Sep
14

A quick tip from Silhouette

Posted by DeAnna

Okay, so I finally got my new MacBook Pro! Yay. It’s beautiful and easy to use, and I can see the screen! Woo Hoo! It’s been a slow process moving all my stuff over to this new computer though, considering the least little movement with my old laptop and I can’t see anything, and then it takes 10 minutes just to get back to the login screen, grrr. But we’re almost there, and I’ve been busy doing some of the Jessica Sprague classes I signed up for but wasn’t able to complete because of the computer.

Now, on to the Silhouette. I made a card for my mother’s birthday late last month. I used a word art design I purchased for my Silhouette, which is a square block birthday design. I love the look of it, and I thought it would come out of the machine all in one piece. Boy was I wrong!! It took an hour to pull out all the pieces, run them through my Xyron machine, and position them on the card. Yikes! Here’s a photo of the finished card.

So, I was looking at the Quickutz website for some tips, and found this:

“How can I cut letters best to easily apply adhesive once they’re cut?

Some of our designers have mentioned they like to cut their letters out backwards so they can apply adhesive onto the backs of the letters after they’re cut and then simply pull them off the cutting mat and have them ready to place on their layout or card.

To do this, after you have placed your desired text onto your screen, right-click on your text and select “Mirror” and then “Horizontal Mirror”. This will flip your text to a mirror image and cut your letters out backwards. After the text has been cut out, take your preferred adhesive (prior to pulling the cut letters off the mat) and apply as desired. You may now take your letters that already have adhesive applied on the back and transfer them from the cutting mat directly onto your project.

When using this tip with textured cardstock, you may wish to place your cardstock textured side down onto the cutting mat prior to cutting so that your letters have the textured side on their fronts. Please note that this tip is only for papers or cardstocks that do not already have their own adhesive backing.”

I would have never thought of that, but I’m sure going to do that for any word art designs, and any thing that contains small pieces (like the little baby feet – each toe is separate).

Anyway, I thought I would share since it’s such a great and easy tip! I love my Silhouette and I don’t think I could live without it. I even had to install VMware Fusion so I could run Vista on my Mac just so I could still use it! Awesome! Aren’t Macs great? ;-P

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