It’s Mendi here and I’m so excited to be sharing a simple little Silhouette tip with you today. I don’t know about you, but I’ve found when I’m shrinking cutting files down in size there are many times when the shapes become too thin to cut from cardstock without shredding the design. To get around this I have found some easy tricks for thickening my fonts and shapes. This is also a super handy trick for creating a “bold” font when that option is not available in the Silhouette software. 😉
To illustrate my tutorial I created this little Birdie Birthday card using several thin shapes and fonts (along with the adorable Echo Park Hello Summer collection) designed by Lori Whitlock.
I have created a video tutorial below sharing how you too can solve this common Silhouette cutting dilemma.
To create my card I used the following shapes available in Lori Whitlock’s shop:
- 4 Ribbon Slides
- Dot Sketch Font
- Valentines Borders 2
- Birthday Handwritten Script by Kolette Hall (Silhouette store only)
- Lori Whitlock Bird (Silhouette store only)
I hope if you’re not already using this trick, you’ll give it a try! 🙂
Fab tutorial Mendi!!!!! TFS!
Very helpful! Even though I have used offset with type many times, you explained several other uses and tricks that I probably would not have thought to do, like altering the scalloped border. Thank you!
Love the video. So fun that I understand what Mendi is doing because of the classes I have taken from you – Lori!!!
Adorable! Thank you for the tut, too!
Thank you for this great video! I have just recently purchased my Silhouette Cameo and am learning. You did an awesome job of demonstrating and I just find it so much more helpful to me to have folks like you that can teach techniques via videos. I am so glad that I signed up for your email updates.
Great tutorial for a beautiful card! Loved learning how to alter a border with welding. That will come in handy! Thanks so much!
Great tutorial. You go slow enough and explain well as you go. I am still working on understanding the compound path thing. For some reason that concept is not staying in my head. I liked the part about changing the spacing and ungroup the I to move the dot and why. Thank You!
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Thank you!
I really enjoyed your tutorial. Thanks for sharing!!!!
I really enjoyed your tutorial. Thanks for sharing!!!!