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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!

Lori’s digital cutting files:

Lori Whitlock 3 Eyelet Borders

Lori Whitlock Layered Butterfly

Paper and Embellishments:

Echo Park “Graceful” by Lori Whitlock

Traci Penrod

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Welcome! We are so excited to share with you our new Thursday Tutorials. We have had so many questions, we thought we would start a collection of answers and tips here. Today we have Corri sharing one of her perfected skills. Take it away Corri…

One of the most popular cards that I’ve done is this cupcake card I did last year.

I thought I would share a tutorial to show you all how to weld shapes to create your own shape card.

First, select a shape you would like to use to create your card. It’s best if the top of the shape is simple to allow for a clean weld and crease along the top.

I used this cupcakes file to create my card. I resized the file to 11.75″h so that my completed card would be about 5″h.

Next, ungroup and delete the pieces you don’t need.

Drag the cupcake top and wrapper off the mat and position the cupcake base layer in the lower left corner of your mat.

Click on the cupcake shape, then on the menus along the top of your screen select object, pull down to duplicate then select replicate above.

Now you have two identical shapes stacked on top of each other. Click on the top cupcake to select it.

Then go to object, transform, flip vertically.

While the top cupcake is still selected, use the arrow keys to move it down a little until the edges overlap slightly. Select both cupcake shapes (you can hold down the shift key to add the second shape to your selection) and then go back to the object menu. Pull down to select Modify and then Weld.