This project turned out so cute, and I’m excited to share it with you today! I decided to make a Valentine’s countdown calendar for the boys using my Silhouette Cameo. I was hoping that the online Silhouette store had a 3D mailbox design and was thrilled to find this one.
I sized my mailboxes to my liking using the Silhouette software, printed them out on bright scrapbook paper, and then assembled and glued them together. Each day leading up to Valentine’s Day my boys will have a mailbox to open which contains a Valentine’s coupon. I wrote things such as the following on the coupons: 15 minutes extra bedtime curfew, 30 mins computer time, DVD of choice, choose what we have for dinner one night, homemade cookies, get a sucker from the candy jar, story-time with Mommy with book of choice, permission to jump on Mommy & Daddy’s bed for 5 minutes, etc. Those might not work for you at all, but if you’re looking for some ideas I thought I’d list some!
For this project I used:
- Silhouette machine <—-Use this special link with coupon code “A2Z” to receive a discount on your products!
- Silhouette Advent Calendar Kit
- 3D Mailbox Shape
- December Daily Numbers
- glue, ribbon, and free printable coupons
I used a herringbone patterned sheet of scrapbook paper for the numbers which was a mistake. They are difficult to make out on the side of the mailboxes but still look cute.
And below is a “pinnable” collage for you in case you’d like to pin this project to Pinterest (which would totally make my day)!
Do you want to make your own adorable valentine’s and so very much more? Well, now is a good time to purchase a Silhouette Portrait because it is currently on sale when you use the promo code: A2Z! You can snag one for $179.99 which includes
- the Silhouette Portrait machine
- all the software you need to get started
- a bonus pack of Silhouette double-sided adhesive starter kit which allows you to kick your cards and gift boxes up a notch.
And because Silhouette is an amazing company I asked if they’d let me give away a Portrait to one of YOU and they said yes! Wahoo! If you’d like a chance to win please follow the directions in the rafflecopter widget below.
For fabulous project ideas, I encourage you to check out the Silhouette blog and Pinterest page! You will find a TON of creative ideas in both these spots.
This looks like fun. My kids would love it.
I would be using a lot for preschool treats and crafts! I’m tired of cutting cardstock by hand. LOL
I would use it for my scrapbook pages!
I would LOVE to win this machine! I have so many fun ideas! You are so creative! Thanks for sharing!
I would make cards with it. Thank you!
Oh, what wouldn’t I make! I could do all sorts of crafts and scrapbook things. What a GREAT giveaway!!
I would first create “Family Rules” Subway art. Thanks
I would make some fun stuff for easter for my two daughters.
I really want to use it for cutting fabric for some fun quilt art I want to make!
I’d love to use it to help make party decor!!
My coworkers and I are dying to get a Silhouette to create crafts for the office and our homes!! Especially looking forward to cutting vinyl!
I’d use it to cut vinyl for signs and labels!
The possibilities are almost endless, but I need a Silhouette Portait to cut beautiful vinyl letters! Thank you to you and Silhouette for the giveaway! Good luck everyone!
I love the mail boxes. So cute! My girls would love these! Besides these, I’d use the portrait to make pendants to decorate my daughters’ newly redone rooms.
Decorations for our annual easter egg hunt
Um… how can a girl say just one thing she would do with a Silhouette!? I literally have a list for when I get mine
cut out stars for my daughter’s princess ballerina birthday party!
I would start by making an advent calendar with the Silouhette.
I would use it for my projects for preschool. And I can think of many many projects I’d love to do!
Thanks Beth for the chance to win. I teach at a coop and could use this almost for almost every lesson. The fun I would have with it myself would be a bonus!
Kariann
My children and I love crafting. I think we could make a ton of fun projects with the Silhouette! Thanks for the chance to win!
I’ve got a couple of ideas for some cute Valentine’s Day gifts I would make for my husband! And I’d also deck out my office in cute little cut-outs and printables.
I do a lot of scrapbooking and card making and would love to try the Silhouette! I also do some crafting and get lots of inspiration from the blogs and pinterest!
I would love to make homemade cards
I would love to make Valentines!! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to make some custom onesies for my sister who is pregnant
I would love to finish my boys’ scrapbooks using the Silhouette. Thanks!
I would cut vinyl for my living room that says, “count your blessings” to go with pics of my kids.
I would make every thing possible
I would LOVE one of these to create labels and art! Someday….
There are so many things I’d love to make with a Silhouette! I’m redoing my living room, so some wall art might be my first project.
i’ll make my wife a card to tell her I won her what she has been asking for! A Silhouette!!!
i’ll make my son’s bday party decor!
I’d create embellishments for cards
Wow looks great!
Love to make subway art!
i could make such wonderful things!
I’d love to get my hand on a Silhouette. Oh the things I could do and the places I could go.
I would love to win!!!
I would like to use vinyl to create wall quote.
I think I would use it to make some stencils first!
I’d make lots of signs
I would make cards!!! Thanks for the opportunity!
labels for my spice bottles!
I have wanted one forEEEEEVER!
I would make shirts for my boys!
I’d make some vinyl worded picture frames!
I would use it to cut some vinyls for home decor and tshirt designs
The question is: What WOULDN’T I make if I had a Silhouette?
I would use it to make my daughter’s name to put on her wall!
What wouldn’t I make? There are so many things I’d like to make I can’t list them all. Thanks for the chance to win.
Ohhh, pretty paper! Such a cute idea and who doesn’t want a bear hug from mommy! I could use one right now!
i would love this to make cards and use vinyl to create with the grandkids, i have noticed that whenwe sit at the table doing crafts,they talk more and i just listen,,beautiful
I would use it to cut vinyl!
Hi! I would love to make numbers for my stairs,,
Wow what a wonderful giveaway! Thanks for the chance. I love making homemade gifts and banners. This would be great for that.
These are so cute! There are so many ways I’d use one of these. I love designing my own templates for things in Illustrator.
So cute!
I would use it to make all kinds of crafts with my 5 year old son
I would love to create labels for things for organizing. Cut out banners for celebrations. Make special t-shirt designs. Oh just lots of stuff!
ADORABLE! I am so pinning this!
I would love to create an etched love board
I’d make Valentines day cards for all my girly friend!!
I would make embellishments for my students to use on their Mother’s Day cards.
I would love to use it to make cupcake toppers!!! Thanks for the chance at a great giveaway! Hope I’m lucky enough to win!!!
I have so many ideas in my heas to decorate my boys room with a Silhouette.
Definitely make some subway art.
I would like to create some fun labels for my kids toy storage bins
I would love to make awesome baseball themed signs, labels and artwork for my two boys’ room makeovers!
I would love it for so many reasons, but definitely want to make some labels & holiday banners
I would make cards and artwork.
I would love to make some vinyl signs for my home and all those other Interest projects I’ve pinned.
Cute project idea! Would love to win a silhouette machine to cute holiday banners and of course labels.
I would use it first to make temp tattoos for my boys
Love this idea! (and I did pin it
) Thanks for the chance to win!
Yay! Thanks so much for the pin Vicki
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Oh and THIS project is the one I would make if I won
great choice in a giveaway!
What a great way to make your kids feel special. Very cute idea!
Your mailboxes are adorable and I would love to win!
Those mailboxes are adorable! As a fulltme childcare provider, I’ve got 6,577 uses for a silhouette machine. I really need to just break down and purchase one already. I love all your ideas, and thank you for sharing the mailboxes with us!
I have wanted one of these for lettering projects. Hope I win!
Your valentine project is adorable and I’ll bet your guys love it!
I am recently retired and love crafting with my granddaughters. We would have soooo much fun making cards, banners, labels…. and any other thing my creative girls will think of!! Please choose us!!
As always you come up with the greatest ideas!! Love this one.
Thanks for the opportunity!!
Would love to win one. My daughter is crafty and we would spend some quality time together. Have a good weekend.
I have a very long list of projects to finish that I could really use this wonderful machine for! Lots of signs in the works.
These are so cute. I just ordered a Silhouette for my birthday present. Maybe I’ll try out this mailbox project.
I was going to say that I wanted to use it on fabric but know I think I would love to make these cute mailboxes!
I’d love to win! Thanks!!!
Wow, I love it, Beth! That is the cutest idea! Your kids are so lucky. I’m trying to figure out how to do something cute like that without the special machine. Maybe I could make just one mailbox and have a new coupon arrive each day (not as beautiful, but easier). Maybe I could have Christian make the mailbox!! Such a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
I would love to win! I have so many ideas of what I could make!
Would love this to start crafting with my toddler and also help out his pre school.
This would make it so much easier to make holiday crafts!
Love,love,love this for crafts with/for my boys!
I’ve always wanted to use a Silhouette to make cutesy labels! Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
~ Ferly
Gifts We Use {to grow, love and serve}
I love your mailboxes. Such a great idea. Thank you for the chance to win.
hdn4dbch at yahoo dot com
FINGERS CROSSED!! I have been saving up for one of these.
I’d be using this for vinyls and to make cute stuff for my granddaughter. Thanks for the giveaway!
What a sweet idea! My daughter would love this.
I would love to make Valentine crafts
I’d love to create something to decorate my walls.
I would cut vinyl.
Hello, I would love to make a 3D picture commemorating my daughter’s wedding. Thanks for a great giveaway!
I’d make decorations for my friend’s baby shower!!
We just purchased a 44 year old house that hasn’t been decorated in… 44 years. I love to make a lot of my own decor and I think this machine would be a great way to achieve this! I also have the most creative, crafty Grandkids that would LOVE to make and take with this wonderful machine!
i would make something for a valentine mantel
I’ve got a million projects that I could do with one of these awesome machines…would be ecstatic if I won.
oh, there are so many things I would make. stencils for the wall and fabrics for starters. thanks for the give-away!
lucinda
Since one of my New Year’s resolutions is to send birthday cards to all of my family this year, I would get a lot of use out of a silhouette. We’ve got a big family!
SO many things to make…laels, cute stuff for scrapbooking, endless possibilities!
I’d love to be able to label and embellish nearly everything in my home
I would love to make signs and cards and just have fun creating!
Decorations for my 3 year olds birthday party!
I Would reslly like to make stencils to use on plates and pillows
I would love to use this to make gifts and cards for all of our family’s wonderful friends, relatives and teachers.
I’d love to make personalized signs!!
Need to start making graduation decorations for my daughter’s party!
I want to make so many things…. starting with signs!
Thank you for the chance to win!
the first thing Id play with is the adhesive paper and glitter, woot, woot! Thank You!!!
I’m redesigning my home office/studio so I imagine I’d utilize the ability to make vinyal labels.
Those are so adorable!! I love how you hung them in the photo frame!! So clever!! Thanks so much for the Giveaway!
You’re project is SO cute! If I had a Silhouette I’d love to create one of my own!
This project is SO creative. I will not have a chance to get this done before Valentine’s Day, but would be a great idea for possibly another holiday or for no reason at all than to have fun with my kids!
So many projects I would like use this for but I would have to say I would first try this making signs. Thanks for the giveaway
Oh so many things to make! I’d probably start with vinyl for shirts for my little guy.
So many possibilities! I would use this to make unique graduation invitations for my sister. Thanks!
I would LOVE to create with the silhouette portrait!! I see so many cute projects I would love to make. Thanks for the chance to win!
Fingers are crossed. Thanks so much for the giveaway.
I’d use it for scrapbooking!!
I would love to make some wall decor with a silhouette. My walls are so boring right now.
I would love to make signs with romantic typography, silhouette princesses Tshirts for my 2 little girls and plenty of things for the home. And cute things for sale and earn some extra money, always welcome!
Thank you for this give away!
I would make beautiful cards and party favors with the Silhouette. I’ve been wanting one forever, but have 2 Cricuts and can’t justify getting one. Thank you for the wonderful opportunity to try and win one. You rock!!!
papercrafting4you@gmail.com
Some cute Easter garland…since Valentines is almost here.
Kelly
I would love to create a variety of seasonal decorations, especially for St. Patrick’s Day, which we celebrate BIG!
I would love to make cards!
I would love to work with the vinyl products!
vinyl letters, cards, scrapbooking…….
Fantastic idea! I’d like to do vinyl letters to keep myself organized!
I would love to create some vinyl decals with it!! Thank for hosting a fab giveaway!!
Fotini
I would use to make cute things for my sisters baby shower
Thanks, Beth for making the Portrait available…yay!
I’ve had the privilege of using a Cameo for a little bit and had so much fun cutting out letters for Christmas decor. Unfortunately….I no longer have access to it…but would love the create banner and buntings cards, art and so much more. The sky is the limit. My fingers are crossed. After using one for a while I would love. love. love to have my own.
P.S. Pinning your cute mailbox countdown. I absolutely love everything about it, Beth!
I would make party decorations.
I would use the vinyl to make signs. Great giveaway!
Yahoo! Pick Sue!
I would love to have one of these wonderful machines! I’ve wanted one for such a long time.
I would sooo love to win one of these. Thank you for hosting!
i would LOVE to win a slihouette and make incredible banners and accents for all the family events celebrated throughout the year
I owe my niece a present for her baby boy. I’d like to use my new Silhouette, should I win one, to make some onesies and Ts – to start with!
I would really enjoy using this to make things for school. My students would love it!
I would love to have a silhouette to give my poor little fingers a break from cutting out stencils by hand
I’m really intrigued by the many ways vinyl can be used, and how great the Silhouette is for cutting vinyl, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of ways I would love to use it!
I am so dying to get my hands on a silohouette I would start making pillow appliques and then any and anything else I can do with it…my creative mind is going wild already, lol.
Jeanne
i’d probably make some vinyl decals for clothing or our walls.
I would love to make tons of beautiful crafts with my kiddos too! :>
I would love to win one of these to create personalized cards.
I want one of these so bad! Would love to use it to cut vinyl!
What a great giveaway. The winner is going to have lots of fun with this! Hope it’s me!!
soo many uses!
The possibilities are endless with the Silhouette… I would use for cutting letters, holiday decorations and cards to name a few things.
Could make so many things for home and work.
Ahh i love it!
Ahh i love it! I want to organize and prettify my life!
This would be sooo much fun to win!
I’d like to use the silhouette to make stencils and cut vinyl letters for signs.
Love your blog. It’s the best!
What wouldn’t I make. I’ve been admiring everyone’s vinyl projects for a couple of years……I would be thrilled to be able to make some beautiful goodies with this Silhouette!
Signs and labels and then cards and layouts. I would love to up my look of everything. Thanks so much for the chance.
Definitely thrilled I came across this blog site now has cheered me up quite seriously
What an awesome valentine craft! This would totally help me with my wedding crafts!
I love it! I would use it to make cards and artwork!