Digital Die Cutting with Sandy McCauley
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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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Meet Me In St. Louis!
Kelly Daggett and I are hosting a Klic-N-Kut Retreat in St. Louis from May 29-31. It will actually be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Collinsvillle, Illinois (just outside of St. Louis). I will be teaching 6 KNK classes with workshops and projects. This is for anyone...
Designing a Heart and a Shamrock
After a very busy month, I'm back to this blog and have lots of new tidbits to share. Last month, I intended to show you an easy way to design a heart BEFORE Valentine's Day but missed the date. Since the same design is used in a shamrock, I combined the two and...
Hot Air Balloon for Lynn G
I have another GREAT designing challenge to show you today! Thanks to Lynn G who posted a request on the KNK Studio GE Yahoo Group for help with desiging a hot air balloon. Once again, I had to play around for a bit, walk outside and think about it for a bit, and then...
Sherri’s Dinosaur
At the new KNK_Groove Yahoo group, Sherri P posted that she was having some problems following the user manual tutorial on tracing. I replied that the new Vectorize Wizard is so loaded with functionality that it can be overwhelming to follow the many steps I show in...
Importing EPS Files and Reducing Nodes
The other day, at one of the KNK Yahoo groups, I posted some new links to web sites with free vector graphics. Kylee, one of the group members, contacted me asking for some help with how to import and use these images. She had chosen one of the free files, which is...
Magic Mesh and the Klic-N-Kut MAXX
Happy New Year! Sorry it's been so long since I posted. Many of my new customers received KNK's for Christmas and I've been busy helping them get acquainted with their new machines. I have a healthy list of blog topics from the readers here, but before I get started...
Mud Puddles for CeCe!
A while back, CeCe asked me if I knew how to design a mud puddle in KNK Studio. Now, I knew that I could just show how to use the freehand tool and simply draw one. But most users, including me, aren't that crazy about freehand drawing unless we are tracing an...
Roy G Biv
Once again, Carol has come up with a FUN KNK Studio request! What's the easiest way to make a rainbow? Well, there are probably three or four different ways to achieve this... thus this could be Part 1 in several posts about rainbows. We'll have to see. But the method...
Let’s Grow Some Grass!
Carol B contacted me last night and was interested in designing her own grass. I just LOVE these designing requests, although I'm still muddling over how to create a simply mud puddle for CeCe! lol But I'll figure it out one of these days. The video shows how to...
Free Files! Cupcake Wrappers!
I was contacted by a bakery owner in Florida interested in a Klic-N-Kut if she could design and cut her own cupcake wrappers. She sent me to a web site selling some very elaborate designs and I instantly became obsessed with creating a basic file that could then be...