Digital Die Cutting with Sandy McCauley
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The Great Divide Part 2
What I thought was a somewhat trivial blog post yesterday became far more interesting after receiving some member input from the Yahoo groups. Two things came to light:The circle divide can be used to create citrus slicesI could have made the task a lot easier by...
The Great Divide
A while back, at one of the many cutter Yahoo groups I scan and read, a member asked how to divide a circle into 7 equal segments (or maybe it was 5?) in "this other cutting software program." The response to her question was that there wasn't an easy to do that and...
I Love Halloween! Do You?
Today's free video is a gift to all of you who enjoy decorating for Halloween. I show in this video how to design your own spider web. It's amazingly easy to do and this method offers total freedom in how uniform or how crazy you want your web to look! I even have an...
Creating Cutting Files from Your Favorite Stamps
Kelly D emailed me about tracing stamps so that you could cut out the shapes and then stamp right on the cutouts. She sells Close To My Heart stamps and wanted some tips. Fortunately, I've participated in a few CTMH hostess clubs and already had a number of their...
An Application for Round Corner
One of my customers, Kylee, contacted me with a file of a stick man that she wanted to be able to cut out. She had obtained a file from a friend in Brazil and the image was made up of mostly single lines that wouldn't actually be cut out pieces if you sent it directly...
Another Centering Method
Barb mentioned how much she loves her centering ruler for scrapbooking and the light bulb lit up on another method for aligning objects the same distance from the outside edges of the Sign Blank in KNK Studio. Watch this:Aligning Objects the Same Distance from the...
Overlay Designing Part 2
CeCe contacted me a few weeks ago after designing and test cutting her overlay to find out how to get the various elements on her overlap to be more evenly centered. I helped her and made a note of how this could be a useful video for others. Even if you aren't doing...
Parlez-Vous Français?
One of my customers, Karine, wrote a KNK Studio tutorial in French for her mother as a birthday gift and sent it to me, as well, in case I have any French-speaking customers who could benefit from it. Thank you so very much, Karine. I truly appreciate receiving this...
COM Ports and the KNK
This is a video I should have made a year ago! Why I didn't, I have NO idea... sure would have helped customers AND made my life a little easier as well! :-)It's a quick video that covers the following:1. How to look up your COM port assignment2. How to set that COM...
Erasing Line Segments
Jo, a member of the Klic-N-Kut Yahoo group, needed assistance with erasing line segments in a bookplate file she was designing. Because she was trying to adjoin an open arc to a closed rectangle, it wasn't possible to simply weld one to the other to remove the portion...