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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

When not to use a compound path

May 20, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff

If you’ve read many of my tutorials, you know I love compound paths. Maybe it’s because when I explain them, I use a donut as an illustration. LOL! Understanding compound paths and how they differ from groupings is KEY to designing and altering … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: Compound Path, designing, grouping, modify, subtract, weld

Quick fix for graduation card

May 24, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff

graduation card

I was making graduation cards this week and thought about a quick tip to share. There are times when you have one with a specific year in the design. What do you do when you need a different year? I’ll show you! Note: This post contains affiliate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: cards, designing, font, graduation, offset, welding

How’d they do that? Shattered technique

April 22, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette shattered technique

Have you ever seen a design and wondered, “How did they do that?” That happens to me all the time, and I usually don’t rest until I’ve figured it out. If you can understand the techniques someone used, you can use on other designs. Today in our How’d … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deluxe Membership Tagged With: designing, divide, modify, shattered, Text

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