Silhouette Arrival

Yay! My Slhouette Portrait came on Wednesday- five days earlier than I thought it would. When I came home, I saw to my delight that a Silhouette-sized cardboard box was stading in the doorway. Before dong anything else, I seized the box and tumbled into the living room to open the box's contents- careful to leave everything in order in case the need of a return should arrive. Anyways, the Sihouette is so much smaller and lighter than I thught it was- even with the specific measurements they gave o ther website. In cmparison, it's as wide as an average MSI laptop, as wide as an iphone, and when you close the lid, almost as tall  as a laptop. So, I read and reread and reread the owner's manual before taking off the machine's tape, putting on the blade, and connecting the wires. I was scared that the Silhouette Studio software might not work b/c I was downloading it onto the laptop, but everything was great (downloading took only  minutes in total). I registered my portrait, but when I opened the Studio, I dismally found out that the fifty free shapes that said were "preloaded into the machine" was nowhere to be found in my Library! I spent three hours trying to figure that out! (You just have to cut an image so that the softare recognizes your machine and downloads the shapes down. ) The first cut  made were from Google Images- pillow box templates. I'm excited to make some perfectly cut cards! Bye, and thanks for reading!

P.S. From now on. you can all rest assured that the cards created on this blog will be prettier and more fabulous than before- thanks to my new best friend.