Digital Die Cutting with Sandy McCauley
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Purpose of I Love KNK.com
This web site provides support, comparisons, videos, drivers, test settings, and other information related to the StarCraft SOLO, Skycut and Klic-N-Kut digital die cutters, as well as various cutter software programs.If you are just now learning about cutters, check out the Skycut demo videos. These are amazing cutters!
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Papers and Pixels
Josselet’s Jostle It!
Credit for today's post goes to Brenda Josselet who has found a quick way to align nodes horizontally or vertically, thus making editing straight line images much easier. I was so impressed with her discovery that I just had to come up with a name for it that would...
NEW Video Release: Manual Tracing 2!
Finally, after 18 months, I'm releasing a new video for sale. Manual Tracing 2 covers how to trace images using the Arc Edit function and I highly recommend you give it a try because it's ideal for images with lots of curves, but can still be used with straight line...
Win a Free Subscription! And the Winner is….
Pam Z! Chris's posted announcing Pam Z as the winner is under the Comments link below! A hearty congratulations to Pam and a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated! : ) VDBC is celebrating its first anniversary this month! Chris is offering all of my readers a...
Fitting Text to a Shape
Lisa B posted to the I Love KNK group asking if there is an easy way to fit your text into another shape... such as I show in the above screen shot. The answer is, "Yes, but you need to use Inkscape." The process isn't difficult, but it does require a number of steps...
Adding Dimensions to Your Patterns: OOPS…. Revised!
(Added 9/13) If you've already watched the video below before Sunday, 3pm EDT, then watch it again. Sharon M and Elsie H both contributed information that helped in finding easier ways to do things so I made an entirely new video. Thanks ladies! (Original Post) Thanks...
Finding Great Images to Auto-Trace
Today's thank you's go to Sherri S and to Kaleigh C for ideas on how to find images for auto-tracing in KNK Studio. Someone at one of the Yahoo groups was looking for football images. Now normally, I would send them to Picsearch or to Google and then perform the...
Rhinestones in Card Designing
My good friend, Jenn the Hacker, truly outdid herself with this stunning creation that once again shows us that she's truly an artist. (Click on the photo for a larger view!) Jenn, thank you from the bottom of my heart for sending me this beautiful card and giving me...
Designing Rhinestone Patterns: Part 7
In today's video, I show how to easily design a pattern using two different sizes of rhinestones. In the figure above, the blue circles are sized for a 3mm stone while the red circles are sized for a4mm stone. I use the Transform>Outline function to create...
ACS Eagle and ACS Falcon
I want you to know about two new Digital Die Cutters now being sold by Accugraphic Sales: the 15" ACS Falcon with 1200g of cutting force: and the 24" ACS Eagle, with a WHOPPING 1500g of cutting force! I haven't previously mentioned them because I've been busy...
OOPS! Where did my middles go?
An oft-asked question by my customers designing titles goes like this: "I've welded some letters together but the middles disappeared! Help!" Very simple diagnosis and a very simple fix: If you've gone to Arrange>Break Path so that you can edit the letters (or any...