Category: Tutorial

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LIFE TEMPLATES SET 15

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layout by Chrissy Guido

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Using your Eraser Tool

Tutorial by Traci:  A Fun Way to Use Your Eraser Tool

Hi everyone!  I’m excited to share a fun tutorial with you today.
Although we love to cut Lori’s adorable shapes out of paper, today I will share how you can cut your shapes to pop up from the paper.
First, add the shape you want to use to the page in your software program.

Next, move the shape to the area where you will want it to pop up from the page.  Resize your shape and ungroup the pieces if necessary.

For my page, I also rotated the butterfly slightly.
 
Next, select your eraser tool on the left toolbar.  If you have the Designer Edition of Silhouette Studio, an Erasers window will appear on the right side.
Select “Outline” and if needed, “zoom” to see the lines better (hour glass with plus sign at top). Then erase the areas of your shape that you do not want to cut.
If you don’t have the Designer Edition software, you can still use an eraser, but the steps are a bit different.
First click on ‘Point Editing’.  A bunch of grey points will appear on your shape.  (You may have to click on “Simplify” before the points will appear).
Next, click on the points you want to erase.  When you select each point, click on ‘Break Path’ in your Point Editing window.
This will make the lines stay broken. Now you should be able to erase the areas that you do not want to cut.
 

 

I also wanted to add a border that would pop up from the page so I repeated the steps above for the border.

 

For the border, I erased the top cutting line of the shape so that it would fold up from the page.
 
So, as you can see I did not cut anything out, I just made it so that it popped up from the page.
Here is the final page layout.  A fun little page about my adorable niece, Hannah, who is, of course….Cute As A Bug!

Traci Penrod
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