles. Then place the tattoo paper into your Silhouette machine and click the "Silhouette Cut Settings" button (3rd from the right...looks like a pencil!)...see picture above! Pick "Tattoo Paper" in the menu that pops up, change your knife setting accordingly, and press the CUT button. 

Easy peasy! It is really that easy to make your own temporary tattoos!

They go on just like the ones you buy too!

And hey! Guess what?!

Silhouette America's October Promotion is all about the Specialty Media which includes their Temporary Tattoo paper!! You can buy any of the 3 following deals below this month and get a huge discount while doing so. The special deals include:

(1)  The list of specialty media plus a Silhouette CAMEO® for $269.99 (savings over $120 from retail cost $383.90)

·         1 cardstock essentials pack (new product)

·         1 pack printable adhesive kraft paper (new product)

·         1 pack printable clear sticker paper

·         1 pack temporary tattoo paper

·         1 pack printable cotton canvas (new product)

·         1 pack chipboard

·         1 pack printable silver foil

·         1 pack printable magnet paper

·         1 pack double-sided adhesive

(2)  The list of specialty media plus a Silhouette Portrait™ for $129.99 (savings over $110 from retail cost $263.90)

·         1 cardstock essentials pack (new product)

·         1 pack printable adhesive kraft paper (new product)

·         1 pack printable clear sticker paper

·         1 pack temporary tattoo paper

·         1 pack printable cotton canvas (new product)

·         1 pack chipboard

·         1 pack printable silver foil

·         1 pack printable magnet paper

·         1 pack double-sided adhesive

(3)  30% off on all specialty media

Awesome! Just make sure to use my exclusive promotion code: CARROTS when checking out (go here to buy your goodies now!) to get your October promotional pricing!

Happy crafting friends!

XOXO,

TUTORIAL: Stamped Wooden Utensils with the Silhouette Machine and September Deals!

If you have ever wanted to design your own stamps then you are going to love the new Stamping Starter Kit from Silhouette America!  It is totally rad! Silhouette gave me a kit to play around with to create my very own custom stamps and holy cats, can I tell you how addicting this is!

For those of you who have followed along on my blog for any length of time, you know how much I love throwing a good party.  Well, designing my own stamps took party planning up a notch as now I'm able to coordinate a party theme's design onto those fun eco-friendly wooden utensils you see all over Pinterest, Etsy, and blogland in general! Then, just pick a coordinating color stamp pad and you can really get your party's colors picked up in even your utensils...so cool! I'm thinking chevron stamps, honeycombs, snowflakes...ahhh, the list goes on and on.

This is what the Stamping Starter Kit looks like. Everything you need to create your own stamps comes in one pretty little chevron box.

You get a special stamping cutting mat, a few sheets of their special stamping material you need to cut your stamps out with your Silhouette machine, 3 different sizes of acrylic blocks to place your stamp clings on to, ink, and a card for 10 free shapes!  You can also use the fonts and images from the Silhouette online store to create your own unique stamps just make sure they images/fonts aren't too narrow since then they may not cut well through the special stamping material!

I used the "dots" shape that came with the Stamping Starter Kit and cut it down to a thinner size cling to make stamping on my wooden utensils a breeze. 

Just place the cling onto the acrylic block using the guidelines to keep it straight and press your stamp into an ink pad to make it come to life, so easy I tell you! To clean your stamps, just use a baby wipe or a wet paper towel and the ink comes off and looks like new again.

And now, thanks to Silhouette, I can match my utensils to any party theme, wooo hooo! 

If you are interested in getting a Stamping Starter Kit for yourself (or maybe even a friend!) you can Click Here Now to get Silhouette's September Deal which runs from today, September 4 through September 13, 2013.  You can get a bundled deal with a Cameo or Portrait cutting machine or just the Stamping Starter Kit alone for a reduced price by using my Coupon Code: CARROTS. Get this deal while it is here cause once it's gone it's gone!

Happy Stamping my friends!

XOXO,

TUTORIAL: How to Make Your Own Hang Tags with Silhouette Sketch Pens and August Promo!

Have you ever used the Sketch Pens for the Silhouette cutting machines? Oh man, they are so rad. Silhouette came out with a whole bunch of fun colors for their sketch pens and they are really fun to play with.

You can see they even have glitter pens! And gold, bronze, and silver color pens as well as a white one which is fun to do on the black vinyl to look like chalk!

To use the sketch pens, just pop out your blade and replace it with a pen...easy peasy!

To make these fun hang tags with my shop logo on them, I just uploaded my logo as a black and white image and traced it in the Silhouette program. From there I just "cut" it out, using the sketch pen in place of blade so it would draw the image. Then I used the hang tag that comes free in your Silhouette library, centered each tag around my images, and cut the tags out as you normally would. Just remember to leave your paper in place between sketching and cutting so everything lines up nice and tidy!  Aren't these tags cute!

If you are still looking at buying a Silhouette cutting machine, whether it be the Cameo or the Portrait, this month Silhouette has some great deals bundled with their Sketch Pens! And if you already have a Silhoutte, there is a deal for just get the Sketch Pens too :-)

Here are the deals that run from August 21-29, 2013...

(1)    CAMEO plus sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a $25 gift card and a penholder for $269.99 ($88.96 off the retail price)

(2)    Portrait plus sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a $25 gift card and a penholder for $129.99 ($108.96 off the retail price)

(3)    Sketch pen starter pack, metallic and glitter collection packs, plus a penholder for $19.99 ($13.97 off the retail price)

Remember to use my exclusive promo code: CARROTS to get the deals!! You can click here to buy them now...but only for a limited time, so hurry!

XOXO,

*I received compensation for this post; however, this is my personal, honest opinion based on my experience with the product.

Silhouette America: Vinyl Nail Design How To and Promotional Deals

It's August and you know what that means...a new month equals another awesome Silhouette promotion, woot, woot!

Here is this month's promotional deal good from August 6-August 14, 2013...

(1)    Silhouette CAMEO®, 2 rolls of vinyl (chalkboard and white) and 1 roll of transfer paper: $269.99

(2)    Buy one get one free deals on all Silhouette vinyl

The BOGO on vinyl includes transfer paper and stencil vinyl. You can buy different colors through the BOGO bundle than what are included in the CAMEO deal above!

If you are wondering what you can do with the vinyl well, let me tell you, there are sooo many fun projects. You could make vinyl wall decals for your home or vinyl decals for cute wood pallet artwork or hey, why not some fun designs for your nails!

Yup, you can totally buy nail designs in the Silhouette Online Store...here are a few of the fun options offered:

I bought a few to try out on my girls. They are sooo easy to use!

Just cut out the nail design of your choice via your Silhouette machine onto your vinyl, peel it off, and place it on your nail.  Paint over top with nail polish and let it dry and then peel it off ever so carefully. Voila, you now have some fun accents nails!

We did stripes and anchors...and for only $0.99!!

And as a bonus, you can even use the inner vinyl pieces included in some of the designs as nail stickers like I did on Eloise's nails above!  I just placed them on with tweezers and painted over top with a quick dry top coat. I think they turned out pretty cute considering I am probably the world's worst nail artist!

Remember this promotion only runs from August 6-August 14, 2013! And don't forget, use my promo code: CARROTS to get the deal by clicking here!

XOXO, 

Silhouette Portrait and Designer Edition Software GIVEAWAY!!!

**This giveaway is now closed!**

It's July 1st and you know what that means...a new month equals another awesome Silhouette promotion and another sweet giveaway too!

Here is this month's promotional deal...

1)      Silhouette CAMEO® plus the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition software for $269.99

2)      Silhouette Portrait™ plus the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition software for $129.99

3)      The Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition software for $24.99

Remember this only runs from July 1-July 10, 2013 so get it while it's hot!!  And don't forget, you can use my promo code: CARROTS to get the deal by clicking here!

This month's giveaway is for a Silhouette Portrait cutting machine as well as the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition software!  This software is really cool! It includes additional knife, eraser, and file import options as well as the ability to convert shapes into rhinestone patterns and sketch patterns. So if you love to create and design your own sketch patterns than you will LOVE this software!  I have been loving playing with it and designing fun shirts for the girls!

If you'd like to win this awesome giveaway then just enter via the Rafflecopter widget below or click here now!

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XOXO,

** I have been compensated for this post. However, all opinions are truthful and my own.  This post contains paid links.

Silhouette Portrait Winner Announced!

Are you ready to hear who won this month's Silhouette Portrait cutting machine from Silhouette America? 

Me too!!!

The winner is...

Yay Kristine!!  Please email me at SmashedPeasandCarrots[at]gmail.com with your mailing information so we can get your brand-spanking new Silhouette Portrait to you immediately!!

And, once again don't forget that this month's promotional deals end on June 15, 2013!  You have a few more days to get in on the deals using my promo code: CARROTS

Silhouette Cameo & Heat Transfer Starter Kit for $269.99 (regular price $339.98)

Silhouette Portrait & Heat Transfer Starter Kit for $129.99 (regular price $219.98)

All Heat Transfer Products are Buy 1 Get 1 FREE!!

You can purchase any of the deals here!

You are seriously going to love these products...the Silhouette heat transfer starter kit is uber rad. Appliquéing has never been so darn easy!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

XOXO,

** I have been compensated for this post. However, all opinions are truthful and my own.  This post may contain paid links.

Silhouette June Promotions Plus a GIVEAWAY!!!

Hooray! It's June and that means I have another super-dee-duper awesome giveaway for y'all along with some great June promotional deals from Silhoutte. I really love the Silhouette cutting machine, there are so many things you can make with it...applique, artwork, seasonal projects...it truly is a crafters best friend :-)

First let me share the deals for this month...

Silhouette Cameo & Heat Transfer Starter Kit for $269.99 (regular price $339.98)

Silhouette Portrait & Heat Transfer Starter Kit for $129.99 (regular price $219.98)

All Heat Transfer Products are Buy 1 Get 1 FREE!!

You can purchase any of the deals here!

And yes, all heat transfer products are BOGO!!!  What a steal!  So if you missed the deal last month, here is your chance to grab one of these awesome Silhoutte machines or some of the new heat transfer products where you can make your very own custom apparel or home decor. You can click HERE to buy one of these June deals now and use my exclusive code: CARROTS to get the special price!!

Alright, so onto that sweet, sweet giveaway!

One lucky reader will win ONE Silhouette Portrait Cutting Machine just by entering HERE or via the Rafflecopter widget below!

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Good Luck!!

 XOXO,

** I have been compensated for this post. However, all opinions are truthful and my own.  
This post may contain paid links.