Category: Tutorial

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.

Silhouette Tutorial: Creating Stitching Templates with Mendi + Freebie

Hi there!  It’s Mendi here and ‘m so excited to be sharing a new Silhouette trick today showcasing how you can create stitching templates using all your favorite cutting files!

I don’t know about you, but I LOVE to add touches of hand stitching on my projects!  I adore the homemade look it gives my cards and layouts! I have been brainstorming for awhile now trying to figure out the easiest way to do this on the Silhouette and I think I finally found a way that is both quick and easy.  Best of all I love that it allows me to execute hand-stitching with perfectly spaced stitches every time!  And better yet it doesn’t require extra money to buy and store special stitching templates–I have everything I need just using a few of my favorite cutting files of Lori’s!


One thing I forgot to point out in my video tutorial is that when you do create a stitching template, it’s very important to size your shape to the size you want it before adding your holes.  If you decide to shrink it down or enlarge it later, it will affect the size of your stitching holes and you may not get the same results.


To illustrate how I created my stitching template I created a video tutorial for you.  If you’d like to skip the preparation for the rest of the card and to go straight to the stitching template tutorial portion, fast forward to the 5:50 mark.  😉



To create my card today I used the following cutting files available for purchase at Lori’s shop and also in the Silhouette Store:
I hope I’ve inspired you to give hand-stitching a try using this fun technique.  🙂
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Silhouette Tutorial with Brigit: Using Fonts + Freebie

Hi everyone, Brigit here to share a tutorial using Lori’s bunting font to create a fun Easter banner.  Using this font makes it so easy to put any kind of banner together quickly.

 

 

If you’ve never installed fonts before, just download to your computer, if it’s zipped extract the files, then right click on the font file and install, it’s that simple.  If you download from the silhouette store it will install it automatically for you.

 

 

Select the bunting font and type your word out, enlarge to the size you would like your banner, I chose 5.5″h but I ended up selecting all at the end and making it smaller to fit the space where I’m going to display it.

 

 

Ungroup and Release Compound Path, you can see in the picture above the bunting is separated now from the fonts.

 

 

When you Released the Compound Path you also separated the A and R middle pieces so make sure you select around each one again and Make a Compound Path so they join together.

 

 

Because the pieces are large I’m just showing the one bunting piece on the mat but of course you’ll need for each letter.

I wanted to add some more layers so I added a shadow offset to the bunting.  Select it, go to the Offset Window choose offset and your size, I left it at the default of .250 but selected corner.

I also added the circle and scalloped circle from the cupcake flags, ungroup and released compound path to remove the lines inside and delete them.

I enlarged the circles so the letters would fit inside, but you can also make the letters smaller so the circles fit inside of the bunting if you’d like.

Now your ready to cutout all your pieces and put your banner together.

 

 

A little tip, when cutting a couple of pages I like to group together by what fits on a page if it’s a print n cut or by color if not and keep to the left side of my mat.  As I cut I move the finished one to the right, just keeps it nice and neat.

 

I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial, you can find more of my projects at http://www.brigitsscraps.com.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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