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ilhouette Studio softwareHi everyone! I’m Melissa and you can always find me over my blog A Prudent Life, where I do tons of frugal DIY projects. I’d love you to stop by and say hi!After the cold winter, I thought we could all use a dose of spring. I’m going to show you how I transformed a $1 vase into a custom colorful piece using my Silhouette and some pretty vinyl.Here is the before:And here is the vinyl I used (colors listed as shown left to right).Oracal 631: Mint,Maize,Geyser Blue,Sof …

Hi everyone! It's Kaysi again from Keeping it Simple.How was everyone's Christmas?! We had a great holiday this year! For Christmas I finally got a kitchen aid. I love all of the colored ones but the one I got was just plain white (it was the one on sale). If you know me at all, I can't just leave things alone. I like simple but not plain. I like color. So I added some vinyl to it and I love how it turned out!Before I cut out the vinyl, I planned out the words and the sizes and colors on …

Hi Everyone!! I'm Mandy and I blog over at the super-awesome Sugar Bee Crafts - come check out all the fun over there!I just tried the coolest thing with my Silhouette Cameo - cutting a hand-drawn design!Here's how it went down....one of the girls from church wanted a sticker for her new MacBook (um, all the middle schoolers in our school district were issued one - what?!) and so she came over with a sketchbook where she had drawn a design:At first I thought we'd find a similar design in t …

The 4th of July is one of my children's favorite holidays. It's right up there with Christmas. And they both beg for patriotic shirts! So this year I decided to make the kids a couple of shirts for the holiday and absolutely LOVE how they turned out!The idea came to me one day and I knew they would be really fun and stylish shirts!Instead of a traditional stripe, I decided to use chevron stripes! And I just think they are so super cute.I laid out both of their shirt designs in the Silhouette …

I have acquired a lot of technology lately. I take my stuff with me all the time. My Kindle has all my books, so while I'm sitting around waiting I have it. Now, my daughter is taking dance and their big show is coming so not to get lost in the confusion, everything they own needs to be labeled. Water bottles, shoes, lunch boxes. I love my name as well as my daughter's but I really don't need to shout it out on every article I own. The monogram is a nice way to label your things without yelling …