I am a true crafter-wanna-be! I occasionally have a great idea on my own, but typically they come from inspiration I find somewhere. That’s where my husband (a perfect match for me) comes into play; I find an idea (or create one) then he masterminds a plan to make it happen. For example my love for the seashell shadow boxes in the San Diego Airport Women’s Bathroom, yes I made him peek in to see them (don’t tell him I told anyone that)! From that idea, he created this Seashell Window Frame Shadow Box for our home. Pretty amazing huh!? Yea, I must give him credit for making my crazy ideas a reality!
Until now, I am absolutely loving my Silhouette Cameo and all the amazing things I can make with it! I have actually given my husband a break for my random projects for awhile because I can make so many fun things on my own. {maybe that’s why he bought it for me for my birthday…} Anyway, now that the holidays are settled, we are moved into our new home, and life is back in motion, I have had more time to slip away and ‘cut things’! 
I have shared a few projects like this and this, but I also have so many more fun projects to share in the future! Today I am sharing a very basic project with you and a few tips on how to create your own customizable labels for things around your home. I think my husband and boys thought they might be the next to get labeled when I first got my machine, but they escaped un-vinyled!
Materials:
- Silhouette Machine (Cameo or Portait)
- Computer
- Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software
- Vinyl
Directions:
1. Before creating any even ‘basic’ projects on your Silhouette machine, be sure to read through the complete directions on set up and the basics on using your machine. These are foundational for any project.
2. To create your own labels, you will want to select your vinyl and stick it to your cutting mat. I choose a flat black that ressembles a ‘chalkboard’ look because it would match my kitchen and look great on my (boring) white canisters!
3. To get a good positioning on your cutting mat, roll your vinyl up, secure the top corners in place, then unroll the vinyl onto the rest of the mat.
4. Next, you are going to use your Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software to create your own design. I purchased the shape label using the Silhouette online store, which is accessible through your designer software! Then I downloaded it, choose the font style and size I wanted and created my labels. I personally loved that I could even add spacing in between the letters to fill up more space with a short word.
5. You then load your cutting mat, send your design from the computer to your machine and press CUT!
6. When the cutting is finished, you will unload your cutting mat, remove the vinyl and cut it to size. You will notice below that the letter -r was removed, and you can slightly see the cut design around it.
7. Using a ‘pick tool’ you will want to remove the letters, apply a piece of transfer tape over the label (follow the directions on the package).
8. Then you will place the transfer tape and shape onto the item you want the label to stick to and rub it firmly with a scraping tool.
9. Beginning in a corner, begin to peel away the transfer tape to leave the label. If they label does not separate, relay the transfer tape back down and rub firmly again over the shape.
10. You are done! Once you label your first project, the process will seem so much easier and less complicated; I promise! Labeling canisters or something else small around your home is a great way to start and get acquainted with your machine!
Exciting News
I’m excited to announce that we have a promotion in March! Silhouette recently came out with their new cutting machine, the Silhouette Portrait™. It’s similar to our Silhouette CAMEO® but it’s smaller. It cuts 8” widths instead of 12” of width. More importantly, it’s a lot more affordable! It’s $199.99 retail but, with the March Discount, you can get the Silhouette Portrait™ for $160.
From February 28th-March 8th, you can get a Cheerios and Lattes Reader Special (one of three options):
(1) A Silhouette Portrait™ ($199.99 retail or $160 pricing) and the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software ($49.99 retail or $39.99 pricing) for $179.99!
(2) A Silhouette CAMEO® ($299.99 retail or $240 pricing) and the Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software ($49.99 retail or $39.99 pricing) for $269.99!
(3) The Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition Software for $24.99-assuming the customer already has one of the Silhouette machines.
These are some great products! Please click HERE to take advantage of this month’s discount and don’t forget to enter CHEERIOS as the promo code.
Even More Exciting News!
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I would love to have this for vinyl cut out for the craft/scrapbooking closet I’m doing right now…. and use for gifts and a ton of other fun stuff!! Love this giveaway!
I really want to play around with the double sided adhesive.
What a fun giveaway!
I would love to personalize so decor in my house.
Vinyl! I sell Uppercase Living vinyl & we just started selling sheets! Would love one of these for projects!!
I would love to make my son’s decorations for his monster party in April with it!
Love all the ideas on your site. Great instructions~
Why do I have to be on Facebook in order to qualify to enter? I was on Facebook, my account was hacked, and it was not fun cleaning the mess up. I would love to enter this contest, but am not willing to deal with Facebook again. Options? I am on google and pinterest-maybe you could offer the same advantage to us in addition to Facebook?
I would love to personalize things in my daughters room and use to organize things as well.
I want one of these soooooo bad, I’m saving my pennies, but if I won one I could use my pennies for other things!
i would love to win this!
I’d love the machine for the parties I like to host…endless possibilities. Great Giveaway!
I’m so excited to make our family reunion shirts this year. 40+ people and each one will be so cute!
Since I have a Cameo, I’d give it to my mom.
I would definitely make vinyl kitchen labels. It has been on my list forever
I would love to use it for cards and papercrafting as well as working with vinyl. Thanks for offering such a great giveaway.
I have been wanting one of these FOREVER! I think I would do something for my living room walls…and then the boys’ closets…then the kitchen…then I would just play! Great giveaway!
I would love to make vinyl decors around the house.
I’ve wanted one for ages, but it’s not in my budget. Thanks for the great post and the give-away
I’d use it to give my scrapbooking more dimension–the possibilities are endless! Thank you for the chance to win a Silhouette!
I would love this for scrapbooking and card making!
Um…YES!!!
Oh….I’d use it for school stuff…creating centers and such.
I want to make a vinyl sign for a friend’s nursery!
I would label everything in site.
I follow u on Pinterest
I pinned the giveaway
I pinned the giveaway on Pinterest. Love to win thanks
I am planning my wedding and this would be a HUGE help!!
I really want one of these. I have so many great ideas…
I really want to make some vinyl lettering for my walls.
I would love to make cards!
I would love a Silhouette machine for scrapbooking projects!!
I would love to make cupcake toppers and home decor items!
I would love to make a Big Sign for my Kitchen and t-shirts are always fun!
I would love to make some vinyl decor for my daughter’s bedroom which is being redone right now
I could use this for so many things, I always transfer food to my own containers, in my sewing room, my two granddaughters have things I could do for them. I would probably use it for things in the kitchen at church too!
I would love to make tile sayings to put in my house
Great giveaway! I need to cut fabric letter for my personalized banners!
I want to put vinyl on my walls!
Yet another wonderful woman giving us all a chance to win a Silhouette! You absolutely ROCK!
I have some crates that are in need of labels, some mason jars that need something spiffy and lots of other projexcts waiting in the wings. This would make life so much easier and lots more FUN!
Good luck to all who enter!
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Hello, I’ve been wanting to make a personalized garden sized flag for my Dad’s grave. Thanks for a great giveaway!
I would LOVE a silhouette! Thanks for the chance!
To add to my previous comment I would love to make decorations for my home using the silhouette. Maybe using vinyl.
I would love a silhouette to make a large family tree for my family room
So many things come to mind. So many labels that need to be made. I would say to pin on my front room mirror a quote
I don’t know what I would use it for exactly, but I’m sure it would be something awesome!
So many fun projects that could be done with this! I would love to try my hand at vinyl decor!
i would to be able to cut vinyl to try some new projects!
I would love to be able to label containers like you did or make labels of any kind!
Labels for my pantry
I follow you on google + and pinterest
I would love to have it for a whole list of things!!! One is so I can cut vinyl for chalkboard labels! Another is so I can cut some fabric shapes for sewing!!
I pinned the giveaway on Pinterest!!!
A silhouette would be the perfect thing to get me started decorating and organizing my house!
I have had an idea rolling around in my head for a while involving vinyl and a mirror. I’d LOVE to be able to finally make it!
Oh my word, I have so many things pinned to make when I eventually buy myself a Silhouette! I probably would start making signs for my boys’ room with their names on them and a verse. Great giveaway!
Doing a kitchen reno and have open shelving that needs customizing…the Silhouette would be the perfect tool for this.
I would make custom onesies for my 3-month old baby girl!
Ideas are endless with Silhouette. Bring it! Thanks for the giveaway possibility!
I really really want this! Moving to a new house and I want to be super organized!
I would LOVE to be able to use a Silhouette for all of my vinyl projects. I especially love making tiles and signs!
I’m sure there are tons of projects I could do with a Silhouette, but the ones I look forward to the most are the ones done with my mom
If they have letters, I might do some of those for bulletin boards at our church!
I would monogram and label anything and EVERYTHING!
I have no idea what I would do first. There are so many different things that I can’t even name one right now.
I would love to make decorations for my grandkids’ birthday parties.
Drawn in by the Silhouette giveaway, but I am LOVING your blog!! Excited about receiving emails!
I’d love to organize in a less nerdy way in my home!
I subscribe to Cheerios and Lattes by email. I enjoy reading it. Thank you for the time you take to blog about your life and talents.
I follow you on Pinterest @cjbrick
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The one project I would love to have a Silhouette machine to use for would be make each of my Kindergarten students an reusable individual water bottle. No faucets inside or outside at school, so this would be something needed that I could make special for our school students that I think would be fantastic!
I would love to do some personalized pictures to frame for my empty walls just to start with. Then go on to bigger and better things. I have wanted to get a Silhoutte for a long time. Thank you for the chance to win.
I’m an email subscriber! Hope I win!
I am pretty sure I would cover the whole house in something by time I finally get one!
I would LOVE to finally make my own vinyl decals for my home. As well as many other projects involving my children
Looks like so much fun!
what a great giveaway!
I want to monogram everything in my house!!!
I’d love to win this so I could finally be more neat and organized!!
Anything vinyl!
I would love this for my scrapbook ing stuff and organizing my stuff
Wall art & appliques
I would make some cute cupcake toppers
I’d love to win this for my wife
Lots and lots of graduation decorations.
I really want to start making my own homemade birthday cards for family and friends, and this would be the perfect way to do it!
i want to make easter decor
I would love one to use for my wedding decor next year~!
I would use it for sewing crafts!
I would love to start my picture scrapbooking
So many great things to use a Silhouette for: canvas projects, wall decorating, organization…there are just so many ideas!
This is a great prize!
Project Life – the labels and stickers for my new hobby!
The projects are endless!
My son has ripped all of the wallpaper shapes off of his wall. I would love to cut out some new ones and make the walls look cute again.
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I have the SD, but would LOVE the Portrait!
I’d love to cut vinyl…and cards…and boxes…and gift bags…and tags! I already have a nice little library of svg files just waiting for a Silhouette machine to cut them!
Making shirts for my Granddaughter.
Thanks for the chance.
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I would love to win and get working on these projects floating around my head.
There isn’t just one project I would want it for…. I have a million ideas swirling in my head.
Wow, what a great giveaway! I’d love to get a Cameo to do some larger paper and vinyl projects~
I’d use it to cut alphabet shapes for all my preschool kids!
I’m thinking I could do some really cute things for my kid’s wall in their rooms.
Awesome! My friend has a Silhouette and loves it! I keep giving her stuff to cut for me; I’d love to have one of my own.
I would finish up a grandskids brag book for my mom.
I’d love it for scrapbooking fun!
I would use it to make my kid’s birthday party decorations for their joint party in April!
I would love it to label all of the kids bins, boxes, and jars in my house!
Love to make some cute spring cupcake toppers!
I want to make Christmas ornaments.
I would use it to create framed art for my kitchen and other kitchen crafts!
to make some vinyl frames! Thanks for this! Hope you have a great week
The first project would help with my daughter’s birthday party that is coming up!
I love the labels you made and I also want to make business cards.
This would be SO FUN to win!!
This would be SO FUN to win!! Then I could finish some of my “someday craft” list!
We have these decals we make to honor a sweet young girl gone too soon. When you are sweet and beautiful and 17 you leave behind a lot of people who love you energetically. We put these on the back windows of our vehicles, among other places.
This would be awesome to win!
I’m subscribed to your emails!
I’ve pinned an image!
Love your projects! Would love to have a Silhouette for project life and kids oarties. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love to make art for kids. I want to win it to make more vinyl letter, die cut and mixed art . I hope to win it
I pin you
Vinyl wall art!!!
I can’t even begin to say how badly I want or would love this! It would help SO greatly withgetting my craft business rolling! Thank you for this great opportunity!
I am hoping to make lots of organizational items for the house and fun goodies for my daughter’s first birthday!
Pinned to Pinterest!!
I follow you on pinterest
I would love to win a silhouette. I have wanted one for a while now. Maybe it’s my lucky turn.
id use it to make cards
Thanks for the chance!
I would love to make stencils for painting shirts and all kinds of things
So excited for the chance.
I would love to win a silhouette! I don’t have anything like that and would love to own one!!!
Probably for words around the house for a start.
What a great giveaway! Fingers crossed!
Love this giveaway, Mackenzie! I would use this to make a calendar for the fridge!
I am anxious to make some word art for the walls!
There are so many things I could do with this. I recently saw something about using a silhouette to etch glass which would be really cool!
I’d label things for my 3 girls and items in our new house!
I would love it for crafts and applique.
I’d label things for my 3 girls and items in our new house!!!!!
Love all the ideas on your site.
I have too many projects that could use this Silhouette! But I’d really love to make some of those great vinyl labels!
oh, it would be totally awesome if I could win the Silhouette. I would make labels for my first project and then I would make art for my grandchildren. I’ve got my fingers crossed.