Have Your Cake And Eat It Too - Silhouette Cameo

I would really like to introduce my completely new companion today, Silhouette Cameo. This device has been long awaited by those of us in the crafting community and most of us finally understand when we can possess it! Nevertheless first permit me to convey to you the way we got here.

A few years ago Provo Craft released the Cricut machine. This was innovative to the craft marketplace and currently you can uncover the Cricut machine almost everywhere.

However the manufacturers of this appliance truly fell short of the objective with its proprietary performance. You have to purchase and utilize Cricut cartridges. These can get expensive and you are constrained to someone else's design.

Then along came the Silhouette. The Silhouette machine certainly resolved this design flaw with full featured and free design software. The sky was the limit with the help of the Silhouette SD, provided that the sky was no more than nine inches wide. This was the major downside of the silhouette machine. The Cricut Expression product could quite possibly cut twelve inches wide turning it into a practical solution for cutting scrapbooking paper which the Silhouette cannot.

Soon after a little while third party organizations came around and produced computer software to interface the Cricut with your laptop or computer making it perform a lot like the Silhouette SD but with larger cutting capacity. This made the Expression a force to be reckoned with. However Provo Craft made the decision they didn't like that for some reason and sued until the third party companies agreed to not work on the Cricut any longer. This left a great void in the market undoubtedly.

However the heavens opened up in mid July 2011 and the crafting Gods poured out a fantastic blessing on the crafters of the world….

Enter the Silhouette Cameo.

Silhouette America took all of the excellent things about the Silhouette SD and put them into a completely new machine named the Cameo. Without doubt introducing a few upgrades as well. Most particularly is the much enhanced cutting capability. The Silhouette Cameo cuts a full twelve inches wide and will cut some materials up to ten feet long! Wow! The Cameo is the cutter of all cutters. Provided that Silhouette doesn't go making any ridiculous moves like Provo Craft this might be the last cutter you ever buy.

The Silhouette Cameo has long been needed by the crafting market for a while now, but really for the last few months. Now if we can all just make it until it is available to purchase in October, it could be a long few months.