Silhouette and MTC

I'd better start somewhere,

so here I go!

If you've been reading on here or on my personal blog,

you've seen that I have purchased a SilhouetteSD machine.

{which I am stinkin' excited about}

As soon as it arrived I took it straight to my "craft room" to unload,

set up,

and install it.

That was the easy part.

Figuring out which buttons did what in the Silhouette Studio {the software that came with the machine},

took me a little longer.

And I was perfectly content using that software until my Aunt Jill introduced me to a third party software called:

Make the Cut.

I have to admit,

I was confused at first and just thought:

"Wait, why would I need or use this software?"

and

"What's the point?"

Oh I was niave.

{haha, okay I still am!}

However,

after reading about MTC here and here and here my skepticism quickly faded.

Why did I not know about this sooner?!

Like, say, when I owned a Cricut!

So being converted to MTC,

I installed the software.

And then became stumped as to how in the heck I hook up my Silhouette to MTC?

One call to Jill solved that problem.

My aunt knows this amazing gal that is basically a whiz when it comes to cutting machines.

Her name is Jin Yong and let me tell you,

she's my lifesaver!

I would give a tutorial right about now on how I hooked up my machine to my computer so that it will run with MTC....

BUT I think Jin does a fantastic job at it,

so I'm going to let her show you!

{it helped me LOADS and I didn't even have sound hooked to my new computer yet!}

And don't forget to install the Graphtec CC330L driver to your computer!
Go here to download it.
{it's free99}

For more tips on this software and printer installation,
 check out THIS post Jin did.
{can you tell she's my "go-to" for all things Silhouette?}