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Silhouette Specialty Media: “The Breakfast Club” of Craft Supplies

Curious why foil, washi paper, magnet paper, tattoo paper, & chipboard are the “breakfast club” of craft supplies? You’ve come to the right post! Plus, stick with me for links to 12 specialty media Silhouette project ideas you can try right now!

Did anyone else grow up watching the 1980s classic, The Breakfast Club?  Five students meet in the school library on a Saturday to serve detention with a ruthless principal; it’s every high school student’s living nightmare.

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They’re a motley crew.  At first glance, it’s all too easy to slap a label on each of them.   You’ve got a brain…

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…and an athlete…

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…and a basket case…

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…a princess…

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…and a criminal.

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And yet by the end of the film {spoiler alert!}, after some heartfelt conversation and close-call adventures…

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…they discover each of those unique identities within themselves, and find that…well, they’re not very different from each other.  Cue the soundtrack!

“We’re all pretty bizarre.  Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.”

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So, why am I waxing nostalgic this fine Wednesday morning?

Well, I got to thinking that “The Breakfast Club” of Silhouette supplies is their Specialty Media!  A hodge podge of seemingly disparate crafting materials, and yet once you get to know them, they share quite a bit in common, namely…their awesomeness!  (You see the segue, right?  Or am I only one who thinks in terms of 80s movies?)

To showcase that awesomeness, I have a round-up of my Specialty Media projects to share with you all, as well as the details about the new Silhouette promotion, annnnnd a very exciting Silhouette Giveaway!  Yup.  You heard me right.  You have your shot at a taking home the dream machine herself: a Silhouette Portrait.  So, stick around for all the fun!

Specialty Media Round-Up

To see the wide variety of Specialty Media in action, here’s a collection of some of my favorite creations.  (The 12th project will be coming early next week, so stay tuned!)  I updated this post to include my latest creation with specialty media: Dishwasher Magnets!

12 Specialty Media Projects to create with your Silhouette Machine! No time to waste - - gotta get creating! via thinkingcloset.com

You can click through for detailed specialty media tutorials for each…many of which also have FREE cut files for your downloading pleasure:

Printable Silver Foil

Chill Pills! A great gag gift idea and all you need is a glass jar, some candies, and the FREE printable labels from this Silhouette tutorial via thinkingcloset.com!
Chill Pills Gag Gift
Instagram-Themed Graduation Party {in a box!}. Seal your graduation announcements with custom silver seals! via thinkingcloset.com
Custom Silver Seals
Using printable foil stickers to label tabs in an accordion file organizer.
Accordion Organizer Tab Labels
Halloween Party Treat Bags & Free Cut File for Custom Labels via thinkingcloset.com
Halloween Party Treat Bags

Printable Gold Foil

DIY Instagram Advent Calendar. Such a fun way to look back at highlights from the year while counting down the days till Christmas!
DIY Instagram Advent Calendar

Adhesive Washi Sheets & Adhesive Corrugated Paper

New Baby Congrats Card with Washi Sheets! Tutorial and FREE Silhouette cut file via thinkingcloset.com
New Baby Congrats Card

Double-Sided Adhesive

Glitter Glam & Studded Pumpkin - - two d.i.y.s made with supplies from Dollar Tree! via thinkingcloset.com
Glitter Glam Pumpkins
Rudolph! The star of the Deer Head Holiday Banner featuring Santa's Reindeer. Tutorial and FREE cut file at thinkingcloset.com
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Double-Sided Adhesive & Chipboard

Create your own photo booth props!
Photo Booth Props

Chipboard

DIY Birthday & Anniversary Calendar | The Thinking Closet
Faux Chalkboard Birthday & Anniversary Calendar

Temporary Tattoo Paper

DIY Tattoos
DIY Tattoos

Printable Magnet Paper

Never mix up the clean and dirty dishes again! This tutorial includes both a Silhouette cut file and a FREE printable for those who want to cut out the magnets the old-fashioned way: with scissors! These would make great shower, housewarming, or hostess gifts!
Dishwasher Magnets

So, how ’bout it?  A lazy Saturday spent in “detention” with “The Breakfast Club” of Specialty Media could be the best detention you ever had!  In fact, sign me up!

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Full Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you make a purchase using my code, I receive a small commission. Please rest assured that as always, I only recommend products that I use and love like my Silhouette Cameo! (In fact, I’m officially obsessed.)

Sincerely Yours,

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30 Comments

  1. Ah, the breakfast club. What great memories! And what a great theme for all of these throwback project! I really need to get on making one of those “Chill Pill” jars for myself! Thanks Lauren!

  2. Don’t know if you heard this but on This American Life this week Ira Glass spoke with Molly Ringwald about witting down with Mathilda, her daughter, to watch The Breakfast Club for he first time. Really entertaining plus highly impressed by how thoughtful a parent Ms Ringwald is. She tried so hard to avoid passing on the pressures she faced as a child, yet her daughter also fears that she will never be good enough.

    Never saw the movie and don’t know anything beyond the basic premise of it. The interview and stories were still worth listening to.

    1. That’s so crazy you should mention that This American Life episode because my hubby and I just listened to it over Memorial Day weekend…and then came home and promptly watched the movie on Netflix! (My husband had never seen it…and it has been many years since I last saw it. Forgot how much language there is in it!) I, too, was so enraptured by the interview with Molly…and her daughter identifying with one of the characters, but wanting to protect her mother from feeling badly about the pressure Matilda feels at times. Interesting stuff! Yet another reason why I’m obsessed with This American Life. Thanks for the comment, Ben!

  3. Hi Lauren,

    What a great surprise to come to…TBC on your website!! Love, love this movie!!! Recently watched with my 23 year old daughter, who absolutely loved it! Hoping you had a wonderful long weekend!

  4. I watched almost no television or movies in the 80’s. Can you believe I’ve never seen The Breakfast Club? I’ll be sure to see it this summer, and think of you when I do! Thanks for hosting another opportunity to win this fabulous crafting dream tool!

  5. Lauren, all of the projects you created are so awesome, and it just makes me want a silhouette that much more! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!!! Oh and I am an 80’s movie nerd so thanks for the fun memories, haha.

    ~Katie

  6. The breakfast club is seriously my all time favourite movie. I might have seen it 100 times. Too bad you’ve got to have an American or Canadian address for the giveaway :'(…

  7. As someone who was parenting in the 80s I remember the Breakfast Club was a coming of age movie whose characters bonded over their dislike of authority figures. But I get it…it was mostly about the bonding and coming together of these different personalities and it certainly had that “coolness” factor.

    At one point in the 90s I taught a Sunday School class for teens on Sunday mornings and to generate some “coolness” we called it The Breakfast Club. Your title also reminded me of another “breakfast club”–the Oatmeal Gang at SP–and the other end of the age-spectrum.

    I did participate in the give-away! Thanks for the possibilities!
    PS–I almost wish someone would put me on detention so I’d have MORE time to work on some DIY projects.

  8. The Breakfast Club is a cool movie. I can relate to each character in one way or another. (is that good or bad????) Would love to win this.

    1. Ha ha. Actually, I think if we’re really honest, we all can relate to each one of them somehow. And that’s always the goal when it comes to theatre! As an actor, you want to be able to find the thread of commonality that you share with your character, however small that thread may be. And therein we discover empathy.

      Good luck, Sarah!

  9. Hi. I love your blog! I just got a Silhouette and after about a week I downloaded the new software update that it kept prompting me to do. Can you do a tutorial on the new software, please? Pretty Please?? I can’t figure out how to choose the speed and thickness anymore and it’s making me crazy!

    1. I’m really excited about the prospect of Heather and a Silhouette joining forces…and if you get win one with this giveaway, all the better! Crossing fingers and toes with you, girl. Good luck!

  10. I am such a big fan of your round up blog posts Lauren but this one is right up there with fab 80’s movies! haha! I think my fave is the printable gold foil but then anything shiny I am drawn to like a magpie! Its so beautiful seeing your silhouette projects all together though and I cannot wait until I have moved house and set up my new studio so I can get my teeth into my poor little boxed up and neglected Silhouette (I just keep telling him that he had to be boxed up first so that he didn’t get left behind…I think he is sulking!)

    1. Yay! (Actually your comment made me think that I may need to do a Top 10 Eighties Movies round-up soon…thanks for the inspiration!) Ha ha, and I’m all over the metallics, too, these days, Rachel. Oh, and how much fun will you have setting up your new studio! When is the big move? That poor neglected Silhouette may be sulking now, but soon he’ll be soaring when you plug him in and start churning out the creative projects…which we all know are going to be mind-blowing. Eeeek!

      1. Yes you must! Which will obviously involve re – watching them just to double check…With popcorn…and a glass of wine….darn it that I am all the way over the other side of the pond because I would so be there with popcorn! Hehe! And yes! The new studio I think may be the most exciting part about the move! Haha! We have just bought our first house after renting for ten years together so it’s super exciting! Eeeekkk! We move on the 12th June so we are frantically boxing up and I am trying to work around it all!

  11. Lauren… you KNOW I want to win this!!! BTW girlfriend… the Breakfast Club was THE coolest movie ever when it came out… OK, it’s still pretty cool. Happy Memorial Day weekend to you!

    1. Yes, I do! And I want you to win one soon, too, so we can be Silhouette buddies on top of Central Florida Blogger Buddies. Ha ha, and I’m with you: I still think it’s cool…retro cool, perhaps…but still very cool! Happy Memorial Day weekend to you, too, friend.

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