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
Creating a PopUp Card
Today is one of THOSE days! It took me ALL day long to make this video thanks to a dozen interruptions and two dozen silly mistakes! lol But it's now ready. Here's the actual card to show the final result: and then I have both this final card final and a practice file...
Journaling for a Print and Cut
This is yet another great question that came up from a customer who was having problems getting her journaling to fit nicely inside a tag for a print and cut application. I came up with one solution and Barb W came up with another fascinating one (using MS Word) and...
Five New Videos!
At last, I have new videos released! Links to the store are in the left column here and I've added these five to the Suggest Video Viewing Order so that you can see where they fit in with the rest. The topics include:36 Tidbits: These are 36 relatively recent...
Aperture Card
One of the members of the Design Master Fun Yahoo group needed a reminder of how to create an Aperture card. So, today's post is a video on this procedure. A few reminders to everyone about this entire process:(1) You must create a frame from two shapes so that you...
Stencilling Using the Basic Weld Tool
Thanks to a clever Design Master tutorial I read at the UK Scrappers message board, I came up with the following two videos. In the first one, I show how to take any image and.... well... die cut it from another. This will provide you a new technique to design some...
Paper Piercing Samples
This is a flower piercing created with a Klic-N-Kut using the punch tool on Worldwin Colormates cardstock. Front of image: Back of image: Image held up to the light:
A Couple of Additional Useful Quirks
After discovering that using a marquis-select during Transform>Contour Object would produce another outline, I then started experiment with marquis-select while inside other Transform menu functions. Here's what I found: Under Transform>Round Corner, after...
Clipping
There's a menu item under Arrange called "Clipping" and, because I couldn't find a use for it, I basically ignored it while writing the KNK User Manual. I asked Chad at Accugraphic what it was for and he showed me how it worked, but we were using vector images and I...
You’re Gonna Flip Over This!!!
A huge thanks to Lisha for our class today in which I stumbled upon a brand new shortcut trick that will TOTALLY blow your mind! lol Well... perhaps only if you're KNK Studio Addict like me! lol But it IS a goodie!!! Watch this video:ContourObjectCustomization
The Dreaded Skewing
Ten things that can cause skewing on a Klic-N-Kut.(1) Pinch wheels are too loose.(2) One pinch wheel is a lot tighter than the other.(3) Pinch wheels are too close together.(4) One or both pinch wheels are over the smooth part of the grit shaft.(5) Cut speed is too...