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Tuesday quick tip: matching rotated angles

November 2, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I've been making some shoe tags lately by etching with my Curio on acrylic. Our family has started a tradition of wearing Converse at the reception of family weddings, and I add the tags with the couple's initials and the wedding date. (If you want … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: angle, rotate, rotation

Draw something! How to use the Silhouette Studio Drawing tools: Lesson 3 — Draw an Arc

October 14, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This is the third lesson in my series on using the drawing tools in the Silhouette program. In the previous lessons, we've covered drawing lines and non-regular shapes. In today's tutorial, we'll cover the last tool in the first section of drawing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: arc, Drawing Tools, shapes

Draw something! How to use the Silhouette drawing tools: Lesson 2 — Draw a non-regular shape

October 11, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

In the first lesson in this series, I taught you how to draw a straight line. I included information on how to make it a perfect horizontal, vertical or 45° angle, and how to get rid of that pesky feature where the software keeps drawing shapes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: curve, drawing, polygon, shapes

Draw Something! How to use the Silhouette drawing tools — Lesson 1: Draw a line

October 7, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

line tools in silhouette studio

Buying designs from the Silhouette Design Store is great, but there are also plenty of tools in Silhouette Studio to help you create your own designs. Today, I'm starting a new series on using the Drawing Tools in Silhouette Studio to get you going … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: create, draw, line, preferences

Tuesday quick tip: How to strikethrough text

September 21, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

My youngest boy recently got engaged. Hurrah! I was very excited to welcome his sweet future wife to the family. He had a very elaborate plan that worked almost to perfection, culminating in a celebratory dinner with her parents who came in as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: htv, line, shirt, strikethrough, Text

Image effects panel for better printing

August 13, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

image effects icon in Silhouette

Image effects panel -- have you heard of that one? Many Silhouette users haven't. But it can be a HUGE help if you are printing from Silhouette Studio. You can use the tools in it to adjust colors in both printable patterns and photos. Let's go … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Print and Cut Tagged With: black and white, brightness, color, colorize, contrast, Fill, gamma, gray shade, hue, image effects, inversion, photo, Print and Cut, saturation, sepia, tint

RGB vs. CMYK for colors — what’s the difference?

August 6, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I've been learning more lately about editing my photos, both for personal pics and project images. I recently learned something new that I found really useful in understanding color. It's the difference between color values that are defined by RGB or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Print and Cut Tagged With: color, print

How to make your own brush lettering practice sheets

June 21, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Don't get me wrong -- I love my Silhouette. But since I write about it all the time and do projects with it every day, sometimes I need to take a break from it and express my creativity with other crafts. Last spring it was watercolors. Over the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: brush lettering, calligraphy, grid, lines, Text

Vertical painted and stained porch sign with contact paper stencil

June 11, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

contact paper stencil welcome sign

Lately, I've been sharing several lessons as I've been spiffing up my porch for spring. (Yes, for some of you it's already summer, but we are still having nights in the 40s here). I painted a door mat with our name using a freezer paper stencil. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Designing, Materials, Projects Tagged With: contact paper, home decor, paint, projects, stencil, vinyl, wood sign

Making layered letters from a plain font

May 10, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

layered letter font

It's SPRING!!! It took a really long time to arrive here in Utah, so we've been working on the outside of our home as much as possible now that it's here. We got new lights for beside our front door (yes, those are the old lights) and I realized how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: fonts, layered, letters, Text

5 Great Print and Cut Tips

April 28, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette print and cut bookmark

The Print and Cut feature on Silhouette Studio gives you SO much creative flexibility. I recently created a series of bookmarks for a church event and thought they would be a great project to show you more about Print and Cut. I'm going to share 5 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Print and Cut, Tips Tagged With: bleed, bookmark, color, Print and Cut, projects, shadow, Text

Glass block and vinyl project to practice text techniques

April 16, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette vinyl text on glass

We've been doing a LOT of renovations in our home, which means it's been a good time to reevaluate some decor pieces. I've had a glass block with vinyl sitting in one spot for several years, but always meant to redo the vinyl. Why? Because it's the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: bold, character spacing, cut edge, frame, line spacing, line thickness, offset, projects, Text, text box size, vertical text, vinyl

CTRL/CMD and ALT key tricks for shapes

April 7, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I recently shared with you how you can make perfect shapes by simply using the SHIFT key on your computer keyboard (find that here). Today, I'm giving you some more keyboard tricks using the ALT and CTRL keys to work with shapes, as well as a few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: ALT, CMD, copy, CTRL, cut style, duplicate, keyboard, mirror, shapes, shift, shorcuts, transfer properties

Tuesday quick tip: creating perfect shapes and lines

March 23, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today's quick tip is one of my favorite tricks when designing in Silhouette Studio. You can use this one little thing to make shapes you draw much more precise. The trick? Use the SHIFT key. Yep, it's that easy. Note: This post contains affiliate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: circle, drawing, shift, shortcuts, square

Tracing tips and Tricks — #7 Simple photographs

February 2, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

So far in our series on tracing, we've covered how to do pretty basic traces. I highly recommend you walk through all those lessons first, starting here. From here on out, we begin the harder stuff so you need to have the basics down already. Today, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: photo, photos, threshold, trace, tracing

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