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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Papers and Pixels
Disproportionately Resizing Fold-up Projects
Thank you to Heather L for today's subject. Heather sent a fold-up gable box pattern that was sized to ~ 10 x 6.5. She wanted to make it as large as possible for a 12 x 12 sheet of cardstock. Now the issue with resizing fold-up patterns is that you have to keep the...
Creating a Shaped Greeting Card
Thanks to Margaret for today's idea. She posted to the Klic-N-Kut Yahoo group with a welding issue. She wanted to weld a partial outline of flowers to a flower pot for the purpose of creating a shaped greeting card. The problem is that you cannot weld unclosed...
Free Files: Cupcake Wrappers in KNK, SVG, AI Format
With graduation just around the corner and a few recent posts by readers here inquiring about the cupcake wrappers, I decided to post new links for downloading these terrific files. All of these particular cupcake wrappers were designed and shared by Judy Keating, a...
Creating Coloring Book Pages
Thanks to Sharon M for today's topic about converting a paper piecing project into a coloring book image. It's very simple to do and it only took a few steps to show the basic procedure: Creating a Coloring Book Image However, there were a few things that were a...
Another Rhinestone Fill Option
Need a quick balanced rhinestone fill option? Check out the newest method I found for filling images in KNK Studio with circles. It involves using the Array function to create a pattern of horizontal lines through your image: Move the image to the top of the lines....
Color Matching Part 2
A second application for the Color Picker tool is converting a low resolution raster image to a vector image for printing. As I'm sure all of you are aware, a poor quality image only looks worse when enlarged for printing. But, if you really want to use that image,...
Color Matching
Today's question came up when someone at the I Love KNK Yahoo group asked for the name of a color detection program. I remembered a free one called "Color Detector" which is a handy utility and I've used it on a number of occasions. You can grab it from here: Color...
Next KNK Retreat: San Diego!
Bite Into This!
Carol B contacted me late yesterday asking how she could create a bite mark in a cookie or an apple. Now the basic way would be to use the Ginsu knife tool and just hold down the left mouse button and draw the bite mark through the image and separate: The problem is...