Silhouette Cameo and Bluetooth ..

CONNECTING TO YOUR SILHOUTTE DEVICE 4 USING BLUETOOTH

 I have done ALOT of research on the bluetooth connectivity and dongle that comes with the Cameo 4.  Here is what I have found out, I hope it helps someone out. 

By now you would have worked out the following units have bluetooth connectivity as a feature:

• Cameo 3
• Cameo 4
• Cameo Plus
• Cameo Pro.
• Portrait 2
• Portrait 3

Image of a Silhouette Cameo 4

However there are many factors that can inhibit bluetooth connectivity including distance to machine, computer components, walls, concrete, software, internet/wifi connection and user knowledge. The main one being that the bluetooth dongle that comes with your machine is JUNK!

Here is some info on how to connect via bluetooth:

https://www.silhouetteamerica.com/.../how-to-connect-via...

The machines all come with a bluetooth adapter/dongle that is installed in the undercarriage via a screwed in lid section and it can be taken out and changed. You can take out the adapter that it came with and change it to for a better performing unit without voiding your warranty. Just keep it aside in a separate bag incase you ever need to swap it back.

If you want to have connectivity, the best option is to upgrade the dongle. The details for the one you need to purchase are: Size: 18.5mm wide x 28mm long. Type: The chip type for the Bluetooth® dongle/adapter must be the following CSR chip. CSR8510 A10.

This is the one I purchased from amazon: Onvian Bluetooth Adapter USB CSR 4.0 Dongle Receiver Transfer Wireless for Laptop PC Computer. https://www.amazon.com.au/.../ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title...

It appears the dongle I purchased is no longer available. Here is my amazon search to ones that will do the same thing. I put 'CSR8510 A10" in the search bar and here are the results. The CSR8510 A10 is the important part. Amazon Search Link

How to change your adapter over: Find the Bluetooth panel on the bottom of the Silhouette cutting machine (as indicated by the word "Bluetooth" on the panel) Use a small Phillips head screwdriver to remove the screw on the panel. Once the panel is opened, you will see a small Bluetooth adapter plugged into the machine Use the prongs on the Blade Adjustment Tool (received with your cutting machine - or some tweezers) to unplug and remove the adapter. Insert the new adapter into the slot and push it in tightly Replace the Bluetooth panel and screw into place.

YouTube Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJKKweI5CTM

I hope this information helps all those people that have not been able to make it happen. My Cameo 4 lives in the 'making room with the 3D printer and all the other noisy toys' between my desk here in the study are 3 walls and 2 doors. The wifi unit is in the pantry of my kitchen with the door closed and I dont have any connectivity issues.

Need Further reading ? : https://silhouette-secrets.com/bluetooth/...

Cheers

Janet

Kraft+ April Challenge ..

It’s been a while! Hello!

This is the 2nd layout I’ve scrapped since we moved states in January. 

We now live 800m from the beach here at port Stephens and are making the most of the relaxed lifestyle, close proximity to soo many amazing beaches and outside activities. 

The layout today was done from Kraft+ scrap challenge blog as a guest designer for April. I’m also the sponsor store this month with a $20 resin embellishment prize pack from The Resin Rainbow.. 

My layout came together really quickly and was borrowed from a sketch lafabrikascrap-leblog.fr that I found on Pinterest. 

Here’s my layout and the list of how I worked it .

Here’s the list: 

Something old - denim flower at least 10 years old from a kit seller that’s no longer around ‘Polly’s kits’ and the ‘&’ button in the title that is a brad from making memories. 

Something New: the resin chicken wire shapes in white and rust red that I made on Friday! 

something borrowed:  camera washi from my daughters stash (and Chiyogami designs) and the sketch idea from lafabrikascrap blog. 

Something blue: blue paper strips, blue felt heart from Rainbow Splendour, blue arrow from charms creations and the denim blue flower.

Items used:

Pacific Blue & titanium white acrylic paint 

White gesso

Camera washi tape from chiyogami designs

Cut up Resin chicken wire in white & red from The Resin Rainbow.. 

blue felt heart from Rainbow Splendour

Resin roses in white & black from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Cut up black resin bumpy strip from The Resin Rainbow.. 

arrow from charms creations

Hot air ballon from my stash

Ampersand (&) is a brad from making memories (circa 2003) 

Red wood letters from delish scraps 

Black letters are from AC thickers. 

Dotty black bow from delish scraps

Cut up Resin chicken wire in white & red from The Resin Rainbow..

Kraft+ October Challenge 'clear'

I don't often get the time to play along with Kraft plus challenges every month but his one was a no brainer. I had it all planned out for a week before I got to it. Way to excited to play along!

I Can See Clearly Now is the October Challenge! 

You need to use something see-through on your layout.

Think vellum, plastic, glass, bubble wrap etc etc. I see lots of glorious clear resin Embellishments! 

Items used:

Background was done using delish cross stencil and colourblast texture paint in tangerine dream and and royalty. 

Embellishments used:

Punchinella Resin Sheet in clear that I broke up into 3 pieces from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Half of a resin maharaj flower in clear from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Part of the starburst resin border and 2 edges pieces all in clear from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Assorted resin flowers from The Resin Rainbow.. 

clear alphabet letters 'GAPPY' are from the resin alphabet set at The Resin Rainbow.. 

Shaker Box is actually a clear cellophane bag filled with sequins from The Scrappery Kit Club for October. 

patterned papers and 'living moments' die cut are from the Kaisercaft range called 'chase rainbows'

 thanks for looking .. 

you can see the other kraft+ entries .. here!
Cheers
Janet

SUYS October Design Team Submission..

This month is all about items that start with F. Friend, family, feline, frenzy, fabulous. Yep, you get the idea.

 

 

The 3 challenge requirement  'F' things are: flair, flowers, flamingo and my title - well okay, I had 4. 

As always SUYS layouts need to contain at least 2 homemade items are:
Resin butterfly, resin punchinella sheet, scallop segment, clear bow, teal heart and tiny teal shapes by The Resin Rainbow.. and the hairclip by Rainbow Splendour

 here is where you can get your own goodies the same:

Resin butterfly - part of a set of 3 by The Resin Rainbow .. 

Resin punchinella sheet - i have cut it up and used small pieces by The Resin Rainbow

Scallop segment by The Resin Rainbow

clear bow (part of a set of 3) by The Resin Rainbow

teal waffle heart from a set of 3 by by The Resin Rainbow

tiny teal shapes are part of the jewelled shapes set by The Resin Rainbow

.. and the hairclip by Rainbow Splendour

Thanks for looking ..
Happy Scrapping
Janet xx

Bulk Color Embellishment Kit for October - Pink Whisper

This colour has been an absolutely gorgeous one to play with and create a embellishment kit for!

Includes all the contents shown:
1 sheet of 6x6inch card
1 white paper bag
a piece of baby pink tulle,
an assortment of flower sequins (not shown)
1 long piece of grosgrain ribbon
1 set of resin butterflies
1 set of 3 resin hearts
1 set of resin tiny bloom flowers (approx 6 flowers and 2 leaves)
1 resin single sided scallop border
and a piece of very flexible plastic with a light print of stars on it! ..






A perfect addition to your crafty projects. Add an extra layer of texture or interest when you use them. They look perfect on the outside of shadow boxes or off-the-page projects or on a page. 

Here are some pics of the kit, and a link to purchase it!

 

 Thanks for looking!
Cheers
Janet x

White .. with 1 Creative Team - Pink Whisper Oct2017

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! .. it is an unfortunate fact that 1in3 people will be affected by this insiduous desease at some stage in their life. I myself have lost 2 family members, 2 very good friends. So this month is all about being aware, being safe and getting yourself checked!


Pink Whisper is the name of the colour for October and as you can see its a gorgeous 'baby pink' inspired colour. It was such fun to work with such a pretty colour tone.

In conjuction with the colour, this sketch is also available to use. You do not need to use it exactly as it is, its a sketch - use it as a rough guide to make your layout with.

 

 

Its used:

Watercolour paint in baby pink was painted on the background

Punchinella Resin Sheet from The Resin Rainbow was used as the main/bottom layer

Various Cardstock Layering pieces 

Imaginarium Chipboard scroll frame (cut in half) and painted black

Tiny Blooms Flower Set from The Resin Rainbow Colour Kit for October

Cabbage Flowers from The Resin Rainbow

Resin Dots from The Resin Rainbow 

Scallop Border (cut in half, ontop of polaroid frame) from The Resin Rainbow 

Tulle Piece from the from The Resin Rainbow Colour Kit for October

Now go and see the rest of the Creative Teams layouts for October and get the inspiration flowing to create your own layout in Whisper Pink!

Happy Scrapping!

Janet xx

SUYS September Mid Month Design Team Reveal - mixed media challenge

New month, new challenge!! This month we want you to create something with mixed media! Don't forget to also include a handmade item! 😃

Here is what I came up with, I finally scrapped some pics of my hurricane boy on the day he got glasses. 

A huge amount of mixed media in this one. I did smears of colourblast texture paste in 3 colours, used gel medium to adhere some pattern paper with the glasses on it, added in some black stencilling, some stamping in a few places too. On top I added a cut up white lattice border sheet and some string was haphazardly glued under the pic. This was a lot of fun! 

Items used:

Colourblast texture paste in black, orange and blue

Stencil used was

Glasses pattern paper byWhite Hexagon patterned resin border piece (cut up) by The Resin Rainbow.. 

orange Resin heart by The Resin Rainbow.. 

orange striped dots by The Resin Rainbow.. 

square striped dots by The Resin Rainbow.. 

stay cool cluster and star flair epoxy by Rainbow Splendour 

Blue arrow pin by Rainbow Splendour 

Glasses embellishment and blue flag pin by Delish Scraps 

Still got time to get yours completed.. checkout the SUYSBlog   or more inspo and to submit yours. Some fab prizes are on offer this month! 

Cheers

Janet 

SUYS July Design Team Entry - back to nature

 

 Wow! What a tricky one this turned out to be for July! .. I couldnt find an image that worked so I had to visit the local show to take one while at the rescue koala pavillion!

I was unsure of how to make this all work and started out with some smears of colourblast colour paste in chocolate? on the background, had a sudden idea to add some gum leaves so out come the ancient HS leaves stencil which I the traced around and then filled in with watered down gelatos. Lastly I added some green and brown sharpie marker around the leaves and inside them.

I glued all the resin leaves down with E6000 by helmar.

Items Used:
Resin Leaves from The Resin Rainbow
Metallic Looking Mesh from Sirrah Sirrah as part of the goodie bag at Escape to Create recently.
Various paper layers from my stash.

Thanks for looking ..
Janet xx

June Mystery Colour Kit ..

Welcome to June!

I decided not to play along with the gorgeous Lavender Lane at White.. with 1 for June. 
I did have every intention of doing so but time got away from me.
As always I had Mystery Colour kits for the month available for purchase. If you would like to purchase an aussie made scrapbook embellishment kit, the links are below for you.

 

 

 The Mystery Colour kit is mailed out to you monthly and features a new colour and different contents.

  Total cost is $10 inc within australia and $15 outside of Australia.

There is a subscription service where you can purchase either 3 or 6 months in advance & each month you receive happy mail!

You can follow this link to purchase a subscription for either 3 or 6 months or send me an email via the links above.

suys June Design team Entry!

Welcome to June!

This layout came together really quickly once I found the image I was after! 

The challenge for this month was to use 2 colours next to each other on the colour wheel.

Normally with a colour wheel you use a colour opposite so they compliment each other but in this instance it was slightly trickier!

 The pic of my crazy daughter on crazy sock day at school was perfect with a mix of blue and green in the image already. 

Products Used:
Parts of the tulip border by The Resin Rainbow 
Green Resin Doily by The Resin Rainbow
Green & Blue Resin Dots
White Resin Deer from Forest Animals Resin Set at The Resin Rainbow
Blue Bow by Rainbow Splendour
Striped Pin by Rainbow Splendour
Green Daisy Pin by an old scrap company thepaintbrushgoesspotty
Various papers from my stash or from Rainbow Splendour Kits

Thanks for looking.

Product Post!

I figured it was about time that I started showcasing The Resin Rainbow's product line in my blog making it even easier for you to see and purchase rather than going to a seperate website to do so.

yes I know I could create a seperate blog that is just for this purpose but by having it all in one, you can see how I have also used the products making it more fun and interesting for you and less work for me by having to keep 2 blogs running!

There will be a tab at the top of the blog that says STORE.. and in here you will be able to see almost everything that can be purchased available.

More than happy to take requests and custom orders. I am working on a way to add variations to each product as your purchasing to add colour so you dont need to me to send you a message asking what colour/s you would like!

For now, you can also view & purchase The Resin Rainbow's products on Etsy. 

 

cheers

Janet

White ..with 1 challenge .. Creative Team Entry .. Teal Sequins

It's halfway through the year already! .. so much to do, so little time. 

This layout almost made itself, I wanted to do a layout based on my daughter and her best friend. They are inseparable and spend not only each day together at school but cheating on messenger every day after school. They are 2 peas in a pod and we are lucky that they have found each other. This is friendship that will exist for their lifetimes, no matter what the future brings.

Along with the colour of Teal  Sequins for this month, we also had to incorporate a sketch!
I didnt follow the sketch exactly but thats the whole idea, to use it as a guide! You can see the similarities between the sketch and my layout - cant you?

Urrrgh! the colours on this layout look amazing when your seeing the original, but taking a picture of it was an absolute nightmare! .. after 12 attempts and some photoshop fixing - i gave up!  The below cropped images of the layout are very true to colour but it just wasnt working!

Items Used:

Celtic Lace Border (cut in half) from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Resin Flowers from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Alphabet letters from The Resin Rainbow.. 

White bespoke flower 

Hashtag or plant leaves from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Heart Shape from The Resin Rainbow.. 

butterfly from The Resin Rainbow.. 

various cards etc from my stash. 

Wood pieces from Corbett Creations

Have a great June!

White With 1.. May 2017 .. Deep Black

Welcome to May!

Can someone flew me where the last 4 months went to?, they have flown past!

I got a  bit clever with my title for this one. I took the chipboard word and coloured it with acrylic paint with a lettter per colour, added some crackle medium and then black paint over the top! .. while I wanted it to pop with full bright colour, that wouldn't have worked with the guidelines for the challenge or the layout! .. had forgotten all about that technique!

Products Used

Black booktape used as a tag strip

Resin Scroll Border from The Resin Rainbow (was cut up and glued ontop of strip)

White circle chipboard frame

Hexagon stencil with gesso and back paint on the background

Black tiny Jewelled shapes (used the hearts and diamonds) from The Resin Rainbow 

Rainbow striped resin dots from The Resin Rainbow ..

Thanks for looking!
Cheers
Janet