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Tuesday quick tip: font identification trick

June 15, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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My son is currently living with us while he attends physical therapy school. This is the child who has a business selling Silhouette-made products. This blows my mind, as he's probably the last of my 4 that I thought would ever be doing that. But a … [Read more...]

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Tuesday quick tip: using a page color that isn’t white

June 1, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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There's a new feature in Silhouette Studio that snuck in with version 4.4. This is something we've been wishing for for quite awhile and now it's here. I saw it last week when I was sharing the tip about changing the default fill and line colors and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: background, color, mat, page

Tuesday quick tip: How to change the default fill and line color

May 25, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

When you create a shape or text in Silhouette Studio, by default it has a red line color and no fill color. Let's say you know that filled shapes are easier to grab with your mouse, so you always work with filled shapes as I recommend. Or maybe you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: color, default, Fill, line, preferences

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

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

Getting organized with kitchen labels

February 26, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

It's the new year -- that lovely time when many of us are motivated to get organized. It's even a bigger deal now that we are all at home more during the pandemic. We have just replaced our kitchen appliances and floor, so to go with all the new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: containers, home decor, kitchen, labels, nesting, scraps, Text, vinyl

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

Tracing Tips & Tricks — #6 Text and Potential Pitfalls

January 28, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today we’re continuing in our series on Tracing. If you haven’t read the previous lessons, start here.  I could have included this in the last lesson, but it was getting pretty long so I thought you could use a break. We’re going to cover what to do … [Read more...]

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

How to design your own flower petal

November 23, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I shared a post recently about making crepe paper flowers. You can find it here. In it, I gave quite a few recommendations of designs in the Silhouette Design Store that work for this. But it's also relatively easy to create your own petals. Today, I … [Read more...]

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Tracing Tips & Tricks — #5 Simple multi-color images

October 30, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Welcome back! If you haven't started with Lesson 1 of this series on tracing, you'll find it here.  So far we've covered when you need to trace, selecting images, what's in the trace panel and how to trace simple, solid shapes of 1 color. Today, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Compound Path, raster, simplify, trace, trace by color, tracing

Business Edition Features: Multiple Undo

October 29, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I get lots of questions about the features in the different levels of the Silhouette Studio software. I'm going to begin a series of posts where I show you the features of different levels of the software so you can see them in action. (If you need … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Business Edition, redo, undo

Tracing tips & tricks — #4 Simple, solid shapes

September 23, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff 4 Comments

So far in our tracing series, we've just been learning about the prep work -- the most important part of any project. (You can start with Lesson 1 here).  We've discussed file types and image selection and gotten an overview of the Trace panel. Now … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: autotrace, png, threshold, trace, trace and detach, tracing

What in the world??? When the shape won’t let you change its fill color

September 15, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I LOVE LOVE LOVE mystery/detective shows, particularly British ones. And I really enjoy doing puzzles and playing games where I have to solve a problem. Lots of folks do. But very few of us like to have to solve a mystery when working with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: color, detach lines, Fill, line, modify, open path

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