by Sandy McCauley | Oct 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Number 6 Poster… Colleen Peace!!!
We had 63 entries before I submitted the names to Chris this morning. While only 50 comments will show up for any given post, I had all 63 in the control panel of my blog and I numbered them 1 – 63 based on when the posts came in and had Chris draw a number between 1 and 63.
Congratulations, Colleen! Chris will email you the Gift Certificate number for ordering from www.knkusa.com.
Thanks everyone for participating! Be sure to check out other celebrations today at Visual Designs By Chris.
by Sandy McCauley | Oct 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Wow… I can’t believe it’s been 2 years now since Chris started her own Internet store selling adorable cutting files and building a team of talented designers! From the first day, I knew she would be successful because Chris is smart, creative, motivated, and VERY warm and personable! I had the great pleasure of meeting her last February at the KNK Retreat in Scottsdale and everyone there loved her!
So, to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of www.visualdesignsbychris.com, I am offering a $25 gift certificate to www.knkusa.com! The winner will be selected randomly from those who post a comment to THIS post today. I will draw the name of the winner sometime after midnight tonight and announce the winner tomorrow!
Thus, post your message to Chris and her team here! And don’t forget to then head over to VDBC to see the adorable cutting files available by Chris and her designers. Also, click on the Forum there to join in on more celebrations this weekend!
Happy Anniversary, VDBC!
And one more thing… Click on the TITLE of this post above to view all comments posted so far! : )
by Sandy McCauley | Sep 24, 2010 | Character Map, Free Videos, Greek Alphabet
Today’s post is in response to a question at the Klic-N-Kut Yahoo group. Karen C asked about a source for Greek letters. Piece of cake! All you need to do is select Times New Roman as your font and use the Character Picker function to locate the Greek alphabet that’s available within this font. Here’s a quickie video to show you the steps:
Finding Greek Alphabet Characters in KNK and ACS Studio
by Sandy McCauley | Sep 15, 2010 | Outlining Images, Rhinestones
I have the rhinestone calculators on-line now! So, for those of you needing this capability, but you do not own Excel, here’s a link to them (or you can find them under the Support tab and then under Special Rhinestone Support Section):
Rhinestone Calculators
Also, if you need the actual formulas because you want to program them into your calculator or whatever, then here is the full documentation on the formulas, including how I developed them:
Rhinestone Respacing Documentation
by Sandy McCauley | Sep 3, 2010 | ACS, Free Videos, KNK, Outlining Images, Rhinestones, Videos
Rhinestone pattern resizing is a relatively easy process and most everyone already doing rhinestone designing probably has their own method, depending on which software they use. My new customers often contact me for guidance so I decided to make a video for them, as well as create a simple Excel calculator to make the process simpler.
But re-spacing the circles in a pattern is a different matter. This has come up dozens of times and, until a few weeks ago, I typically said that you are stuck with what you get in the original design. However, that’s not true. I pondered it for a while and then spent an entire weekend “doing the math” and came up with a method whereby an existing pattern can have the circles moved closer together or farther apart, while maintaining the exact same pattern design and circle size. The most obvious application for this would be when a pattern is resized for a different size stone and the spacing between the circles subsequently becomes too large or too small. But it can also be used when designing with rhinestone fonts in which the spacing is already determined based on the font design. If you do not like the spacing, then CHANGE IT using my method and the rhinestone spacing calculator (anther Excel spreadsheet I’ve created).
So, the links to the tutorial videos are below. If you cannot open an Excel 2007 spreadsheet, no problem. Accugraphic is working on making these two calculators available on the Internet. Or you can download the free OpenOffice program and use that. Note that while the videos were made using functions in ACS and KNK Studio, I’m fairly certain these same functions I’m using can be found in the other major designing programs, such as Corel Draw, Funtime, and WinPC Sign.
Resizing Rhinestone Designs Video
Re-spacing Rhinestone Designs Video
