Category: Tutorial

Silhouette Tutorial: Adding Stitch Lines and Embellishments

Hi everyone!  It’s Traci and I’m so excited to share a tutorial with you today!   For my project, I used several of Lori’s adorable shapes to create the cover for my latest “Artsy Albums” mini album kit.
As you’ll notice, I added some details to my green banner.  Here’s how I got the words to bend along the banner shape, and how I added those cute stitch lines.
First, find a banner shape in Lori’s shop … she has several really cute ones that you can add a title to.
Next, highlight your shape and go to the “Offset” window.  Create an internal offset and set the offset distance to .50.
Now, with your offset line highlighted, open the “Line Style” window and choose a dashed line and set the line thickness to .75.  With the line still highlighted, go to the “Line Color” window and select the color for your dashed “stitched” line.  I chose white for my project.
For the title, use the type tool to add a title for your project.  Highlight the title and change the fill color and size if desired.  Now, with the title highlighted (with green box around it) hover your cursor over the small circle with a cross in it.  Click on the small circle, hold it and drag the title over the curved line of your shape.
Release your cursor, and the words should pop onto your line as shown in the photo below.
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Now, notice in the photo above, there is a little grey bar just to the left of the “E” in my title.  If you slide the oval part up and down the bar, your title should move up into your shape, rather than sitting right on the line.  See the photo below.
Now you can treat the shape as a print & cut.  Make sure to go to the “Cut Style” window and make sure the outer edge is all that will be cut.
Lori’s shapes used on this cover:
Thanks for letting me share this fun technique with you!  If you are interested in seeing additional photos of this mini album, or purchasing the kit for yourself, please visit my blog at www.artsyalbums.com or my Etsy shop here.
Traci

Silhouette Tutorial: Using the Compound Path with Corri

Hi everyone!  Corri here today sharing a couple of fun ways to dress up your die cuts using the make compound path feature in Silhouette Studio.   I like to add glitter to some of my die cuts and this is an easy way to make it a lot less messy.

Here’s my card.

 

For my card base, I used one of Lori’s #10 cards and envelopes.  I love this adorable new car and trailer.  Here’s a quick and easy way to add some glitter.

 

I cut the rectangle shape for the door from some red paper from the Echo Park –  We are Family Collection.

 

 

Then I placed the heart shape on top of the door, right clicked and pulled down to make compound path.  This makes the two shapes into one.

 

 

Run the red layer through the Xyron to make the front of it sticky.

 

 

Apply the blue layer on top and then sprinkle with glitter.

 

 

Shake off the extra glitter and you have a sparkly little heart without all the mess. You can use the release compound path feature to break apart layers that won’t ungroup.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this fun tip for adding some shine to your die cuts.  Be sure to check out all the new files that are in Lori’s Shop.

Silhouette Tutorial with Traci

Hi everyone, it’s Traci and I’m back with a tutorial for making welded outline titles.  For this project, I created a Father’s Day gift card holder.  This card is one of Lori’s newest files, complete with a pocket for tucking in a gift card to Dad’s favorite store or restaurant.
And here are step-by-step instructions for creating a welded outline title like the one I made for this pocket:
Step 1:  Choose a thick, chunky font and spread the letters out a bit.  I used Lori’s font called LW Clementine.
Step 2:  Highlight your word and ungroup the letters (right click, ungroup)
Step: 3:  Highlight the letters and go to the “Offset” window.  Hit Offset and use the sliding bar to adjust the size.  I set mine around 0.025.  (You do not have to color fill your shape…I just did this to show you more details.
Step 4:  Once your offset is done, highlight each letter individually and group the letter with the offset (right click, group).  Then highlight each letter, right click, and hit “Make Compound Path”.
Step 5:  Now move your letters so that they overlap each other (to keep them in a straight line, highlight them and use your right or left arrow to move them).  Once they are overlapped the way you want them, highlight the whole word, right click and hit weld.
Here is another example of how I used this technique on a layout.  For the “SMILE” I overlapped the letters, and even rotated them a bit before welding.
Have fun making these welded titles for your projects and thanks for letting me share this technique with you today!
Traci

Flower Card Tutorial with Lorrie

Hi everyone,
It’s Lorrie here, and I have a quick tutorial for you using the Lori Whitlock 6 flowers SVG files.  Spring is finally here and what better way to let someone know you are thinking of them than to send a card filled with happy flowers.  This card could work for so many occasions.  You could also make it using all the different flowers included in the set.  I hope you enjoy the tutorial, and don’t forget to pick up this flower set from the Lori Whitlock shop.

 

Digital Tutorial with Ashley

Hi, Ashley here bringing you a Digital Tutorial.  I am going to show you how to recolor part of a digital paper.  This tutorial is shown in Photoshop Elements 11, but the same technique can be done in the full version of Photoshop or previous and later versions of PSE.

Take a look at this short 3 minute video.

Before and after:

Green Basics

Pink Basics

Basics Collection

Thanks for watching, and I hope that you enjoyed this short tutorial.