Silly Bunny...

Hi everyone,

Happy Easter and Happy Spring.

I made my first video for the Cutting Cafe and got so caught up the excitement of my first video, I forgot about Jing's five minute video screen shot limit.

Silly bunny, I forgot to show you how to convert a PDF into a png and then a png into a jpg to cut on your Silhouette.

OK, I know it sounds like a bunch of steps, but it really is easy. (All of you feed families and can follow a recipe.) So think of the video attached as a recipe for substituing one ingredient for another -- the cookies taste just as good and no one is the wiser.

The video is a real time video so you see it really does take less than 5 minutes!

Enjoy.

Thanks for support

Hi followers and friends, Thanks for the support with the Silhouette Sweet 16 Contest. Even though my Duckie treat boxes did not make it to the final four it was so nice to be recognized. I can't wait to try the iron-on materials. Here is a clip from My Creative Classroom's newsletter:

Click on the bmp graphic above or jpg graphic below to enlarge. You may have to scale up with your browser to read... blogger was giving me fits. :)

Easter Egg Card using Marukai Paper

Here is a video of an Easter card that I made using some paper from a recent haul video. This paper is a pad of paper from a store here that sells Japanese products. Most of the things at the store retail for $1.89 USD. I also bought some other smaller than letter sized paper and wanted to make sure I could cut on custom sized stock.

This video is how I figured out how to cut on smaller than letter stock. Do you do it differently, please post and share how you use the Silhouette for custom stock sizes.

Thanks for watching and all your comments.

Terrie

Treat Box How To Video and Images

Here are the impages I used to make the treat box.

The video quality when it was imported into Sony Vegas and exported for YouTube is a bit lacking. So here are the impages I picked to use from the Silhouette store library.


click on the image to enlarge

Here are the how to videos -- part one is the layout in the Silhouette software and part two is the assembly. Thanks for all of your votes and well wishes during the Sweet 16 Contest.





Dimensions of the box top - 5.93 x 5.25"
Dimensions of the box bottom - 7.57 x 6.9"

Vote for me - Silhouette Sweet Sixteen

Hi everyone,
Here is my YouTube Video. I am trying this "viral" marketing thing.
Check out the video. Sign up for the Silhouette blog and vote for me.
Thanks!
Terrie

Silhouette Library Video - Folders

I got a request for a "how to" add folders to your Silhouette library. I appreciate the comments and will do my best to answer questions based upon my experience as a user. Enjoy.

99 cent downloads from Silhouette Site - hurry

They have great new designs for Valentines. They have House of 3 - Heidi Swapp art too! Yummy!

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Over 5,000 designs

In other news, we now have 5,680 designs in the Online Store. With that many great shapes, there's bound to be something you've overlooked. Why not double check?
And, as always, if you don't see what you're looking for in our list of available designs, you can make a suggestion by clicking on the link on the right-hand side of the store.

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Silhouette Vinyl Labels on White Boxes

Well I finally found the Adobe Illustrator windows xp plug in for the Silhouette. It is called Cutting Master2 CraftROBO and there is a You Tube install video.

My own pet peeve is that the software that comes from Craftrobo leaves much to be desired if you have ever used Illustrator, Freehand or any drawing software.

The Quickutz Craftrobo software is useful for cutting files that you purchase from Quickutz, but for fonts and scaling and control go to the Craftrobo site and download the plug in. You can more easily control the placement of images to cut. Cutting fonts is a snap, no tracing required.

So here are my Big Lots $2 nesting boxes from the Martha Stewart wedding clearance. Yes, you got all 3 boxes for $2.
The vinyl is a dark blue and the font is A&S Black Swan.


The boxes before the label...











The after photos -- ok I know there are a lot of photos, but I was so excited that I could get fonts to cut out well -- even in the small half inch high letters.