Happy Tuesday! Who wants to win a Silhouette Portrait? I thought so! Today I get to tell you about the awesome Sketch Pen promotion Silhouette is running AND give away another Portrait! yay! So hang tight while I show you how amazing the sketch pens can be and then enter to win your very own Portrait. Sound good? I sure thought so!
Silhouette Sketch Pens
If you haven’t used the sketch pens with your Silhouette cutting tool, you are seriously missing out! They are really neat and so easy to use. Silhouette just came out with a new line of sketch pens in all colors of the rainbow, as you can see above. So many fun colors to play with!
When you use the sketch pens, instead of cutting, your Silhouette draws the designs. Pretty sweet, right?
Don’t know what a Silhouette is? Its a digital cutting tool that hooks up to your computer like a printer. But instead of printing, it cuts the design out with a small blade. Its really awesome! Read my Silhouette Portrait review here or my Silhouette CAMEO review here!*Note: you do not need a Portrait or Cameo to craft with Silhouette products!
Now you’re asking, what can I make with sketch pens? Good question!
You can create your own coloring pages, art work, typography art, text, and I’ve seen people use them to address envelopes. {think wedding invitations, Christmas cards, etc} How rad is that?!
My personal favorite is the custom coloring pages that you can create with Silhouette Sketch Pens. I can make the coloring pages bigger than the standard 8.5 x 11″ coloring books with my CAMEO. Plus, I can personalize them with their names, design my own shapes to color, or put together a collection of shapes on a page. This is so perfect for teaching kids letters and shapes. You can create your own coloring sheet to help your kiddos learn. I love that!
This is also handy if you teach a youth group or church group. I teach Sunday school to the 5 year old little kids at our church and being able to create my own coloring pages for the kids that goes along with the lesson is awesome. And again, I can personalize these coloring pages to fit the needs of my lessons.
I created this really cute bunny coloring page to give to my kids on Easter from the Easter Bunny. How cool is that that the Easter Bunny is bringing them personalized coloring pages??! I’m so excited!
How to use Silhouette Sketch Pens Tutorial
Now using sketch pens are a breeze. You simply release the blade {flip the blue switch}, remove the blade housing, then insert the Silhouette sketch pen in its place, and then flip the blue switch back to secure it in place. Then when you are ready to send your design to the Silhouette, select the “Silhouette Sketch Pens” setting in the Silhouette Studio and load your paper/media as normal. Its really really easy to do!
Silhouette Sketch Pen Promotion
- Silhouette CAMEO® and sketch pen starter kit: $269.99
- Silhouette Portrait™ and sketch pen starter kit: $139.99 {lowest price I’ve seen on a Portrait!}
- Sketch Pen Starter Kit only: $12.99
To take advantage of these fantastic deals, you’ll need this special link and promo code: CRAFT
{discounts valid thru 3/31/13}
Silhouette Portrait Giveaway
Want to win a Silhouette Portrait? One lucky reader will win a Silhouette PORTRAIT! yay! Use the link/widget below to enter the giveaway. Silhouette giveaway winner will be posted on the Giveaway Winner page. This is a quick giveaway, so enter while you can! Giveaway ends 3/28/13 at 11:59am ET!
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Thanks for stopping by today! happy crafting, Linda
disclosure
In case you missed the special link to the Silhouette Discounts, click here.
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I’d start making some wall hangings for my son’s room.
WOW! This looks amazing!
I would use it for the many crafts I have floating around in my head! Also for kids school projects.
Pick me, pick me! Love Silhouette!
I’d use mine for scrapbooking additions and for making kid art!
These sketch pens are AMAZING. I would love to win a Silhouette Portrait to use them with. Thanks for the chance. : )
I would love to make some holiday decor with them.
I would like to do cards and scrapbook pages.
what wouldn’t we use it for? i see lots of beautiful school projects in our future!
My first thought was gift tags. Artwork for the kids’ room would be fun too.
This would be such fun to win. It would be neat to be able to instantly cut out all kinds of shapes and letters. This would come in very handy for Sunday School and VBS. Thanks for the chance to win.
i would use the white pen over and over again for a chalkboard effect!!!
I’d use it to make nice cards
I would use the portrait to start making some of the cards I have pin and do some other crafts that I have been pondering (wondering about all the hand cutting I would be doing) for gifts.
So many ideas! I don’t even know where to start. I love the thought of being able to draw coloring pages, decorations, oh the possibilities.
I would use them to make coloring pages for my kids. They would LOVE this!
So many projects…..I would start with subway art.
I would use them to make cards! I love the way sketched cards look.
i’d make decals with the butterfly images for my girls’ bedroom.
I will use for my teaching at Sunday School Church! …great tool for special art work creations!! ..thanks for giving free giveaway! to tried!..have blessing day everyone!! =)
Banners, cards, fun entertainment for the little-ones, (and me ;), the list goes on and on!!
This is an example of the future of crafting, which I also like to call FUTUROLOGY. Who wouldn’t want one of these?
there are many things to use the sketch pens for…but i would start with handmade notecards!
Fun. Fun. and more Fun. Would love to have a Portrait!
I would use the sketch pens to make things for my students to color in the classroom.
I would use making cards and putting Handmade by on projects.
Wow, what a generous giveaway! I would use the pens for my cardmaking, home decor, and (more likely) to bow to the whims of my 2 crafty girls who have me at their beck and call with the “Mom, can you get me…”, “I can’t find…”, “Where are the…” every time I try to sit down at my craft desk!
i would use it to make some cards and posters! yay!
Ummm… I don’t know. My mind in swarming. :)
i would love to get my hands on one of these. The possibilities are endless. thanks for the chance
This is an awesome giveaway!! :)
Love the coloring pages! Would be great for the kids!
I would love to make an art piece with the United States outline! FUN!
Helping me make a birthday banner for my little girls 1st birthday!!
I have wanted a silhouette since I first heard of them! this would be so awesome to own!!
I’d like to use the sketch pens
to make the insides for my
cards.
Carla from Utah
I would create wall art out of my daughters’ names
Adorable!
I never even knew this existed! I would use this to make custom titles for scrapbooking pages.
I would love to use that for our Children’s Church classes!
I would use the pens to make cute prints for my little girls’ room! Thanks for the giveaway!
I don’t know! I need to win one so I can find out what I can use them on!
I would let my granddaughter use it (with help). She loves to create original artwork and this would be great!
Oh how neat! This would be so awesome to make the coloring sheets with!
I would use it for my art journals. -Trisha T
I’d use it to make art for my kids bedrooms!
I would use the Sketch Pens to make some cute additions to the notes I love to stick in my husbands lunch bag. He likes cheesy and sentimental things, I think he would the simplicity of things drawn with the Sketch pens. I would also love to have a silhouette machine to use with my new vinyl!
Would LOVE one of these. I have a cricut and am looking to upgrade!!
Oh So excited, another giveaway…… may be my lucky day, If i win i would make some greeting cards and this would be so great for invitation, table seating cards so much would make beautiful stationary – you can make for gifts. Wow so many things, so glad they have them available. Thanks for the fantastic giveaway.
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I’ve been scrapping for years and I became bored with mass produced embellishments. Couldn’t afford the really pretty things. 5.00 for 2 flowers? eek, so I’ve begun trying to do everything myself. Handmade if possible. Wouldn’t this just be the most awesome thing to have?