Silhoutte Thursday #4: From Page to Cutfile

Hello fellow Crafty people!  I hope your New Years has started off great.

I'm sure your wondering what does from page to cut file mean.  Well, I like to look at craft magazines, books and sometime participate in sketch challenges.  Sometimes I come across a instructions that have a lot of steps and proceed to get out my ruler, paper trimmer, score board and pencil to create the project.  The end result (after some trial and error) is great, but I have to look up those instructions each and every time.  Well with your Silhouette Studio software, you can take those instructions from the page and translate it into a Silhouette Studio file.  Now you are measuring just once, leaving you with a quick and easy way to recreate that project. The video this month takes you through the steps of creating a file, for a slider card that I found in the Summer 2013 edition of Card Maker Magazine .  CLICK HERE  to see the video.  There will be another video up this Saturday, showing you how I put a card the card together.

I finally got the video done, so if you click here you will see the how to put the slider card together.

HAPPY CRAFTING

LEGALBEAGLEPANDA

GRADUATION CARD AND DECORATIONS

Graduation season is finally over in my family.  But I wanted to share with you the Card I made using the Silhouette Cameo, and the graduation cap decorations.

I was looking through the CardMaker Magazine and found instructions on how to make a slider card.  But I didn't want to have to cut the template over and over again by hand, every time I wanted to make that type of card.  That's where my Silhouette Cameo stepped up and it easy.  I made a cut file using the Silhouette Studio software to make the sliding mechanism.

 The graduation bear on top of the card, is a cut file I purchased from the Silhouette Store (Design ID #42817).

The Card opens up so that you can leave a sentiment or hand written message on the inside.

Now for the cap decorations I used the my Cricut Create (which traveled very well as carry-on luggage).  The Best of 2008 was used for the Soccer themed hat.  Cricut Craft Room Basic (digital) was used for the lettering on the other hat.

HAPPY CRAFTING,

Legalbeagle