Today I’m chatting about the Silhouette Life Inspiration Box. I was thrilled to receive a Silhouette Life Inspiration Box (SLIB) from Becky and Glenna in the mail last week.
What is The Silhouette Life Inspiration Box?
It’s a monthly mail out by subscription of carefully selected goodies to use with the Silhouette (or other Brand of) Cutting Machine. Contents vary each month but include enough to enable you to craft at least 5 projects from each box. Subscribers to the box can get Step by Step Tutorials, Cut files, and support via an Exclusive Members only Facebook Group too.
What’s in the Box?
A Happy Mail Surprise! Yes, really, It’ll be a nice surprise – you won’t know until you open the box! This much I can tell you: each month’s box contains a selection of products and consumables or maybe tools, all carefully selected by Becky, Glenna and the team from SLIB from their reputable sponsors, all well respected established suppliers.
The image below shows the contents of a previous box. From the list below, you can see that that box was choc full of a variety of blanks and supplies. Perfect opportunity to try out something you may not have attempted before.
What was in the box I received?
All this! So many fun things arrived in The September Box. Silhouette Life were celebrating a full year of supplying the boxes and went with a Wine and Dine theme for that month. Everything pictured above was included except the Wine!
I received blanks -my favourite being a lovely Coral Stainless Steel Tumble. (For a wine project, but it’s the perfect size for me to cart around a cuppa too!) 2 wine glass Charms, wine bottle Apron and Hat Set (Yes! we absolutely should all dress up our wine bottles!) A fabulous Wine glass Caddy which balances on a bottle of wine and holds 2 wine glasses (not included) and also some Clear glass Gems. That’s not all, as all the supplies needed to turn these into fun finished items were all supplied too: holographic vinyl, Transfer Tape, Shrinky Dink Sheets, Inkjet paper, label sheets, magnets, adhesive.
Tutorials
The team run a Facebook Private Group where the Sample photos can be viewed along with links to detailed tutorials for each project. Down load or and even print the tutes if desired. Use the Cutting Files provided or alternatively, use the blanks and products with other cut files and designs of your own. The Group Admin and community offers support, so if you have any questions about a project, or if you’d simply like to share what you’ve made head to the Facebook Group. When you receive your first box you will be given an email address to request to join the group. Shoot off an email request and you’ll have your group invitation in no time.
Look what I made …
I used a Cutting File provided and the supplies in the box to put this lovely Mandala Design on the Stainless Steel mug. So Sparkle..arkely!
Then I decorated the wine glass Caddy – love this! There was a choice of templates in the cut files available and I used a plain one and added circle cutouts – There was enough hologram vinyl to decorate this but I opted to use a copper vinyl of my own. That’s the beauty of the boxes, you can mix and match the supplies and designs with your existing stash!
And…There’s more fun to come, I still have the Printable Transfer and the Shrinky Dink Projects to try out. Here’s my spiffy looking Wine Bottle waiting patiently for his inkjet transfer Apron decoration.
In the meantime I couldn’t resist using a leftover bit of that Vinyl to accent a Christmas Card I made with Metal Dies…It’s so gorgeous I didn’t want to waste a scrap!
More Info
Becky has an extensive FAQ section right here that should answer any other questions you may have.
Why not Visit The Silhouette Life Inspiration Box Social Media and see what they’ve been up to recently? Here’s their Facebook page or their Instagram Feed if you’d like to take a peek.
If a subscription box is something you’re interested in, they’re currently taking pre orders for the January 2018 boxes.
There’s more info here on The Silhouette Life Inspiration Box including all the details of the flexible subscriptions available.
They ship internationally too, contact the team for a shipping quote for the postage to your country.
In the US? On to the Giveaway
For United States residents. Becky and Glenna are giving away a Silhouette Life Inspiration box of their choice to one of my lucky readers. For a chance to win, visit one or all of the Silhouette Life Inspiration Box links above and then pop back here to enter by leaving a comment on this post. I’ll use a Random Number Generator to pick a winner from the numbered comments. Be sure to leave a valid email with your comment so I can notify you if you’re the winner to get your details. I’ll update this post to publish the winner.
Giveaway finishes and comments must be received by Oct 25th at 11.59pm EDT.
How easy is that….? Good Luck
Update: Giveaway now closed
The winner is comment number 9. Congratulations Susan – I’ll be in touch.
Looks like a great inspiration box! I love the look of that vinyl!
What a fabulous giveaway!
New subscriber but love the thought of this box! I been using my cameo for wayyyyyyy to long without one! LOL I now have the cameo 3 and love it! Thanks for the chance!
I love Silhouette better then the Cricut. I am so happy to see that Silhouette is doing monthly boxes too.
How fun, thanks for sharing. I didn’t know about this, and I’m definitely excited to get my first box!
Such a clever idea! I love all the items you received and what you’ve made.
How fun that it has everything you need!
What a wonderful idea this is to let you try out multiple items, projects and such each month!! It would be great to win this!
I’d love to try this Out.
I think I know what I want for Christmas this year!
This is one amazing box for Silhouette lover for sure.
Your projects are fantastic. I love them all.
I visited their Facebook and Instagram and following them there.
Thank you so much for a chance to win this box.
What a nice assortment to do projects and to do new things you’ve never done before! Love the wine caddy! Thanks for the chance.
This looks like such a fun subscription box. I would love to try it.
It looks like there is a fantastic selection of goodies in each box. I think it would be so inspiring to receive this each month.
Ooh, would love to win this to use with my Cameo 3, which should be arriving next week. I was ready to upgrade my Cameo and am looking forward to Bluetooth and the self adjusting blade. Thanks for the opportunity to win this giveaway.
That vinyl is so pretty! Would be a fun win!
very interesting idea – It would be fabulous to win a box and give it a try through winning first – I visited the links – saw there are freebies to download within 24 hours on the FB page— thanks for the opportunity to win – I live in the USA – have a blessed week and keep on crafting with the Silhouette – love my machine!
I would love to try out the The Silhouette Life Inspiration Box. I’ve seen it all over FB and would to explore the possibilities of the boxes. Thank you for the opportunity.
Sounds like a awesome way to explore new silhouette projects. Thanks for the info
Fun stuff. Would make a great gift once all decorated up. Thank you for the ideas too.
Looks like a lot of new items that I have never used….would be exciting to try new products each month for my Silhouette Cameo! I love my cutter and would enjoy new products shown in their samples. Thanks for the insight!
This sounds like such a cool subscription! I love the card you made with the leftovers of your pretty mandala project. Thank you for the chance to win 🙂
terrific inspirational ideas
What a great idea!! I’m always looking for special projects beyond the paper crafting that I do. It would be nice to get the supplies and instructions needed and then have a group to share with!!
There are just so many things we can do with the Silhouette Cameo that these boxes are perfect to help stretch that potential for us to learn these techniques… Hope to win an Inspiration Box…. !!
This would be a great way to gain some more experience with different projects! I love it. My fingers are crossed…
That would be exciting to receive!
Oh how fun. I love all the goodies and how you used them. So pretty. thanks for the chance.
This is such an awesome idea, to have everything complete with instructions for creative projects!
Love this! I had no idea this was a thing! I have creative blocks quite often. This would be perfect for me. Thank you for the opportunity!
What a great way to try new products!
I love this idea! I don’t have to leave home to get wonderful things to use with my Silhouette.
Giveaway Closed – winner will be announced shortly 🙂
Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I sent you my contact info.
Happy Dance to Suzer! Yeah!