Anyone else have a silhouette cameo? I use mine for stencils.

[X_Digger]

I was buying stencils online for decorating a room in our house, and my wife sent me a link to the cameo, and said, "You have enough graphics skills to make your own."

Turns out, she was right. It's really not that hard. The only 'gotcha' I've found is that you have to be careful how you transfer from illustrator to silhouette studio when you're dealing with multiple-layer stencils.

Here's a quick test I did today with a couple of new designs- ignore the bad painting, this was quick and dirty on a piece of posterboard.





I'm not into scrap booking, or glass etching, so.. what else do you use your cameo for?

[Phentex]

1. I have a Cricut but my friend keeps talking about the Cameo...

I looked at the website but still can't figure out how it works. The Cricut uses cartridges but I think there is a way to connect to the computer, too.

I only use mine to make cards, and lettering for signs or posters. I never have the time to figure out everything it's able to do!

[X_Digger]

2. Yeah, a computer is required with the cameo.

I have a dinky little netbook connected to mine that I got for free for switching cell service a couple of years ago.

If you can use paint shop pro, photoshop, gimp, etc- silhouette studio is a walk in the park. There's a large library of shapes for download, but it's so easy to make shapes in silhouette studio that I don't know why anyone bothers.

Google images search, download clipart, open in silhouette, trace, cut.