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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

Tracing Tips & Tricks — #1 Where to Start

September 4, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

Silhouette tracing

Today I’m beginning a series that’s LONG overdue. It’s about tracing — how to turn an image such as clip art or a photo into a cut file. I’ve taught this as a class at the All Things Silhouette Conferences for years and am finally starting to do it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: clip art, images, jpg, photo, png, raster, trace, tracing, vector

What in the world??? — No points to edit on a design

September 1, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

In this series, we’re uncovering the mysteries of the universe. Well, at least the Silhouette universe. I’m covering topics that can really stump you no matter how long you’ve been using Silhouette machines. Today, we’re going to talk about what’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: Compound Path, edit, group, point editing, points, Text, ungroup

Silhouette Go app now available in Beta form

August 28, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff 5 Comments

silhouette go app

For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting it, the Silhouette Go app is now available for IOs and Android users. It is still in the Beta stage. Today's post is just to give you an introductory overview of how it looks and what it does. Note: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: app, bluetooth, cameo 4, Silhouette go

Silhouette sales — free shipping on Portrait 3

August 27, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I know I'm a bit late this week, but here are the sales from Silhouette America and the Silhouette Design Store for the week of August 25 - September 1. Note: This post contains affiliate links. That means if you click the link and purchase … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: august, portrait 3, sale, silhouette design store

Etched acrylic shoe tags

August 25, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

etched acrylic shoe tag

This past weekend I attended a family wedding. The bride is well known for wearing Converse tennis shoes constantly. So, we decided to wear regular shoes to the ceremony and then change to our own Converse for the reception. Most of the females wore … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: acrylic, Curio, etching, projects, shoe tag

Release of the Portrait 3 (with sale bundles and free shipping)

August 21, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff 2 Comments

portrait 3

If you haven't heard, let me be the first to tell you -- Silhouette has released the Portrait 3 machine. Keep reading to find out the features and learn about sales for materials to use with it. Note: This post contains affiliate links. That means … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Content Tagged With: portrait 3, sales

Tips for using the crosscutter on Cameo 4 models

August 19, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

cameo 4 crosscutter

One of the advantages to the new Cameo 4 models is an improved crosscutter. The crosscutter is designed for use with materials such as adhesive vinyl or HTV that come on a roll and are often cut without the mat. Rather than unloading at the end of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: cameo 4, crosscutter, htv, vinyl

Think outside the box project: custom peel-and-stick paint samples

August 17, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

After several bad paint choices, I have learned it’s best to put samples on the walls. I live with them for a bit, checking them at different times in the varying light. But it’s not always practical to have different-colored squares of paint all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: home decor, paint, project, vinyl

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