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Tuesday quick tip: How to strikethrough text

September 21, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

My youngest boy recently got engaged. Hurrah! I was very excited to welcome his sweet future wife to the family. He had a very elaborate plan that worked almost to perfection, culminating in a celebratory dinner with her parents who came in as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: htv, line, shirt, strikethrough, Text

13 things to do with fonts besides cut them

August 24, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I freely admit it -- I'm a complete font junkie! Every time there's a new text style that comes into vogue, I have to add to my already enormous collection. If you own a Silhouette machine, you already know you can cut out words for things like vinyl … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: fonts, Text, words

Why you may not see all the parts on premium fonts (and how to find them)

June 25, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I freely admit it -- I'm a font junkie! I'm trying to do better, but on my last computer I had over 1200 fonts. There are just SO many fun ones!!! I was getting better, then font designers started having the ability to add multiple glyphs or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Design Store, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: download, fonts, glyphs, install, letters, premium, Text

How to make your own brush lettering practice sheets

June 21, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Don't get me wrong -- I love my Silhouette. But since I write about it all the time and do projects with it every day, sometimes I need to take a break from it and express my creativity with other crafts. Last spring it was watercolors. Over the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: brush lettering, calligraphy, grid, lines, Text

Tuesday quick tip: font identification trick

June 15, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette studio font identification trick

My son is currently living with us while he attends physical therapy school. This is the child who has a business selling Silhouette-made products. This blows my mind, as he's probably the last of my 4 that I thought would ever be doing that. But a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: fonts, Text, tuesday quick tip

Making layered letters from a plain font

May 10, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

layered letter font

It's SPRING!!! It took a really long time to arrive here in Utah, so we've been working on the outside of our home as much as possible now that it's here. We got new lights for beside our front door (yes, those are the old lights) and I realized how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: fonts, layered, letters, Text

5 Great Print and Cut Tips

April 28, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette print and cut bookmark

The Print and Cut feature on Silhouette Studio gives you SO much creative flexibility. I recently created a series of bookmarks for a church event and thought they would be a great project to show you more about Print and Cut. I'm going to share 5 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Print and Cut, Tips Tagged With: bleed, bookmark, color, Print and Cut, projects, shadow, Text

Glass block and vinyl project to practice text techniques

April 16, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette vinyl text on glass

We've been doing a LOT of renovations in our home, which means it's been a good time to reevaluate some decor pieces. I've had a glass block with vinyl sitting in one spot for several years, but always meant to redo the vinyl. Why? Because it's the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: bold, character spacing, cut edge, frame, line spacing, line thickness, offset, projects, Text, text box size, vertical text, vinyl

Getting organized with kitchen labels

February 26, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

It's the new year -- that lovely time when many of us are motivated to get organized. It's even a bigger deal now that we are all at home more during the pandemic. We have just replaced our kitchen appliances and floor, so to go with all the new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Projects, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: containers, home decor, kitchen, labels, nesting, scraps, Text, vinyl

Tracing Tips & Tricks — #6 Text and Potential Pitfalls

January 28, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

Today we’re continuing in our series on Tracing. If you haven’t read the previous lessons, start here.  I could have included this in the last lesson, but it was getting pretty long so I thought you could use a break. We’re going to cover what to do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Text, threshold, trace, tracing

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

September 1, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: Compound Path, edit, group, point editing, points, Text, ungroup

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

Tuesday quick tip: what to do when text on a path messes up as you mirror

June 2, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

mirroring text

The day I learned about placing text around a circle was a great day! I had been doing it manually before that. LOL! And then my mind was completely blown when I found out you could put text around ANY shape. (If you don't know how this works, you'll … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: Compound Path, flip horizontally, htv, mirror, Text, text on path, text to path

3 ways to cut block text as a single piece

February 3, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I love making Silhouette projects from paper. It's the primary reason I bought my first machine. One thing I don't like, however, is having to glue down each letter separately. It's takes too much time and I am very bad at keeping them straight or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: autoweld, connect, cut edge, overlap, stencil, Text

How’d they do that? Outline words

January 30, 2020 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I love the look of this week's Free Design of the Week. It's a phrase where each word is an outline only. Here's what it looks like: Note: This post contains affiliate links. That means if you click the link and purchase something, I may receive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: autoweld, cut edge, detach lines, line thickness, outline, Text, words

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