Silhouette promotion, review and GIVEAWAY!! (closed)

I'm so excited for today!! I have been so excited for this day for a long time, keeping it in has made me want to burst! Before I get ahead of myself, let's start with an awesome promotion that Silhouette is having this week.

This week, January 17-22 Silhouette is having an awesome promotion on premium vinyl and their Silhouette machine. You can get the machine, two rolls of premium vinyl, 1 roll of transfer tape and a home decor CD all for $225!! That is a $395 value, wow!! Just enter the code "SIMPLE" when you check out. Don't need the machine? Well their premium vinyl is 25% this week too, just put in "SIMPLE".

The premium vinyl is awesome, it's strong enough to use it outside but gentle enough to use it indoors!

Here's what I did with it, put my family on my car!

Now, for what I think about the Silhouette machine. I have had it for about 3 weeks now and I absolutely LOVE it!! I've had a CriCut for six months now and am planning on selling it because I love the Silhouette so much more! Why you ask? Well here's what I love about the Silhouette:

-It's made for the computer, so I can use all of my super cute fonts with it. Because the program is made by Silhouette the program is super user friendly and when I have a problem I can just go to the Silhouette website. It's so easy that I have figured things out in minutes and I really don't know that much about computers.

-I love that you can buy images off of their online store and they are only $.99. I can handle spending a couple of dollars rather than $40 or more on a cartridge.

-Using vinyl with it! Since it doesn't use a mat when it cuts it, what it looks like on the computer, it's going to cut like that. I don't have to transfer it to another paper and worry about the letters being straight or not.

-I love how the program tells me what blade I need to use and how it automatically sets the speed and thickness based off of what I am cutting.

Overall I have just loved it! I have done more with it for my scrapbooking in the three weeks than I ever did with my CriCut.

Here are a few things that I have created with it:

Premium Vinyl:

Valentine's subway art

Family on my car

Heat Transfer Paper:

Coat Rack

Place mat bags

Boys' shirts

Paper:

Now for what you and me have been waiting for. The GIVEAWAY!! I'm so excited about this that I can't even contain myself. One lucky winner is going to win a Silhouette machine!!

Awesome huh?!

You must be a follower of Keeping it Simple using Google Friend Connect to enter this giveaway. If you're not, just click the follow button on the right side bar.

There are two ways to enter:

1) Go to Silhouette website and tell me what would be the first thing that you do if you won.

2) Blog about this giveaway on your blog and give me the link

Please leave a separate comment for each entries.

This giveaway will end on January 22nd at 12:00pm (cst). The winner will be announced shortly after.

Please leave your email address with your comment so I can contact you!

Good luck to everyone that enters! Remember that the promotion ends the same day, so don't forget to get stocked up on some vinyl!