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What in the world??? — Text doesn’t cut the right size

August 12, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette text myth letter size

In this series, I'm covering topics that stump new users (and even old pros like me). They're the things that drive you BATTY unless you understand them. The good news is that in almost every case, there's a quick fix. Today, I'm explaining why you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: font, size, Text, words

Quick fix for graduation card

May 24, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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: Designing, Tips Tagged With: cards, designing, font, graduation, offset, welding

Drawing filled shapes or text: 2 ways to select attributes beforehand

November 28, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I don't know about you, but I always work with filled shapes. Unfilled shapes are harder to move around, you can't easily see front to back order, and you don't know if you have groupings or compound paths (which makes a HUGE difference when you use … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: attributes, color, default, Fill, filled, font, line color, preferences, Text

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (Part 6)

August 31, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

broken fonts in silhouette

Here we are in our last post about misunderstanding folks have when working with wording in Silhouette Studio. If you need to start back at the beginning, you can find Part 1 here. Today's 5 myths cover some miscellaneous topics about working with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Compound Path, cursive, font, fonts, grouping, letters, myths, offset, print, spell, spellcheck, spellchecking, spelling, Text, weld, word, words

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 Misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (part 5)

August 29, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

text edit in silhouette

Have you been learning lots of new things about working with text? I hope so! (If you haven't read about Text Myths #1-20, start here). Today we're going to learn about how to text edit in smarter ways by busting 5 more myths. We'll focus on how and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: bold, character spacing, edit, font, italic, kerning, line, line spacing, resize, Text, text edit, underline, word

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 Misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (part 3)

August 15, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

samantha glyphs in silhouette

In our series about working with text in Silhouette, we’ve already busted 10 common myths. If you haven’t read those, then start here. The 5 myths we’re talking about today are 5 more about fonts. They deal with how fonts are organized and working … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: character map, fancy letters, folder, font, font book, fonts, glyph, glyphs, library, Sketch, sketch font, Text, text style, words

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (Part 2)

August 13, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff 2 Comments

silhouette premium fonts

Today I'm continuing my series on things Silhouette users misunderstand about text in Silhouette Studio. If you didn't catch Part 1, you can find it here. In this lesson, we're going to go over some information about fonts: where to get them, what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: craft font, font, fonts, install, letters, premium font, silhouette design store, Text, words

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (Part 1)

August 10, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette text myth letter size

Wow, that title sounds like a bad talk show. LOL! A text myth is information you hear about when working with words and fonts in the Silhouette Studio software that simply isn't true. It’s not that the person saying it is trying to mislead you. They … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Align, font, letters, size, Text, text size, words

Character spacing: how to adjust the spacing between letters on text

May 21, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette character spacing

Today I needed a graduation card I could make quickly. I searched through my library and found one I really liked from one of my favorite designers, Lori Whitlock. It’s from the Silhouette Design Store and it’s #41562. It's cute, easy and it has a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: character spacing, font, kerning, line spacing, Text, weld

Pancakes and Donuts: the key to understanding the difference between a grouping and a compound path

February 27, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette pancakes and donuts

To truly understand using and creating designs in Silhouette Studio software, you need to have a good understanding of Groupings and Compound Paths -- how they are the same, how they are different and how they respond differently to modifications. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Compound Path, convert to path, craftsy, donuts, Fill, font, grouping, modify, pancakes, pattern, point editing, Print and Cut, scale, Text, trace, tracing, ungroup

Successful Beginner Projects: #3 Initial Gift Tag

November 7, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

beginner cameo project

In today’s Successful Beginner Project, we’ll learn to add text, draw a simple shape, create an offset and a compound path, use more scale and align features, and cut by fill color. This tag is great for any time, but especially Christmas. By putting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cutting, Designing, Materials, Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: action by fill, Align, beginner, cardstock, christmas, circle, Compound Path, cut by color, cut preview, cut settings, draw, font, group, letter size, lock aspect ratio, material, offset, order, scale, send, tag, Text

Software Basics (version 4) — Lesson 13: Basics of working with text

September 23, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette text

Text in Silhouette Studio is different than most other software programs. You may be used to working with text in something like a word processor or even email. In those, you add text just to make words for someone to read or to print out. That's not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: basics, beginner, font, kerning, software basics, Text

Before you begin series #4: Getting to know the Silhouette Design Store

September 19, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff 8 Comments

silhouette design store

The Silhouette Design Store is the place where Silhouette America sells cut images, printable patterns and fonts that you can use in the Silhouette Studio software. When you purchase a design, it is downloaded into your library in your software and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Design Store Tagged With: 3d, artist, beginner, category, commercial license, credit boost, cut, design store, file types, filter, font, images, pattern, Print and Cut, rhinestone, search, shapes, silhouette design store, Sketch, subscription, svg, wish, wishlist

Wedding invitation envelopes with Silhouette sketch pens

February 23, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff 12 Comments

They say that you should hand write the envelopes for wedding invitations.  Well, my handwriting is pretty bad so I couldn’t see that happening for my daughter’s wedding.  Enter my Cameo machine! I got the look of handwritten (or better) without … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects, Tools and Accessories Tagged With: Business Edition, envelope, font, pen holder, Sketch, Sketch pen, Text, words, write

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