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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

How to distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #8 — Align tools

August 3, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Here we are in our last lesson on how you can space your designs space evenly in Silhouette Studio. If you haven't read the others, then you can start here. Today, I'll show you how to use the align tools to distribute your images equally on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Align, distribute, space

How to distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #7 — Smart Snapping

July 21, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today's lesson in our series on spacing your designs evenly around the page in Silhouette Studio is using Smart Snapping. (If you haven't read the other lessons, start here). This is a relatively new feature in the software and one many people don't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: move, smart snapping, spacing

How distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #6 — Move To or By

July 15, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

In today's lesson in our series on spacing your designs evenly around the page in Silhouette Studio, I'm going to show you how you can select an object and move it by a specific amount to or to a specific location. (If you haven't read the previous … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: move, spacing, transform

How distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #5 — Keyboard Shortcuts

July 8, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Can you believe there are so many tools for making evenly-spaced designs in Silhouette Studio? That's a good thing, because they are all useful in different situations. We've already covered using Snap to Grid, Snap to Guides, Fill Page and making … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: columns, copies, duplicates, keyboard shortcuts, rows

How distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #4 — Rows and Columns

July 6, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I've been getting into bullet journaling lately. It's just so relaxing to see the neat rows & columns of ideas! Maybe that's why the idea of having my designs spaced evenly around the page is so appealing. In this series, I'm showing you quite a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: copies, duplicates, replicate, spacing

How distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #3 — Fill page

July 2, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

using fill page in silhouette studio

In this series, I'm showing you multiple ways to space your designs around the page and the pros and cons of each method. So far, we've covered using Snap to Grid and Snap to Guides. This time, we'll use the Fill Page feature. Note: This post … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: fill page, replicate, spacing

How distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #2 — Snap to Guides

June 30, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette snap to guides

This is lesson 2 in our series on how to space designs around the page equally in Silhouette Studio. If you haven't read about method #1 using Snap to Grid, you can find that post here. Today, we'll learn about using Snap to Guides. Note: This post … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Align, guide, guidelines, snap, spacing

How distribute designs evenly around the page: Method #1 — Snap to Grid

June 28, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Recently, someone asked me how to fill a page with designs and have them equally spaced. Such a great question! There are several ways to do that, so it's a great topic for some tutorials. Over the next few days, I'll show you multiple ways to get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: grid, snap, spacing

Why you may not see all the parts on premium fonts (and how to find them)

June 25, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I freely admit it -- I'm a font junkie! I'm trying to do better, but on my last computer I had over 1200 fonts. There are just SO many fun ones!!! I was getting better, then font designers started having the ability to add multiple glyphs or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Design Store, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: download, fonts, glyphs, install, letters, premium, Text

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

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