Welcome, Projects, Giveaway!

Welcome to a very special week here at SEI Lifestyle! We have teamed up with the amazing Silhouette Team and are going to be bringing you some goodies we think you will love! Each day we'll be giving away product on both of our blogs, along with fabulous projects to inspire you!

Happy Monday friends! Can I start out by telling you all how much I love this machine? This thing is the coolest. It die-cuts like a dream...so crisp, so clean, it's just lovely to watch it hum along as it works. I am impressed.

We thought we'd start out the week with a layout! Easy peasy and fun. Remember when Maria mentioned she saw me using a photo to make a layout? Well, this is it! I'm constantly inspired by A Creative Mint's clean, well thought out photos and it was the perfect grid for my project with Silhouette.

I'm generally a 12"x12" kinda girl, so I just imagined some extra space on the sides. Not hard! As I started laying it out, I realized there were some cool elements that I wanted on my own layout. Enter the Silhouette SD. Paper clips made out of paper? Done. File folder shapes? Got it. Custom text? No problem! I hopped onto Illustrator and got to work, and a few minutes later my layout was practically done. Efficiency is so cool.

papers: happy day, bronze shimmer, my romeo, guava cardstock, & exquisite
embellishments: claire petals, claire metal accents, claire chiplets, claire + jocelyn designer brads, juliette ribbon, juliette stickers, & lovebirds epoxy stickers
shapes: custom (coming soon!), nameplates_C00022_27011

And see those cut-out letters? The cool part about this machine is your get the positive and negative space of your cut-outs. Two home sweet homes for me! Yipee! We were having some guests over for the weekend, so I whipped out a frame and made two custom cut mats for it (with the Silhouette, of course) a-la Miss Jennifer and ta-da! Some art for our guest room.

Now, I know you're looking at all those shapes and wishing you had them. Well, if you win the $25 Download Card Silhouette has so sweetly donated, they could be yours! To enter the giveaway tell us what you want to buy with it in a comment by Sunday, June 13th at midnight MST. That's it!

Next stop? The Silhouette Blog, who is featuring our brand new line On the Coast, and another giveaway! Thanks for playing and come back tomorrow for even more Silhouette goodness!
-Mandi