Making stickers at home for my small business 🌼 Trying a silhouette for the first time *review*

Surprise! I bought a silhouette portrait 3 for my small business and I'm really excited to share it with you all!
Today we are attempting to make stickers and sticker sheets at home with my new Silhouette machine! I'll be comparing it to using a cricuit machine and giving my first initial thoughts! Let's see how this goes!
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[@CAGEODesign]

I always cut my holographic sheet to fit inside the registration marks. That will work.

[@morgannwilliams967]

I love my Cricut Maker! ❤️

[@ashkoreations3472]

When you have lived the pain of cricut miscuts and then get a silhouette you literally want to cry from the absolute joy. I made the change 4 years ago and it was soooo worth it.

[@spaceolive]

I use Koala sticker paper and do not laminate. Stickers that have been on water bottles for 1.5 years are still great. I refuse to waste more plastic and do more steps.

[@MonicaGarza893]

I use a white gel crayon over the registration marks on my cricut & it works great. Also, when I remove the sticker sheets, I turn the mat over & peel the mat away from the sheet. It'll help with the sheet not curling. 😊

[@Jayray91156]

Cut laminate sheet to fit inside the registration marks. Also turn over and peel the mat from sticker sheet. This will stop the stickers curling

[@artwithem6635]

WOOP! really pleased this worked for you. Also as someone who has been running a small business for 4 years now (yikes, I'm only now just realising how long i've been doing it for!) I'm learning so much from watching your videos. You've come so far in such a short amount of time in not just your business but your video quality too. It took me many MANY years to up my video quality but you've figured it out so quickly! I've been searching around for small business videos to pop on while I work and yours are by far my favourite. Thanks so much for many hours of lovely arty entertainment :)

[@carlacaldwell9928]

I love my Cricut machines. I have made thousands of stickers including easy peel, sticker sheets, and diecut . I’m glad that you found a machine that works for you.

[@madameberry]

I've had my Silhouette for like three years and I just now learned you can do that thing with different colored lines to make different types of cuts. Oh my god. Thank you 🤣

[@icklegeeky]

You can add the matte scotch tape over the registration marks which will dull the gloss and allow your silhouette machine to read the marks

[@fngoddess88]

Soo excited for you! Now you can print all the stickers you want! 😁

[@KLHFM]

yaay! so happy that the siluette worked for you! I have been thinking about getting one myself at some point, cuz im kinda limited to what sticker size im able to get due to prices! Super excited for you Abi!~^^

[@poppycitrus]

Love watching your videos, you inspire me to start my own small business. I love my Silhouette machines. Some tips to make life easier with the Silhouette, with regards to registration, try not to put the lamination sheet over the registration marks. It will help your registration immensely. With regards to taking your sticker sheets off the mat, turn the mat over and pull off from the back, it stops them from curling. Keep up the good work. Maria from Sydney Australia x

[@Aluhnim]

Been using a Silhouette since around 2016 and I'm glad to see more smaller creators pick it up. Love mine still to this day. Was fun to see you working out the kinks!

[@vickyb17uk]

Glad you have started off well with silhouette, i'm glad i went for silhouette cameo in the end although had a false start with a loklik machine first which i had to send back. The 2 bits that you are not sure about, 1 is the adapter for sketch pens and the other is a tool to adjust blade manually. Oh and i de - stickied the mat a little bit by allowing it to stick to a clean t shirt. I managed to get cat hair stuck to mine too but I guess that's inevitable when you have cats.

[@ChantelleArts]

such a good video, watched and enjoyed till the end ☺☺

[@neiasart]

tip that i saw from Kelly's creations on youtube. apply a bit of masking tape (that beige transparent one) or matte tape on the corners. because its matte, the machine will read it better when its glossy

[@upperroomprints]

Welcome to the Silhouette family :). When I started my business I did a bunch of research on which cutting machine was easier to use and had less issues - Silhouette was always the winner and after seeing how many issues people have had with the Cricut I'm glad I went with the Silhouette Cameo 4 on my first go.

[@_Inks]

I felt like I was watching past me and all the things I encountered lol. Definitely pull the mat away from the stickers instead of the stickers away from the mat. Also bending the mat back on itself can help release them. If you want to reduce the stickiness off the mat stick card to not paper, otherwise you'll have bits of paper stuck to it forever more lol

[@kellyhopchin2922]

I want a silhouette so badly, I definitely regret my cricut, but it's all I have to I'll use it for now but man I can't wait until I can afford to get a silhouette