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How’d they do that? Adding spacing between elements

January 7, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

spacing gap knockout

Today's tutorial is helpful for those of us, me definitely included, who have trouble lining things up perfectly. By creating an intentional spacing gap between different elements, you give yourself some wiggle room. This is helpful for any material, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing Tagged With: Compound Path, Fill, htv, knockout, modify, offset, outline, spacing, subtract, subtract all, Text, transparency, vinyl

Thanksgiving place cards

November 27, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

thanksgiving place cards silhouette cameo

We are hosting Thanksgiving this year in our home and I love to decorate for Fall. That includes setting a festive table. I made some quick place cards from standard designs. It's not hard to do, as long as you know a few principles. Once you learn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects, Tools and Accessories Tagged With: foil quill, modify, place card, placecard, point editing, projects, Sketch, subtract, subtract all, thanksgiving

Planning and Executing Large Projects: Phase 3 — Sizing, Tweaking and Organizing

November 21, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This is part 3 of our series on how to do super large projects with your Silhouette. If you haven't read the first 2 lessons, you'll want to start here. This time, I'm going to show you how to make your design full size, use Subtract and Subtract All … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: layers, locking, modify, organizing, subtract, subtract all

Modifying this week’s Free Design to fit your project (and fixing some mistakes in it)

March 19, 2019 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

This week's Free Design in the Silhouette Design Store is a great one to teach you some concepts about how to modify a design to fit your project. It also is a teaching tool for how to fix messed up designs.  I want to point out the mistakes and show … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: modify, point editing, subtract, subtract all, weld

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