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My entry for Silhouette’s gift wrap contest

December 3, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff 1 Comment

custom gift wrap with silhouette cameo

Recently, Silhouette America held a contest for their blog affiliates. The challenge was to come up with gift wrap and a gift tag. That's it -- that's all they gave us. We had free reign to do whatever we chose. The winning designs will be featured … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: cardstock, christmas, crepe paper, Curio, flower, foil, foil quill, gift wrap, singe quill, tag, wood

Black Friday sales 2020

November 25, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette black friday cameo machine

It's that time again for the best sales of the year. We can definitely all use that here in 2020! I've got info on the sales here on my site, on Silhouette America and the Silhouette Design Store. You'll especially want to know that you can get EARLY … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: black friday, sale

How to design your own flower petal

November 23, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

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...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: designing, flexishapes, flower, petal

First Steps in rotary blade: crepe paper dogwood flower

November 20, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

crepe paper dogwood flower

Have you heard about the crepe paper flower craze? For a relatively low cost, you can make beautiful, life-like flowers from crepe paper. Really — you won’t believe that aren’t real. I’m not talking about the cheap-o kind of crepe paper used for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: cameo 4, crepe paper, flower, projects, rotary blade

24” Cameo 4 PRO now available (and other sales this week)

November 3, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

cameo 4 pro machine

Silhouette America has just released the new Cameo 4 PRO model. And there's a BIG surprise! The original intent was for this to be a 20" wide cutting machine. I can now let you in on the secret that it's actually a 24" one! That's pretty exciting, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: 24", adapter, blade, cameo 4, mat, pro, roll feeder, sale, silhouette design store

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

October 30, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

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: Basic Membership Tagged With: Compound Path, raster, simplify, trace, trace by color, tracing

Business Edition Features: Multiple Undo

October 29, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

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: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: Business Edition, redo, undo

Tricks to working with SVG files

October 21, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

One of the great things about using Silhouette machines is the Silhouette Studio software. It is amazing, especially since it’s free and updates are always free. And if you choose to upgrade to a higher level of the software, it’s relatively … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: cut line, cut style, Designer Edition, line, modify, preferences, resize, svg, thickness, vector

Wood tag using the Singe Quill

October 6, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I've been working a great deal lately on bringing my house out of the 90s. I've just finished my powder room and it's a HUGE transformation from dark, earthy colors to light, farmhouse ones. I like to keep out extra TP and room spray in arm's reach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: Curio, pen, projects, singe quill, tag, wood

Spirit Swag — Personalized cowbell

October 1, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

For me, fall means FOOTBALL!!! It's an especially good bright spot this year. Since my son is no longer playing college ball, we have "adopted" a couple of players from a local university. It's so they have a family away from home. This week, I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: bell, logo, project, spirit swag, vinyl

Tracing tips & tricks — #4 Simple, solid shapes

September 23, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

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: Basic Membership 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

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: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: color, detach lines, Fill, line, modify, open path

What in the world??? Shape won’t fill with color (or doesn’t act right when it does)

September 11, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

Have you ever encountered a real head-scratcher in Silhouette Studio? That’s what this series is about — explaining those and showing you how to fix them. Today, I’ll show you why sometimes you just can’t get a shape to fill with color. Or, you do, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: closed, color, drawing, Fill, open, point editing, points

Tracing tips & tricks — #3 What’s in the Trace panel

September 10, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

This is part 3 of the series on tracing — creating cut files from things like photos and clip art. Be sure to read Lesson 1 on why and what to trace and Lesson 2 about choosing images before you read this one, as I will refer frequently to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: panel, trace, tracing

Tracing Tips & Tricks — #2 Image Selection

September 8, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

In this series (lesson 1 is here), I’m showing you how to take a clip art type image and turn it into a cut file for your Silhouette. This gives you a tremendous amount of designing flexibility. Lesson 2 is about graphic styles and how to choose … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: raster, resolution, trace, tracing

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