Great for Project Life, scrapbooking or cards. I use this technique with Instagram photos, pictures from trips etc. Pretty cool! Use pretty much any ‘regular cut’ designs from the Silhouette Design Store as a shape for your pictures. I made a tutorial for you guys on cutting photos into custom shapes using Silhouette Studio. I just used double stick tape to attach everything down, that way I can remove it easily if I want to reuse the wood sign for another future project.How to cut photos into any shape using Silhouette Studio I also used my CAMEO to cut a piece of patterned cardstock to layer the sign with. Trim down the cardstock to the correct size. Keep repeating the process with all four colors, making sure to align the top left squares.Įverything is attached now! Pull off the scrap paper for the corners. Use your iron or heat press to attach the material to the page. Use a little scrap of paper to keep the square for aligning from attaching to your surface. So I placed them in the center of the page. I'm just attaching the words to white cardstock. Make sure to leave all of the words connected though so all that work you did aligning them in the software isn't wasted. I hate wasting material so I cut out any unused portions so I had scraps for future projects. This saves a ton of time doing all 4 colors at once. Place the heat transfer material on your cutting mat so it matches up with your placement on the screen and send it to be cut. If you opt to use regular vinyl instead you can skip this step. The last step is to mirror everything since this is a heat transfer project. Now move the word groups so they are easy to match up with your heat transfer material on your actual mat. You can change the opacity of the mat so you can see the gridlines on the cutting mat by sliding the reveal bar to the right. Separate out the various colors on your cutting mat which you'll want to make 12" x 12" again. To turn off the guidelines, go to view in the top tool menu and click show guides, that will uncheck the space next to it. You can change the color of the top left square to match the word colors for your own organizing purposes. Now start grouping the same color words together along with the square in the top left. You'll need to ungroup the block of words to select the individual words as needed. This will be what you use as a guide to align each color grouping. You are going to need to make 4 copies of that and align them on top of each other. Now draw a square in the top left corner. That creates a blue guideline so you can make sure everything is aligned. Guidelines come in handy for that, simply click on the rulers at the top and side of the screen and drag down. I wanted to make sure the edges were nice and clean. Use the align tool and click on the center button with the rectangle around it, that centers it to the page. Group it all together so you can center it on the page. I tried to keep the colors evenly distributed throughout. Since I'm using 4 different colors of heat transfer I wanted to fill the words with the colors planned so I could visualize the finished project. I waited until I was happy with the arrangement to do this. Some of the fonts need to be welded together so they cut properly. Seriously, the align tools are what I use most in the Silhouette Studio software. Use the Transform panel and the align tools to get everything evenly spaced. I didn't end up using all of the words I had originally typed out. Simply size the words to fit a rectangle shape trying to keep the margins consistent. Once you have all of your words typed out in the fonts you like, start arranging them into your space. I'm showing you screenshots of each font so you can see which ones are which. (Seriously this is an awesome bundle of fonts! I love them all, go buy it!) They are all part of the Tremendous Font Bundle 2. I used Sweet Slice, Mystical Woods Smooth Caps, Branson, Sweet Nothings Serif, and Simply Sunday. Simply start by typing out your words and changing them to the font you like. This is going to look more intimidating than it actually is, trust me! There are a lot of screenshots but I wanted to show you every step. I know that there are pre-existing word art designs for Easter already, but I like having control over the fonts and words. Electronic cutting machine (I'm using a Silhouette CAMEO 3).4 colors of Heat Transfer Vinyl(I used the suggested color combo for the Tiffany blue easy weed color)- head to my website for a coupon code for this supplier.
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